God, such a great song from a masterpiece of an album, Achtung Baby. That period in rock history, the early to mid 1990s, is just incredible. You had U2 and REM at their creative peaks, and the grunge bands exploding onto the scene. During that first half of the 1990s, bands like U2, REM, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, and Beck put out some of the best music in rock history.
Saw U2 in 1988 with my wife when they performed this. My wife is gone but hopefully soon we will be together again and talk about the U2 concert. They were fabulous.
So Sorry for your loss. Said goodbye for now to many I love the past few years I understand. Jesus will hold you heart. Pray you feel His peace that surpasses all understanding and you know intimately His love for you. Hes coming soon. Love you. Jesus Loves you far more to die for you.
Listening to this on a sleepless night early in 2020. The upcoming day may be rough due to lack of sleep, but for me this music is a medicine, giving peace of mind, that I'm thankful for.
I used to think One was the song of the Album but I realize now that this is the Song of the Album. Achtung Baby is U2's finest work In my opinion. Not one bad song on it.
The best album U2 ever made. The most complete album. One, Fly, Acrobat, Love is blindness, Until the end of the World, Ultraviolet, Mysterious Ways, this album is unparalleled. Goes from electronica to pop to grunge rock to alternative rock to hard rock all in one album. Phenomenal stuff.
Gerard Bonner , this album is growing, and growing, I don't know where (or when) will stop, I also think that neither the band knows what they did, is anazing.
Great memories. When Achtung Baby was released, I was living in England, and some friends & I drove to Edinburgh. We played that CD over & over- especially this song. I loved it the first time I heard it, and I love it even more today.
Me too! I've heard this song since 1991. The first time I heard it was going to give proof to the Rural University (UFRRJ) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And when I listen to the music, I still feel and remember those times.
When I was all f*cked up and had opera in my head....my girlfriend was the lightbulb over my head. She's now my wife for almost 20 years and still the lightbulb over my head. She stopped the cycle of self harm, desperation and ignited self belief.
For me, it was the early 90s of Hungary. All the world in a positive turmoil, everything becoming more and more free, I was excited about going to University, these were awesome days and this music throws me back.
Love the ending...BAYBAY, BAYBE, Baby light myyy way...Just great lyrics. "There is a silence that comes to a house, where no one can sleep, I guess its the price of love and I know its not cheap"...Bono is simply one of those who has the gift of writing beautiful, deep, bittersweet, hopeful, complex, happy, sad, truthful, haunting, romantic ( I can go on and on lol ) songs...its just how he really is able to pull those emotions with his writing and singing right out of you...You feel it when he sings, period.
Seemed like every time I was at a crossroad of my life, this album would end up playing in my car as I drove for hours. And when it got to Ultraviolet, my fav on the album, things seemed a little brighter ahead. An awesome song.
I feel that way about Achtung Baby in general. When I first got the album, I thought it was good, not great. But the more I listened to it, the more I realized it was a masterpiece. Every track is a home run and blends so well together from start to finish. The Joshua Tree will always be U2's biggest album. But in many ways, Achtung Baby is their most significant work.
Whenever I listen this music, I remind movie "Click" 's last scene. And I refresh my life again through this amazing combination. This song is driving me touching.
"Achtung Baby" is the best U2 album ever made. Watching "From the sky down" documentary, it truly gives a sense of how difficult this album was to make (they still call it the most difficult album they ever made). Definitely, the best rock record of the 90s.
Harder than completing 'Where the streets have no name'! I do not think so, 'Exit' could be darkest U2's song ever, 'Bullet blue sky' is brilliant but started with a simple bass melody, 'With or without you' is a very odd song, a huge but wonderful risk ...
Lo mejor de este álbum, todo!!!! Es simplemente espectacular. Lo peor, nunca U2 ha vuelto a hacer una obra maestra. Amo U2, pero este álbum es lo máximo
Listen to "Until the end of the world" and especially "Acrobat". Both are rock and hard-rock songs especially "Acrobat". It is one of the most intense, heavy, dark and fast rock songs. Achtung Baby was a mix of everything. It goes from a pop/alternative/electronica rock to grunge rock to rock to hard rock all in one album. That is the genius of it.
