Zooropa (30th Anniversary Edition)

Product Information

On Wednesday, July 12, fans can come together to celebrate the Anniversary with a very special global live stream of ZOO TV: Live From Sydney on Wednesday, July 12 at 12 noon PST / 8pm BST. Crowe, Jerry (25 February 1997). "For U2, Aerosmith, Bang the Drums Very Loudly". Los Angeles Times. p.F12 . Retrieved 11 September 2023. Harvilla, Rob (6 July 2013). "U2's 'Zooropa' Almost Killed Their Career". Spin . Retrieved 20 August 2023.

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a b "Irish Singles Chart". The Irish Charts. Irish Recorded Music Association. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009 . Retrieved 12 November 2010. Note: U2 must be searched manually. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead. 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

Release

A 30th anniversary limited edition pressing of U2’s 1993 landmark Zooropa will be released by Island Records and UMR in October. Ahead of that, the anniversary will be further marked by a special livestream and a limited merch capsule collection.

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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.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. To celebrate Zooropa‘s 25th anniversary, here are 10 things you might not know about this underrated gem. But it all ... works. There really isn’t a band better positioned to meditate on the excesses of the dawning internet age than U2, which turned earnest excess into an art form during its rise to fame. And they found an oddly alluring sound to match their feelings about this strange new world. Zooropa is known for being U2’s “spontaneous” album, yet the band planned the Nazi sample from the start. Knowing they were going to play Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, which Hitler built for the Olympics, Bono wanted to play footage from Triumph of the Will and Riefenstahl’s 1938 film Olympia as Dadaist-like slaps at macho fascism. “I think it’s important to go to these places,” said Bono. “We had the sense that if there had been any demons, music had driven them out. I think fear of the devil leads to devil worship. And I don’t want to give fascists power to the extent that you might be afraid to go into a building where they once were.” a b c "U2–Chart history: Alternative Songs". Billboard.com. Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group . Retrieved 20 February 2013.

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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.Main article: Zoo TV Tour The band finished the album during the Zooropa leg of the Zoo TV Tour, and began playing the new songs later on the tour. a b Rosen, Craig (19 June 1993). "PLG Flies into Action With U2 Promo Plan". Billboard. Vol.105, no.25. pp.1, 89. 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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Production Manager [2018 Album Remaster - Project Production Manager On Behalf Of Island Records/UMC] – Lisa Power Graham, Bill; van Oosten de Boer, Caroline (2004). U2: The Complete Guide to Their Music. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9886-8.

Credits

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. The myth of Achtung Baby was that U2 finally embraced alternative and electronic music after driving the American roots act straight into the ground on Rattle & Hum, an impressive reinvention propelled by radio-friendly hits like “One” and “Mysterious Ways.” a b c d "U2×5 Hidden Things". Amp Visual. 3 December 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 17 September 2014. a b Calhoun, Scott (26 July 2013). "THE @U2 INTERVIEW: FLOOD". atu2.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020 . Retrieved 26 October 2020. Gundersen, Edna (15 November 2002). "U2's Second 'Best' Evolves From Raucous '90s". USA Today. p.E05 . Retrieved 20 February 2013.