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'..."
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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: AEntertainment Weekly - 11/29/91
"..refreshingly personal - deeper and denser than any of the band's previous releases..." - Rating: AQ - 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]
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