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U2 - Achtung Baby
 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2006-10-11 16:10 [#01985756]
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I know lots of people here probably dislike U2 and hate
Bono, but whatever everyone else's opinions are of them, I
think this album is one of the finest rock albums I think
I've ever heard. It's definitely one of the most listened to
albums in my collection, partly because it's been there
longer then most of my other cds, but also just because I
never seem to get sick of. Musically it tops anything U2 has
done, lyrically it's some of the most poetic lyrics Bono has
ever written, and production wise it's a bit of U-Turn from
everything they released before. I'm just posting this
because I recently started listening to this again, and it's
blowing me away how good all the songs are. Zoo Station with
it's industrialesc beat... One with it's beautiful singing
and lyrics... The Fly with it's distorted guitars and
amazing guitar solo... it's all so good...

Anyway, just my thoughts! :)


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-10-11 16:13 [#01985757]
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yeah, it's their best album in my opinion (although most
people who hate U2 would go for "the joshua tree" or "war"
as their choice album instead)..

great album. only listened to 'so cruel' earlier.

"until the end of the world" is my favourite on it.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2006-10-11 16:22 [#01985760]
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The Joshua Tree has some great songs on it. I mean, how can
you dis the first three songs there? They're each classic.
The last two as well, Exit and Mothers of the Disappeared
are two favorites of mine as well. Personally though I find
the songs in between aren't as good, and kind of suck in a
few places, whereas to me Achtung Baby is good all the way
through.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2006-10-11 16:48 [#01985765]
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I like .... all of it really except "Who's gonna run your
wild horses" which sticks out like a very sore thumb on it,
though, for me.


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2006-10-11 16:59 [#01985767]
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It's an excellent album. And it was also the album I
listened to the summer I started going to parties and
meeting girls, so I got a lot of memories connected to the
songs.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-10-11 17:16 [#01985780]
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great cd indeed, we have the zootv vhs, will try to rent the
dvd and all when we find it

just replaced 3 cassettes with cds..........boy, october and
war :)


 

offline B123 from The wicked underbelly (Australia) on 2006-10-11 19:46 [#01985810]
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hadn't given this album a thought for a very long time. I
might pull it out again and give it a listen.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-12 00:15 [#01985864]
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It's a great album. They're a great band, but I'm not too
keen on their more "American" stuff (Joshua Tree).


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2006-10-12 00:27 [#01985869]
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Achtung Baby was my top 10 album once...along with Joshua
Tree....but in time i began disliking Bono so i lost the
interest in all U2 music. and in fact there are lots of
better bands than them. U2 became kind of a pop product
meant to expose Bono's ego, it seems.


 

offline zoomancer from Kabul (Afghanistan) on 2006-10-12 04:11 [#01985894]
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It sucks blows chunks..
no offense to any of the fans but U2 buts the insipid..in
insipid.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2006-10-12 07:33 [#01985933]
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i think this is the only u2 album i ever bought on cd. it's
the one with the fly on it right? and misterious ways?


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-10-12 07:35 [#01985934]
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and "one" one life one love, you got to hold us together
whoo whoo whoooo wheeeee whooo weee whooo


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2006-10-12 07:36 [#01985935]
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ah yes, i always skip that one. well, not lately because i
don't really listen to it.


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-12 09:45 [#01985983]
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i remember making fun of Zooropa a lot...
i don't think i;ve ever heard Achtung besides the
singles...
but i always thought Joshua Tree was weird for the first
handful of songs being the only ones that were blasted on
the radio


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2006-10-12 11:51 [#01986075]
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One has great lyrics. And I hate the duet with
whatshername..craphh


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2006-10-12 13:19 [#01986141]
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I never liked One and the horrible duet version made me hate
it, but apart from that it's a great record, quite possibly
their best. Joshua Tree is enjoyable as well, Bullet The
Blue Sky is coolie


 

offline FlyAgaric from the discovery (Africa) on 2006-10-12 13:21 [#01986143]
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It's a fine album. Haven't listened to it in ages.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-12 13:53 [#01986168]
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yeah, that duet is shit


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2006-10-12 14:05 [#01986178]
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Bullet The Blue Sky is the only track from JT i still like.
because of the intro drums and the iiiiiiiiiiiuuummm guitar
riff


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2006-10-12 14:11 [#01986185]
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you cant go wrong with iiiiiiiiiiiuuummm


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-10-12 14:13 [#01986188]
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never said i liked "one" i just heard it a bazillion times
on the radio/mtv, bullet the blue sky is dope, all of JT is

there is a new book out U2 on U2, it has some way old pics,
20+ years old, bono wasnt always wrinkly


 

offline IronLung from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2008-01-18 22:52 [#02165012]
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fun time album for sure...

just gave it a complete listen.....
still amazing


 

offline gyroscope on 2008-01-19 10:22 [#02165160]
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u2 are probably the only band better than the beatles.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-01-19 12:55 [#02165246]
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every one of you will realize U2 sucks at some point in your
life


 


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