'U2 toasts Ramones, Who, Rage, Pumpkins
in club gig,' reports a warm review of Tuesday night's Irving Plaza set in Rolling ...

'U2's tenth studio album and third masterpiece, All That You Can't Leave Behind, is all about the simple melding of craft and song.

Prising themselves free from their mid-90s fixations with irony and Las Vegas glitz, U2 have circled back to what they've always done best.

Its beauty is in subtlety rather than extravagance.

Track by Track Guide to the New U2 Album, All That You Can't Leave Behind By Larry Flick.

Hearing all U2's brightest songs in one sitting can be a dazzling experience...... Any album which gathers together U2's greatest hits ...

'...four driven musicians ... highlighting social injustices, the enigma of superpower America, and generally laying balm upon the wounds of ...

Among the holiday season's biggest sellers is a double-disc set by the Irish rockers U2, but it may be the ...

(U2 have) relaxed sufficiently to allow a certain funk into their music...

U2 have not reinvented themselves so much as rediscovered themselves...

Legendary Irish poet Brendan Kennelly was invited by U2's magazine Propaganda to review their 1997 album 'Pop'.

Zooropa is not the next great U2 album but a postcard from a Dublin studio...

Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm....

Zooropa sounds mostly like a band shedding its skin, trying on different selves for size.

More influenced than ever by co-producer-conceptualist Brian Eno, their music now parallels his in its pursuit of ambience.

Here we all were, fretting over the parlous state of rock and help was on the way even while we were dithering. All of a sudden there's a clutch of superb albums out there: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes' Better Days; Robbie Robertson's Storyville; Van Morrison's Hymns to the Silence. And now, to put the capper on the company, U2's dashing, demanding Achtung Baby.

Despite its awful title, Achtung Baby is an admirable record. Surprisingly introverted and complex.....

These Irishmen have proven that the same penchant for epic musical and verbal gestures that leads many artists to self-parody can, in more inspired hands, fuel the unforgettable fire that defines great rock & roll....

Achtung Baby is a difficult album -- one that seems the result of considerable soul-searching lyrically.

'Charged with the same politics that has set U2 apart from the bland pack of lyricists that abound in rock music today...'

Rattle and Hum, the title of both U2's brand-new album of the 1987 tour and the energetic performance documentary film released last week, is the sound of the band making contact: with music, with tradition, with their audience, with one another.

'Rattle and Hum is an expression of U2's urge to have it both ways'

'U2 is what the Rolling Stones ceased being years ago - the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world...'

My guess is that U2 will be remembered as the most influential band of the late '80s and early '90s. ...

'More than any other U2 album, though, The Joshua Tree has the power and allure to seduce and capture a ...