Trying to do it all, U2 plays it safe at Soldier Field
sept 13, 2009 U2, groupes celebres
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U2 guitarist The Edge performs as the Irish band kicks off the North American leg of their 360 Tour at Soldier Field Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009 in Chicago.
By: Jim DeRogatis
Touring in support of its first two albums in the new millennium, the unadventurous U2-by-the-numbers All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), Bono and the boys were in danger of becoming their generation’s Rolling Stones — a rote if occasionally rousing arena act more devoted to selling tickets than to breaking new musical ground.
Released last February, No Line on the Horizon, the Dublin band’s 12th studio album, came as a welcome surprise: Though they didn’t always succeed, the musicians at least took chances again, veering from that familiar U2 bombast to deliver their most creative disc since Achtung Baby (1991). Unfortunately, the new album also has been the slowest selling of their career, with U.S. sales yet to reach platinum status of a million sold—a fact that can be attributed to no one buying CDs anymore, or to fans being turned off by the group’s experimentation.
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