Achtung Baby

U2 - Achtung Baby

Achtung Baby
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CD Details

Artist: U2
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1991-11-19
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
  1. Zoo Station
  2. Even Better Than the Real Thing
  3. One
  4. Until the End of the World
  5. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
  6. So Cruel
  7. Fly
  8. Mysterious Ways
  9. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
  10. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
  11. Acrobat
  12. Love Is Blindness

Music reviews of Achtung Baby

Music Review: Even Better Than the Real Thing
Rating: 5 Stars

U2 set out to shed the highly musical but bathetically self-serious vestiges of the Joshua Tree, and succeeded mightily. By moving away from their consciously American sounds of the late 1980s and into a more European, club-inspired, danceable sound, they not only renewed their own claim on musical greatness, but they helped usher in the squeaky-clean American pop music of the 1990s in a big way.

With manic swings between peppy pop and moody ballads, U2 crafts a lush soundscape. But where the Joshua Tree was an outdoor sound, with ringing guitars seeming to echo off distant cliffs, this album is indoors, smoky, lit by halogen and full of crowds. It has a power every bit as strong as their prior work, but with no lingering vestiges of the post-punk sound that dominated their 1980s work.

But for all that transformation, they still engage the same themes that make the Joshua Tree classic. Spirituality, politics, sex, identity: it's all still there. Tracks like "Mysterious Ways," "One," and "The Fly" have a way if sticking with you long after the music goes quiet. That continuity amid change is an important part of why this album retains its massive impact after two decades.

Sandwiched between the painful earnestness of the 1980s and the silliness of the 1990s, it might be easy to forget just how powerful a band U2 was at the turn of the decade. But one listen to this timeless album is a capsule reminder. Most of this album remains part of their live concerts, and it's easy to see why. For a while there they were one of the most powerful cultural forces in the world.

Description of Achtung Baby

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"I'm ready / Ready for what's next," Bono announces at the outset of Achtung Baby, the album that proved the so-called "band of the '80s" was capable of blazing into the '90s by replacing its flag-waving arena-rock stance with screaming synths, clubby rhythms, and industrial skronk. The group advances its sound without losing accessibility on "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses," "Even Better Than the Real Thing," and "Mysterious Ways," while pushing the envelope a bit more on "The Fly," "Zoo Station," and "Acrobat." The moody ballad "One" is arguably the finest song the band has produced, full of sorrow, compassion, and hope all at the same time. --Daniel Durchholz
Achtung, Baby is U2's christening voyage into the postmodern, a brave venture into unknown territory and a brilliant musical transformation for the band. The album is packed with just as much passion as previous albums, but the lyrics are much more emotionally poetic and far less political. Musically, the tracks are a metropolis of intoxicating dance beats and lush guitar riffs. "The Fly" opens with guitarist The Edge's trademark reverberations cutting through the opening verse like a speedboat slicing through choppy water; on "Mysterious Ways," Bono's one-man gospel choir belts out the praises of an adored woman. --Beth Bessmer

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