11/6/2022 0 Comments U2 greatest hits![]() And in that time they’ve redefined the rock live show, used their platform to highlight and benefit causes such as social justice and poverty, and seemingly having some fun while doing all of that. And then there’s U2 the Super Bowl halftime act, a phase of their career that’s been the least challenging, often frustrating, but still offering up moments of greatness here and there. In the ’90s, they became the rare band with runaway commercial success that used their platform to make some of the most experimental music of their more-than-40 years together. The second, U2 the stadium-filling rock heroes. The first, in the early ’80s, is U2 the young, idealistic post-punk band. ![]() Viewed as a whole, U2’s career can be divided up into four different phases. So while the idea came together two years ago, now is an opportune time to take a look at the best musical moments in the band’s career. Their 1993 album Zooropa just turned 25 their 1988 album Rattle & Hum is 30 and their 1983 album War turned 35 at the beginning of the year. This year marks a number of significant anniversaries for the band, who were originally formed in Dublin, Ireland in the mid-’70s as Feedback, before briefly changing to The Hype, and then eventually U2, named after the Cold War spy plane. When U2 are at their peak, they’re utterly heroic. I’m old enough to remember a time when I honestly never encountered someone who didn’t like at least a little U2-everybody I knew at one point owned a copy of Achtung Baby. But that doesn’t erase their importance, their influence or simply how much great music they’ve released in the past. It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about a U2 album, personally. Some of the critiques of the band have come as a result of their iOS intrusion in 2014, some of them have been because of a string of albums that don’t live up to the heights they’ve reached in the past. In the past decade or so, I’ve read a lot of these. ![]() About two years ago, a social media dismissal of U2‘s legacy planted the seed for this article. ![]()
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