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* SmallNameBigEgo: YMMV on this one, but it was a very common criticism of the documentary, especially from [[CreatorBacklash the band themselves]], who were embarrassed by how self-aggrandizing they came off, from the audacious claim that they were stealing back "Helter Skelter" from Charles Manson at the beginning to associating themselves with legendary [=R&B=] musicians so early in their careers to Bono's monologues about social justice, especially a rather notorious shot of Martin Luther King Jr.'s superimposed over his. It didn't help that the cinematography framed Bono like a deity when on stage. There's a reason their next several projects were considerably more introspective.
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The sixth studio album by {{Music/U2}}, released in 1988 as the soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name, which followed the band around is it toured America. A double album, ''Rattle and Hum'' is a mixture of live performances and newly recorded songs, continuing the blues and country sounds of ''Music/TheJoshuaTree''. It's also U2's most fannish album, at least until ''SongsOfInnocence'', ''Songs Of Innocence'', as it includes tributes to and collaborations with such musical heroes as Music/BBKing, Music/BobDylan, Music/JohnLennon, and Music/BillieHoliday.
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The sixth studio album by {{Music/U2}}, released in 1988 as the soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name, which followed the band around is it toured America. A double album, ''Rattle and Hum'' is a mixture of live performances and newly recorded songs, continuing the blues and country sounds of ''Music/TheJoshuaTree''. It's also U2's most fannish album, at least until ''Music/SongsOfInnocence'', ''SongsOfInnocence'', as it includes tributes to and collaborations with such musical heroes as Music/BBKing, Music/BobDylan, Music/JohnLennon, and Music/BillieHoliday.
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*EvolvingMusic: This was the third version of "Silver and Gold" to be released, and each sounded quite different from the last. Originally Bono wrote it himself and recorded it with [[Music/TheRollingStones Keith Richards and Ron Wood]], with a couple of acoustic guitars and no drummer. U2 recorded its own version as a B-side to "Where the Streets Have No Name," but the live version considerably ramps up the energy level, with a blistering new guitar solo from The Edge. (This also explains Bono's somewhat baffling command to Edge to "play the blues" even though it doesn't sound very bluesy -- the first recording definitely did.)
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*ProtestSong: "Silver and Gold" was already a protest song, as it was written for the anti-apartheid album ''Sun City'', but Bono really goes {{Anvilicious}} in this version by adding a mid-song rant against western leaders who aren't supporting sanctions. "Freedom For My People," by street musicians Satan and Adam, is a song that calls for -- well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess]].
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* BoDiddleyBeat: In "Desire." The Edge borrowed it from Music/TheStooges' "1969."
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* ThePowerOfRock: God also seems to work through music in some way in "When Love Comes to Town":
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The sixth studio album by {{Music/U2}}, released in 1988 as the soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name, which followed the band around is it toured America. A double album, ''Rattle and Hum'' is a mixture of live performances and newly recorded songs, continuing the blues and country sounds of ''Music/TheJoshuaTree''. It's also U2's most fannish album, at least until ''Music/SongsOfInnocence'', as it includes homages tributes to and collaborations with such musical heroes as Music/BBKing, Music/BobDylan, Music/JohnLennon, and Music/BillieHoliday.
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*TheAlcoholic: "Angel of Harlem" is a tribute to Music/BillieHoliday that refers to her untimely demise from drug and alcohol abuse:
-->Blue light on the avenue
-->God knows they got to you
-->An empty glass, the lady sings
-->Eyes swollen like a bee sting
-->Blue light on the avenue
-->God knows they got to you
-->An empty glass, the lady sings
-->Eyes swollen like a bee sting
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* GodIsLoveSong: Bono's habit of using "love" as a code word for "God" is in full force here, notably "Love Rescue Me," "God Part II"[[note]]which despite its name never mentions God, but its refrain is "I believe in love"[[note]] and "When Love Comes to Town." The last one blows its own cover in the third verse though, by explicitly describing the Crucifixion.
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* GodIsLoveSong: Bono's habit of using "love" as a code word for "God" is in full force here, notably "Love Rescue Me," "God Part II" II"[[note]]which despite its name never mentions God, but its refrain is "I believe in love"[[note]] and "When Love Comes to Town." The last one blows its own cover in the third verse though, by explicitly describing the Crucifixion.