The best and worst thing about U2 is that to truly appreciate and fully understand some of the songs one first must go tru some very bad shit in life, like for example, "one", to really get the full meaning of it you have to have failed epicly in love first, kite and ultraviolet at more examples. Best band ever...EVER.
One has nothing to do with failings in love its about human beings as a race and from doctors to dentists to teachers and on and on and how we have to carry each other through life like it or not guess we all take our own meanings from the great u2
It was always and is an uplifting album for me. Came out when you I was 23 at uni and travelled with me thru my 20s and onwards. UltraViolet and So Cruel are masterpieces.
"and the day is as dark as the night is long...there is a silence that comes to a house where noone can sleep, i guess its the price of love, i know its not cheap, etc etc" man! bono's lyrics are just rip through you...just pure beauty!...and i m not even gonna go into the magic of his voice...specially acthung baby era...my favorite album from them...
@@ramonarellano4988 Yeah, it's interesting to think about. I mean, Ultraviolet would have been a more obvious choice, but maybe The Fly was a bigger "statement". I still admire U2 for how boldly they "reinvented" themselves with Achtung. Not many bands have balls that big :D
This song is serioustly the most fantastic song to experience live.! "Ultraviolet" and "One" by U2 and then "Better Man" by Pearl Jam are definitely the three most extraordinary and in any way fantastic songs to experience live.. Fantastic songs! really!!!
When my son was a baby I played this song. He was sitting in his pushchair and listening to it carefully. Now he is 28. No phone rings, no letters, no skypes...
U2 - Achtung Baby Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Nirvana - Nevermind Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's dead Massive Attack: Blue Lines // all in 1991 !! Nirvana: in Utero (1993) Blur: Modern life is Rubbish (1993) / Blur (1997) / 13 (1999) Radiohead: OK Computer (1997) Portishead: Dummy (1994) / Portishead (1997) Massive Attack: Mezzanine (1998) David Holmes: let's get killed (1997) And so on... God I miss the 90's so much
listening 4am 1-7-21. I love U2 & this song is great just as whole album is so good. It brings me back good memories of singing harmony w/them & dancing in my apt. thank you 1-7-21
It's over my bed yes. That's what's written in the sleeve too. I can bring out my cassette from 1991 to prove it! This is the part that always brings me to tears those past years.
Boyan Iontchev it is bed. If you have a light bulb over your bed it would be somewhat torturous, or maybe useless. That was the symbolism I got anyway.
@@gregvinson1 No the symbolism is simply that her love kept him seeing in the darkness, was a comfort in dark times. I mean just read the above lines, when i was all messed up and i heard opera in my head...It's rather clear. When i was having a hard time, you were my light. Not to mention the chorus goes "light my way"..... Also, I have a lightbulb hanging over my bed....i would think most people do actually? or if not over their bed, close by.
Going to see The Joshua Tree Tour in Melbourne November 15....I so hope they play this song. Absolutely BRILLIANT. I'll never forget seeing them way back in October 1989 three times here in Melbourne and I even drove to Adelaide and watched them again...they haven't lost it.
ES EL DISCO QUE MÁS ME COSTÓ ACEPTAR DE U2. QUIZÁS EL SONIDO ERA DISTINTO A LOS ANTERIORES Y LO ESCUCHÉ UNA Y OTRA VEZ. HOY LO CONSIDERO UNO DE LOS MEJORES
@@gianpierodetommaso8710 yeah, i don't feel it the same way, but i understand your point. The last great albums that U2 did were those three: "Achtung...", "Zooropa" and "POP".
God, such a great song from a masterpiece of an album, Achtung Baby. That period in rock history, the early to mid 1990s, is just incredible. You had U2 and REM at their creative peaks, and the grunge bands exploding onto the scene.
During that first half of the 1990s, bands like U2, REM, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, and Beck put out some of the best music in rock history.
You and me are blessed to have been there buying the CDs.
U2's greatest album and one of the best albums of all time.
The whole album was perfect
My heart soars when the guitar starts kicking-in at the beginning...
