Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by
Irish rock band
U2, released on
19 November 1991. The album arrived nearly two years after lead vocalist
Bono announced the band would have to "go away and dream it all up again", following the mixed response to 1988's
Rattle and Hum.The album marks a dramatic change in the band's sound, taking on
alternative rock and
electronic influences in the rhythms, denser, more detailed production, and more
guitar effects, as well as darker and more personal lyrical content. The effect reflected the textures of then-emergent techno and electronic music, as well as the innovations of younger alternative rock groups such as
My Bloody Valentine and the trippy dance-rock fusions of contemporary
Madchester groups. The results were considerably more adventurous and less traditionally rock-based than their previous efforts, and Achtung Baby is one of U2's best-selling and most critically acclaimed albums.
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