Rafael Barba & Dominick Carisi LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, Season 16 (2014)

I borrowed PJ's words. We were in different countries, with little access to certain information. But we captured the same feeling in that early 90s.

"Meanwhile, the 80s were fading out—long black coats and hairspray giving way to natural fibers and the United Colors of Benetton.

There was no internet back then, and we had no idea what U2 were up to at all.

Achtung Baby, then, landed on us like a meteor—a fully-grown male meteor, hot from outer space, wrapped in patent leather, smelling of musk and tasting of devil’s food cake.

There was no internet, but there were magazines. We knew a bit more now. We knew U2 had begun making this record in Berlin—in turmoil, in a darkness more profound than our own.

They were beautiful, all four of them. And suddenly, after all these years, kind of intimidating.

Still, I couldn’t understand what album the critics were listening to when they said U2 had “lightened up.” With the exception of one or two songs, this was surely the heaviest they had ever been. Heavy as heartache. Heavy as sex with someone you can’t stay away from, who will pretend they barely know you the next day. Heavy as shuttling back and forth in a tunnel, in your little car, the night pressing down on you, knowing that you’re not really getting anywhere. Heavy as night, as betrayal, as the end of the world."

✏Excerpts from: #AB30: A Note From The Underground, by PJ DeGenaro | Acthoon Baby (@bonos-grindcore-sideproject)