Now that I have eventually got around to buying this album, I must admit that track for track I put this above The Joshua Tree which was my favourite U2 album. This album has more edge (I don't mean guitarist), it has a rawness which rocks!

There are some interesting things here and there, but they are small things. Like the “aaaaahhhh” in the background of “Even Better Than the Real Thing”. “One” gets me a bit emotional if I try really hard. I dunno, it’s just... you can hear that Bono takes himself so serious that it’s hard to hear some genuine vulnerability in his music.

Love the album and really rate all the tracks. Wild Horses is my favourite.
Liked emptysquares comment about Bono - that got me laughing. I didn't set out to like U2 as there are many things that annoy me about them, but I'm afraid I just can't hate them as nearly everything I've heard of them I really like. Guess it's a bit like Coldplay. They seem to draw a certain level of dislike from many fronts - is that because they are so big and successful or they come across smug? Not sure. But if I like the music I'll keep listening to it.

There are some fantastic tracks crowded around tracks that I find painfully bland.

For some reason, after many many listens I still cannot stand One, Wild Horses, or Trying to throw your arms around the world: to me these songs bring down a fantastic album quite a lot.

For the 1992 tour for this album, Bono adopted as his persona "The Fly", a leather-clad egomaniac meant to parody rock stardom. Following the completion of the tour he reverted to his normal persona of egotistical rock star who likes leather.

Not really a big U2 fan, but gotta give props, this is a good album.

I'm not a U2 fan, but I can happily listen to War or The Joshua Tree. Achtung Baby, however, to me, is even worse than a terrible thing. Whiny is the word, and this applies equally to One. In Wild Horses, when it goes "hey hey, sha la la", I can only give up and put on another album.

Nel ricercare una via diversa alla loro musica per uscire dal cul-de-sac dove si erano cacciati con "Rattle and hum", gli U2 non solo diedero una convincente riverniciata al suono ( complice Brian Eno… ) ma lasciarono un po' da parte il messaggio a tutti i costi, concentrandosi maggiormente sulle sonorità. Disco, questo, che mi piace per questi motivi e, naturalmente, perché contiene "One"…

The most important album by U2. 'the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree'

Personal favorite from these guys. The songwriting has never been better, and the band brings it all to life with passion. And Bono's vocals soar as usual. Perhaps U2's magnum opus.