Thirty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as "the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree" while Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote that "stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990's". 
 
The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and became one of the most significant records of the nineties and of U2's career.