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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album from the pop rock band U2. It was released through Island Records and Interscope Records on 30 October 2000.The album represented U2's mostly successful bid to Win Back the Crowd by returning to a mainstream rock sound after its '90s experiments Zooropa and Pop alienated many fans. It spawned the singles "Beautiful Day" (one of the band's biggest hits), "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of," "Elevation," and "Walk On." The album and its associated singles won a total of seven Grammys.The recording and production of the album were delayed due to Bono's increased activism, something the rest of the band viewed as a distraction. Nevertheless, the group quickly reunited with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who had produced The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, and Achtung Baby, solidifying U2's return to form. The record came together effortlessly, thanks to the group's embrace of former styles such as The Edge's signature, atmospheric guitar tones, which he had abandoned during The '90s. While keeping newer techniques such as synthesizers and electronic drum beats on "New York" and "Beautiful Day," the band branched out and used acoustic guitars and pianos on "Stuck in a Moment" and "Wild Honey" to convey a more simplistic sound throughout the record.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })It is considered a pivotal album for the band since it distanced them from the more experimental conceits of the previous decade. Rolling Stone listed All You Can't Leave Behind as the #139 greatest album of all time in 2003, though it later dropped to #280 in 2012. The group's ensuing tour, the "Elevation Tour," became massively successful thanks in part to their performance at the NFL Super Bowl halftime show, where they honored the victims of the 9/11 attacks. |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Alluded to in "In a Little While": |
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Face on the Cover: The band standing in the middle of Terminal 2F of Charles de Gaulle Airport. |
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New Sound Album: The band deliberately did a 180 from their last album Pop which was dark and heavy on the electronica. In some ways it was a return to their old straight-ahead rock sound, though it doesn't have the post-punk or roots-music flavors of the 1980s albums. |
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The World Is Just Awesome |
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The World Is Just Awesome: Played with in "Beautiful Day," which mixes conventionally awe-inspiring images with some unconventional ones: |
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The Big Rotten Apple |
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The Big Rotten Apple: "New York" is a sort of affectionate example, describing the city as a hotbed of temptations for a family man having a midlife crisis. |
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He Who Fights Monsters |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Mentioned in "Peace on Earth": "And you become a monster/So the monster will not break you." |
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Minimalistic Cover Art |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: The 20th Anniversary Edition's cover is just a black icon of a suitcase with a heart symbol on it in the middle of a white background. |
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BSoD Song: "Peace on Earth" was written after the 1998 Omagh bombing. "The closest I ever came to a crisis of faith happened after that," Bono said later, and it shows. |
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Death Song |
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Death Song/God Is Love Song: "In a Little While" wasn't intended to be this, but shortly after the album's release the band learned that Joey Ramone had listened to it on his deathbed. Since Ramone was one of their musical heroes, performances thereafter treated this as Ascended Fanon. |
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Pep-Talk Song |
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Pep-Talk Song: "Stuck in a Moment" (see Grief Song above) and "Walk On." The latter was originally written for Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but after 9/11 it became a Pep-Talk Song for all of America. |
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Orphean Rescue: "The Ground Beneath Her Feet," with lyrics by Salman Rushdie, is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. It describes the lead-up to the rescue attempt rather than the rescue itself, however. |
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Location Song: "New York." |
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Pun: In the middle of the uplifting "Walk On," Bono sneaks in a sour joke: "Home, it's where the hurt is." |
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Big Beautiful Woman: Some editions include the bonus track "Big Girls Are the Best." |
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The Great Flood |
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The Great Flood: Subtly alluded to in a couplet from "Beautiful Day": "See the bird with a leaf in her mouth/After the flood all the colors came out." This evokes the sequence in the story of Noah where a bird carrying a twig proves that dry land is out there, and God sends a rainbow as a sign of his promise not to destroy the earth again. |
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Second-Person Narration: Used in "Beautiful Day," though it switches briefly to first person in the "touch me..." verse. |
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Mood Whiplash |
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Mood Whiplash: "Wild Honey," a lighthearted love song, was deliberately put in to break up the album's heavy mood. This is especially striking since it comes right before "Peace on Earth." |
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The Dead Have Names |
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The Dead Have Names: "Peace on Earth" reels off the first names of five of the 29 victims of the Omagh bombing, "the folks the rest of us won't get to know." |
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Rage Against the Heavens |
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Rage Against the Heavens: "Peace on Earth" is directed straight to the Big Guy: |
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One-Woman Song: Played with in "Grace": it's an ode to a woman who's actually an Anthropomorphic Personification of divine grace. |
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Deliberately Monochrome |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover is a black-and-white photograph, recalling their '80s albums and contrasting with their day-glo '90s palette. |
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One-Word Title |
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One-Word Title: "Elevation," "Kite," "Grace," and "Always." |
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Album Title Drop: The title appears in the talk-sing intro to "Walk On": But the song also reverses the title. The final breakdown throws this out: |
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Grief Song |
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Grief Song: "Stuck in a Moment" is an unusual example of a Grief Song combined with a Pep-Talk Song, as it represents what Bono wished he'd said to Michael Hutchence before he killed himself. |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better: U2 doesn't actually use a full choir on "Stuck in a Moment," but does use multiple voices in its gospel-flavored chorus. |
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Anthropomorphic Personification: Divine grace is visualized as a woman in "Grace." |
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