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How To Buy... U2 #3
5:50 PM GMT 25/02/2009
3. Boy
(ISLAND 1990)
The debut album is the cornerstone of the U2 legend, from the emo-babble lyrics, bum-bum-bum basslines and notorious "glistening shards" of Edge axe, rendered suddenly up-to-date by the recent homages of Bloc Party, Editors et al. The Banshees, The Clash and The Skids are powerful presences, but there's something uniquely cubist in the way the songs fit together (imagine covering the jerky Out Of Control, or Another Time, Another Place) whilst a still-confounding aura of "where the hell did that come from?" hovers above I Will Follow's stiletto attack and The Electric Co's quasi-psychedelic eddies. Meanwhile, an in-your-face desperation to communicate echoes loudly across the intervening 27 years.
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:50 PM GMT 25/02/2009
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