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You can hardly describe U2's music without using expansive adjectives like "passionate," "soaring," and "epic." After spending the 1980s making music to change the world, and spending the 1990s pushing the boundaries of artistic and political pop music, they released for the new century All That You Can't Leave Behind. This album, U2's twelfth, finds them returning to their anthemic rock roots with rapturous success. It also finds the commendably restless bunch once again vying for the title of "World's Best Rock Band," a position that hey alone seem prepared to fill.