Same 🤩
Without doubt this is U2's greatest album. Remember when they were as good as this?
Saw U2 in 1988 with my wife when they performed this. My wife is gone but hopefully soon we will be together again and talk about the U2 concert. They were fabulous.
@Dan Smedstad You are right. Typo. Should have been 1998
So Sorry for your loss. Said
goodbye for now to many I love the past few years I understand.
Jesus will hold you heart.
Pray you feel His peace that surpasses all understanding and you know intimately His love for you.
Hes coming soon. Love you. Jesus Loves you far more to die for you.
Best album ever made in the history of planet earth. So haunting. Still listen to this whole album at least once per week.
They might be a little over the hill nowadays, but tracks like this show how insanely epic this band was in its prime.
They’re still putting out great tracks even over the hill lol
Greatest band on this planet. I never tire listening to them. So many ways of interpreting their music. Something for everybody!
Listening to this on a sleepless night early in 2020. The upcoming day may be rough due to lack of sleep, but for me this music is a medicine, giving peace of mind, that I'm thankful for.
This song also helped me too to get through the almost sleepless nights of the 2020
This song is perfect in every way.
The best album U2 ever made. Period.
indeed it is...feel like trash you make me feel clean, what a line...
This is great, and this song beautiful, but nothing like what they did in the eighties
Roger Mahajan bbb We
Achtung Baby and Zooropa.
Yes im
Achtung Baby is the best album ever!!! N Ultraviolet is the best song ever!!!
I used to think One was the song of the Album but I realize now that this is the Song of the Album. Achtung Baby is U2's finest work In my opinion. Not one bad song on it.
Gerard Bonner Really is an incredible album, So Cruel is such an underrated song.
+Gerard Bonner Agreed. Also, Trying to Throw your Arms Around the World is wonderful and highly underrated..
The best album U2 ever made. The most complete album. One, Fly, Acrobat, Love is blindness, Until the end of the World, Ultraviolet, Mysterious Ways, this album is unparalleled. Goes from electronica to pop to grunge rock to alternative rock to hard rock all in one album. Phenomenal stuff.
Gerard Bonner 100% + 1000 plus more agree!
Gerard Bonner , this album is growing, and growing, I don't know where (or when) will stop, I also think that neither the band knows what they did, is anazing.
Great memories. When Achtung Baby was released, I was living in England, and some friends & I drove to Edinburgh. We played that CD over & over- especially this song. I loved it the first time I heard it, and I love it even more today.
Me too! I've heard this song since 1991. The first time I heard it was going to give proof to the Rural University (UFRRJ) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And when I listen to the music, I still feel and remember those times.
👌🏻🎼
This music is my love's soundtrack 💓
When I was all f*cked up and had opera in my head....my girlfriend was the lightbulb over my head. She's now my wife for almost 20 years and still the lightbulb over my head. She stopped the cycle of self harm, desperation and ignited self belief.
For me, it was the early 90s of Hungary. All the world in a positive turmoil, everything becoming more and more free, I was excited about going to University, these were awesome days and this music throws me back.
Bono is an under-rated poet, all four of them are amazing and they create a unique sound.
Love the ending...BAYBAY, BAYBE, Baby light myyy way...Just great lyrics. "There is a silence that comes to a house, where no one can sleep, I guess its the price of love and I know its not cheap"...Bono is simply one of those who has the gift of writing beautiful, deep, bittersweet, hopeful, complex, happy, sad, truthful, haunting, romantic ( I can go on and on lol ) songs...its just how he really is able to pull those emotions with his writing and singing right out of you...You feel it when he sings, period.
+kadir1982 well said, and those truly are artistic qualities!
+kadir1982 I love that ending too...Stays with you.
+kadir1982 well, you are so precious so much precious that I can accept dying from your hands. (just hiding a message to here from me to you baby)
+triggerEfee since when you started listening to U2 lol ( Hiding a message to here from me to you baby)???
it wasn't for you :D
my favourite ever song, over 400 times played in my itunes and 100s more before i got itunes. thers so much going on musically, so much depth.
Edge's sound on the last few minutes of this song is the best I've ever heard.
