All That You Can’t Leave Behind: 20 Year Retrospective
9 min readOct 30, 2020
For Better or Worse, It Defined U2’s Latter-Day Career.
Released 20 years ago, All That You Can’t Leave Behind marked a return to form for U2, and it became one of the band’s most important records. After its previous album Pop, released in 1997, proved polarizing, fans were thrilled to see the band embracing its roots. More importantly, the album was a smashing success.