10 Best Album Finales In Rock History

U2 had seemed to have done the impossible on Achtung Baby. At a time where grunge and alternative music was about to render their Joshua Tree style pretty much obsolete, their embrace of irony across this record looped back around to become one of the greatest second winds any rock band has ever had. Though there's a lot of in your face elements on songs like Mysterious Ways and the Fly, Love is Blindness harbors a much more tortured soul.

Instead of the drastic amount of effects that the Edge lays down across the rest of the album, there is nothing except a subtle ambience working its way through the chord changes alongside Bono's vocal. When put up against the more extravagant performances he had laid down thus far, this shows Bono in a much more vulnerable place, almost as if he's giving you a peek to reveal the broken man behind the Fly sunglasses.

Rather than the prototypical love songs that come from the rock genre every now and again, this narrator has been down on his luck one too many times, seeing the entire concept of love as something to be cautious of instead of enamored with. Love can be a wonderful thing, but for those who dance too close to the flame, it can also be the cause of your downfall.