Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Jack White Appearing On U2 Tribute Album

Jack White, Patti Smith and Damian Rice would be covering songs from U2's "Achtung Baby" for an upcoming 20th anniversary tribute album. Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Depeche Mode, Garbage, Snow Patrol and more will also appear on the album, cleverly dubbed "Ahk-toong Bay-bi", just to help out those who can’t pronounce the first word of the album properly.

Q Magazine will be releasing the tribute album along with their new issue which is out on October 26th. The full tracklisting for the album is down below.

To further celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album, the U2 documentary, "From The Sky Down", will premiere on Showtime on October 29th.

Thanks to CoS, check out Jack White’s version of "Love Is Blindness". Here’s a hint... it’s good. You can hear it below.

"Ahk-toong Bay-bi" tracklisting:

01. Nine Inch Nails – Zoo Station
02. U2 (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) – Even Better Than The Real Thing
03. Damien Rice – One
04. Patti Smith – Until The End Of The World
05. Garbage – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
06. Depeche Mode – So Cruel
07. Snow Patrol – Mysterious Ways
08. The Fray – Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
08. Gavin Friday – The Fly
10. The Killers – Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
11. Glasvegas – Acrobat
12. Jack White – Love Is Blindness

Thanks for the report to RockItOutBlog.com.

Comments

[ninfan200]

YAY NEW NIN MATERIAL!!!!!

[biff022]

Why would the god awful Fray be in on this? Excited for the Nails and DM and White covers.

[Guitar_Jester]

NIN!

[LuciferSamDance]

Nin! Can't wait to hear it.

[schirripar]

U2 WOULD be on their own tribute album

[Escape.Artist90]

This is even worse that "It's the the end of the week news" or whatever that shit it's called.

[TextOnTheScreen]

schirripar wrote:

U2 WOULD be on their own tribute album

No, it's their original version, remixed. By someone else. Because that's how this works. Sheesh.

Also, Jack White covering U2 might be my new favorite thing ever to happen. It sounds wonderful. I'm curious about how the rest of the tracks will sound.

[Gabe96]

I wold have loved to here the killers doing one.

[JonBon_Ramboni]

Bono and Edge told me to piss off at the Toronto International Film Festival. All I wanted was an autograph and handshake. Not cool dudes, not cool!

[slaveskinJACKET]

I'm gonna listen to that Jack White version as soon as I get the chance, and I'm sure it's gotta be better than the U2 version.

But I'm not sure the rest of the album, aside from the NIN song and maybe the Patti Smith one, will be any good, or even as good as the original U2 versions (and they're not hard to beat).

[TheFly_1990]

Love Is Blindness is my favorite U2 track, and Jack White really did it justice there

Watched that "From The Sky Down" thing the other night on BBC2, really enjoyed it

There. I said it

[blindfatkid23]

I thought NIN were done?

[Grohlism]

Jack White never fails to impress with his covers.

[slaveskinJACKET]

The Edge's lead in the original Love Is Blindness is hilarious, especially the first 'solo'.

My dad got that cassette tape in the mail as a promotional thing from Columbia House back in 1991. I listened to it a couple times, but I was never too crazy about U2, anyway.

Jack White's version is a lot better, but I wish he would sing it more like himself and less like a sort of impression of Bono.

I'm still not crazy about it, though, but it was alright.

[DaniArrow]

I don't like U2, but I'm excited to listen to the NIN, DM & Jack White tracks!

[nickzippelli]

blindfatkid23 :
I thought NIN were done?

me too

[Screamerific]

too bad there isnt any REAL hits on there. One is the only real hit there and the others are songs that not-so die hard U2 fans wouldnt know.

[In America]

Mysterious Ways is also a widely known 'hit'

[Animal_Farm]

depeche should have covered the fly