Zooropa

U2 - Zooropa

Zooropa
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CD Details

Artist: U2
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1993-07-06
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
  1. Zooropa
  2. Babyface
  3. Numb
  4. Lemon
  5. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
  6. Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
  7. Some Days Are Better Than Others
  8. First Time
  9. Dirty Day
  10. Wanderer

Music reviews of Zooropa

Music Review: Classic
Rating: 5 Stars

I am not big on mainstreem music, but you have to give it to U2: they were on the very top and took risks uneeded. Zooropa is the riskiest of all, and is their best album

This takes the electronics of Actung Baby a step up, giving the music a glimmering hue as opposed to treatments of individual instruments. The title track features a ghostly dome with synathsized wha wha guitar. "Baby Face" seems like a love song, but is a fever dream love song with its chiming keyboards and ecchoing drumbeat. "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car" is industrial at is creepiest--at least in mainstreem rock--and "Far Away, So Close" is a sad number with its dampered guitars--flat as a pancake and showing the worness U2 probably felt comming off the road.

Europe was uniting when Zooropa arrived in 1993, but neo-Naziism was on the rise. Genoside was unanswered in Bosnia. There was a dark chaotic underbelly afoot as we celebrated the end of the cold war. In Africa, Al Qudia was already incubating plots.

None of these topics are addressed directly on this album, but the hillucination feel of the album, the sense of scattered pieces that can become sharp and dangerous, lurks just beneath the surface of Zooropa. "I don't know the limits of what we've got" says Bono on track one, and he was right. Zooropa is a creepy record, and U2s move of talking about these issues without talking about them, is their masterstroke.


Listen to the alarm bell that goes off at the very end. U2 may not have been able to predict Septeber 11th or Iraq, but they had a finger on the dangers when the world becomes a more complicated, fragmented place.

Description of Zooropa

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Following the band's Zoo TV tour, which took aim at consumerism and media overload, U2 brought those themes and the complex, futuristic sound of its preceding album, Achtung Baby, to their somewhat illogical conclusion on Zooropa, the group's most chaotic, cutting-edge work. The monotone techno-rap "Numb" leads the way, while "Lemon" offers reminders of David Bowie's Berlin trilogy of more than a decade before. Best of all is "The Wanderer," featuring a guest vocal by country-music icon Johnny Cash. His bottomless baritone sounds bizarre over burbling synthesizers, but Bono's trenchant lyric about a postapocalyptic seeker of sensation and experience before he repents nails Cash's legend at least as well as he ever has himself. --Daniel Durchholz

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