First Downloads & Tracklisting

27 Sep 202290

It's on the way...

'U2 Achtung Baby 30 – Live', featuring twelve show-stopping performances from three decades of touring, is now in manufacturing. (Track listing below.)

As of today, we'll be regularly releasing tracks in the run-up to dispatch of the deluxe CD set which includes a striking photo booklet and a specially commissioned commentary from Bill Flanagan.

If you've resubscribed for 2022, when you're signed in, click on Account Info from the drop-down menu on the top right of the page and you'll find the first two downloads from 'U2 Achtung Baby 30 – Live' waiting for you.

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Live from e+i Tour, Belfast, 28th October 2018) and Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World (Live from The Zoo TV Tour, Dublin 28th August 1993)

In the comments below post your review of these first two tracks (maybe you were there on one of those nights?) and let everyone know what you think of the track listing.

In the coming days we'll be emailing qualifying subscribers with information on dispatch times. (Please note: manufacturing is taking place in both Europe and North America, following subscriber suggestions last year.)

'U2 Achtung Baby 30 – Live'. 

1. Zoo Station - Live from The VERTIGO tour, BUENOS AIRES, 2nd March 2006
2. Even BETTER than the REAL THING - Live from The POPMART tour, REGGIO EMILIA, 20th September 1997
3. ONE - Live from THE JOSHUA TREE 2017 tour, SAO PAULO, 19th October 2017
4. until the END of the WORLD - Live from the i+e tour, BARCELONA, 5th October 2015
5. who's gonna RIDE your WILD HORSES - Live from e+i Tour, BELFAST, 28th October 2018
6. SO cruel - Live from the ZOOTV tour, MICHIGAN, 9th September 1992
7. The FLY - Live from the ZOOTV tour, LONDON, 20th August 1993
8. MYSTERIOUS ways - Live from the U2360 tour, CAPE TOWN, 18th February 2011
9. TRYIN' to throw your ARMS around the WORLD - Live from the ZOOTV tour, DUBLIN, 28th August 1993
10. ULTRA violet (light my WAY) - Live from the U2360 tour, BUENOS AIRES, 2nd April 2011
11. ACROBAT - Live from the e+i Tour, MANCHESTER, 19th October 2018
12. LOVE IS blindness - Live from the ZOOTV tour, TEXAS, 16th October 1992

