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

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7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 54 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. Uncut
    Nov 1, 2011
    80
    Two decades on, it remains U2's brightest, darkest, finest hour. [Nov 2011, p.100]
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  4. 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: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. EduardoLuiz
    10
    Surely only those who have deeper knowledge knows the importance of this monumental album. Beginning with such classics as One and Mysterious Ways, and other gems like Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses and Love Is Blindness, the disc wraps up as one of the greatest 90s. Surely without this album U2 would never be the great band it is today, and would have stopped his career with one last great album, which was Joshua Tree.… Expand
  2. SolidGaara
    10
    This is a great album, as a U2 fanatic (I'm a fanatic for many things that you wouldn't believe) This is great I love the original album but this is almost it's equal as this has some remixes that are good and a few track extra than the original but nonetheless it is one of the best albums ever made but it doesn't beat the original. This was way ahead of it's time as well as Zooropa and it was a good change and I am glad they did this quick transition. But as you all know after Zooropa they returned to their original roots which I like better just because that was what U2 was all about and yes they have remixed or brought back this and Zooropa elements into their later albums which made them good as well.… Expand
  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
  4. KitsGravity
    8
    U2's album 'Achtung Baby' is pretty good to be honest. It has some very good songs like The Fly, One, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses and Ultra Violet. The sound on the album may be repeatiting and some songs like Zoo Station and Love is Blindness can he skipped but overall the album is quite amazing for the originality of sound and introspective lyrics by Bono.… Expand

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