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Rattle and Hum

by U2

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All Time

of 455,637

3,094
1990's

of 166,477

1,783
1990

of 7,867

196

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.0992 Rattle and Hum is ranked overall as 3.0992 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1375 Rattle and Hum has an avg. critic score of 3.1375 out of 4 stars

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Rolling Stone

Rattle and Humis an expression of U2's urge to have it both ways. ...more

All Music Guide

Functioning as both the soundtrack to the group's disastrous feature-film documentary and as a tentative follow-up to their career-making blockbuster,Rattle and Humis all over the place. ...more

Yahoo! Music

While the live half of this double set is full of curious concert souvenirs, the blues and Sun Studios experiments "When Love Comes To Town" (with B.B. King ), "Desire," and "Angel Of Harlem" are strong performances. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Functioning as both the soundtrack to the group's disastrous feature-film documentary and as a tentative follow-up to their career-making blockbuster, Rattle and Hum is all over the place. ...more

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The Daily Vault Album Reviews

IsRattle And Huma movie soundtrack, a U2 live album, an "in-the-process" look at how the band records, or just a hodge-podge of music?I think critics have been trying to figure this out for years, and I'm not going to pretend to have any answers. ...read the complete review at The Daily Vault Album Reviews

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Adrian Denning.co.uk

Perhaps U2, on the crest of a wave following 'Joshua Tree' simply followed it up with undue haste? Rattle And Hum is several things, actually - an album, a film, a travelogue and journey across American music.... The inclusion of live tracks to...read the complete review at Adrian Denning.co.uk

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The Austin Chronicle

Compile 10 studio albums and one of them will necessarily fall to the bottom of a list ranking them by quality. Thus, relative to U2's catalogue,Rattle and Humis so bad it's laughable. True, it isn't a studio recording in its entirety, but that's no...read the complete review at The Austin Chronicle

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