U2 to reissue Achtung Baby and Zooropa

As with Nirvana’s Nevermind , U2 also intends to mark the 20th anniversary of one of their top albums, 1991’s Achtung Baby, with a unique boxed set, paired with the band’s 1993 companion album Zooropa, reports Gibson.

The album Achtung Baby, with influences of alternative rock, industrial and dance music, marked a definitive change in the band’s musical direction, and went on to become one of their most successful albums, spawning hits like Mysterious Ways and One.

The reissue will be also include the album Zooropa, released two years later, in 1993, which was inspired by the band’s experience on their Zoo TV Tour and initially intended as an EP.

In an upcoming interview in Rolling Stone, the group’s manager Paul McGuiness discussed marketing the reissues.

“There will be multiple formats. If you pile a lot of extra material and packaging and design work into a super-duper box set, there are people who will pay quite a lot for it, so you can budget it at a very high level and pump up the value.”

Last month while on tour in Winnipeg, Canada, the band reportedly filmed part of an Achtung Baby documentary with Davis Guggenheim, the filmmaker behind the project It Might Get Loud, featuring the Edge, Jack White, and Jimmy Page.