The sound of the album is precisely measured in the rithme and we can perceive the hard malleability of the metal in the industries. There is a boquet of songs ,' The fly', ' Who' gonna ride your wild horses', ' So cruel', ' Trying to throw your arms around the world', ' Acrobat' and ' Love is blindness' that vividly communicates this phase. It is to say that inner world calls for clarity, new light ' Ultraviolet'. You were talking about the end of the world.' Life can be advertised, piece by piece,as we can admire in the pictoresque cover, but through ' Mysterious ways ', rithme and story it is 'One 'in its entity. The album starts with ' Zoo station' and the first lines of the lyrics are more than explicative, they are steps :' I'm ready Ready for the laughing gas I'm ready Ready for what's next Ready to duck Ready to dive Ready to say I'm glad to be alive' The World with the W in capital letter is coming nearer ,part and counterpart ' Until the end of the world'. ' Rattle and hum ' is back and the dream goes on, and it sounds high,' Even better than the real thing', the musical journey still is and it gains in enrichment as regards possibilities. Engineered and Mixed by Flood with Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses and Even Better Than The Real Thing mixed by Steve LillywhiteĪchtung baby album, the album that marks the re entry of U2 after a pause of years. Produced by Daniel Lanois with Brian Eno mainly at Hansa Ton Studios, Berlin, Dog Town, S.T.S., and Windmill Lane, Dublin. In the Rolling Stone annual reader's poll, it came No. Additionally, the album was nominated for Album of the Year. U2 won the Grammy for Best Rock Album by a Duo or Group and producers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno won Producers of the Year for Achtung Baby. In Australia, Achtung Baby was certified 5 times platinum by the ARIA. In Switzerland, Achtung Baby reached No.3 on the album charts and stayed in the charts for a total of 19 weeks and was certified Gold. It was certified multi-platinum by the RIAA with 8 million units sold. The album peaked at No.2 on the US album chart and at No.1 on the UK album chart. In Germany, Universal released a 2-CD box set with a copy of both Achtung Baby and Zooropa. The Digi-Trak featured long-box sizes cardboard, which, once its shrink-wrap and two plastic struts are removed, folds around the CD. At U2's request, Achtung Baby was the first album by a major act to be released in two eco-friendly packages - the jewel box (without the long box attachment) and the cardboard Digi-Trak. After Rattle and Hum, U2 went away to 'dream it all up again.' Achtung Baby was widely regarded as a sonic and visual reinvention of the band: a step too far in some territories, where Adam's nude image on the sleeve was covered with an appropriately fixed X or clover.
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