All That You Can't Leave Behind

All That You Can't Leave Behind
Studio album by U2
Publication (s)	October 30, 2000
Label (s)	Island Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	11
running time	49:19
occupation	Bono ( vocals ) The Edge ( guitar , vocals) Adam Clayton ( bass guitar ) Larry Mullen Junior ( drums )
production	Brian Eno , Daniel Lanois
Studio (s)	Hanover Quay Studios , Windmill Lane Studios , Westland Studios, Totally Wired, Dublin, Ireland
chronology Pop (1997) All That You Can't Leave Behind How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by the Irish rock band U2 and was released on October 30, 2000. The album entered the charts at number one in over 30 countries and pushed the band back into the public eye. The Elevation tour completed the following year to present the album with a total of over a hundred concerts in North America and Europe became the second most commercially successful tour in music history.

Track list

1. Beautiful Day - 4:08
2. Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out of - 4:32
3. Elevation - 3:48
4. Walk On - 4:56
5. Kite - 4:27
6. In a Little While - 3:39
7. Wild Honey - 3:47
8. Peace On Earth - 4:48
9. When I Look at the World - 4:18
10. New York - 5:30
11. Grace - 5:41
12. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (UK bonus track) - 3:44

Single releases

• Beautiful day
• Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out
• elevation
• Walk on

admission

After their previous, experimental album Pop and the accompanying tour were not as positively received by fans and critics as their previous albums, the band turned back to their more traditional style. This time they engaged Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno for the production . It was recorded from 1998 to 2000, with a two-month break in between, among other things, because Lanois and Bono had to record the soundtrack to the film The Million Dollar Hotel .

Album cover

The cover shows the band at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Roissy Hall 2F). The video for the single Beautiful Day was also shot at the airport.

useful information

• The album won a Grammy , the single Beautiful Day with three. The three other singles Walk On , Elevation and Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of each received a Grammy. It is the only album in music history to feature two tracks that won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year , Beautiful Day 2001 and Walk On 2002.

• Because of the song "Walk On" contained on the recording, which is dedicated to the Myanmar politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi , the attempt to import the album to Myanmar, where the song was banned by the State Council for Peace and Development (SPDC) was to be punished there with between three and 20 years in prison.

Commercial win

The album reached number one in over 30 countries, including Germany, Austria and Great Britain. It has also been awarded a platinum record over 25 times .

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	1 (41 weeks)	41
Austria (Ö3)	1 (52 weeks)	52
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 (62 weeks)	62
United Kingdom (OCC)	1 (72 weeks)	72
United States (Billboard)	3 (94 weeks)	94
Ireland (IRMA)	1 (107 weeks)	107

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	platinum	60,000
Australia (ARIA)	5 × platinum	350,000
Belgium (BEA)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Denmark (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold	(450,000)
Europe (IFPI)	4 × platinum	4,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	(27,312)
France (SNEP)	platinum	(300,000)
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA)	platinum	20,000
Japan (RIAJ)	platinum	200,000
Canada (MC)	5 × platinum	500,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	platinum	100,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	2 × platinum	30,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	2 × platinum	(160,000)
Norway (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	(50,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	(50,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	(80,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(80,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	3 × platinum	(300,000)
Hungary (MAHASZ)	gold	(10,000)
United States (RIAA)	4 × platinum	4,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × platinum	(900,000)
All in all	4 × gold 44 × platinum	9,260,000

Main article: U2 (band) / Music Sales Awards

Critical reception

source	rating
Allmusic
Chicago Sun-Times
Entertainment Weekly	A.
The Guardian
Hot press	(11/12)
New Zealand Herald
NME	(7/10)
Pitchfork Media
Q
Rolling Stone
Metacritic (average)	79/100

Critics received the album mostly positively. The average calculated by Metacritic is 79 out of 100 possible points with the comment “Generally favorable reviews” ( German  “predominantly positive reviews” ). The American magazine Rolling Stone chose the album at number 363 of the 500 best music albums of all time and at number 13 of the 100 best music albums of the 2000s. Rolling Stone also described the album as the band's “third masterpiece” after The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby .

The German press also had a positive opinion of All That You Can't Leave Behind . Eberhard Dobler from laut.de described the album, which he rated four out of five possible points, as “good pop music” by U2 and praised the album as “a kind of quintessence of their work”. According to another reviewer, the album slacked off after a “brilliant” beginning and only When I Look At The World could “keep up” with the first four songs. The author awarded seven out of ten possible points.

Individual evidence

1. ^ U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind. Retrieved November 20, 2012 . 
2. ^ Neil McCormick, Bono: "U2 by U2". HarperCollins , London 2006, ISBN 0-00-719668-7 .
3. ↑ feelnumb: U2 "All That You Can not Leave Behind" Airport Photo Location And Bible Reference. Retrieved November 20, 2012 . 
4. ↑ paris-cdg.worldairportguides.com: Paris-Charles de Gaulle CDG Airport History and Facts. Retrieved November 20, 2012 . 
5. ↑ About.com: 2002: U2 - 'All That You Can't Leave Behind'. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013 ; accessed on May 24, 2020 (English). 
6. ↑ Beautiful Day by U2. Songfacts, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
7. ↑ u2tour.de: Aung San Suu Kyi is free. November 13, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono discuss U2's song Walk On. BBC, June 18, 2012, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
9. ↑ U2'S CRIMINAL RECORD. NME, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Chart sources: IE IE2 (Singles) DE AT CH UK US
11. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2. Allmusic, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
12. ↑ Jim DeRogatis: Yes, U2 can go home again. Chicago Sun-Times , October 31, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
13. ^ David Browne: Music Review: All That You Can't Leave Behind. Entertainment Weekly , November 3, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
14. ^ Adam Sweeting: Pop CD of the Week: Time to get the leathers out. The Guardian , October 27, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
15. ^ Peter Murphy: One from the Heart. Hot Press , October 26, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
16. ↑ Russell Baillie: Album review: All That You Can't Leave Behind. New Zealand Herald , October 28, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
17. ↑ April Long: Even Better Than the Surreal Thing! NME, October 28, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
18. ↑ Brent DiCrescenzo: Album Reviews: U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind. Pitchfork Media , October 31, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
19. ↑ Mark Blake, Q , December 2000: "U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind".
20. ↑ All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2. In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive , accessed November 20, 2012 . 
21. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In: Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010 ; Retrieved November 20, 2012 . 
22. ^ U2, 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' '. Rolling Stone, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
23. ↑ James Hunter: All That You Can't Leave Behind. Rolling Stone, October 26, 2000, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
24. ^ Eberhard Dobler: All That You Can't Leave Behind. laut.de , accessed on November 20, 2012 . 
25. ↑ Album review U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind. rezensator.de, accessed on November 20, 2012 .