CD Album - U2 - Achtung Baby - Island

CD Album

Artist:	U2
Title:	Achtung Baby
Label:	Island
Country:	Europe
Date:	Nov 1991
Catalogue:	CIDU28 / 510347-2
Barcode:	731451034725
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	23 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	U2	Zoo Station	U2	8.0 Rate
02	U2	Even Better Than The Real Thing	U2	9.0 Rate
03	U2	One	U2	10.0 Rate
04	U2	Until The End Of The World	U2	10.0 Rate
05	U2	Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses	U2	8.0 Rate
06	U2	So Cruel	U2	10.0 Rate
07	U2	The Fly	U2	9.0 Rate
08	U2	Mysterious Ways	U2	9.0 Rate
09	U2	Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World	U2	9.0 Rate
10	U2	Ultra Violet (Light My Way)	U2	9.0 Rate
11	U2	Acrobat	U2	9.0 Rate
12	U2	Love Is Blindness	U2	9.0 Rate

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28 page booklet
Standard (album) CD case with dark gray tray

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Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		I have seen the comedy "It Might Get Loud" - it had me in stitches. In particular the part where the hapless Egg tries to play the guitar with his feet had me roaring with laughter. While he pounded and stomped away for ages on his specially built guitar-playing pedals trying to get a decent sound Jimmy Page and Jack White - using the more traditional handheld method of guitar playing - were knocking out one killer riff after another. Although Davis Guggenheim was trying to make a documentary the juxtaposition between the two methods of playing inadvertently turned the film into side splitting comedy.



Apollo59 11th Aug 2017		@Lee Wrecker: You're dead right. Basically, from what I've worked out - they attract that huge contingent of sheep-people, the intellectually challenged. A lot of whom are from (and I'm not being critical but just making a point of fact) the lesser salubrious areas. There's also a heavy duty Roman Catholic contingent who can identify with Bono's psychobabble religious imagery claptrap. I know this to be true coming from where I come from - a city with enormous religious bigotry - and also being able to identify who's who and who is what etc. I mean, how many songs about angels can one man write? It's astonishing. The 'guitar' player is a joke and showed himself up for what he is - a downright charlatan - in that DVD with Jimmy Page, "It Might Get Loud". I bet Page had a very good laugh to himself at his 'abilities'. As for the 'drummer', for want of a better word, he must be the most useless tool that ever positioned himself behind a kit. He simply has not progressed any further than a junior member of the Boys Brigade. He's seemingly incapable of playing any other drums apart from the one snare. It's very hard going trying to listen to for any length of time. If it weren't for Brian Eno, we would not be hearing anything like as listenable as evidenced on Achtung Baby, as was very much the case with next 2 albums that followed Achtung Baby, where Eno's input was a great deal less. U2 definitely fall into the same cesspit as Oasis, Paul Weller, Stone Roses and whomever else excels in mediocrity. In fact I probably loathe about 95% of the titles listed on this site and must admit to having a quiet laugh to myself upon seeing the latest daily entries. I'd have shot myself out of pity for owning some of them. Hey ho, it must be wonderful to be so clueless.



Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		@Apollo59 You're too kind with your assessment of this mob of ne'erdowells. I find it hard to believe they even managed a half decent album and refuse to have anything they've done in the house. The guitar playing (I'm using the term loosely) and effects make the hairs on my neck stand up for all the wrong reasons. Horrendous but millions love them and I can't work out why. Hype works very well sometimes. Now I'm starting to think about Oasis...



Apollo59 10th Aug 2017		Perhaps the only half decent album they ever made



Apollo59 10th Aug 2017		Original UK release has the following printed on the disc underside: CIDU 28 MPO 01 @@



Magic Marmalade 21st Nov 2015		Great opening track for the album too: Zoo Station. Kind of announces from the off that this isn't just another Joshua Tree cash-in, and is something ...other. (Mysterious Ways is ultra-funky goodness too :)



nboldock 21st Nov 2015		I know what you mean MM - I do like this album too, although "Until The End Of The World" is the pick of it for me. They've done some great stuff over the years without a doubt.



Magic Marmalade 19th Nov 2015		I find it very difficult to listen to U2 much these days, due to the pretentious antics away from the music rather colouring my experience of the music when I listen to it, but it's nice to come back to this (And Joshua Tree) occasionally to remember how good they were. This album is my favourite (Just nudging ahead of Joshua Tree - which still seems a bit knowingly cool and pretentious to me), and this has an element of humour, and taking themselves a little less seriously for a brief spell, that works. And the best U2 track ever is on it in my opinion:



Magic Marmalade 21st Apr 2015		The CD "Label" printing quality on mine is pretty poor.... and the yellow bits on the scan above are orange on mine, should I upload a scan?



gregs45s SUBS 17th Apr 2015		More scans added.

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