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Generally favorable reviews- based on 409 Ratings
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Positive: 324 out of 409
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Mixed: 42 out of 409
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Negative: 43 out of 409
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nickMar 12, 2009
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Sep 2, 2010
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Jun 25, 2012out of the 9 points i give it, the first 8 come from a u2 album to finally showcase adamclaytons bass playing ability. the last point comes for the song "breathe"
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Jun 4, 2013This album has a better user rating than Achtung Baby This band has been mailing it in since Zooropa. twenty years ago. Not a lot of spark. Boggles the mind.
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JohnnyG.Jan 29, 2010
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IndroneilBJul 5, 2009The worst u2 album....Dissappointing!...Yet they will get th Grammy bcoz its U2!!....!
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TomEMar 4, 2009I have been a big U2 fan since Achtung Baby. There was no doubt I would buy this album, got it as soon as it came out and played it while having visitors all night long in the background. Nothing stuck... nothing jumped out... nothing even reminded any of us we were listening to music. We the all draw the same conclusion: hotel lobby music.
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JohnCMar 5, 2009Overproduced, mediocre generi-pop. sounds like they took ever U2 album since Joshua Tree, threw in a blender, and what poured out was this acoustical pap. Sad to believe this is the same band that gave us the albums War and Joshua Tree. Now they're just a completely over-comericialized sellout band today.
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JohnnyG.Feb 2, 2010
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CameronMMar 11, 2009
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MichaelJMar 15, 2009
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MarliseGMar 19, 2009This is pure garbage for me, i miss The Joshua Tree, Rolling Stone, what happened to us?, 5 stars for this trash, I can't believe it.
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WilliamI.Mar 9, 2009Who could put all of those B-sided songs into an album? Energy level is no more than hum. Must be last album...songs are lame, music lame....I own almost all of their albums...this one...the should pay me to listen to. Seriously, do not waste your time or money.
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DaveBJul 7, 2009A couple of decent songs but far too many embarrassing, dull, or directionless moments for this to be considered a good album. It seems they are spending too much time trying to figure out where they can fit into the market and not enough time coming up with some worthwhile ideas.
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GaryM.Mar 4, 2009
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NickBMar 16, 2009Best album since Achtung Baby, I almost feel embarrased for liking the last two albums, this is so far beyond musically, conceptually and vocally.
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RaymondKMar 10, 2009
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michaelsMar 25, 2009Great album. just because it isn't as good as achtung baby doesn't mean it's a bad album. catchy songs and very well written lyrics.
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EmirMMar 3, 2009
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JalexDMar 3, 2009This is, in my opinion, U2's second best album, the best album I've heard in at least half a decade, and one of the greatest records ever.
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SebHMar 3, 2009
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KobayashiMMar 3, 2009
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GautamMMar 4, 2009
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pierreb.Mar 4, 2009
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JoeBlowMar 6, 2009Boring, Embarrasing, Pedestrian etc. After all these years, these guys should have more to say than this. This record begs to end up in the $1.99 bin. It's so bland and directionless that it wouldn't even work as interesting background music. U2 has truly are the biggest band in the world, and with that, are guilty of all the trappings that come with global success, primarily laziness.
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CarlosN.Apr 2, 2009Just Great!!, except for a couple songs at the end of the album.
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MihaiVMay 24, 2009A masterpiece.
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TSAug 6, 2009It comes down to patience, and, yes, overlooking the fact that the only forgettable song was their lead single (as so many have said before). Give it a few listens and this album will seriously grow on you. Get into Breathe, and Go Crazy.
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StirlingCJan 5, 2010The fact that they still possess the ability to make great, original music as they approach their 50s is an achievement in itself, and No Line On The Horizon shows that producing a "new" album of regurgitated 'Pride (In The Name Of Love)'s, 'One's and 'Beautiful Day's is most certainly not on their agenda.
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LoopsNRiffsNov 1, 2009
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No Line on the Horizon partakes of that romance by trying to expose its inner workings. It's risky to expose those delineations; as the band said long ago, it's like trying to throw your arms around the world. But the effort has its payoffs.
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As far as exploration goes, U2 seem to have finally found what they were looking for.
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Upon first listen, No Line on the Horizon seems as if it would be a classic grower, an album that makes sense with repeated spins, but that repetition only makes the album more elusive, revealing not that U2 went into the studio with a dense, complicated blueprint, but rather, they had no plan at all.