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How To Buy... U2 #2
5:51 PM GMT 25/02/2009
2. Achtung, Baby!
(ISLAND 1991)
"You've ruined irony for everyone," producer Nellee Hooper told U2. Yet, while this is the quartet's grooviest, most playful incarnation, hindsight reveals yet more U2 earnestness, albeit in a funky bacofoil suit. In fact these are U2's first songs of sex and doubt - the harrowing One being Bono's appropriation of Edge's marital snafu and The Fly a profoundly jaundiced analysis of the rock star's role ("Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief / All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief") - while the eclectic sound references and transcends the early '90s dance-rock vogue. Proof that what doesn't kill them makes them stronger.
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:51 PM GMT 25/02/2009
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