Für meine liebste Lou Lou !... Danke das es Dich gibt und wir uns gefunden haben.
I am almost without words. I used to have this on a mixtape and I would blast it while driving. Thank you so much U2. Oh sugar don't you cry
El mejor álbum de toda la historia de U2, amo este grupo y esta canción es lo más!!!!!!!
Saludos des de Brownsville Texas....increible groupo y cancion
NOP ...THE UNFORGETEBLE FIRE
TOCAYO
I like the ambient texture guitar chords by the Edge. Thank you, Brian Eno. He's all over some of their best music.
When this album was released I played it over and over and over again. Brings back good and bad times.... ;)
Still love this song, every time. A masterpiece!
O melhor álbum do U2 sem dúvida nenhuma. Incrível !!!!
When I was all messed up and I heard opera in my head. Your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed.
Psychiatric hospital. ♥️💖
One of their best albums. Still, play it after decades when it waa released.
Seemed like every time I was at a crossroad of my life, this album would end up playing in my car as I drove for hours. And when it got to Ultraviolet, my fav on the album, things seemed a little brighter ahead. An awesome song.
Great song
Is it just me, or is it true that the more you listen to this song, the more you like it?
I feel that way about Achtung Baby in general. When I first got the album, I thought it was good, not great. But the more I listened to it, the more I realized it was a masterpiece. Every track is a home run and blends so well together from start to finish. The Joshua Tree will always be U2's biggest album. But in many ways, Achtung Baby is their most significant work.
You're completely right. This happens to me too
Same on me
Same here
Me too
Whenever I listen this music, I remind movie "Click" 's last scene.
And I refresh my life again through this amazing combination.
This song is driving me touching.
Glad to see Korean comments...
"Achtung Baby" is the best U2 album ever made. Watching "From the sky down" documentary, it truly gives a sense of how difficult this album was to make (they still call it the most difficult album they ever made). Definitely, the best rock record of the 90s.
+KLRGT500KR that's a bold statement going against Joshua tree. I'm not totally disagreeing but still bold
I'd have to agree. Achtung Baby is their artistic peak and their best work.
Harder than completing 'Where the streets have no name'! I do not think so, 'Exit' could be darkest U2's song ever, 'Bullet blue sky' is brilliant but started with a simple bass melody, 'With or without you' is a very odd song, a huge but wonderful risk ...
When my Dad played this song in his car when I was a little child I said: Yeah the baby, baby, song 👍
That’s adorable!
I was that dad too..
Paulxboxblaster YT your dad must be a huge U2 fan!
Thanks Paul
📢AMEN🙏
This one is perfection
Lo mejor de este álbum, todo!!!! Es simplemente espectacular. Lo peor, nunca U2 ha vuelto a hacer una obra maestra. Amo U2, pero este álbum es lo máximo
Omg, that scene from Click, I felt completely happy after I saw that sad moment in the movie.
Best album of the 90's...
Certainly up there. One of the few albums I love playing from start to finish.
MattPopOfficial I would say it is "the masterpiece" of the "Pop" arena
+MattPopOfficial absolutely...
Listen to "Until the end of the world" and especially "Acrobat". Both are rock and hard-rock songs especially "Acrobat". It is one of the most intense, heavy, dark and fast rock songs. Achtung Baby was a mix of everything. It goes from a pop/alternative/electronica rock to grunge rock to rock to hard rock all in one album. That is the genius of it.
It's top 10 but not the best. The 90s were incredible for music.
Literally couldn’t be a more perfect song for click ending.
The best and worst thing about U2 is that to truly appreciate and fully understand some of the songs one first must go tru some very bad shit in life, like for example, "one", to really get the full meaning of it you have to have failed epicly in love first, kite and ultraviolet at more examples. Best band ever...EVER.
+Ivan Ramirez They touched my soul.
everybody has their shite...don't let them fool you
One has nothing to do with failings in love its about human beings as a race and from doctors to dentists to teachers and on and on and how we have to carry each other through life like it or not guess we all take our own meanings from the great u2
the reward of painful experience is being able to fully appreciate/enjoy u2s music
YOUR SOOO ON IT....
