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After 10 months of endless talking and recording-studio drudgery, U2 held another meeting and finally reached something approaching unanimity on the new album. "I do believe we have the hits now," says Clayton--and he's right. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the catchiest album U2 has ever made, though it is neither political--the titular bomb refers to Bono's tempestuous father, who died in 2001--nor, as Vertigo suggests, a garage rocker. Mostly it's perfectly rendered grandiose pop, enormous in sound and theme. Bono sings about salvation (Yahweh), love (A Man and a Woman...
Summer is high season for pop. It's when record companies deliver their catchiest tunes and people obligingly get together and break up as if they're in a high-speed movie montage. And thanks to the growing popularity of iPods and their ilk--and the major labels' grudging acknowledgment that it's better to sell one song for 99¢ than no songs at all--singles will be particularly prevalent this summer. With help from radio programmers and music executives, we've scoured the various formats to come up with 12 likely contenders for Crazy in Love's mantle. Most...
DIED. JAMES JORDAN JR., 73, advertising executive who created some of the catchiest product slogans in Madison Avenue history; of an apparent heart attack; in St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1968 he came up with the line "Wisk beats ring around the collar," reportedly after research found shirt-collar dirt to be among homemakers' peskiest wash problems. He also drummed into Americans' heads the notions that Tareyton smokers "would rather fight than switch" and that "Delta is ready when...
...masterfully while sporting skintight pants and boyish smiles. Dress finesse aside, the four lanky British Columbians produce great music all over Make Up The Breakdown, their first full-length album with major label Sub Pop, best known as the birthplace of Nirvana. Mixing rhythmic drive with some of the catchiest hooks around, Hot Hot Heat belt out a unique brand of rock so irresistibly fun and spastic that bodies demand to twist and jive along with it. This is dance music for punk rockers...
...Keith sees America as the world's "big dog," and he has a message for those who "sucker punch" us: "You'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A./ 'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way." It's the catchiest song about vengeance since The Caissons Go Rolling Along...