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- Achtung_Baby runtime "55.45".
- Achtung_Baby abstract "Achtung Baby (pronunciation: /ˈɑːktuːŋ ˈbeɪbiː/) is the seventh studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 18 November 1991 on Island Records. Stung by criticism of their 1988 release, Rattle and Hum, U2 shifted their musical direction to incorporate influences from alternative rock, industrial music, and electronic dance music into their sound. Thematically, the album is darker, more introspective, and at times more flippant than their previous work. Achtung Baby and the subsequent multimedia-intensive Zoo TV Tour were central to the group's 1990s reinvention, by which they abandoned their earnest public image for a more lighthearted and self-deprecating one.Seeking inspiration from German reunification, U2 began recording Achtung Baby at Berlin's Hansa Studios in October 1990. The sessions were fraught with conflict, as the band argued over their musical direction and the quality of their material. After tensions and slow progress nearly prompted the group to break up, they made a breakthrough with the improvised writing of the song "One". Morale and productivity improved during subsequent recording sessions in Dublin, where the album was completed in 1991. To confound the public's expectations of the band and their music, U2 chose the record's facetious title and colourful multi-image sleeve.Achtung Baby is one of U2's most successful records; it received favourable reviews and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 Top Albums, while topping the charts in many other countries. Five songs were released as commercial singles, all of which were chart successes, including "One", "Mysterious Ways", and "The Fly". The album has sold 18 million copies worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1993 for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Since its release, writers and music critics have regularly cited Achtung Baby in polls of the greatest rock albums. The record was reissued in October 2011 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its original release.".
- Achtung_Baby artist U2.
- Achtung_Baby genre Alternative_rock.
- Achtung_Baby previousWork Rattle_and_Hum.
- Achtung_Baby producer Brian_Eno.
- Achtung_Baby producer Daniel_Lanois.
- Achtung_Baby recordLabel Island_Records.
- Achtung_Baby recordedIn Dalkey.
- Achtung_Baby recordedIn Dublin.
- Achtung_Baby recordedIn Hansa_Tonstudio.
- Achtung_Baby recordedIn Windmill_Lane_Studios.
- Achtung_Baby releaseDate "1991-11-18".
- Achtung_Baby runtime "3327.0".
- Achtung_Baby subsequentWork Zooropa.
- Achtung_Baby thumbnail Bono_Edge_Foxboro_09212009_U2360.jpg?width=300.
- Achtung_Baby wikiPageExternalLink albums.
- Achtung_Baby wikiPageID "209063".
- Achtung_Baby wikiPageRevisionID "606351493".
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- Achtung_Baby allLyrics "Bono".
- Achtung_Baby allMusic "U2".
- Achtung_Baby alt "A square montage of square photographs arranged in a 4 by 4 grid. The photographs are mostly blue and red in tint, but some are monochrome. They are candid in nature and mostly show four men in various locations, including in an empty street, a crowded festival, under a bridge, in a car, and standing on sand. One photograph is a close-up of a man's hand wearing two rings bearing the characters "U" and "2".".
- Achtung_Baby artist U2.
- Achtung_Baby artist "U2".
- Achtung_Baby autocat "yes".
- Achtung_Baby award "Diamond".
- Achtung_Baby award "Gold".
- Achtung_Baby award "Platinum".
- Achtung_Baby border "yes".
- Achtung_Baby certyear "1991".
- Achtung_Baby certyear "1995".
- Achtung_Baby certyear "1998".
- Achtung_Baby collapsed "yes".
- Achtung_Baby cover "Achtung Baby.png".
- Achtung_Baby description ""One" was improvised after The Edge played two chord progressions together that he was trying for another song. The lyrics describe a bitter conversation between two people.".
- Achtung_Baby description ""The Fly" was chosen as the first single because its dance beats, distorted vocals, and hard industrial edge sounded nothing like typical U2.".
- Achtung_Baby description "The introduction to "Zoo Station" was meant to make listeners think "This record is broken" or "This can't be the new U2 record".".
- Achtung_Baby extra Anton_Corbijn.
- Achtung_Baby extra Daniel_Lanois.
- Achtung_Baby extra Kevin_Godley.
- Achtung_Baby extra Mark_Pellington.
