Reviews
"From Achtung Baby On, Panoramic Ballads Sat Side by Side with Mini-Rebellions...", 5 Stars - Classic - "...U2's heaviest album to date. And best..." - One of Q Magazine's 50 best albums of 1991., Picked by Critic John Dilberto As One of the 10 Best Albums of 1992., Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the '90s.", 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...", "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.", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s", "..refreshingly personal - deeper and denser than any of the band's previous releases..." - Rating: A, Ranked #9 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", "...Achtung, Baby Is Dense, Tough and Endlessly Surprising...A Great Accomplishment...", Included in Cmj's List of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time", 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...", Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's '10 Best Reissues of 2011'- "One of Rock's Great Acts of Rebirth.", "..Dense, Self-Serious and Overly Ambitious: All the Things this Band Is Rightfully Famous For..", Ranked #19 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s", "Essential to Understanding the Most Inscrutable Stadium-Filling Band in History." -- Grade: a, 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'..."
