Zooropa (30th Anniversary Edition)

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To celebrate Zooropa‘s 25th anniversary, here are 10 things you might not know about this underrated gem. Zooropa Pulls in First Award in Oslo" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.10, no.35. 28 August 1993. p.4 . Retrieved 13 January 2020– via American Radio History.

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In February 1993, U2 were on a break before starting the second year of their massive Zoo TV Tour in support of their chart-topping 1991 album Achtung Baby. A commentary on media oversaturation, the tour featured massive TV screens and interactive multimedia that gave the audience a reality show-type experience, making the entire endeavor an insanely ambitious undertaking. Thomas, Peyton (20 December 2020). "U2: Zooropa Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 1 February 2022. Graham, Bill (18 June 1992). "Achtung Station!". Hot Press. Vol.16, no.10 . Retrieved 22 April 2011.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. a b c d Gettelman, Parry (23 July 1993). "U2, Zooropa". Orlando Sentinel. p.22 . Retrieved 15 October 2010. Top 100 Album - Jahrescharts 1993" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 6 June 2021. U2 has never been more U2 than they are now, but, for a flitting moment, on Zooropa, they broke free from all the constraints that come with being themselves. This is a beautiful and discordant, sweet and angry piece of music, out of body and out of time. Spin magazine wrote that the album “freed U2 from itself.” But they didn’t know what to do with that freedom. They didn’t know where to go. GAFFA-prisen 1991-2006 – se vinderne". GAFFA (in Danish). Denmark. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015 . Retrieved 2 September 2019.

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a b Christgau, Robert (18 January 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 13 October 2009. Year-End Sales Charts - Eurochart Hot 100 Albums 1993" (PDF). Music & Media. 18 December 1993. p.15 . Retrieved 6 June 2021. Although 2011 is probably best remembered as the year of Pink Floyd’s‘Immersion’ box sets, there were two mega-boxes which were ahead of their time and helped define a new era of ‘super deluxe edition’ box sets. Zooropa was released on July 5, 1993, and then it just sort of ... disappeared. It sold merely 2 million copies in the United States — a steep fall from Achtung Baby’s 8 million or The Joshua Tree’s 10 — and its singles mostly failed to chart on mainstream radio.

Bream, John. "Oct 26, 1997: Bono sounds off on the PopMart tour". Star Tribune . Retrieved 12 October 2022. Over a gentle guitar — a spiritual sequel to “Running To Stand Still in its sound — Bono finds peace in losing faith. The prodigal son comes home again, the father hands over the keys to his kingdom, and the son ... throws them away. The song’s softly triumphant climax is the only real emotional catharsis over these 50 minutes, and it is beautifully understated. a b Tyaransen, Olaf (4 December 2002). "Closer to the Edge". Hot Press. Vol.26, no.23 . Retrieved 26 April 2011. 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.

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Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. We believe that’s an important part of building a more equal society. We can’t do that if we have a paywall. I wouldn’t rule out more physical boxes next year, with bigger vinyl sets and a CD box. If they can make an 11LP box out of All That You Can’t Leave Behind then the appetite will be there for Achtung Baby. 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. Richards, Sam (15 June 2018). "U2 announce 2LP vinyl reissues of Achtung Baby and Zooropa". Uncut . Retrieved 1 August 2018. a b "Billboard 200: 24 July 1993 | Billboard Chart Archive". Billboard.com . Retrieved 20 February 2013. Note: Top-ten charting duration must be manually verified by navigating between weekly charts.Jahreshitparade Alben 1993". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 13 September 2011. Japanese album certifications – U2 – Zooropa" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Select 1993年8月 on the drop-down menu Once in a while, the album receives some favorable retrospectives — here’s a semi-ironic piece by Rob Harvilla in Spin for its 20th anniversary, an occasion also commemorated by Stereogum — but it’s mostly an afterthought in the U2 pantheon. Boy was a promising first album, War made them stars, The Joshua Tree became one of the biggest records in history, and Achtung Baby wasn’t far behind it. a b Rosen, Craig (19 June 1993). "PLG Flies into Action With U2 Promo Plan". Billboard. Vol.105, no.25. pp.1, 89. 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 .