History YMMV / RattleAndHum

* SignatureSong: The most popular song on the album is "Desire".

* NeverLiveItDown: This project caused U2's reputation among the general public to take a complete 180, going from being regarded as a stellar PostPunk-cum-AlternativeRock act to a group of egotistical, PR-hungry yes-men. Even after the band rebounded among fans and critics with their subsequent work, ''Rattle and Hum'' still acts as an albatross around their necks, with non-fans pointing to it as the most naked proof of their perceived arrogance.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Van Diemen's Land" has a very similar melody to the old country tune "Lost Highway", written by Leon Payne but made famous by Music/HankWilliams. Oddly enough, U2 did play "Lost Highway" itself live a few times, with The Edge taking lead vocals.

-->Yeah, yeah. And let me tell you something. I've had enough of Irish-Americans who haven't been back to their country in 20 or 30 years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home, and the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution!
* BrokenBase: The anviliciousness, along with U2 associating themselves with music royalty that early in their careers, provoked a persistent image of the band as pretentious and self-important, which led to their going in a completely different direction for their [[Music/AchtungBaby next album]]. On the other hand, as U2's manager Paul [=McGuinness=] put it, "We sold twelve million copies of the record, so that is the kind of failure I can live with."

** Larry Mullins eulogizing Music/ElvisPresley by talking about... his movies. As WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows pointed out, that's probably not the most flattering thing to remember Elvis for.

* NeverLiveItDown: This project caused U2's reputation among the general public to take a complete 180, going from being regarded as a stellar PostPunk-cum-AlternativeRock act to a group of egotistical, PR-hungry yes-men. Even after the band rebounded among fans and critics with their later work, ''Rattle and Hum'' still acts as an albatross around their necks, with non-fans pointing to it as the most naked proof of their perceived arrogance.

* {{Narm}}

* SnarkBait: The documentary remains as proverbial laundry list of pretty much all of Music/{{U2}}'s most frequently-mocked traits, especially their alleged egotism and Bono's browbeating obsession with civil rights, not helped by the borderline deifying cinematography.

* {{Narm}}: Larry Mullins eulogizing Music/ElvisPresley by talking about... his movies. As WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows pointed out, that's probably not the most flattering thing to remember Elvis for.

* OldShame: How the band sees the movie now, though they mostly still like the album.

* BaseBreaker: The anviliciousness, along with U2 associating themselves with music royalty that early in their careers, provoked a persistent image of the band as pretentious and self-important, which led to their going in a completely different direction for their [[Music/AchtungBaby next album]]. On the other hand, as U2's manager Paul [=McGuinness=] put it, "We sold twelve million copies of the record, so that is the kind of failure I can live with."

** SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Van Diemen's Land" has a very similar melody to the old country tune "Lost Highway", written by Leon Payne but made famous by Music/HankWilliams. Oddly enough, U2 did play "Lost Highway" itself live a few times, with The Edge taking lead vocals.

* OldShame: How the band sees the movie now, though they mostly still like the album.

* BaseBreaker: The anviliciousness, along with U2 associating themselves with music royalty that early in their careers, provoked a persistent image of the band as pretentious and self-important, which led to their going in a completely different direction for their [[Music/AchtungBaby next album]]. On the other hand, as U2's manager Paul [=McGuinness=] put it, "We sold twelve million copies of the record, so that is the kind of failure I can live with."

* BrokenBase: The anviliciousness, along with U2 associating themselves with music royalty that early in their careers, provoked a persistent image of the band as pretentious and self-important, which led to their going in a completely different direction for their [[Music/AchtungBaby next album]]. On the other hand, as U2's manager Paul [=McGuinness=] put it, "We sold twelve million copies of the record, so that is the kind of failure I can live with."

{{Anvilicious}}: The album and, even more so, the film show Bono's then-habit of underlining the messages of his [[ProtestSong protest songs]] with onstage mini-lectures. The (film-only) rant against the IRA that he delivered in the middle of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" earned him death threats.