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View This deluxe twentieth-anniversary edition (the latest installment in what's becoming U2's annual holiday package) adds a disc of rarities and - if you buy the box set - a DVD. True, the only essential disc is the one you already have, but there are plenty of finds on the B-sides and rarities disc. "Luminous Times (Hold On to Love)" is a longtime goth-blues fan fave that can hold its own with anything on the actual album. "Spanish Eyes" is up there with Madonna's, while other obscurities include "Deep in the Heart" and "Walk to the Water." "Silver and Gold," from the Sun City anti-apartheid benefit album, is a somber yet failed attempt at country blues with Keith Richards and Ron Wood. Wait - where the hell is "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" from the Very Special Christmas benefit album? The DVD has the Outside It's America documentary (for extremely serious fans only) and a 1987 Paris concert.
As for the original album, you already know these songs by heart - U2 may have made better albums, more exciting albums and more emotional albums, but they never made a more universally beloved one. There's a lot more Bono than Edge, not to mention a lot more L.A. than Dublin. The songs are U2 at their most abstract, milking the metaphor of Bono's strain to reach the high notes. Yet the best moments connect on a physical level - the glistening bass groove of "With or Without You" and the Hendrix-worship guitar storm of "Bullet the Blue Sky."
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- Where The Streets Have No Name (Album Version - Remastered)
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Remastered)
- With Or Without You (Remastered)
- Bullet The Blue Sky (Remastered)
- Running To Stand Still (Remastered)
- Red Hill Mining Town (Remastered)
- In God's Country (Remastered)
- Trip Through Your Wires (Remastered)
- One Tree Hill (Remastered)
- Exit (Remastered)
- Mothers Of The Disappeared (Remastered)
- Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) (Remasterd)
- Walk To The Water (Remastered)
- Spanish Eyes (Remastered)
- Deep In The Heart (Remastered)
- Silver And Gold (Remastered)
- Sweetest Thing (Remastered)
- Race Against Time (Remastered)
- Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Edit Remastered)
- Silver And Gold featuring Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Steve Jordan (Sun City Version)
- Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience
- Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
- Desert Of Our Love
- Rise Up
- Drunk Chicken/America featuring Allen Ginsberg
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Review 1 of 5
VZH writes:
I played in a college band that started, as all college bands generally do, by working up covers. Our drummer (why is it always the drummer?) wouldn't play anything from TJT, claiming to do so would be "sacrilege." Other individual U2 songs might be stronger, but as a package TJT is a helluva work and is the rare album that I still listen to start to finish in this digital age.
Jul 25, 2008 10:32:44
Review 2 of 5
imnottaduck writes:
This album sounds only slightly better than standard 80s soft rock pop. It's tediously boring at times. I was expecting a lot since seeing how well this was rated but I am rather disappointed. The songs are very well polished but the formula is too basic. Some songs feel like upgraded elevator music. Even the more aggressive songs seem uninspired and phoned in. I'd give this 3.5 stars.
Apr 17, 2008 11:42:45
Review 3 of 5
adartigues writes:
Of course TJT deserves 5 stars! It's always been a classic! what bothers me is Rolling Stone's inability to rate a classic album as such when they hear it. They don't have the guts to say it when it comes out, and are ridiculous enough to RATE it 20 years after it's proven to be a classic?!
Jan 9, 2008 07:49:39
Review 4 of 5
hendrix1fan writes:
yes finnaly U2 gets the 5 stars that they diserve
Dec 28, 2007 07:20:43
Review 5 of 5
waldodio writes:
What's left to be said that hasn't been said? Jesus wept.
Nov 29, 2007 08:37:52
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