U2 Achtung Baby (20th Anniversary) (4-LP 180GV Boxset)

Rolling Stone: Ranked #62 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...The album has lots of uncertainty, irony and distortion. It also has one of the most beautiful songs U2 ever recorded: 'One'..."
Achtung Baby (20th Anniversary) (4-LP 180GV
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Format:  Vinyl LP  (4 Records)
item number:  66CED
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Vinyl LP Details

  • Number of Records: 4
  • Released: November 11, 2011
  • Originally Released: 2011
  • Label: Island Records

Description by OLDIES.com:

20th Anniversary Limited Edition. Featuring the original album on 180 GMS heavyweight vinyl double LP plus 2 x Blue Vinyl Remix 12"'s and also includes a large format 16-page booklet.

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - p.75
Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's '10 Best Reissues Of 2011' -- "[O]ne of rock's great acts of rebirth."
Rolling Stone - 12/11/03, p.113
Ranked #62 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...The album has lots of uncertainty, irony and distortion. It also has one of the most beautiful songs U2 ever recorded: 'One'..."
Rolling Stone - 5/13/99, p.50
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the '90s."
Rolling Stone - 1/9/92, p.50
4.5 Stars - Outstanding - "...the band is able to grow confidently and consistently on its own native strengths...few bands can marshal such sublime power..."
Spin - p.76
"From ACHTUNG BABY on, panoramic ballads sat side by side with mini-rebellions..."
Spin - 9/99, p.128
Ranked #19 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s"
Entertainment Weekly - p.75
"[E]ssential to understanding the most inscrutable stadium-filling band in history." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly - 11/29/91
"..refreshingly personal - deeper and denser than any of the band's previous releases..." - Rating: A
Q - 10/01, p.96
Ranked #9 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"
Q - 12/99, p.70
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s"
Q - 12/91
5 Stars - Classic - "...U2's heaviest album to date. And best..." - One of Q Magazine's 50 best albums of 1991.
Magnet - p.60
"[A] sexy, sleek and cynical synthesis of playful falsettos, Euro-trash dance grooves, grinding guitar tones...and a hopeless/heartbroken worldview ripped from the chest of Leonard Cohen."
CMJ - 1/6/03, p.16
Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time"
Musician - 12/91
"...ACHTUNG, BABY is dense, tough and endlessly surprising...a great accomplishment..."
Jazziz - Dec.-Jan./92, p.94
Picked by critic John Dilberto as one of the 10 best albums of 1992.
New York Times (Publisher) - 1/1/92
"..Dense, self-serious and overly ambitious: all the things this band is rightfully famous for.."
Record Collector (magazine) - p.103
4 stars out of 5 -- "To call ACHTUNG BABY a pivotal release is an understatement....Carbed up on a diet of Bowie, Reed and (at a stretch) Talking Heads, Bono and chums opted for a more arty, corrosive battle plan..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

  • 1.Zoo Station
  • 2.Even Better Than the Real Thing
  • 3.One
  • 4.Until the End of the World
  • 5.Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
  • 6.So Cruel

Tracks on Disc 2:

  • 1.The Fly
  • 2.Mysterious Ways
  • 3.Tryin To Throw Your Arms Around the World
  • 4.Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
  • 5.Acrobat
  • 6.Love is Blindness

Tracks on Disc 3:

  • 1.Even Better Than the Real Thing [the Perfecto Mix]
  • 2.Night and Day [Twilight Remix]
  • 3.Mysterious Ways [The Perfecto Mix]
  • 4.Even Better Than the Real Thing [Fish Out of Water Remix]

Tracks on Disc 4:

  • 1.Salom [Zooromancer Remix]
  • 2.Mysterious Ways [Solar Plexus Club Mix]
  • 3.Lemon [The Perfecto Mix]

Product Info

  • UPC: 602527788272
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5/lbs (approx)
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