Claude says:U2's most personal record emerged after five and a half years of false starts and multiple producers, finally completed with Danger Mouse, Flood, and others. It revisits their 1970s Dublin youth and pays tribute to the Ramones and the Clash — though it became more famous for landing uninvited in 500 million iTunes libraries than for the songs themselves. You grabbed it that September 2014 when Apple force-fed it to the world, played through "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)" and "Cedarwood Road" a handful of times, then moved on.