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Treble Roundtable: The Best Writing on Treble

We share our favorite pieces from our fellow scribes

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91 Essential Alternative Rock Albums of the ’90s

An overview of a decade of underground music invading the mainstream

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Treble 100: No. 61, U2 – The Joshua Tree

U2 looked to America, the inspiring and the infuriating, on their fifth album.

Treble 100 All-Time Favorite Albums

Introducing Treble 100: A Series on Our All-Time Favorite Albums

We’re launching an ongoing series on our 100 favorite albums of all time

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The 150 Best Albums of the 1980s

A look back at one of the greatest decades of musical innovation.

U2 Songs of Innocence

On Songs of Innocence and Experience, U2 left it open ended

A publicity stunt gone awry, and a band reclaiming their soul

U2 No Line on the Horizon

With No Line on the Horizon, U2 delivered an album of future hymns

Less a return to form than the realization of a new one for the group

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U2’s How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: A shrug that sold 9 million copies

U2’s 11th album is a fine enough set of songs, which for a band of their magnitude didn’t feel like enough.

U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2 played it frustratingly safe on All That You Can’t Leave Behind

It was fated, I suppose. As much as a great deal of this series has…

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U2 announce 30th anniversary reissue of Achtung Baby

Deluxe vinyl editions out this week, plus an expanded digital version due next month.

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On Pop, U2 embraced the sounds and pulses of the club

An erroneously reviled album that found U2 showcasing their most experimental tendencies.

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U2’s Zooropa was a product of limitless imagination

The band’s strangest album was a neon utopia.

U2 Achtung Baby

How U2’s Achtung Baby began the group’s strangest era

The beginning of a weird new era and the result of a creative tug-of-war.

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U2 tapped into a well of light on The Unforgettable Fire

The band’s fourth album found them emerging from their post-punk background and entering a bigger, boundless world of art rock.

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U2’s War provided a triumphant close to their post-punk trilogy

The band’s close of their early post-punk trilogy opened them up to the heroic possibilities their later ’80s output would fulfill.

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U2 announce “The Virtual Road” livestream series

Concerts from 2001, 1983, 1997 and 2015 will each be up for 48 hours only.

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U2 101: How Boy and Three revealed an early and vivid portrait of the band

We’ve launched a new yearlong project on U2, starting with their post-punk origins.

10 Essential ’90s Movie Soundtracks

Looking back at a soundtrack renaissance.

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Shut Up and Play the Hits: On Setlists and Song Retirement

Some songs live a second life, while some are never to be heard from again.