It was always and is an uplifting album for me. Came out when you I was 23 at uni and travelled with me thru my 20s and onwards. UltraViolet and So Cruel are masterpieces.
"and the day is as dark as the night is long...there is a silence that comes to a house where noone can sleep, i guess its the price of love, i know its not cheap, etc etc" man! bono's lyrics are just rip through you...just pure beauty!...and i m not even gonna go into the magic of his voice...specially acthung baby era...my favorite album from them...
Simply the one of the best songs of U2. My fave band.
Quelle claque cet album ! Que des bons souvenirs de jeunesse...
I will never comprehend how this was never a single. It could'a been HUGE.
M B , the real good songs are never singles, singles are for the shallow masses, get it ?.
@@ramonarellano4988 Up to a point, sure. I mostly agree. But Ultraviolet is also poppy as heck. Still a missed opportunity, methinks.
M B , maybe you are right, have them released this song as the first single, instead of the Fly, ...hummm.
M B my point is, people were mostly not ready at the time, they were kind of ahead of this particular time in music.
@@ramonarellano4988 Yeah, it's interesting to think about. I mean, Ultraviolet would have been a more obvious choice, but maybe The Fly was a bigger "statement". I still admire U2 for how boldly they "reinvented" themselves with Achtung. Not many bands have balls that big :D
Just saw U2 live at Hard Rock Stadium. This song was INCREDIBLE!
Loved U2 for over 35 years, and this a tune
The more you listen, the relatable and beautiful it gets.
BEAUTY!
This song gets me so emotional
How haunting is the intro to this masterpiece! Love it!
U2’s greatest hits.....this one is the sleeper hit.....baby baby baby.....light my way
Lost my father April 2019 and this song reminds me of him. I listen to and wish he was still here
Your father is in a better place
It only gets better and better!❤
Movie CLICK today on TV in Slovakia. This perfect song I remember from my teenage years
This song is serioustly the most fantastic song to experience live.!
"Ultraviolet" and "One" by U2 and then "Better Man" by Pearl Jam are definitely the three most extraordinary and in any way fantastic songs to experience live.. Fantastic songs! really!!!
When my son was a baby I played this song. He was sitting in his pushchair and listening to it carefully. Now he is 28. No phone rings, no letters, no skypes...
This album still blows me away!!! BRILLIANCE!!! Baby baby baby light my way...
Achtung baby the best album they ever did IMHO. Such strong songs. Ultraviolet is one the best they done!
They sanged this one in Coimbra- Portugal (03/10/2010) and it was one of my favourites. Loved to hear it again live.
Achtung Baby....
The best álbum..
Great U2.!!!!!
Muy soul is full
Their best album without a doubt!
Song of faith and wisdom! God bless you Bono!🦁
This song is just amazing, love U2 so much
+Nino Tandilashvili Me too Nino-me too......
I just saw them yesterday in Tokyo and I was so happy they played this.
achtung baby and All that you can't leave behind are so hard to chose between. Stay and Kite are phenomenal.
Some might say that u2 is the best rock-band out there. (And I couldnt prove them wrong)
some might say sunshine follows thunder
go and tell it to the man who cannot shine
This album and OK Computer are why I miss the 90's.
Jordan Groff Wish I could give a super thumbs up for this.
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Nirvana - Nevermind
Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's dead
Massive Attack: Blue Lines // all in 1991 !!
Nirvana: in Utero (1993)
Blur: Modern life is Rubbish (1993) / Blur (1997) / 13 (1999)
Radiohead: OK Computer (1997)
Portishead: Dummy (1994) / Portishead (1997)
Massive Attack: Mezzanine (1998)
David Holmes: let's get killed (1997)
And so on...
God I miss the 90's so much
The Verve - Hurban Hymns
100 percent agree, but I have to add The Bends to the list too.
Remember seeing this when Achtung Baby was on tour, stop and smell the flowers!!! was great then and still is, seeing U2 is like going to Church
This album helped me through a lot of shit
Brian Meeth laxant could help too
vic otazo U2
Brian Meeth not only you
Brian Meeth lol me too
Germany....alone....outta place....4th batallion 8th Infantry Division....GOD BLESS YOU U2....
