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Opening with eight songs from Achtung Baby and virtually ignoring their existence before The Joshua Tree ("Pride (In the Name of Love)" was the notable exception), U2 intentionally divorced themselves from their past and thus alienated and disappointed many in the crowd who prefer the simple passion of U2 past to the bizarre high-tech production of U2 present...
Live performance is the true test of the strength of a band's material, and the Zoo TV concert illuminated all the subtle differences between Achtung Baby and its more worthy predecessors...
Even the best and most popular tracks from Achtung Baby, such as "One" and "Mysterious Ways," suffered in live performance. Over-familiarity from excessive radio airplay combined with the band's unremarkable and unenthusiastic presentation to make fine material almost boring...
...full of major-league guitar crunching and mysterious, spacy chords. Evanescent melodies float seamlessly between songs of love, temptation, loose political parable and tight personal confession. The notes credit all songs to the band collectively -- lead singer Bono of late had taken a separate credit for lyrics -- and Achtung Baby does sound more cohesive than anything else U2 has done. Tunes like The Fly are restless, even reckless, with invention, and the band can write ravishing, slightly eerie romances like Mysterious Ways better than anyone else who can fill a stadium with cheering fans. There's a lot indeed...
MUSIC In the much anticipated Achtung Baby, U2 gets back its edge...