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*NeverMyFault: Despite the fact that "When Love Comes to Town" is an "Amazing Grace"-style tale of a redeemed sinner, at the end of the chorus he still seems to be evading responsibility: "Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down/But I did what I did before love came to town."
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*ThePowerOfLove: Since love is identified with God in "Love Rescue Me" and "When Love Comes to Town," it has the power to change lives and save souls.
*ThePowerOfRock: God also seems to work through music in some way in "When Love Comes to Town":
-->I ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
-->The notes were turning blue, I was dazing in a dream
-->As the music played I saw my life turn around
-->That was the day before love came to town
A verse that was performed live but cut from the album also includes the line, "But my lord he played guitar the day love came to town."
*ThePowerOfRock: God also seems to work through music in some way in "When Love Comes to Town":
-->I ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
-->The notes were turning blue, I was dazing in a dream
-->As the music played I saw my life turn around
-->That was the day before love came to town
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*{{Sampling}}: A clipping of Music/JimiHendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner" is used in the intro to "Bullet the Blue Sky."
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*HeelRealization: The narrators of both "Love Rescue Me" and "When Love Comes to Town" realize that they're jerks in need of redemption (which they do receive).
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*RunawayGroom: The narrator of "When Love Comes To Town":
-->Used to make love under a red sunset
-->I was making promises I was soon to forget
-->She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
-->But I left her standing before love came to town
-->Used to make love under a red sunset
-->I was making promises I was soon to forget
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-->So I'm back in my hotel room with John Coltrane and a love supreme, and in the next room I hear a woman scream out. Her lover's turning off, turning on the television, and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' and a preacher on ''The Old Time Gospel Hour'' stealing money from the sick and the old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister.
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-->So I'm back in my hotel room with John Coltrane and a love supreme, ''Music/ALoveSupreme'', and in the next room I hear a woman scream out. Her lover's turning off, turning on the television, and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' and a preacher on ''The Old Time Gospel Hour'' stealing money from the sick and the old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Love Rescue Me" includes a slightly shortened version of the famous lines from Psalm 23: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow (of death), I will fear no evil." The song subverts the next lines of the psalm though: "I have cursed they rod and staff/They no longer comfort me."
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* ShoutOut: "Angel of Harlem," an ode to Billie Holliday, also nods to Music/JohnColtrane and Music/MilesDavis.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Some portions of the film were in black and white; a scene from one such sequence is on the album cover.
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The sixth studio album by {{Music/U2}}, released in 1988 as the soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name, which followed the band around is it toured America. A double album, ''Rattle and Hum'' is a mixture of live performances and newly recorded songs, continuing the blues and country sounds of ''Music/TheJoshuaTree''. It's also U2's most fannish album, at least until ''Music/SongsOfInnocence'', as it includes homages to and collaborations with such musical heroes as Music/BBKing, Music/BobDylan, Music/JohnLennon, and Music/BillieHolliday.
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The sixth studio album by {{Music/U2}}, released in 1988 as the soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name. A double album, ''Rattle and Hum'' is a mixture of live performances and newly recorded songs, continuing the blues and country sounds of Music/TheJoshuaTree. It's also U2's most fannish album, at least until ''Music/SongsOfInnocence'', as it includes homages to and collaborations with such musical heroes as Music/BBKing, Music/BobDylan, Music/JohnLennon, and Music/BillieHolliday.
The album spawned the singles "Desire," "When Love Comes to Town," "Angel of Harlem" and "All I Want Is You."
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!!Track listing:
#Helter Skelter
#Van Diemen's Land
#Desire
#Hawkmoon 269
#All Along The Watchtower - (live from San Francisco)
#I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - (live from New York)
#Freedom For My People - (edit)
#Silver And Gold - (live from Denver)
#Pride (In The Name Of Love) - (live from Denver)
#Angel of Harlem
#Love Rescue Me
#When Love Comes To Town
#Heartland
#God Part II
#Bullet The Blue Sky - (live from Tempe)
#All I Want Is You
!!When Tropes Come To Town:
*AlbumTitleDrop: The album's title comes from "Bullet the Blue Sky": "In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum."
*AsTheGoodBookSays: "Love Rescue Me" includes a slightly shortened version of the famous lines from Psalm 23: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow (of death), I will fear no evil." The song subverts the next lines of the psalm though: "I have cursed they rod and staff/They no longer comfort me."
**"When Love Comes to Town" summarizes the events of the Crucifixion in the third verse.
*BoDiddleyBeat: "Desire."
