Achtung Baby.

[CVHfan]

I am listening to it now after having bought it today. It is a good album. Someone on here said that it was their favorite next to the six-pack. I have generally liked the earlier stuff, espcially "The Joshua Tree" but this is pretty good. Really good. Exciting in a very different way.

[Atomic_Rob]

I love Achtung Baby, so many great songs on there, one of the my favourite albums of all time.

[academic punk]

What is hard to have the perspective on it for someone only buying it today is what a complete left-turn it was for the world's biggest band.

Before, they were always sort of subdued, sincere, and serious. Suddenly, you've got this ironic, weird, multi-colored beast that's laying out funk, hard rock, and bizarre noise explosions that are sometimes out-of-tune and off-key (Bono's voice cracking on "One" would've been UNTHINKABLE beforehand).

They took a REAL chance with that one. If the music wasn't so good, it very easily could have been a complete disaster.

Don't listen to it much anymore, but I really do believe that it doesn't get the credit it deserves as preparing mainstream radio for the likes of Nirvana and the Pixies.

[ELVIS]

Crap

[CVHfan]

Originally posted by academic punk
What is hard to have the perspective on it for someone only buying it today is what a complete left-turn it was for the world's biggest band.

Before, they were always sort of subdued, sincere, and serious. Suddenly, you've got this ironic, weird, multi-colored beast that's laying out funk, hard rock, and bizarre noise explosions that are sometimes out-of-tune and off-key (Bono's voice cracking on "One" would've been UNTHINKABLE beforehand).

They took a REAL chance with that one. If the music wasn't so good, it very easily could have been a complete disaster.

Don't listen to it much anymore, but I really do believe that it doesn't get the credit it deserves as preparing mainstream radio for the likes of Nirvana and the Pixies.

It reminds me of how 1991 was a really interesting year for music. Things as they were got turned on their heads that year.

[ELVIS]

..and it sucked...

[rustoffa]

Is that the one where bono had the crazy shades?

I remember that video where they were playing live on a rooftop....now, in retrospect, I'm envisioning Blackhawk helicopters swooping down and blowing it to smithereens like in the movie.

[CVHfan]

That was the video for "Where The Streets Have No Name" off of "The Joshua Tree".

[David Lee Rocks]

thats my favorite U2 album

[DLR7884]

"Your so cruel" is the hidden gem on that album.

DLR7884
Great track, great album.

[Vanstonica]

Originally posted by CVHfan
I am listening to it now after having bought it today. It is a good album. Someone on here said that it was their favorite next to the six-pack. I have generally liked the earlier stuff, espcially "The Joshua Tree" but this is pretty good. Really good. Exciting in a very different way.

I was the one who said it was my favorite album after the six pack. I bought it when I was in high school, aminly because I dug "Mysterious Ways". It really took about a year for the rest of the album to grow on me.

[flappo]

i don't GET U2 at all

seems as if they think they're a lot cooler than they actually are

and apple should be sued for making that fucking special edition ipod

why waste it on these assholes ?