10 Greatest Comeback Albums In Rock Music History
7. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
For a brief moment in time, it looked like U2 was going to be one of the few bands from the '80s who weren't going to embarrass themselves in the next decade. After all, they must have learned from the sins of Rattle and Hum, so Achtung Baby set them up for the age of irony in just the right way. Once we got to Pop though, it looked like our Irish lads had gone way too far.
Since the last record was the equivalent of punching a MIDI keyboards' worth of effects for the better part of an hour, All That You Can't Leave Behind was a throwback if there ever was one. Though this is also the moment of the grandma sunglasses era of Bono's appearance, the sound of songs like Beautiful Day and Walk On felt like they could have been relics from the days of The Joshua Tree and War.
That's not to say the band hadn't grown up in that time, with songs like New York being the by product of hanging around fellow legends like Bruce Springsteen at the time. And there's probably not a chance in hell that we're going to hear the latest version of the band make a song like Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of. Though a lot of bands manage to capture lightning in a bottle, it takes a different force of nature to capture it twice like this.