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  2. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:[..]
    This album put my u2 fandom on hold and I didn't fully get back until ATYCLB which is why it's a special record to me. I did go back and appreciate Pop and actually grew to love it. But no matter how many times I tried with zooropa, it just never clicked. I will give it credit fir having one of my favorite tracks on it, Stay.

    But did you embrace Achtung Baby in 1991? Zooropa wasn't much of a departure from it...
  3. I'll Go Crazy, Get On Your Boots, and Stand Up Comedy is a really good three-song-run.
  4. Don't think so
    Maybe a progression
  5. Ok, we've tolerated some really hurtful opinions in this thread so far, but this... This is too much.


    Someone bring me my



  7. I also think I'll Go Crazy/Boots/Stand Up Comedy > Beautiful Day/Stuck/Elevation, if that helps.
  8. Admittedly, Zoorapa did seem to go even further than AB did - it seemed a bit more "out there" at the time and Bono seemed to be getting a bit more self indulgent at the time...the video for Lemon says it all to me.

    Even though AB creating so many new and interesting sounds compared to the JT, I contend that it was still a very U2-sounding album with songs that made for great singles. This wasn't so much the case with Zooropa.
  9. Don't decide for others what you might not want decided for you.
  10. It doesn't help much Still looking for that hammer, I can't find it since I moved to this new house
  11. Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]
    Admittedly, Zoorapa did seem to go even further than AB did - it seemed a bit more "out there" at the time and Bono seemed to be getting a bit more self indulgent at the time...the video for Lemon says it all to me.

    Even though AB creating so many new and interesting sounds compared to the JT, I contend that it was still a very U2-sounding album with songs that made for great singles. This wasn't so much the case with Zooropa.
    I had never thought of it from that perspective. Now that you say it, I recall my parents -both started being fans in 1984/85- being quite disappointed over the whole Zooropa/Passengers phase, so it might be a more common opinion than I thought - for 80s fans that lived through the Zooropa era, that is.

    But on the other hand, looking back at Zooropa -and abstracting ourselves from that self indulgence and "overthetopness" that the band clearly reached from 1992 on-, I still think it's an incredible album full of great songs.