All That You Can’t Leave Behind

(2000)

After 1994’s synth and loop-heavy Pop was deemed an overly experimental letdown by their high commercial standards, the four-piece went back to the drawing board, and for Edge that meant embracing his ‘Coca-Cola’ riff. The trademark chiming delay was back and

Beautiful Day couldn’t have been a more-life affirming vehicle for it. Elevation and Walk On follow that upbeat mould in the first half but

Kite is the real jewel here – the Edge’s slide on the verses perfectly pitched with Bono’s poignant message to his father before the huge emotional mid-section pay-off. This reaffirmed U2’s greatest strength; painting the personal and hopeful in vivid, universal colours. Download: Kite