*BoleroEffect: "Hawkmoon 269" doesn't have a proper verse-chorus structure, it just builds and builds.
*BrokenMessiah: "Love Rescue Me," as Bono put it, is "about a man people keep turning to as a saviour but his own life is getting messed up and he could use a bit of salvation himself."
*CoverVersion: The first (and so far only) U2 studio album to include these, both of them recorded live: "Helter Skelter" by Music/TheBeatles, and "All Along the Watchtower" by Music/BobDylan.
*EpicRocking: "Hawkmoon 269" goes on for nearly six and a half minutes, as does "Love Rescue Me," though the latter could hardly be called ''rocking.'' "All I Want Is You" is a normal-length song with an epic instrumental coda.
*GodIsLoveSong: Bono's habit of using "love" as a code word for "God" is in full force here, notably "Love Rescue Me," "God Part II" and "When Love Comes to Town." The last one blows its own cover in the third verse though, by explicitly describing the Crucifixion.
*GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: While "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was already gospelish, for the New York performance an actual gospel choir, the New Voices of Freedom, sang backup.
*{{Homage}}: "God Part II" is Bono's homage to Music/JohnLennon's "God," imitating its ListSong format with a catalog of things the singer doesn't believe in. Bono adapts it to suit his own beliefs and disbeliefs, however (not surprisingly, he doesn't deny believing in God like Lennon did).
*LetsDuet: U2 teamed with B.B. King on "When Love Comes to Town." Also Bob Dylan co-wrote and sang backing vocals on "Love Rescue Me," but you can barely hear him.
*ListSong: "God Part II," like its predecessor, is a list of things the singer doesn't believe in. "Hawkmoon 269" is a list of similes for love or needing love.
-->Like a rhythm unbroken
-->Like drums in the night
-->Like sweet soul music
-->Like sunlight
-->I need your love
*HypocrisyNod: In "God Part II": "I don't believe in riches/But you should see where I live."
*LocationSong: "Heartland," inspired by a visit to New Orleans, describes the Mississippi delta region.
*MinisculeRocking: A 38-second clip of street musicians performing "Freedom For My People" leads into a live version of "Silver and Gold."
*NonAppearingTitle: "Hawkmoon 269" and "God Part II."
*OneWordTitle: "Desire" and "Heartland."
*SentencedToDownUnder: "Van Diemen's Land" is in the voice of 19th-century Irish rebel John Boyle O'Reilly, as he's about to be deported to an Australian penal colony.
*ShoutOut: "Angel of Harlem," an ode to Billie Holliday, also nods to Music/JohnColtrane and Music/MilesDavis.
**"God Part II" is in a sense one long shout-out to Music/JohnLennon, but also quotes Music/BruceCockburn in passing: "I heard a singer on the radio late last night/Said he's gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight."
*StepUpToTheMicrophone: The Edge sings "Van Diemen's Land," as he wrote the lyrics himself.
*TakeThat: The album starts off with one as Bono introduces "Helter Skelter": "This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back."
**"God Part II" includes one to infamous John Lennon biographer Albert Goldman:
-->I don't believe in Goldman
-->His type like a curse
-->Instant karma's gonna get him
-->If I don't get him first
**In his live performance of "Bullet the Blue Sky," Bono adds a peculiar coda:
-->So I'm back in my hotel room with John Coltrane and a love supreme, and in the next room I hear a woman scream out. Her lover's turning off, turning on the television, and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' and a preacher on ''The Old Time Gospel Hour'' stealing money from the sick and the old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister.
*ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: This album's version of "All Along the Watchtower" is the TropeNamer because of a verse Bono threw in: "All I got is a red guitar/Three chords, and the truth." (Appropriately, the song does have only three chords.)
*TitleOnlyChorus: "Helter Skelter" and "Desire."
The album spawned the singles "Desire," "When Love Comes to Town," "Angel of Harlem" and "All I Want Is You."
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!!Track listing:
#Helter Skelter
#Van Diemen's Land
#Desire
#Hawkmoon 269
#All Along The Watchtower - (live from San Francisco)
#I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - (live from New York)
#Freedom For My People - (edit)
#Silver And Gold - (live from Denver)
#Pride (In The Name Of Love) - (live from Denver)
#Angel of Harlem
#Love Rescue Me
#When Love Comes To Town
#Heartland
#God Part II
#Bullet The Blue Sky - (live from Tempe)
#All I Want Is You
!!When Tropes Come To Town:
*AlbumTitleDrop: The album's title comes from "Bullet the Blue Sky": "In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum."
