Zooropa (30th Anniversary Edition)

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a b c "U2 2LP Vinyl Reissues Achtung Baby - Zooropa - The Best Of 1980–1990" (Press release). Universal Music Enterprises. PR Newswire. 15 June 2018 . Retrieved 1 August 2018. So they made this strange little album with few pretenses and a modest agenda: what it’s like to be a person in this changing world. The band members themselves have called it an “interlude,” a sentiment that seems totally at odds with U2 as we think about them today. U2 doesn’t do small. They sell out football stadiums to play their 10-times platinum album from 30 years ago, reliving the glory years one more time.

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French album certifications – U 2 – Zooropa" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. a b "British certifications – U2". British Phonographic Industry. Type U2 in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.

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Our full range of studio equipment from all the leading equipment and software brands. Guaranteed fast delivery and low prices. Plus, a limited-edition merch capsule collection to mark the 30 th Anniversary of Zooropa, featuring all new designs, will be available only until midnight PST on July 13. Part of Zooropa’s appeal is its novelty: U2 making the least U2 album of their career. They overplayed this hand a few years later on Pop — got a little too self-aware, a little too confident that they could make any kind of sound work for them — and they would spend years overcompensating for it. They would retreat to safer spaces in the 2000s: sincerity and soaring riffs and shout-along choruses meant to be sung by thousands of fans. You no longer listen to a new U2 album hoping to be surprised. You just hope there’s a good hook or two. 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] The group employed Brian Eno and his assisting partner Mark "Flood" Ellis—both of whom worked on Achtung Baby—to produce the sessions; [7] long-time Eno collaborator Daniel Lanois was busy promoting his solo album and was unavailable. [12] Similar to the Achtung Baby sessions, Eno worked two-week shifts. The group often gave him in-progress songs to adjust and to which he could add his own personality. [13] Initially, the band did not have a clear plan for how they would release the material being written. [9] At the time, Clayton said, "I don't know if what we're doing here is the next U2 album or a bunch of rough sketches that in two years will turn into the demos for the next U2 album." [9] The Edge was a proponent of making an EP of new material to promote the upcoming leg of the tour, [1] describing his mentality as thus: "We've got a bit of time off. We've got some ideas hanging around from the last record, let's do an EP, maybe four new songs to spice the next phase of the tour up a bit. It'll be a fan thing. It'll be cool." [7]

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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!)’. The album performed very well commercially, debuting at number one in the United States, [89] United Kingdom, [90] Canada, [91] Australia, [58] New Zealand, [69] France, [92] Germany, [93] Austria, [94] Sweden, [95] and Switzerland. [96] It also reached number one in the Netherlands, [97] Italy, Japan, Norway, [98] Denmark, Ireland, and Iceland. [99] In the US, the album spent its first two weeks on the Billboard 200 at the top spot, staying in the top 10 for seven weeks. [89] In its first week on sale, Zooropa sold 377,000copies in the US, the group's best debut in the country to that point. [100] The album reached the top 10 in 26 countries. [101] But it feels earned, in a world just escaping from the Cold War and only just beginning to understand the new age, the digital age, that it was entering. These guys saw it and they recognized it, even if they were as perplexed as anyone about what you were supposed to do about it. Their only real conclusion is to do the same thing you did before: You miss your mom, you get mad at your dad, you fall in love, you get high, sometimes you wonder what the point of all this really is. But you don’t give up. You keep living. It just sounds a little bit different. a b "U2 singles". Everyhit.com. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008 . Retrieved 29 October 2009. Note: U2 must be searched manually. a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Zooropa– U2". AllMusic. All Media Network . Retrieved 10 December 2009.To celebrate Zooropa‘s 25th anniversary, here are 10 things you might not know about this underrated gem. U2 began writing and recording Zooropa in Dublin in February 1993, during a six-month break between legs of the Zoo TV Tour. The record was originally intended as an EP to promote the "Zooropa" leg of the tour that was to begin in May 1993, but during the sessions, the group decided to extend the record to a full-length album. [1] Pressed for time, U2 wrote and recorded at a rapid pace, with songs originating from many sources, including leftover material from the Achtung Baby sessions. The album was not completed in time for the tour's resumption, forcing the band to travel between Dublin and their tour destinations in May to complete mixing and recording. Zooropa also teaches us something about U2, a band that increasingly flirts with self-parody these days. It still strains to live up to that self-given moniker — “the best band in the world” — but its recent output fails to inspire. They’ve invaded our iPhones. Their latest record came and went without much fanfare. They’re still selling out concerts, but critical reception has become middling. Even for longtime fans like myself, U2 isn’t so much a source of wonder as it is a fact of life. They’re as novel as air.