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Title: U2's Achtung Baby
Subtitle: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall (33 1/3 Series)
Author: Stephen Catanzarite
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-07-09
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 19 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
In this intelligent and spiritually attuned book, Stephen Catanzarite reads Achtung Baby as an extended and universal riff on the Fall of Man, showing this to be an album that Bono rightly called one "heavy mother".
Editorial Reviews:
If you thought U2s seventh album was just a great bands venture into dance pop, Stephen Catanzarite has some news for you. Achtung Baby, originally released in 1991 and having sold 18 million copies and counting, is in for the 33 1/3 treatment in this audiobook, earnestly narrated by Jonathan Davis.
Catanzarite announces at the outset that he will not shy from "name-checking the Almighty" as he attempts a reading of the album as a "meditation on love in the shadow of the fall". What follows are religious and political ruminations on subjects such as the sexual revolution (a bad thing) and theodicy, all through readings of songs like "Mysterious Ways" and "One". Catanzarite sees through a glass darkly, like St. Paul...or Bono in those glasses.
