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U2 – Achtung Baby (30th Anniversary Edition) (2021)

Thirty years ago, U2‘s singer Bono described ”Achtung Baby” as ‘the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree’. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and became one of the most significant records of the Nineties and of U2’s career.
Today Island Records, Interscope and UMe announce the ‘30th Anniversary Edition‘ release of ‘Achtung Baby‘, a double disc deluxe pack including ‘Achtung Baby (remastered)’ and ‘Achtung Baby (Unter Remixes)’.
I don’t care much about the remixes – which are cool – but for me ”Achtung Baby” it’s an awesome record. It’s quite different from what U2 did in the ’80s, adding electronics and studio effects, but what really stand out is the songwriting.
All tracks on ”Achtung Baby” are fascinating in their own way, and while some are an attempt (successful by the way) to given themselves a fighting chance for ’90s pop stylings, if you strip-down the ‘sonic artillery’ you’ll find terrific songs.
A mandatory album into your contemporary rock&pop collection…

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U2 – The Virtual Road: Live at Red Rocks Under A Blood Red Sky [previously unreleased remastered 2021]

U2 are being streaming on YouTube a series of concerts titled “The Virtual Road”, and also there’s digital audio versions. “Live At Red Rocks” includes a number of songs taken from the video filmed in Denver, CO. Although a live album was released in 1983 to accompany the original video, the songs on that live album were mostly taken from other performances, and thus this is the first time these songs have been released in an audio format.
These have been remastered 2021, and are mixed so that the album plays continuous with no fade out between tracks, even though these songs did not follow each other in concert.

U2 – Songs Of Experience [Deluxe Edition] (2017)

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U2 – Songs Of Experience [Deluxe Edition] (2017)

“Songs Of Experience” is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by U2 to be released on 1 December 2017. The album is intended to be a companion piece to U2’s previous record, Songs Of Innocence. Whereas its predecessor explored the group members’ adolescence in Ireland in the 1970s, “Songs Of Experience” thematically is a collection of letters written by lead vocalist...