Esta es una de las mejores canciones de U2!!! Sin lugar a dudas...
listening 4am 1-7-21. I love U2 & this song is great just as whole album is so good. It brings me back good memories of singing harmony w/them & dancing in my apt. thank you 1-7-21
I cryed so much listening to this Live in 2011 show... It was one of the best moments in my life.
"When I was all messed up,
And I heard opera in my head.
Your love was a light-bulb,
Hanging over my head."
Thats right my dude thanks for clearing that up
So he rhymes head with head? I hear "over my bed"...
It's over my bed yes. That's what's written in the sleeve too. I can bring out my cassette from 1991 to prove it!
This is the part that always brings me to tears those past years.
Boyan Iontchev it is bed. If you have a light bulb over your bed it would be somewhat torturous, or maybe useless. That was the symbolism I got anyway.
@@gregvinson1 No the symbolism is simply that her love kept him seeing in the darkness, was a comfort in dark times. I mean just read the above lines, when i was all messed up and i heard opera in my head...It's rather clear. When i was having a hard time, you were my light. Not to mention the chorus goes "light my way"..... Also, I have a lightbulb hanging over my bed....i would think most people do actually? or if not over their bed, close by.
U2 é demais❤❤❤
High school memories. I always loved that song but I love it even more today. Love from France people.
That bass line!
its so fun to play it. you feel your into the song!
All the bass lines on this album. And the way they pull the bass out and drop it back in. So good.
Adam Clayton was smokin' hot on this album!!!
Loved the way U2 evolved over time. A lot bands these days seem to remain stagnant.
You hit the nail on the head with your comment on U2 evolving over time.
I never realized how much this song shook my headphones!
Mr2010forgeben I must try
Going to see The Joshua Tree Tour in Melbourne November 15....I so hope they play this song. Absolutely BRILLIANT. I'll never forget seeing them way back in October 1989 three times here in Melbourne and I even drove to Adelaide and watched them again...they haven't lost it.
love it!! such a good song, he sang it in the rose bowl and it just sounded so brand new..such a goog good song =)
Hard to imagine a time when this song didn't exist, seems so natural and obvious after the fact.
O tipo de musica que nos faz a gente querer ser feliz e de sair dançando por aí.
Primeira Vez ouvindo me apaixonei pela música 😍
ultraviolet, stay, kite, so cruel, when i look at the world.....just a few, and so many more great songs.
One of the best songs and albums.
I believe your absolutely right Mr Sam
Bono sang "Baby Baby Baby" even before beiber was born
Haha
Ashish K and so did Plant
So did Noddy Holder (Slade) in Come on Feel the Noise.
Funny thing Bono dang it better. XD
i remember buying the LP and spending hours listening over and over
Best band ever 💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚
Absolutely best U2's song
ES EL DISCO QUE MÁS ME COSTÓ ACEPTAR DE U2. QUIZÁS EL SONIDO ERA DISTINTO A LOS ANTERIORES Y LO ESCUCHÉ UNA Y OTRA VEZ. HOY LO CONSIDERO UNO DE LOS MEJORES
Excelente banda ótima música perfeita saudades desse tempo que não volta mais
Eu amo Rock!
Eu amo U2!
"Achtung Baby" and "Zooropa" were the creative peak of U2.
POP, too. So underrated album.
@@gianpierodetommaso8710 yeah, i don't feel it the same way, but i understand your point. The last great albums that U2 did were those three: "Achtung...", "Zooropa" and "POP".
this song plays at the end of click and I leak tears everytime
Great. :D
stratman 45 ...they will leak indeed*
Im 23, and everytime I hear this tune I feel thankfull of the life I have in front.
What is click?
Same
Along with time so goes a great legend that will forever more remain in the hearts of a dying breed... Light My Way ... G2Master
BRIS ♥️ "thanks for lighting my way" I love you forever 😘😘😘
BEAUTIFUL
A melhor do u2!!! Muito significativa pra mim!!
achtung baby is by far their best and all way will be....it sad how time passes by on good bands.
i love this song
Me tooo my hpory days..rwal talent real music 🎶