'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.
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.