U2

   
Artist: U2

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Pop
   House
   Other
   Alternative
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   Metal
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Windows In The Skies (Single)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2


   
 Joshua Tree

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 18 Singles (Live From Milan) (Bonus DVD)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 18 Singles

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18


   
 The Vertigo tour

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 19


   
 Communication

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8


   
 Vertigo (Redanka Remix) CDR

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


   
 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Rare Collection - Singles B-Sides

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


   
 The Best Of 1990-2000 Disc 1

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 17


   
 The B-Sides Of 1990-2000

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Elevation Tour: Live A Bercy, Paris (CD 2)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 6


   
 Elevation Tour: Live A Bercy, Paris (CD 1)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 Million Dollar Hotel [Ost]

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Hasta La Vista Baby!: Live From Mexico City

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14


   
 Hasta La Vista Baby

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15


   
 Beautiful Day (CD 2)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 3


   
 Beautiful Day (CD 1)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 3


   
 All that You Can't Leave Behind

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 All That U Can't Leave Behind

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Last Night On Earth

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 17


   
 The B-Sides 1980-1990

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 15


   
 POP

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


   
 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, K

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3


   
 Zooacoustic

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 26


   
 Zooropa

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Before The Fire - After The Flood

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 24


   
 The Fly

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Studio Sessions '91

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 9


   
 Mysterious Ways

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 5


   
 Achtung Baby

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 Rattle And Hum

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 17


   
 The Joshua Tree

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 11


   
 Wide Awake In America

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 4


   
 The Unforgettable Fire

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 10


   
 War

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Under A Blood Red Sky

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 October

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 11


   
 Boy

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11


   
 Greatest Hits Live

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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Through a combination of zealous righteousness and post-punk experimentalism, U2 became one of the most popular stone & roll up bands of the '80s. Equally known for their wholesale healthy as for their grandiose statements well-nigh politics and religion, they were rock & roll crusaders during an era of synthesized pop and fleshy alloy. The Edge provided the group with a signature healthy by creating sweeping sonic landscapes with his heavily processed, echoed guitars. Though the Edge's style wasn't conventional, the rhythm discussion section of Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr., played the songs as driving hard stone, giving the band a forceful, hefty edge that was designed for arena stone. And their lead isaac M. Singer, Bono, was a frontman world Health Organization had a knack of fantastic gestures that played better in arenas than minor clubs. It's no accident that footage of Bono parading with a white sword lily with "Sunday Bloody Sunday" clamor in the background became the shaping moment of U2's early life history -- there seldom was a band that believed so deeply in rock's potential difference for revolution as U2, and there seldom was a band that didn't fear if they appeared jerky in the process. During the path of the early '80s, the group quickly reinforced up a consecrated following through changeless touring and a string of acclaimed records. By 1987, the band's following had big large sufficiency to actuate them to the level of external superstars with the waiver of The Joshua Tree. Unlike many of their contemporaries, U2 was able to nurture their popularity in the '90s by reinventing themselves as a postmodern, self-consciously ironic dance-inflected pop/rock act, owing every bit to the experimentalism of late-'70s Bowie and '90s electronic dance and techno. By playacting such a successful reinvention, the stripe confirmed its condition as one of the most democratic bands in rock 'n' roll history, in addition to earning extra critical regard.


With its coarse-textured guitars, U2's reasoned was undeniably indebted to post-punk, so it's more or less ironical that the band formed in 1976, before punk rocker had reached their hometown of Dublin, Ireland. Larry Mullen, Jr. (born October 31, 1961; drums), posted a notice on a senior high school bulletin gameboard request for fellow musicians to form a isthmus. Bono (born Paul Hewson, May 10, 1960; vocals, guitar), the Edge (born David Evans, August 8, 1961; guitar, keyboards, vocals), Adam Clayton (born March 13, 1960; freshwater bass), and Dick Evans responded to the ad, and the group formed as a Beatles and Stones cover lot called the Feedback, earlier ever-changing their name to the Hype in 1977. Shortly subsequently, Dick Evans left the lot to shape the Virgin Prunes. Following his departure, the radical changed its name to U2.


U2's first big break arrived in 1978, when they won a talent contest sponsored by Guinness; the band were in their last class of high shoal at the time. By the end of the year, the Stranglers' director, Paul McGuinness, saw the lot play and offered to deal them. Even with a powerful manager in their corner, the stripe had trouble devising a great deal headway -- they failed an sense of hearing with CBS Records at the end of the year. In the fall of 1979, U2 released their debut EP, U2 Three. The EP was usable only in Ireland, and it topped the interior charts. Shortly later, they began to play in England, just they failed to gain much attention.


U2 had peerless other chart-topping single, "Some other Day," in early 1980 before Island Records offered the mathematical group a undertake. Later that year, the band's debut, Boy, was released. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the record's wholesale, atmospherical just edgy sound was unlike most of its post-punk generation, and the ring earned further attention for its world embrace of Christianity; only Clayton was non a practicing Christian. Through unceasing touring, including opening gigs for Talking Heads and tight T-shirt contests, U2 was able-bodied to submit Boy into the American Top 70 in early 1981. Oct, also produced by Lillywhite, followed in the light, and it became their British breakthrough, reach numeral 11 on the charts. By early 1983, Boy's "I Will Follow" and Oct's "Gloria" had become staples on MTV, which, along with their touring, gave the grouping a unnerving cult following in the U.S.


