How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (studio album) by U2

From DJFresh-Rock 07/18/2025 19:54

U2 return to rocking form with their 11th studio album. Opener Vertigo achieves an LP high within the first few seconds (despite the suspect counting), and much of what follows is similarly good. As is often the case with U2, there are a couple of lyrics which don’t quite hold (Original Of The Species is particularly poor in places), but this is a good, solid effort from a rock band rediscovering their roots.

The last decent U2 effort (although nowhere near the league of their previous older works) and this album was on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a total of 56 weeks.

Winner of album of the year at the 2006 Grammys

Not a bad album, but a major disappointment after their incredible run through the late '80s and '90s. The adventurous evolution of their sound from Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby to Zooropa to Pop to All That You Can't Leave Behind was exciting as any major rock band since the Beatles ever had. For a while there, fans truly didn't know what to expect next. But How To Dismantle... marked the point where they stopped evolving in any sort of meaningful way and started chasing their own tails. The band still knows how to write a good song (Vertigo and Sometimes You Can't Make It) are highlights, but the sonic fearlessness is gone.

Very solid album. Thought they might be past their best by this point in their career but clearly not. City Of Blinding Lights and All Because Of You are stellar - 2 of their best songs in my opinion, very underrated. And you can't deny the quality of the overplayed Vertigo. One Step Closer and Miracle Drug are a bit flat but the rest of the album is very nice.

Far from a fan, but it's not as bad as it gets credit for, it definitely has its moments.

It's a pretty solid rock album. It's good and better than most but feels a bit safe for U2.

From VictorVale 07/15/2019 17:23

Um real álbum de rock!

On 'How to Dismantle' U2 sounds like a mature rock band that enlives what it does best. The guitars of the Edge sound highly professional and the songs sound like they came from a batch of an inexhaustible source of good alternative rock music. For me this is the best U2 album both in overall.

From TerryTezza 06/25/2019 05:14

This is my fourth favourite album by U2 and agree with others that it starts strong with Vertigo and Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own to the middle classic City of Blinding Lights to the final songs Yahweh and Fast Cars (the added track and should be the second song of the album in my opinion as it has the title track name in the song). Brilliant!