U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall

All of the ideas, passions, hopes, struggles, exultations, and lamentations that informed the band's previous albums are not only there on "Achtung Baby", but receive deeper and more thoughtful consideration. There is a maturity and nuance in the lyrics born of experience; and while the references to sexuality are more pronounced and explicit that on any other U2 album, the yearning for the Spirit more than equals the desires of the flesh. With "Achtung Baby", U2 pulled off the ultimate post-postmodern fast one: the use of irony to emphasize honesty.

This dazzling and prophetic album seems to foreshadow the disintegration of the old world order and the splintering of traditional alliances that have marked the start of the third millennium. In this intelligent and spiritually attuned book, Stephen Catanzarite reads "Achtung Baby" as an extended and universal riff of the Fall of Man, showing this to be an album that Bono rightly calle one "heavy mother".

CONTENIDO:

Preface: Credo
1. Straight Outta Eden
2. Subterranean Lovesick Blues
3. A Word from Our Sponsor
4. Things Fall Apart
5. Towering Babble
6. Fear of Woman
7. There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
Epilogue: Wake
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