Released in the leaping of 1983, the Lillywhite-produced War was U2's breakthrough release, entry the U.K. charts at identification number one and elevating them into arenas in the United States, where the album unwell at numeral 12. War had a stronger political message than its predecessors, as evidenced by the U.K., college radio, and MTV hits "Billy Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day." During the supporting circuit, the ring filmed its concert at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater, releasing the point as an EP and video coroneted Under a Blood Red Sky. The EP entered in the U.K. charts at identification number 2, becoming the about successful live transcription in British history. U2 had suit one of the near popular bands in the humans, and their righteous political posture shortly became replicated by many other bands, providing the impulsion for the Band Aid and Live Aid projects in 1984 and 1985, severally. For the review to Warfare, U2 entered the studios with co-producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, wHO helped give the resulting album an experimental, atmospherical tone. Released in the light of 1984, The Unforgettable Fire replicated the chart position of War, entrance the U.K. charts at identification number one and arrival act 12 in the U.S. The album too generated the group's first gear Top 40 hit in America with the Martin Luther King, Jr., tribute "(Superbia) In the Name of Love." U2 supported the record album with a successful international circuit, highlighted by a show-stealing performance at Live Aid. Following the hitch, the band released the live EP Spacious Awake in America in 1985.


Patch U2 had suit one of the near successful careen bands of the '80s, they didn't really get superstars until the spring 1987 liberation of The Joshua Tree. Greeted with enthusiastic reviews, many of which announced the album a masterpiece, The Joshua Tree became the band's low American identification number one hit and its third straight album to put down the U.K. charts at identification number one; in England, it set a record by going platinum within 28 hours. Generating the U.S. identification number one hits "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," The Joshua Tree and the group's supporting circuit became the biggest success of 1987, earning the group the wrap up of respected publications like Time magazine. U2 decided to plastic film a objective about their American tour, recording new material along the way. The plan became Rattle & Hum, a film that was supported by a double-album soundtrack that was shared betwixt unrecorded tracks and new corporeal. While the album Rattle & Hum was a strike, the record and film standard the weakest reviews of U2's vocation, with many critics pickings government issue with the group's fascination with American roots music like blues, soulfulness, country, and folks. Following the acquittance of Rattle & Hum, the ring took an lengthy foramen.


U2 reconvened in Berlin 1990 to record a new album with Eno and Lanois. While the roger Huntington Sessions for the album were difficult, the resulting record, Achtung Baby, delineate a successful reinvention of the band's hallmark sound. Where they had been inspired by post-punk in the early calling and American music during their mid-career, U2 delved into electronic and dance music with Achtung Baby. Inspired every bit by late-'70s Bowie and the Madchester picture in the U.K., Achtung Baby was sonically more eclectic and adventurous than U2's earlier work on, and it didn't alienate their core audience. The album debuted at numeral one throughout the reality and spawned Top Ten hits with "Deep Ways" and "One." Early in 1992, the group launched an lucubrate duty tour to documentation Achtung Baby. Dubbed Zoo TV, the tour was an advanced blend of multimedia electronics, featuring a stage filled with televisions, suspended cars, and cellular telephone set calls. Bono devised an alter self called the Fly, which was a knowledgeable put-on of rock stardom. Even under the dry guise of the Fly and Zoo TV, it was manifest that U2 was looser and more merriment than ever earlier, even though they had non derelict their trademark righteous political ire.


Following the completion of the American Zoo TV tour in late 1992 and earlier the launch of the European ramification of the go, U2 entered the studio to complete an EP of newfangled corporeal that became the full-length Zooropa. Released in the summer of 1993 to concur with the duty tour of the same advert, Zooropa demonstrated a heavier techno and dance influence than Achtung Baby and it standard strong reviews. Nevertheless, the album stalled at gross revenue of two one thousand thousand and failed to generate a big hit unmarried. During the Zooropa tour, the Fly metamorphosed into the hellish MacPhisto, which dominated the residuum of the duty tour. Upon the completion of the Zooropa tour in late 1993, the band took an extended smash. During 1995, U2 re-emerged with "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me," a glam rock topic to Batman Forever that was produced by Nellee Hooper (Björk, Soul II Soul). Later that year, they recorded the collaborative album Original Soundtracks, Vol. 1 with Brian Eno, cathartic the album under the make the Passengers late in 1995. It was greeted with a hushed reception, both critically and commercially.


Many hardcore U2 fans, including drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., were unhappy with the Passengers plan, and U2 promised their following album, to be released in the fall of 1996, would be a rock-and-roll & roll record. The album took thirster to complete than usual, beingness pushed back to the spring of 1997. During its delay, a few tracks, including the forthcoming offset single "Discotheque," were leaked, and it became crystallize that the new album was departure to be hard influenced by techno, dance, and electronic music. When it was ultimately released, Pop did indeed hold a heavier dance influence, only it was greeted with firm initial gross sales, and a few positive reviews. In late 1998, the group returned with Charles Herbert Best of 1980-1990, the offset in a series of hits collections issued in continuative with a reported 50 trillion dollar agreement with Polygram.


Three days after the mediocre response to Pop, U2 teamed up with Eno and Lanois once once more to tone ending All That You Can't Leave Behind in fall 2000. It topped charts around the earth, reached number triplet in America, earned the ring Grammy Awards for the singles "Beautiful Day" and "Walk On," and became their biggest-selling disk in days. (The Elevation spell that followed besides brought U2 a hefty paycheck.) Steve Lillywhite, producer of the early-'80s landmarks Son, Oct, and Warfare, returned to the helm for U2's adjacent record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Released in November 2004, it hit the top of the Billboard charts and promptly gained platinum status. The album besides garnered eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Rock Album of the Year, and Song of the Year (for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own").





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