*AsTheGoodBookSays: "Love Rescue Me" includes a slightly shortened version of the famous lines from Psalm 23: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow (of death), I will fear no evil." The song subverts the next lines of the psalm though: "I have cursed they rod and staff/They no longer comfort me."
**"When Love Comes to Town" summarizes the events of the Crucifixion in the third verse.
*BoDiddleyBeat: "Desire."
*BoleroEffect: "Hawkmoon 269" doesn't have a proper verse-chorus structure, it just builds and builds.
*BrokenMessiah: "Love Rescue Me," as Bono put it, is "about a man people keep turning to as a saviour but his own life is getting messed up and he could use a bit of salvation himself."
*CoverVersion: The first (and so far only) U2 studio album to include these, both of them recorded live: "Helter Skelter" by Music/TheBeatles, and "All Along the Watchtower" by Music/BobDylan.
*EpicRocking: "Hawkmoon 269" goes on for nearly six and a half minutes, as does "Love Rescue Me," though the latter could hardly be called ''rocking.'' "All I Want Is You" is a normal-length song with an epic instrumental coda.
*GodIsLoveSong: Bono's habit of using "love" as a code word for "God" is in full force here, notably "Love Rescue Me," "God Part II" and "When Love Comes to Town." The last one blows its own cover in the third verse though, by explicitly describing the Crucifixion.
*GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: While "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was already gospelish, for the New York performance an actual gospel choir, the New Voices of Freedom, sang backup.
*{{Homage}}: "God Part II" is Bono's homage to Music/JohnLennon's "God," imitating its ListSong format with a catalog of things the singer doesn't believe in. Bono adapts it to suit his own beliefs and disbeliefs, however (not surprisingly, he doesn't deny believing in God like Lennon did).
*LetsDuet: U2 teamed with B.B. King on "When Love Comes to Town." Also Bob Dylan co-wrote and sang backing vocals on "Love Rescue Me," but you can barely hear him.
*ListSong: "God Part II," like its predecessor, is a list of things the singer doesn't believe in. "Hawkmoon 269" is a list of similes for love or needing love.
-->Like a rhythm unbroken
-->Like drums in the night
-->Like sweet soul music
-->Like sunlight
-->I need your love
*HypocrisyNod: In "God Part II": "I don't believe in riches/But you should see where I live."
*LocationSong: "Heartland," inspired by a visit to New Orleans, describes the Mississippi delta region.
*MinisculeRocking: A 38-second clip of street musicians performing "Freedom For My People" leads into a live version of "Silver and Gold."
*NonAppearingTitle: "Hawkmoon 269" and "God Part II."
*OneWordTitle: "Desire" and "Heartland."
*SentencedToDownUnder: "Van Diemen's Land" is in the voice of 19th-century Irish rebel John Boyle O'Reilly, as he's about to be deported to an Australian penal colony.
*ShoutOut: "Angel of Harlem," an ode to Billie Holliday, also nods to Music/JohnColtrane and Music/MilesDavis.
**"God Part II" is in a sense one long shout-out to Music/JohnLennon, but also quotes Music/BruceCockburn in passing: "I heard a singer on the radio late last night/Said he's gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight."
*StepUpToTheMicrophone: The Edge sings "Van Diemen's Land," as he wrote the lyrics himself.
*TakeThat: The album starts off with one as Bono introduces "Helter Skelter": "This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back."
**"God Part II" includes one to infamous John Lennon biographer Albert Goldman:
-->I don't believe in Goldman
-->His type like a curse
-->Instant karma's gonna get him
-->If I don't get him first
**In his live performance of "Bullet the Blue Sky," Bono adds a peculiar coda:
-->So I'm back in my hotel room with John Coltrane and a love supreme, and in the next room I hear a woman scream out. Her lover's turning off, turning on the television, and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' and a preacher on ''The Old Time Gospel Hour'' stealing money from the sick and the old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister.
*ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: This album's version of "All Along the Watchtower" is the TropeNamer because of a verse Bono threw in: "All I got is a red guitar/Three chords, and the truth." (Appropriately, the song does have only three chords.)
*TitleOnlyChorus: "Helter Skelter" and "Desire."
