Editing Rattle and Hum (section)

==Legacy==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic-review">{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rattle-and-hum-mw0000375268|title=Rattle and Hum – U2|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=10 August 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' 
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/09/06/you-too-can-hear-the-best-of-u2/|title=You, Too, Can Hear The Best Of U2|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=6 September 1992|access-date=3 December 2015|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=U2 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |year=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=London |editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |edition=5th concise |page=1426 |isbn=9781846098567}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' 
| rev4score = B<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1991/11/29/u2s-discography|title=U2's Discography|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=29 November 1991|access-date=24 September 2015|last=Wyman|first=Bill}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=U2|last1=Considine|first1=J. D.|author-link1=J. D. Considine|last2=Brackett|first2=Nathan|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-last=Brackett|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Hoard|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/833 833–34]|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide}}</ref>
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{{Blockquote|"''Rattle and Hum'' was conceived as a scrapbook, a memento of that time spent in America on the Joshua Tree tour. It changed when the movie, which was initially conceived of as a low-budget film, suddenly became a big Hollywood affair. That put a different emphasis on the album, which suffered from the huge promotion and publicity, and people reacted against it."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=U2's Edge and Adam Clayton Look Back on Two Decades of Hit Albums with Few – If Any – Regrets|magazine=[[Revolver (magazine)|Revolver]]|first=Anthony|last=DeCurtis|author-link=Anthony DeCurtis|date=December 2000}}</ref>|[[The Edge]]}}
In 1989, while at a press tour in Sydney, Australia (where U2 were touring with B. B. King and working on demos for the follow-up album ''Achtung Baby''), Bono stated, "making movies: that's the nonsense of rock & roll", which ''Rolling Stone'' magazine claimed was almost an apology for the film. "Playing shows is the reason we're here", he added.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=October 1989|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=14–28 December 1989|issue=567/568|page=127}}</ref> Despite their commercial popularity, the group were dissatisfied creatively; Bono believed they were musically unprepared for their success, while Mullen said, "We were the biggest, but we weren't the best."<ref name="fricke">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/u2s_serious_fun |title=U2 Finds What It's Looking For |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |first=David |last=Fricke |author-link=David Fricke |date=1 October 1992 |access-date=26 April 2010 |issue=640 |pages=40+ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420045907/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/u2s_serious_fun |archive-date=20 April 2009 }}</ref> By the Lovetown Tour, they had become bored with playing their greatest hits.<ref>Flanagan (1996), p. 4</ref> U2 believe that audiences misunderstood the group's collaboration with King on ''Rattle and Hum'' and the Lovetown Tour, and they described it as "an excursion down a dead-end street".<ref>Flanagan (1996), pp. 25, 27–28</ref><ref name="m213">McCormick (2006), p. 213</ref> Towards the end of the Lovetown Tour, Bono announced on-stage that it was "the end of something for U2", and that "we have to go away and&nbsp;... dream it all up again".<ref name="m213"/> The band subsequently reinvented themselves in the 1990s; beginning with ''[[Achtung Baby]]'' in 1991, they incorporated [[alternative rock]], [[electronic dance music]], and [[industrial music]] into their sound, and adopted a more ironic, flippant image by which they embraced the "rock star" identity they struggled with in the 1980s.<ref name="ach-stations">{{cite magazine|title=Achtung Stations|magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|first=Stephen|last=Dalton|date=November 2004|issue=90|page=52}}</ref>