Rattle and Hum by U2
Published October 5, 2019

Album info
- Title Rattle and Hum
- Artist U2
- Year 1988
- Genre Rock
Tracklist
- Helter Skelter (Live)
- Van Diemen’s Land (Live)
- Desire
- Hawkmoon 269
- All Along the Watchtower (Live)
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Live)
- Freedom for My People (Excerpt)
- Silver and Gold (Live)
- Pride (In the Name of Love) (Live)
- Angel of Harlem
- Love Rescue Me
- When Love Comes to Town
- Heartland
- God, Pt. II
- The Star Spangled Banner (Live Woodstock Festival Excerpt)
- Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
- All I Want Is You
Thoughts
Before listening to this one, there was a little debate over whether it counted in the album game. I have weird rules that bend and mutate over time, but the fact that this album contains a significant amount of previous songs was an issue. They’re live, so that’s different, and in the end I allowed it because this is clearly an album that they have worked and crafted as a piece of art.
I know that people, and by people I mean avid U2 fans, don’t really like this one. But I quite enjoyed it. It’s a bit of a hodgepodge of stuff, like a scrapbook, and I liked it. Guests popping in and out, live songs from previous events, and then a couple of new ones as well.
Plus, All I Want Is You has been one of my favourite U2 songs for a long, long time.
Rating: 3 / 5