- Achtung_Baby extra Phil_Joanou.
- Achtung_Baby extra Stéphane_Sednaoui.
- Achtung_Baby extra "Armando Gallo, Kampah".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Lanois with Eno".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Lanois".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Lillywhite, Lanois, and Eno".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Linnane".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Maurice Linnane".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Ritchie Smyth, Jon Klein".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Smyth".
- Achtung_Baby extra "Steve Lillywhite, with Brian Eno and Lanois".
- Achtung_Baby extraColumn "Director".
- Achtung_Baby extraColumn "Producer".
- Achtung_Baby filename "Fly sample.ogg".
- Achtung_Baby filename "U2 One.ogg".
- Achtung_Baby filename "U2 Zoo Station.ogg".
- Achtung_Baby genre Alternative_rock.
- Achtung_Baby hasPhotoCollection Achtung_Baby.
- Achtung_Baby headline "Achtung Baby: The Videos, the Cameos, and a Whole Lot of Interference from Zoo TV track listing".
- Achtung_Baby id "1727".
- Achtung_Baby label Island_Records.
- Achtung_Baby lastAlbum "Rattle and Hum".
- Achtung_Baby length "221.0".
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- Achtung_Baby name "Achtung Baby".
- Achtung_Baby nextAlbum "Zooropa".
- Achtung_Baby note "dance mix".
- Achtung_Baby note "version 1".
- Achtung_Baby note "version 2".
- Achtung_Baby note "version 3".
- Achtung_Baby number "2".
- Achtung_Baby number "4".
- Achtung_Baby number "5".
- Achtung_Baby number "8".
- Achtung_Baby producer Brian_Eno.
- Achtung_Baby producer Daniel_Lanois.
- Achtung_Baby quote ""... the very title Achtung Baby strives for lack of significance and—just as insignificantly—the sleeve itself is not the usual single cinematic image of heroic import but rather a grid of snapshots evoking, if a little cleanly, the slapdash glory that was Robert Frank's artwork for the [Rolling] Stones' Exile on Main Street."".
- Achtung_Baby quote ""At the instant we were recording it, I got a very strong sense of its power. We were all playing together in the big recording room, a huge, eerie ballroom full of ghosts of the war, and everything fell into place. It was a reassuring moment, when everyone finally went, 'oh great, this album has started.' It's the reason you're in a band—when the spirit descends upon you and you create something truly affecting. 'One' is an incredibly moving piece. It hits straight into the heart."".
- Achtung_Baby quote ""Buzzwords on this record were trashy, throwaway, dark, sexy, and industrial and earnest, polite, sweet, righteous, rockist and linear . It was good if a song took you on a journey or made you think your hifi was broken, bad if it reminded you of recording studios or U2. Sly Stone, T. Rex, Scott Walker, My Bloody Valentine, KMFDM, the Young Gods, Alan Vega, Al Green, and Insekt were all in favour. And Berlin ... became a conceptual backdrop for the record. The Berlin of the Thirties—decadent, sexual and dark—resonating against the Berlin of the Nineties—reborn, chaotic and optimistic..."".
- Achtung_Baby quote ""The album accomplished a feat artists love to undertake but rarely pull off: the public image reinvention and stylistic about-face that is so masterful it silences all the doubters. Even as the 21st century has seen U2 return to stadium-friendly rock postures, there are elements in the group's music that are still derived from those heady days in a Berlin studio. The biggest band in the world wouldn't hold that title today if it hadn't taken one hell of a chance at the exact right time with a record that proved more than strong enough to warrant that gamble."".
- Achtung_Baby quote "80.0".
- Achtung_Baby recent "website".
- Achtung_Baby recorded "October 1990 – September 1991 in Germany and Ireland *Hansa Ton Studios *STS *Elsinore *Windmill Lane Studios".
- Achtung_Baby region "Australia".
- Achtung_Baby region "Austria".
- Achtung_Baby region "Canada".
- Achtung_Baby region "France".
- Achtung_Baby region "Germany".
- Achtung_Baby region "Netherlands".
- Achtung_Baby region "New Zealand".
- Achtung_Baby region "Sweden".
- Achtung_Baby region "Switzerland".
- Achtung_Baby region "United Kingdom".