Zooropa (30th Anniversary Edition)

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July 5 is the 25th anniversary of the smallest album from the world’s biggest band. Maybe you’ve never heard of it; maybe you have and want to forget it. But you should listen to it now. Because it’s every bit the masterpiece that The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby were, even if it sounds nothing like them: a weird but heartfelt meditation of humanity on the verge of the technological revolution that is still remaking our world today. a b Christgau, Robert (18 January 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 13 October 2009. U2 began writing and recording Zooropa in Dublin in February of that year, during a six-month break between legs of the ZOO TV Tour and was initially intended as just an EP, David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave Zooropa an "A", calling it "harried, spontaneous-sounding, and ultimately exhilarating album". Browne judged it to sound "messy" and "disconnected", but clarified "that sense of incoherence is the point" in the context of the record's technology themes. He concluded, "For an album that wasn't meant to be an album, it's quite an album." [31] Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times gave the record a maximum score of four stars. In two separate articles, he said that it "captured the anxious, even paranoid tone of the Zoo TV Tour" so much so that "it stands as the first tour album that doesn't include any of the songs from the tour" and yet sounds like a "souvenir" of Zoo TV. [26] [40] In a positive review, Jim Sullivan of The Boston Globe called the album a "creative stretch", noting that the band experimented more yet retained their recognizable sound. He commented that the group's "yearning anthemic reach" and "obvious, slinky pop charm" were replaced with "darker corners, more disruptive interjections, more moodiness". [63] Paul Du Noyer of Q gave Zooropa a score of four-out-of-five stars, finding a "freewheeling feel of going with the flow" throughout the album and calling it "rootless and loose, restless and unsettled". For Du Noyer, U2 sounded "monstrously tight as a performing unit and fluidly inventive as composers, so the results transcend the merely experimental". [81]

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The album cover features Achtung Baby‘s “Astrobaby” and recreates the European flag on top of images of famous European leaders. Christgau, Robert. "The 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". robertchristgau.com . Retrieved 11 March 2011. Zooropa (Vinyl reissue liner notes). U2. Island Records. 2018. U292018. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

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Scholz, Martin; Bizot, Jean-Francois; Zekri, Bernard (August 1993). "Even Bigger Than the Real Thing". Spin. Vol.9, no.5. Spin Media LLC. pp.60–62, 96. Incidentally, here’s something interesting to consider; when Achtung Baby was reissued in 2011 there was no vinyl version available separately. The 2LP edition was ONLY available in the uber deluxe or as part of a four-record set with some of the remixes. That only happened seven years later for the 2018 U2 vinyl reissues. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge, the album went to Number 1 in the UK, USA, Ireland, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland and featured the singles ‘Numb’, ‘Lemon’ and ‘Stay (Faraway, So Close!)’. Conversely, there are some incredibly romantic moments on Zooropa. Shimmery and wistful over tinkling toy piano, “Babyface” is a ’90s version of every prom song in every Molly Ringwald movie from the ’80s. The pulsing, zigzagging “Lemon,” one of my favorites that still makes my heart flutter like a teenager at the dance, is based on Bono’s having found Super 8 footage of his long-dead mother from when she was 24, looking lovely in a lemon-colored dress as a maid of honor at a wedding. The song comes across as an aching obsession for an object of lust, although knowing it’s about Bono’s mother doesn’t exactly ruin it. Bono also wove into the song empathy for the Edge, who had recently lost love and was raw from a divorce.

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Production Manager [2018 Album Remaster - Project Production Manager On Behalf Of Island Records/UMC] – Lisa Power In the meantime, the new 2LP vinyl edition of the album is being released on 19 November 2021 (this Friday!) which is 30 years and one day since the original release date. Coloured vinyl is D2C only. Reunified Europe was also experiencing a resurgence of fascism, spurred in part by the negative economic effects of East and West coming together. Germany’s population of Turkish immigrants were being terrorized by skinheads. In France, swastikas were scrawled on Jewish synagogues and community centers. And Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, was getting worrying support. So in January 1993, Bono and the Edge traveled to Hamburg to join in on the Festival Against Racism at the Talia Theater. a b c d e f g h Zooropa (Media notes). U2. Island Records. 1993. 314-518 047-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

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