Music is better heard than described. So the Scott Calhoun-edited Exploring U2: Is This Rock ’n’ Roll? naturally suffers from handicaps in a way that The Unforgettable Fire or Achtung Baby does not. Alas, for some fans of the Dublin quartet U2, it has never been about the tunes. Aside from the inherent difficulties in words attempting to evoke sounds, Exploring U2 stumbles in imagining its subject as everything from political conscience to church to charity to marketing brand to Irish cultural ambassadors. Many people who find music boring find U2 exciting.
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