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u2gb007
ZOO TV from Sydney
Would be nice for a track or 2 from the actual Sydney show which I was at. I'm not complaining tho, love this album :) :) :)
Miriam Jonker
One of the best U2 albums and my favorit
Love, love this album!
Jleds
Finally Get The Gold
Nice Concert Picks. I Hope You Guys Release Some Bonus Download Tracks, maybe Achtung B Sides Live or Zooropa Tracks Live Bonus. Thanks For Caring And Sharing With Your Fans.
Jstella72
Great Music and Great News
Finally, we have the track list. Nice downloads. Many memories, great collection and selection. Can't wait for more downloads Thank you
monique27
Magnificent
Finally,: Achtung Baby come my way!
soey
Thank you!
It's so great! Thank you so much! So many loving memories coming up... can't wait for more and finally having it in hands. Thank you lads for giving me such great memories ... and more to come, I'm sure!
MICHEL13056
gift 2022
gift 2022 . all in all...happy! but a very big disappointment...I was really hoping for ultraviolet live...zoo tv tour! we already had a version of the 260 lap!! shame !
music4menu
SO CRUEL
Why are you so cruel? Detroit was an amazing night - more Canadian show content would be appreciated in the future - more Canadian shows would be really really appreciated - Thank you for the CD -
sandersound
U2 Achtung Baby 30 – Live
Packaging looks very nice but I'm little disappointed about the chosen songs. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World I already have on a bootleg and I was hoping that Ultra Violet would be from the Washington DC 1992 gig when Bono was calling the White House. Great performance which you can find on You Tube. Unfortunately too little ZOO TV and Popmart performances, but I'm still looking forward to finally receive this cd.
cgmorgan777
Achtung baby!!
This is looking more and more exciting! Loving the two downloads that are available! Been listening to them nonstop since last night!!
THEJOSHUA73
PLEASE FREE DOWNLOADS....
Yes....I 'm in the live Achtung baby CD....In Reggio Emilia Even Better Than the Real thing
Steeve_Sauvain
So Cruel
Is this song (So Cruel) will ever be played by full band? can't wait...
dutch_tigress
Really?
Ironic that Achtung Baby 30 years has photos of PoP in the header and 2018 live versions. Why would you do that?
Mrsykes788
Good…but not great!
FINALLY!!! Okay, this whole AB30 fan club gift that was announced about 20 years ago by the fan club piqued my interest because of the obvious…the magnitude of the album both musically and visually. I love the packaging, it looks like it belongs sat in amongst the other AB / Zoo TV stuff on my shelf…i’m glad they got that right! I was really intrigued and, dare I say it hopeful that each song would be previously unreleased and from the Zoo TV/Zooropa/Zoomerang tours, but…some of my fears came true. Each to their own and I know there are younger fans, and mature in age fans that prefer the recent live performances of AB songs, but why why why did they not use unreleased version from those 92/93 tours??!! We all know that EVERYTHING is recorded so I just don’t get it. There are just FOUR songs from back then that they’ve used…1/3 of the album! As someone else pointed out, Zoo Station from Detroit was an absolute stormer of an opener with Bono singing a cappella at the start before the roar of the guitar. Mysterious Ways was on another level back then. Ultra Violet has never been bettered since those tours! Then, to include some versions that are readily available is criminal! Do the people who choose these versions not do their research? Is it really any of the band members that sit down and decide? It’s been a long time coming and at least it’s finally on the horizon…but i have to be honest and say that it could’ve been better if they had really thought about the versions they chose. They could’ve even done a fan club poll! Alas, it is what it is and it will look and sound great…i’m happy, but wanted to be excited because to hear other unreleased versions from that era that have been really polished and sound crisp as apposed to unofficial soundboard releases that I have plenty of, well that would’ve been the icing on this AB30 cake. My other gripe…WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ALL SINGING AND ALL DANCING POP 25 UBER DELIXE MASSIVE DISCO-BALL BOX SET??!! Maybe in 5 years for POP3
jesteban
ZOO TV Tour 2023
Por fin, ahora solo queda esperar la celebración de los 30 años del ZOO TV tour en 2023 (Achtung Baby y Zooropa). Saludos desde Chile.
mariodepaoli9
Ja
Perfekt
Pyjamerama
Well well well
I was at both of these concerts.....if you listen carefully you can hear me
carntuathail
Great news
Can't wait. Superrrr
alexct
If they are all like these....
....it will be a WONDERFUL gift for us. I have a bootleg from the Dublin concert (recorded from the soundboard) so I already knew Tryin' to throw your arms around the world, altough I must say that this sounds way better than the one I have. great work of post producing, crystal clear sound. Can't wait for othee releases and for the physical cd. GOOD JOB GUYS ps. ever thought of a release of concerts recorded all over the years in the form of bootleg? No post-production, but pure sound as it was live?
stemark
Stefan
I think the best version of The Fly is from 2001, Elevation tour, Boston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lygFjHzTho and not this, which is on the CD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npQC30wrbG4 started 0:10:40 Or where is Mysterious Ways, live version from Slane Castle 2001? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WiwAGYtTl8 Or Even Better... from Glastonbury?
dolstein
Time to begin releasing complete concert
To the members of U2 - time to open the archives and start releasing complete concerts via download. You much have dozens, in not hundreds, of high quality concert recordings dating back to your earliest days as a band. Please liberate these recordings from the vaults.
MiracleHeart
The Fly
About The Fly, i'd preder a 2001 version.
Dean Allison
Previously released
Disappointing that 2 previously released versions are included. Zoo station is very easily available right now on streaming platforms or to own on cd with the window in the skies single b side. Mysterious ways already on a fan club gift u22. So cruel will be great to hear though and I’m looking forward to the other previously unreleased versions.
jason_kennedy
Jk
Was at the 28th August dublin show first time I saw u2 brilliant
JOSEBASTI88
Wonderfull
It’s amaizing!!!
Orentelori
Looks wonderful ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much- it is so exiting!
SLodewijks
Great!
I was afraid before most of the recordings were previously released from the various known official concert registration, but this looks very interesting! I hope the bass in Love Is Blindness isn't distorted like on the version of Achtung Baby single B-side release from the early 90s. :-) looking forward to listening to this live album many many times to come!
makosapu
Exciting
Going through the tracklist, I am wondering if we could have any concerts we’ve been to on CD/LP/FLAC/WAV/mp3 in our lives? As Peter Gabriel did yeeeaaars before … So our boys recorded their concerts in 1992 already!
magnificent2012
Eugenio
Hola, llevaba todo el año esperándolo y me ha alegrado ver el correo electrónico, avisándome que ya se puede descargar las dos primeras canciones y más adelante enviarán el disco. Achtung Baby creo que es mi disco favorito de U2. Saludos desde Sevilla (España)
ains
ZooTV 1993
Not my favourite album but, nice to see two tracks from the gigs in London and Dublin I attended way back in 1993, I wonder if there will ever be a live ZooTV B Sides collection? Salome, Lady With The Spinning Head and EBTTRT Perfecto mix are some of the other tracks that made this era and album even richer!
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