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Some of the lyrics in Who's Gonna Ride are lamesauce.
something negative about Achtung Baby
Where'd you find that lil piece of info GG, U2 by U2?
Q: More seriously, would Adam have appeared naked on the sleeve artwork had he been hung like a budgie?
Edge: Ha ha! I don't think so. We all got close to doing it, but I think we realised it was going to be the butt of too many jokes. Mystery - it's very important.
I know what you mean ("Baby, can we still be friends?", etc.) but nowadays I find it hard to tell what lyrics on this album are 'serious, man', and which are tongue-in-cheek. For example, "Ultraviolet" has those beautiful images of "there is a silence that comes to a house where no one can sleep", etc., but then has the one of the cheesiest metaphors ever: "Your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed". Yuck! So, what we end up with is a bunch of interesting lyrics about love, marriage, and life, some of which are cheese on a stick, and some of which are poetic and poignant, and the enjoyment of the whole Achtung Baby ethos if that the truth lies somewhere in between. I believe this is also called being "playful".Some of the lyrics in Who's Gonna Ride are lamesauce.
1. So Cruel is too long and monotonous.
There really isn't a bad song on AB, is there? It's pretty damn close to being a perfect album. I won't call it my favourite (it's #3 for me), but I'll concede it's certainly their most important, complete and accomplished masterpiece.
Something negative: The reissue, in all its various editions, is by and large a disappointment considering how much it costs.
When I saw this thread I knew immediately that no one would give a serious answer to this question, so I won't give a serious answer, too, because it's a waste of time and energy. Achtung Baby is the second coming.
It's not, it has flaws, and I can make a list of them, but I won't.
I'm a classy chickI was going to say that the pic of Adam's err, member could be clearer
but this ^ sounds so much classier.
to me it doesn't have much of a flow
thematically it's a bit all over the place
Man, what's with all the So Cruel hate in this thread?? it's one of the most lyrically hard-hitting tracks on the album.
You need to get out of LA, most of the population overthere need that sort of help too.You need psychiatric help.
Totally agree. I'm amazed that people are dissing 'So Cruel' and 'Trying to Throw...', but to each their own I guess. For me, those are of the LP's most essential songs. I wouldn't change a note of either.So Cruel and Tryin' both have trip-hop beats that were not exactly common in rock music at pretty ahead of AB's time. The drums on the former have a very otherworldly, watery sound that's unlike anything I'd heard from Larry before. And then Tryin' has that drunk quality that echoes the concept of the song, with those woozy little guitar fills from Edge.
Wild Horses may be the poppiest song on the album, but the beginning with the violin in one speaker and the distorted guitar in the other is a damned cool idea and hints at something a lot darker than the lyrics would imply. And the erratic beat/time signature isn't exactly standard rock.
No one else has been snarky, was there really a need for that? There's plenty of people here who have something negative to say.
I'll have to use a bat signal
The Joshua Tree is a better album. AB is overrated in some circles.
AB can keep the title of the "reinvention" record, while JT remains the essential U2 album.