While No Line On The Horizon has been welcomed as a return to God-like status by many, to others it is seen as a plateau of limited horizons. But U2 have reinvented themselves before. Remember their 1991 album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV Tour?
U2 albums were not always big sellers. Their success as a live act was greater than their success at selling records until The Joshua Tree was released in 1987, which helped to increase the band members' stature "from heroes to superstars". Can No Line On The Horizon do the same?
Since 2000, U2 has pursued a more traditional sound that retains the influence of their musical explorations. 2009 - ? and their new album No Line On The Horizon enters the arena. Will it be another return to greatness?
With a career of almost unparalleled success and acclaim, expectations are high for their new album, No Line on the Horizon. The Joshua Tree's opening salvo of Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and With Or Without You put them at the very top of the rock pecking order in 1987.
Standing on the shoulders of past U2 Albums...
More recently, they have kept the hits coming. Their last album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was led by three big tunes - Vertigo, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own and City Of Blinding Lights.
Its predecessor All That You Can't Leave Behind, in 2000, contained Beautiful Day, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of and Elevation.
Those were all stirring, soaring U2 anthems.
This album is a bit different…
The new U2 album exceeded industry forecasts by selling almost half a million copies during its first week on sale in the US.
List of U2 Albums…
Boy (Released October 1980)
October (Released October 1981)
War (Released March 1983)
Under a Blood Red Sky (Released November 1983)
The Unforgettable Fire (Released October 1984)
Wide Awake in America (Released May 1985)
The Joshua Tree (Released March 1987)
Rattle and Hum (Released October 1989)
Achtung Baby (Released November 1991)
Zooropa (Released July 1993)
Pop (Released March 1997)
Best of 1980-1990 (Released March 1998)
All That You Can't Leave Behind (Released October 2000)
Best of 1990-2000 (Released November 2002)
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Released November 22nd 2004)
U218 Singles (Released November 20th 2006)
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