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U2
Achtung Baby
[Album]
19 November 1991
Rock
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TheBigBlack Review
(14 October 2023)
U2 had been slowing climbing to success for a number of years, and the recent studio & live combo album Rattle & Hum had positioned them at the top of the pack for the new decade. Their music now oozed with Americana charm, and it seemed obvious what would come next - and this is why the music world was left stunned when the first single 'The Fly' hit the airwaves. Reinvention is common in bands, but reinvention is about stripping back to the basic parts and rebuilding. This new U2 felt like none of those basic parts had ever existed. That first single, and the album that followed, was light years from anything the band had done before - and just about as far from anything else being played on the radio at the time. Be it by expert design or by total fluke, Achtung Baby positioned U2 at the forefront of the alternative movement that was about to flood the airwaves. The album sampled songs and sounds, it compressed and altered the instruments, it used odd song timings and arrangements, and Bono used his voice in ways he never had before. 'Zoo Station' bolts from its pen, its brazen overwrought guitar signalling like a warning of what is to come, and even mega hits like 'One' are produced to within an inch of their lives, deliberately removing any trace of the band that existed in the 1980s. 'Mysterious Ways' is so groovy you just need to move with it, and that is what makes the soul of the album - building a set of songs that regardless of how many overdubs are put on them, you can still hear the greatness of the tunes beneath it all. The Edge truly shines here, with tracks like 'Ultra Violet (Light My Way)' really showing his versatility. The album ends with some sombre moments, closing with 'Acrobat' and 'Love Is Blindness', ending a damn near perfect album. |
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(1/1) 1.
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U2 - Zoo Station (04:36)
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(1/1) 2.
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U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (03:41)
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U2 - One (04:36)
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(1/1) 4.
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U2 - Until The End Of The World (04:39)
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U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (05:17)
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(1/1) 6.
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U2 - So Cruel (05:49)
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(1/1) 7.
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U2 - The Fly (04:29)
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(1/1) 8.
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U2 - Mysterious Ways (04:04)
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(1/1) 9.
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U2 - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World (03:53)
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(1/1) 10.
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U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (05:31)
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(1/1) 11.
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U2 - Acrobat (04:30)
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(1/1) 12.
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U2 - Love Is Blindness (04:23)
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