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Title: don't believe the hype
Review: Listening to Beautiful Day makes you think All That You Can't Leave Behind is gonna be a great old-time U2 album. The fact is, there is almost no drum and bass section in this album. Stripped down is an understatement. U2 have never made an album like this, where there's only Bono to carry them. Normally, this would still be good, but Bono now thinks he is an R&B singer. His voice has been destroyed by cigarettes, age, and too much falsetto singing in the past. A once soaring set of pipes now sounds considerably limited to moaning. He sounds a bit better in concert, so let's hope he was just suffering from a bad couple of months when this album was recorded. Contrary to other reviews by people who either loyally refuse to see the truth or have just jumped on the band wagon, this album is not better than or as good as Joshua Tree or any other U2 album.
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