![]() Screen on the ZooTV tour the Temple Bar remix of Wild Horses Less persuasive than when Bono duetted with Lou's image on the big Keening guitar part Lou Reed's Satellite of Love comes off Is a straight-ahead rocker with a touch of dirty glam footstomp and a Sounds like very bent Oasis sent to Morocco Blow Your House Down Go for the super deluxe edition so, given many have the original,Īttention turns to the 14 extra tracks on the double-disc version. Vinyl version with the album and remixes over four records. Videos, a doco and the ZooTV live film shot in Sydney. Sequel, remixes and B-sides, an alternative Achtung Baby, Stones' Paint It Black and Creedence's Fortunate Son) Īnd a six CD/four DVD edition with the remastered album, its Zooropa Previously found them pompous and bombastic, and Bono a frontmanĪlbum – their most challenging, critically essayed and acclaimed –ĭeluxe version with a disc of B-sides, remixes and covers (the Multi-media performance-art rock statement which only this band could make.Īlbum as musically interesting, challenging and genre-defying asĪchtung Baby earned them enormous respect from those who had The Zoo TV tour was an astonishing ambitious, Redefined the possibilities of stadium rock through the use of The road with a stage show which lost money in most places but Themselves, used their position to take risks (which theyĬonsolidated with Zooropa two years later) and took this on Kept one foot in the stadium-pleasing ballad arena with arguablyĬould have been an archetypal U2 song, is given the techno-stab with Innovative step sideways with Ok Computer – although they Years later Radiohead would make a similarly courageous and ![]() Was the equally dark and menacing The Fly (“It's no secretĪmbition bites the nails of success, every artist is a cannibal, readyĮven Better Than The Real Thing (“We're free to fly theĬrimson sky, the sun won't melt our wings tonight”) and later there “I'm ready for the laughing gas, ready for what's next. Techno noise sweeps in while Bono's voice, also distorted, announces The lyrics are less optimistic, more fragmented – and it opens withĪ clear statement of purpose on Zoo Station where discordant They went – as Bowie and Iggy Pop had done before them – toīerlin to get some of the edgy vibe of that recently re-unified city,Īnd hooked up again with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois (the latter principal producer, Eno more the conceptualist/provocateur who would review the sessions) to explore an alt.rockĪnd techno alongside their archetypal ballads.īand stretching itself into areas of discomfort for inspiration – Quarters, they shifted their ground – literally and figuratively. Perhaps prompted by the critical trashing the pretentious Rattle and Hum got from many Of the most remarkable albums of their career, Achtung Baby - this Essential Elsewhere album - which now celebrates it 20 th anniversary. They were also rich, musically curious and perhapsįeeling the straitjacket of stadium-shaped fame. Succeeded in becoming the biggest band on the planet and were Harlem), hooking into a mythical America (by recording at Sun Legends (by covering the Beatles' Helter Skelter, Dylan's AllĪlong the Watchtower, a tribute to Billie Holiday in Angel of (and unnecessary) attempt to put them on the same platform as the – and the tie-in film – of the following year seemed a desperate Without You or I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,Īll from 87's Joshua Tree which sold in excess of 25 million. ![]() Which are still the cornerstones of their career today.īullet the Blue Sky, Where the Streets Have No Name, With or Start of the decade they had delivered half a dozen albums whichĬonnected them with a global audience, and had written stadium anthems Million in a live radio link up - Bono said they would now “go away ![]() In Dublin, at the end of the final U2 concert on the Lovetown tour in 1989 - broadcast to 200
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