Zooropa (30th Anniversary Edition)

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Zooropa ended up winning the GRAMMY award for Best Alternative Album in 1994, though Bono would balk at the “alternative” distinction, having hoped to win Album of the Year. “Yeah, alternative,” he said, rolling his eyes and holding the award that meant U2 had beat out R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People, Nirvana’s In Utero, Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, and Belly’s Star. a b c Hilburn, Robert (4 July 1993). "The Unpredictable Fire Burns On". Los Angeles Times. sec. Calendar, p. 56 . Retrieved 12 August 2010. Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on. Top 100 Albums of 1993". RPM. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014 . Retrieved 6 June 2021. The Zoo TV Tour had become such a self-referential, meta circus of its own—with its TV assault on the senses and Bono portraying self-created characters like “The Fly” and the devil-horned “MacPhisto”—that it might have been easy to forget (if not for the Trabis used as lighting all over the stage) that “Zoo” initially referred to the famous Zoo stop on Berlin’s U-Bahn (subway). In 1990, U2 had begun recording Achtung Baby at Hansa Studios in Berlin, tapping into the city’s newly reunified status for the album’s political concept and its legacy of musical experimentation for its industrial-dance influences. “The idea of Berlin may have come from [producer Brian] Eno, because at one time [in the ’70s] Eno had lived in Berlin with David Bowie and Iggy Pop, the three of them in one squabblesome apartment in Kreuzberg,” recalls McGuinness .

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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. The album included the singles “Numb,” “Lemon,” and “Stay (Faraway, So Close!),” and was informed and inspired by the band’s recent experiences on the ZOO TV Tour, expanded on many of its themes such as technology and media oversaturation. The album became a No.1 hit in Ireland, the US, the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. At the following year’s Grammys, Zooropa won for Best Alternative Music Album. 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. The band began the Zoo TV Tour in February 1992 in support of Achtung Baby. In contrast to the austere stage setups of previous U2 tours, Zoo TV was an elaborate multimedia event. It satirised television and the viewing public's overstimulation by attempting to instill "sensory overload" in its audience. [2] [22] The stage featured large video screens that showed visual effects, random video clips from pop culture, and flashing text phrases. Live satellite link-ups, channel surfing, crank calls, and video confessionals were incorporated into the shows. [114] 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.

a b c d e f Pareles, Jon (4 July 1993). "A Raucous U2 Moves Farther Out on a Limb". The New York Times. sec. Arts and Leisure, p. 22 . Retrieved 8 October 2009. The album went to Number 1 in Ireland, USA, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. In 1994, Zooropa saw the band collect the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. The album’s first two minutes — an indistinct fade-in of transmitted voices, before a melancholy piano melody sets in with pulsing bass behind — pass before we hear anything that sounds even remotely like U2. The cover could also be seen as a recreation of “Babyface,” a song inspired by the growing ease of feeling close to strangers through TV (“Watching your bright blue eyes/In the freeze frame/I’ve seen them so many times/I feel like I must be your best friend”). “It’s a song about watching and not being in the picture,” said Bono. “About how people play with images, believing you know somebody through an image.”

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a b "Tous les "Chart Runs" des Albums classés despuis 1985" (in French). InfoDisc. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008 . Retrieved 20 May 2010. Note: U2 must be searched manually

U2 seems content to regress these days. Its last two albums have been characterized by a thematic return to the youth of the band’s members, and especially its lead singer. They haven’t totally lost sight of this period, though, even if Zooropa isn’t making it onto their set lists. U2’s latest tour marked the return of one of Bono’s most outrageous stage characters, a glam impersonation of the devil who first appeared on the early 1990s tour that birthed Zooropa. To celebrate Zooropa‘s 25th anniversary, here are 10 things you might not know about this underrated gem. U2×5 Logos". Amp Visual. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014 . Retrieved 17 September 2014. Harvilla, Rob (6 July 2013). "U2's 'Zooropa' Almost Killed Their Career". Spin . Retrieved 20 August 2023.

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a b Sullivan, Jim (4 July 1993). "U2 again braves new worlds". The Boston Globe. p.A3 . Retrieved 10 December 2009.GAFFA-prisen 1991-2006 – se vinderne". GAFFA (in Danish). Denmark. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015 . Retrieved 2 September 2019. de la Parra, Pimm Jal (2003). U2 Live: A Concert Documentary. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9198-7.