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Achtung Baby by U2

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Zoo Station 4:36 146,512
3 One 4:36 602,019
4 Until The End Of The World 4:39 215,206
5 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses 3:57 144,400
6 So Cruel 5:50 132,134
7 The Fly 4:29 168,846
8 Mysterious Ways 4:03 341,726
9 Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World 3:53 112,828
10 Ultra Violet (Light My Way) 5:31 81,862
11 Acrobat 4:30 120,749
12 Love Is Blindness 4:23 121,173
1 Lady With The Spinning Head (UV1) 3:53 5,473
2 Blow Your House Down 3:30 7,275
3 Salomé 4:32 4,992
4 Even Better Than The Real Thing 3:42 229,091
5 Satellite Of Love 4:00 19,727
6 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Temple Bar Remix) 4:49 1,467
7 Paint It Black 3:23 12,924
8 Even Better Than The Real Thing (Fish Out Of Water Remix) 4:09 1,196
9 Mysterious Ways (The Perfecto Mix) 7:06 2,426
10 Night And Day (Steel String Remix) 6:57 3,634
11 The Lounge Fly Mix 6:28 4,967
12 Fortunate Son 2:39 6,432
13 Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk / Korova 1 3:37 2,129
14 Where Did It All Go Wrong? 3:56 2,951
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About this album

U2 /Island Catalog (2011) Released: 1 Nov 2011 25 tracks (113:08)
Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by band U2, released on 19 November . The album arrived nearly two years after lead vocalist Bono announced the band would have to “go away and dream it all up again”, following the mixed response to ’s Rattle And Hum. While recording Achtung Baby, there was a rift between band members over the direction of the band’s sound. Tensions almost prompted U2 to break-up until the band rallied around the writing of the album’s hit One.

The album marks a dramatic change in the band’s image and sound, with the band being heavily influenced by and music. Their music also features more detailed production, more guitar effects, and darker, more personal lyrical content. The results were considerably more adventurous than their previous efforts, yet Achtung Baby was very commercially and critically successful, winning a Grammy Award and having sold approximately 18 million copies worldwide. In , the album was ranked number 62 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The band embarked on the elaborately-staged, multimedia-intensive Zoo TV Tour to support the album.

History
Achtung Baby was a departure for the band. Bono has often described the album as “the sound of four men trying to chop down The Joshua Tree”. U2 sampled techniques and sounds from other musical genres previously unused by the band, including , and electronica, whilst maintaining their original feel of .
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  • Loperty

    This album is such a masterpiece!

    Friday evening

  • OU751DER

    Gigantic album...

    last month

  • HongaMorgan

    Just an awesome masterpiece. Everything sounds so right and exactly. U2 is Love. U2 is Religion. U2 is humanity. U2 is U2.

    last month

  • solitaryfields

    this just stands miles forward all their other work. this is absolute masterpiece album, every song, every sound here is on it's place.

    December 2011

  • freeVia3

    One of the first CDs I owned. Listening to it now after many years I'm impressed and it reminds me of a lot of other things that either didn't exist back then (OK Computer) or I just didn't know about (Violator). I <3 LPs that can age with you.

    November 2011

  • IndyDoug

    Happy Anniversary!

    November 2011

  • SerTapsaHenrick

    Happy birthday ^^

    November 2011

  • PartySanCTG

    Happy 20th birthday, you kickarse magnum opus!

    November 2011

  • Magnificent81

    Happy Birthday Achtung Baby! U2's opus magnum.

    November 2011

  • Bolshevized

    How great is The Edge on this one? Try to imagine the album without him. It's one of the most impressive guitar performances ever, IMO.

    November 2011

  • shamilaa

    Ultra violet (Light My Way) by The Killers (L) The best for me :)

    November 2011

  • thebruteclub

    @Terrasidius I COULDNT AGREE WITH YOU MORE. Its liek, tired stadium rock stars on glitzy XTC trip - it could be a bust or a raving success. Luckily it was the second one.

    November 2011

  • Terrasidius

    Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Passengers & Pop are awesome; their 1990s stuff is the greatest. :)

    November 2011

  • mixplusik

    The remastered version sounds so good.

    November 2011

  • thebruteclub

    This album hasnt escaped entrapment of time. ;,( Does not sound timeless, rather very 90s. I thought of it dfferently at time. DBL ;,( A tipicall bleek U2 album. Guess that all the hype at time came from the ZOO TV tour extravaganza. Oh well... they made enough money not to care anymore...

    November 2011

  • KarmaPolice95

    Happy birthday Achtung Baby!!!!!

    November 2011

  • gcjulian

    Happy birthday Achtung baby! :D

    November 2011

  • MirrorballMan

    Also happy birthday Larry! :)

    October 2011

  • MirrorballMan

    Happy birthday Achtung Baby, best album ever!

    October 2011

  • Boracoa10

    Just received the superdeluxe reissue. I'm curious!

    October 2011
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