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...U2: Rattle and Hum (Island, 1988). In which the rockers with the decade's biggest reach and most tender conscience discovered America, and outdid themselves, besting even their breakthrough The Joshua Tree album...
DANIEL LANOIS: ACADIE (Opal/Warner Bros.). Record producers, even those as skillful as Lanois (U2, Dylan), usually come up with eccentric gewgaws when they perform on their own. But here is an exception: Lanois' music is minimal, mystical, folklike but decidedly unfolksy. No wonder he runs with the big boys...
With the exception of the "Royal Station 4 16." all the songs have the same simple rock sound, with vocals not getting lost in the sound of the band. "Royal Station 4 16," which features U2 lead singer Bono playing harmonica. is a confusing jumble of mournful lyrics and excessive guitar and drums that does not succeed as well as Etheridge's simpler songs...
...veteran fan and still respond as rock 'n' roll demands you respond -- by belief, by passion, by always raising the stakes -- to performers who may be a quarter-century younger than you are? You could do it with Springsteen; you both were younger then. You did it with U2. But for somebody new? Was rock 'n' roll, forever young, finally middle-aged...
...ORBISON: MYSTERY GIRL (Virgin). This was going to be Orbison's first original solo album in ten years; it turned out to be his farewell. A little slick, but at least one tune, She's a Mystery to Me (produced by U2's Bono), is the perfect valedictory...