News - Nineties Albums

23 August 2012
From Boy to Achtung Baby, how some of the band's finest work became finer still. Agreed ?
18 October 2011
In Hansa Studios Berlin, for the making of Achtung Baby. So who looked best in high heels, make-up and wig?
13 October 2011
Larry takes everyone for a drive... around Berlin.
13 October 2011
Subscribers Special: Maria McKee features on the 20th anniversary Achtung Baby releases. She talks to U2.com.
03 October 2011
'I struggled with Achtung Baby. I couldn’t wrap my head around it.' Matt McGee on the  album that reinvented him.
22 August 2011
Subscribers Exclusive: The Wanderer live from Nashville on U2360°.
23 April 2010
'Capturing that early-'90s rub of boundless possibility and worn-down despair.' Spin Magazine, ranking the '125 Best Albums of the past quarter century', puts Achtung Baby at No.1. Tell us what you love about it.
18 July 2009
Tonight we're in the city where the band made one of their finest albums. Take a look at our new clip marking the arrival of the 360 Tour in Berlin.
27 September 2007
To mark the DVD release of 'PopMart, Live from Mexico City', VH1 Classic is airing a half-hour PopMart special ...
05 September 2007
"Perspective-scrambling orgy of smoke, mirrors, silly costumes and very bright lights...' What else but 'PopMart Live', arriving on DVD on ...
20 August 2007
A DVD version of 'PopMart Live From Mexico City' - giant mirrorball lemon, cocktail stick plus Haring, Warhol and Lichtenstein ...
25 April 2007
A DVD version of PopMart Live From Mexico City - giant mirrorball lemon, cocktail stick and all - ...
23 January 2005
The dates, cities, venues and ticket information on the tour we've all been waiting for!
22 May 2001
Another cliffhanger but Please, polling nearly a quarter of all votes cast, pulled ahead of Gone, polling more than a ...
28 February 1997
(U2 have) relaxed sufficiently to allow a certain funk into their music...
28 February 1997
Legendary Irish poet Brendan Kennelly was invited by U2's magazine Propaganda to review their 1997 album 'Pop'.
30 June 1993
Zooropa is not the next great U2 album but a postcard from a Dublin studio...
30 June 1993
Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm....
30 June 1993
Zooropa sounds mostly like a band shedding its skin, trying on different selves for size.
30 June 1993
More influenced than ever by co-producer-conceptualist Brian Eno, their music now parallels his in its pursuit of ambience.
31 October 1991
Here we all were, fretting over the parlous state of rock and help was on the way even while we were dithering. All of a sudden there's a clutch of superb albums out there: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes' Better Days; Robbie Robertson's Storyville; Van Morrison's Hymns to the Silence. And now, to put the capper on the company, U2's dashing, demanding Achtung Baby.
31 October 1991
Despite its awful title, Achtung Baby is an admirable record. Surprisingly introverted and complex.....
31 October 1991
These Irishmen have proven that the same penchant for epic musical and verbal gestures that leads many artists to self-parody can, in more inspired hands, fuel the unforgettable fire that defines great rock & roll....
31 October 1991
Achtung Baby is a difficult album -- one that seems the result of considerable soul-searching lyrically.
30 November 1990
U2 begin recording Achtung Baby at Hansa Studios in Berlin.
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