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Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] - U2
  • Band Name: U2
  • Record Label: Island
  • Release Date: Nov 1, 2011
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Metascore
93 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 17 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 38 Ratings

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  • Summary: On the 20th anniversary of the original release, the seventh studio album reissue includes remixes, B-sides, and outtakes. The larger box set editions add the eighth album, Zooropa and four DVDs of videos, documentaries, and a live concert from Sydney.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. Q Magazine
    Dec 15, 2011
    100
    This reissue underlines how much Achtung Baby's high-wire triumph owed to an era in flux and it's as excessive as it needs to be. [Dec. 2011 p. 138]
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  2. Blurt Magazine
    Nov 18, 2011
    100
    Since that time in 1991, U2 has had other weighty tracks, sensualist personal soliloquies and dense production - but nothing better than this truly real thing.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Dec 8, 2011
    20
    An alternate and/or nascent mix of Achtung Baby not only doesn't add to the dialog, it perhaps subtracts from it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. mekaindy
    10
    As an owner of the Uber Deluxe (not Super Deluxe), i was startled at the price when pre ordering via amazon. When I unpacked the Box Set all my concerns were put aside. Amazing. Its a time capsule of 1991, a place where this boxset will take us back to time and time again. U2 will never create a sound like this again. The rich details and high quality of the contents of this huge box set is mind blowing! NO boxset comes close to this, Fact. Highlights would be the Baby Achtung Baby disc, the vinyl singles, the unique magnetic choose your own tiles album cover and of course the Italian made The Fly Glasses. So kitsch, so U2. I am going to replace this with a second box as i intend to use and abuse this one, just love it all!!!… Expand
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  2. Super8mm
    10
    U2's best album, has a unique sound that is only in this album, it's unique in its own way, with many of their singles such as one, mysterious ways, and So cruel, this reboot is amazing, if you like a mixture of 80's and 90's garage band, and a touch of alternative you will love this.… Expand
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  3. asbeloliver
    10
    Great reedition of a great album, One, Mysterious Ways, Even Better than Real Thing, The Fly, Until the End of the World, etc. The bonus tracks alsoare masterpieces.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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