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U2 Lists: Top 10 Achtung Baby Images

[Ed. note: This is the 32nd in a "U2 Lists" series, where @U2 staffers pick a topic and share their personal rankings on something U2-related.]
 
Achtung Baby gave us songs, sounds and noises we had never heard before from U2. But the change… Continue reading »

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20 Years of Achtung Baby: 5 Questions with Willie Williams

He’s been working with U2 since their stage design consisted of little more than a few white flags and a blowup of the album cover. His job is to take the music that U2 make and develop concert ideas that match the sound, the message and the overall v… Continue reading »

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From The Sky Down coming to DVD/Blu-ray soon?

It looks like From The Sky Down will soon have its own DVD and Blu-ray release. The documentary is listed twice on Amazon.co.uk right now — a regular DVD release and a Blu-ray version. Both are listed as being released already (well, November 21st) b… Continue reading »

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Vintage U2

In keeping with this month’s Acthung Baby theme, we take a look at a few articles from that time.
A Little More Larry, Propaganda
There is an absence of obvious magic in the recording studio as U2 create songs for their new record, certainly not as mu… Continue reading »

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Happy 20th Anniversary, Achtung Baby!

Twenty years ago today (and tomorrow), U2 released Achtung Baby to a largely unsuspecting world that may have expected the band to continue to build on what it had accomplished with the The Joshua Tree and Rattle And Hum. That obviously wasn’t the cas… Continue reading »

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20 Years of Achtung Baby: Why Achtung Baby Is U2′s Greatest Album

The Joshua Tree is an amazing album, the record many U2 fans and music critics call the band’s best. It’s tough to argue against that claim. In fact, I think the opening three tracks stack up against any three tracks from any other album in history. A… Continue reading »

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20 Years of Achtung Baby: Why Achtung Baby Is Not U2′s Greatest Album

The famous quote from Bono about Achtung Baby chopping down The Joshua Tree is an accurate one — I’m just not in the camp that believes it was necessarily a good thing.
I’ll fully admit to being dazzled by Achtung when it first came out. It was just … Continue reading »

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Like A Song: Acrobat

[Ed. note: This is the 61st in a series of personal essays by the @U2 staff about songs and/or albums that have had great meaning or impact in our lives.]
A lot has happened to me in just the past one-and-a-half months. I moved in with my boyfriend, w… Continue reading »

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Q’s Ahk-toong Bay-bi for sale on iTunes Music Store

If you live in North America, chances are that you missed out on picking up a copy of (Ahk-toong Bay-bi) Covered, the Achtung Baby covers CD that was bundled with the December issue of Q magazine. If you found the magazine, it probably didn’t have the… Continue reading »

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20 Years of Achtung Baby: Radio Airplay in the U.S.

Twenty years after its release, Achtung Baby remains a popular album on U.S. radio stations. Over the past 12 months, every song on the album except one has been played on U.S. commercial radio. And if that’s not enough to show how popular the album s… Continue reading »

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