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- #1
- Posted: 10/30/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3604): Achtung Baby by U2
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Today's album of the day
Achtung Baby by U2 (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1991.
Country: 
Overall rank: 113
Average rating: 80/100 (from 1631 votes).
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Tracks:
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
7. The Fly
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
10. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
11. Acrobat
12. Love Is Blindness
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: where the flowers grow. 
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- #3
- Posted: 10/30/2020 22:03
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I like it too. As a matter of fact, I still love a lot of songs here: Until The End Of The World, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Ultraviolet, Zoo Station, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, The Fly. I've grown tired of One and especially Mysterious Ways throughout the years. Bono might be a preachy rich dude, but they get far too much backlash imo. The classics are the classics.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France 
- #4
- Posted: 10/30/2020 23:57
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It's OK U2-wise. Liked the Fly wery much way back when. Mysterious Ways is awful though.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France
- #5
- Posted: 10/30/2020 23:58
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| DommeDamian wrote: | | Highly influential |
Curious about that. Who do you think this particular LP has influenced?
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mickilennial
The Most Trusted Name in News
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Location: Detroit 
- #6
- Posted: 10/31/2020 01:11
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It's probably the last decent U2 record. Shame.
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craola
crayon master
Location: pdx 
- #7
- Posted: 10/31/2020 06:11
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Curious about that. Who do you think this particular LP has influenced? |
there was a good stretch of time where seemingly every rock band wanted to sound like u2. even some of their contemporaries (depeche mode, prince, r.e.m., et alia) were outspoken about their inspiration. granted, it wasn't always this particular album, but i feel like it made the rounds. most of the following artists have been pretty vocal about their u2 fandom as well, and i can't see many of these things being what they are without achtung baby:
obviously, "influential" goes both ways. for better and for worse.
also, i'm pretty sure u2 inspired that weird trend where suddenly every rock band had "always" had a dance element to their music.
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- #8
- Posted: 10/31/2020 09:00
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Love The Fly but otherwise I find it highly overrated and not really a rewarding listen unfortunately.
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911Turbo
Gender: Male
Location: Toronto 
- #10
- Posted: 10/31/2020 15:39
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| Daydreamer wrote: | | Probably their best. |
Everyone automatically defaults to the Joshua Tree (which is a classic), but i'm in the same camp as daydreamer.
the band, at this time, was experimenting with sound-shaping technology applied to the Edge's guitar and larry mullens drums.
i feel the bands sound is more intricate & articulate than any of their stuff to date.
becuse of this, the album has a deeper musical range-- "zoo station" is very techno grunge, "mysterious ways" is hip=-hop,
"the fly' is a fantastic heavy rock song, "so crueL"- stretches bonos vocals with a good vibe
the whole album is memorable and leaves me craving for more.
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