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All That You Can't Leave Behind é o décimo álbum de estúdio da banda de rock irlandesa U2. Foi lançado em 30 de Outubro de 2000 pela Island Records no Reino Unido e Interscope Records nos Estados Unidos. Após a recepção mista para o seu álbum de 1997, Pop, All That You Can't Leave Behind representou um retorno de um som mais convencional para a banda depois experimentou com rock alternativo, dance music na década de 1990. Na época do lançamento do álbum, a banda disse em várias ocasiões que eles "reaplicaram para a obra ... [de] a melhor banda do mundo". O U2 trouxe de volta os produtores Brian Eno e Daniel Lanois, que produziu uma série de álbuns anteriores da banda. O álbum foi originalmente nomeado "U2000", que foi um título de trabalho de sua turnê passada Popmart Tour.
All That You Can't Leave Behind vendeu mais de 12 milhões de cópias, recebeu a aclamação da crítica, e ganhou sete Grammy Awards. As músicas "Beautiful Day", "Walk On", "Elevation" e "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" eram todos singles de sucesso. Em 2003, o álbum foi classificado na posição de número #139 na lista de "Os 500 Maiores Álbuns de Todos os Tempos" da revista Rolling Stone.
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Never was an album title more apt. Following the ironic reinvention of U2 in 1991 (with Achtung Baby), accompanied by tours that matched their widescreen music with eyeball-melting visuals, they'd again become a little adrift. All That You Can't Leave Behind sees them return, if not to basics, then to safe ground.
Three years previously, Pop had found the band grasping a little too desperately for the newest trends to ride. While they could ease dance tropes into their bag of tricks, the full-on electronica approach had alienated many fans. It was time to head back to guitar land.
Recruiting the old dream team of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and working in their homeland, this became an album of more straightforward rockers and ballads that highlighted their skills as writers rather than as fashionable stylists. The tactic paid off. First single Beautiful Day was a heartfelt slice of optimism of the kind that the public had missed. As such it won them a Grammy.
You could almost hear the sighs of relief as U2 reclaimed their crown with 11 filler-less tracks. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of is a beautiful tribute by Bono to his deceased friend Michael Hutchence. Elevation is another slice of adrenalin that marries studio wizadry to pure rock thrills. The list goes on. And so, thanks to this peerless display of rejuvenation, would U2.
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