U2 - Achtung Baby
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Artist: U2Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-11-19
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Zoo Station
- Even Better Than The Real Thing
- One
- Until The End Of The World
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- So Cruel
- The Fly
- Mysterious Ways
- Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
- Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- Acrobat
- Love Is Blindness
Free Music Notes for Achtung Baby
Free Music Review: achtung achtung!!
Hit: 5 Stars
the time is the early 90's, gone are the excesses of the 80's, technology is trickling down to the hands of the masses. the world is in transition as the cold war has thawed. europe is changing, as mindsets, politics and geographic borders are different.
music is changing as it is going away from slick production to a more grimier, less polished finish.
U2 is aware of the world changing and are influenced by it.
rumors circulate about how U2 are changing their sound. a sample of it is released on "red, hot and blue", the song, "night and day" and it just made my jaw hit the ground.
then in the fall of 1991 "the fly". i heard it at 6AM, waking up to the dj talking about the new U2 song and how it was being played for the second time that day. when i heard that opening guitar lick, U2 had put rattle and hum and the joshua tree into a wood chipper (mind you there is nothing wrong with both albums).
when i finally purchased the album, it was just incredible.
from the opening "zoo station" all the way through "love is blindness", i was plugged in and could not put down my headphones.
every song stands out for me, with no favorites as i love them all.
this is U2's best album, hands down, no other album even comes close.
the tour was way ahead of its time, a mobile television studio, a true multimedia experience before the phrase was ever used in popular vernacular.
Achtung Baby Poster
"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 DurchholzAchtung, 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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