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julho 18, 2005
Achtung entre os melhores
Os leitores do MSNBC elegeram os melhores albuns dos ultimos 20 anos. O album Achtung Baby dos U2 foi considerado o 6º melhor. Eis a lista completa e o artigo relativo aos U2:
1º- Guns N’ Roses, «Appetite for Destruction»
2º- Tool, «Lateralus»
3º- KMFDM, «Nihil»
4º- Madonna, «Ray of Light»
5º- Dave Matthews Band, «The Central Park Concert»
6º- U2, «Achtung Baby»
7º- Warren Zevon, «Mr. Bad Example»
8º- Lucinda Williams, «Car Wheels On A Gravel Road»
9º- Stevie Wonder, «Songs in the Key of Life»
10º- Bruce Springsteen, «The Rising»
«U2, “Achtung Baby”
U2 was the one 80s band to survive the coming of grunge and the only band other than the Rolling Stones to remain relevant in the decade after, claiming “biggest band in the world” status. They did it by completely changing their sound and dreaming up “Achtung Baby,” by far their most dark and interesting record. The record opens with one of the great opening guitar rifts of all time with the Edge’s crackling intro to “Zoo Station.” The record includes several great straight-up rock songs in “The Fly,” “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” “Ultra Violet,” and the mysteriously never performed “Acrobat.” Listen to the live version of “The Fly” on the Boston Live DVD and you will realize even the hardest rocking alternative or punk band would give their left testicles to sound like that. The record also has an array of interesting ballads and pop songs such as “Throw Your Arms Around the World” and the much underrated “Love is Blindness.” The crown jewel of the album is, of course, “One.” It is at once the ultimate relationship-gone-bad song and a universal call to peace. It’s pop at its most shameless and brilliant. It is the best record of the 1990s bar none. It is not recognized as such by critics because picking a U2 record as best anything is too easy and the first law of being a music critic is that you must show your readers how much cooler you are than them by always raving about and saving your best praise only for records that the vast majority of your readers have never heard of much less listened to. — John Kluge, San Antonio»
Publicado por U2Only às julho 18, 2005 12:36 PM