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| U2 Go Home - Live from Slane Castle (Jewel Case) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Enda Hughes, Hamish Hamilton
Actors: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., U2
Studio: Interscope Records
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98 (€15.78)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (46 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13405
Format: Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Enhanced, Live, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 50 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: MCMDB166909D
UPC: 602498135143
EAN: 0602498135143
ASIN: B0000TB05A
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: November 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 04/23/2004
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Read the long reviews or just buy it now so worth it. November 23, 2008
If you love U2, get this, plain and simple. No more to read, buy it now, why have you kept reading, you should click "Add to cart" NOW! Go, what are you waiting for?!
Awesome!! November 2, 2008
U2 performing outside in front of what looks like
a thousand of U2 fans at Co.Meath,Ireland at night.
The setlist is a little different,the footage,lighting,
sound is different then U2:Elevation-Live From Boston
and U2:Vertigo-Live From Chicago dvd's.
Amazing concert !! May 21, 2008
This DVD is a must have for U2 fans. The energy of the crowd and the band
is captured here and the music is phenomenal. Highly recommended.
Classic January 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the way a concert DVD should be put together. It focuses mostly on the band with only occasional shots of the crowd. Clearly U2 were in their element that night and the performance is passionate. It is heavy on tunes from "All you Can't Leave Behind" which can be a good or bad thing depending on your taste. I love Edge's guitar style and the songs seem to carry a deeper message for me as I get older. "Kite," "One," and "Walk On" choke me up everytime for some reason.
 Addictive guitar July 27, 2006
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Let me back up a little and get back to basics. I'm not going to talk about camera shots or other concerts.
U2 is one band in which every musician matters a lot. I don't think of Bono as the leader of U2. I think of his voice as just one of the instruments. Actually I guess I'd make the lead guitarist Edge my favorite member of the band. I think it's his work that distinguishes U2 from the rest and gives greatness to some of their songs. In that respect it's like Van Halen. There is a charismatic and famous lead singer, but without that lead guitar you wouldn't have a great band, and the lead guitar contributes more to my enjoyment of the songs than the singer.
One reason is that Bono sings well in his limited range, but he isn't a crooner like Elvis or Cyndi Lauper. His voice doesn't do anything special. It's not that he hits a large range of notes with power and accuracy. It's not that his voice has a musical quality. It does not. He communicates a song, but his vocal instrument is ordinary. In that respect he resembles Sinatra, one of his favorites. If you want those high notes and those low notes, listen to Elvis, not to Sinatra. Or, god forbid, listen to Bing Crosby. He had an instrument.
What I like best about U2 is the repetitive, hypnotic lead guitar that just keeps at you, like in Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. It reminds me of bagpipes, not that I can stomach bagpipes for long. Edge seems to be saying "I'll play this damn riff til you're sick of it, and I'll keep playing it til you are hypnotized by it, and I'll keep playing it until you are addicted to it like heroine."
There are four outstanding U2 songs for me. One of them is in the body of the concert - Where The Streets Have No Name. Two of them are in the encores - One, and With Or Without You. Finally there's Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. You won't hear that last one on this show. Those four songs represent U2 to me, and without those four songs I wouldn't think the band was anything special. With them, we have one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time.
At one point Bono was so affectionate with Edge that I wondered if he was making a homosexual statement. Bono kissed him and seemed to be simulating sex with him in a symbolic way. I thought "whatever, when you're a big star you can do any crazy stuff you want". I think it is pretty evident that this was Bono's way of making a political statement about homosexuality. He wasn't expressing his sexual desire for Edge. They've known each other too long for that. If they are lovers, they have to be like an old married couple by now, meaning sex once every few years. So the show was for our benefit, to make a point that homosexuality is something that needs to be accepted.
Bono got political and said that compromise is not a dirty word and that he never wants to return to the days of IRA rebellion. That was during Sunday Bloody Sunday. It's not "rock star cool" to have a brain. Rock stars are supposed to be moron head bangers yelling about sex and violence, being so tough, so macho, so stupid. Doesn't Bono know he's supposed to be stupid? Stupid is cool, no? Bono seems to have trouble being stupid. Yet he's popular all the same. Imagine that.
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