Tag: Achtung Baby

Video: Watch U2's 'From the Sky Down' — documentary about making ‘Achtung Baby’

Video: Watch U2’s ‘From the Sky Down’ — documentary about making ‘Achtung Baby’

For U.S. fans, the U2 documentary ‘From the Sky Down’ doesn’t premiere until this coming weekend — it’s on Showtime on Saturday night — but since it already aired in the U.K., intrepid fans like u2opia100 have uploaded the 84-minute documentary about the making of ‘Achtung Baby’ to YouTube.

Stream: Garbage covers U2's 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses' for 'Achtung' tribute

Stream: Garbage covers U2’s ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’ for ‘Achtung’ tribute

Now we get our third taste of Q magazine’s full-album tribute to U2′s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby’ in the form of Garbage’s slow and simmering cover of the record’s fifth single, ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses,’ which you can stream here.

Stream: Damien Rice covers U2′s ‘One’ as part of Q magazine's ‘Achtung Baby’ tribute

Stream: Damien Rice covers U2′s ‘One’ as part of Q magazine’s ‘Achtung Baby’ tribute

Just a day after the first track from Q magazine’s upcoming full-album tribute to U2′s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby’ — Jack White’s cover of ‘Love is Blindness’ — hit the web comes our second taste: Damien Rice’s stark and intense makeover of ‘One.’

Stream: Jack White covers U2's 'Love is Blindness' for 'Achtung Baby' tribute

Stream: Jack White covers U2’s ‘Love is Blindness’ for ‘Achtung Baby’ tribute

Yesterday we learned the full tracklist of Q magazine’s upcoming full-album tribute to U2’s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby,’ and now we have our first taste of ‘AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered’: guitar slayer Jack White’s bluesy rumble through the album-closing ‘Love is Blindness.’

Update: Nine Inch Nails, Garbage, Depeche Mode on Q's U2 'AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered'

Update: Nine Inch Nails, Garbage, Depeche Mode on Q’s U2 ‘AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered’

U2 has revealed the full tracklist for Q magazine’s ‘AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered’ tribute album, which will feature Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Jack White, Garbage, The Killers, Patti Smith, Damien Rice, Gavin Friday, Snow Patrol, Glasvegas and U2 itself (in remixed form).

Video: U2 'From the Sky Down' trailer — documentary about 'Achtung Baby'

Video: U2 ‘From the Sky Down’ trailer — documentary about ‘Achtung Baby’

Directed by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, the U2 documentary ‘From the Sky Down’ — about the making of ‘Achtung Baby’ — will premiere Oct. 29 on Showtime in advance of its appearance on the expanded reissue of the Irish band’s 1991 album.

Depeche Mode, Jack White, Patti Smith, Glasvegas help cover U2's 'Achtung Baby'

Depeche Mode, Jack White, Patti Smith, Glasvegas help cover U2’s ‘Achtung Baby’

Members of Depeche Mode and Glasvegas each have revealed that their bands have recorded new U2 covers that appear to be connected to the Irish megaband’s 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Achtung Baby,’ which arrives in November in a variety of formats including a $660 ‘uber deluxe’ edition stuffed with CDs, DVDs, vinyl and more.