• 艺人:U2   欧美乐队
  • 语种:英语
  • 唱片公司:Island Records
  • 发行时间:1991-11-19
  • 类别:录音室专辑

Achtung Baby专辑介绍

在国际摇滚歌坛成名已经超过二十年的爱尔兰团体U2,进入二十世纪美国最畅销一百张唱片的另外一张专辑,是他们发行於1991年的「注意点儿,宝贝」(Achtung Baby)。这张专辑虽然没有任何单曲拿到过美国排行的冠军,却也有五首歌曲上榜,其中包括两首打进排行前十名的「Mysterious Ways」与「One」。这张专辑以超过八百万张的销售总数,名列第九十六。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第62位。
Reinventions rarely come as thorough and effective as Achtung Baby, an album that completely changed U2's sound and style. The crashing, unrecognizable distorted guitars that open "Zoo Station" are a clear signal that U2 have traded their Americana pretensions for postmodern, contemporary European music. Drawing equally from Bowie's electronic, avant-garde explorations of the late '70s and the neo-psychedelic sounds of the thriving rave and Madchester club scenes of early-'90s England, Achtung Baby sounds vibrant and endlessly inventive. Unlike their inspirations, U2 rarely experiment with song structures over the course of the album. Instead, they use the thick dance beats, swirling guitars, layers of effects, and found sounds to break traditional songs out of their constraints, revealing the tortured emotional core of their songs with the hyper-loaded arrangements. In such a dense musical setting, it isn't surprising that U2 have abandoned the political for the personal on Achtung Baby, since the music, even with its inviting rhythms, is more introspective than anthemic. Bono has never been as emotionally naked as he is on Achtung Baby, creating a feverish nightmare of broken hearts and desperate loneliness; unlike other U2 albums, it's filled with sexual imagery, much of it quite disturbing, and it ends on a disquieting note. Few bands as far into their career as U2 have recorded an album as adventurous or fulfilled their ambitions quite as successfully as they do on Achtung Baby, and the result is arguably their best album.