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  1. Thanks!
  2. #Zooropa30

  4. There's some logic to my madness...

    I placed an order for 1 of each. This came to £80. A couple of months passed and it never arrived. I noticed though on the website that they had gone on discount, so I bought two of everything for £80, and cancelled my original order. Yes, I could have cancelled, repurchased 1 of everything and saved £40, but at least I have spares now in case the cat gets to any...
  6. Howdy, fellow U2 fans ...

    I have a question about this release (rhetorical though it might come across) ...

    Am I the only one who's kinda ... I dunno, PERPLEXED at the lack of anything truly substantive attached to this release?

    Don't get me wrong: yellow-colored vinyl is lemon-squeezy good fun for some fans, no doubt ... as is the prospect of a T-shirt or hoodie featuring the Space Baby in his helmet, etc, I'm sure...

    But c'mon ... no extra tracks AT ALL?

    No unreleased remixes or bonus material of ANY kind? SERIOUSLY?

    I say all of this knowing I'm old enough to remember - way way back when this release was first touted in the press - that the band mentioned other tunes they'd recorded/titled that never made the final cut ("Nosejob", "Untidy Life", "Sparky's Left the Planet" - the latter reportedly about Adam - being among them) ...

    What happened to all that stuff?

    And I am not suggesting these songs were "complete" by any means, but still ... there's GOTTA be a trove of stuff leftover from this album's recording sessions, especially when members of the band (at the time of its release) claimed they had 30 some-odd tracks to choose from before they even settled on the final 10 tunes.

    Now, if ANY and/or ALL of that material went on to become OTHER songs on other albums ("Passengers", "Pop", etc) that's fine ... but I feel like after 30 years, we would've hear about it. Plus, there HAD to be a least one aural bone or two to pick amongst the leftovers after all this time, no? Something worthy of reconsideration, at the minimum ...

    I dunno, maybe I'm wrong to raise this point ... but again, I am by no means disgruntled; just flummoxed. I feel like given this was an immense opportunity to share some cool bonus material with the fans, which would not only capitalize on the popularity of the original release but get even MORE folks excited about buying something other than just a T-shirt or, ya know, a pricier vinyl version. Lord knows plenty of us already have the LP in multiple formats, because there's such huge appreciation for its truly "out there" content ...

    Bottom line: I think it's strange that ZOOROPA - one of U2's most lauded and experimental records - is getting little more than the bare minimum in terms of ... well, EXTRAS or special treatment after 30 years.

    After all, UNFORGETTABLE FIRE, THE JOSHUA TREE and ACHTUNG BABY got that treatment, didn't they?

    So ... why didn't ZOOROPA? Doesn't it deserve the same?

    Anyway ... just my .02 cents. Thoughts, folks?
  7. Amen
  8. Completely agree đź‘Ťđź‘Ť
  10. What was it that clip said in the Zoo-Tv intro, something about "you can't sell the same stuff to the same people all of the time" or words to that effect. U2 seem to have forgotten that and believe they actually can.
  12. Originally posted by Flyguy69:Howdy, fellow U2 fans ...

    I have a question about this release (rhetorical though it might come across) ...

    Am I the only one who's kinda ... I dunno, PERPLEXED at the lack of anything truly substantive attached to this release?

    Don't get me wrong: yellow-colored vinyl is lemon-squeezy good fun for some fans, no doubt ... as is the prospect of a T-shirt or hoodie featuring the Space Baby in his helmet, etc, I'm sure...

    But c'mon ... no extra tracks AT ALL?

    No unreleased remixes or bonus material of ANY kind? SERIOUSLY?

    I say all of this knowing I'm old enough to remember - way way back when this release was first touted in the press - that the band mentioned other tunes they'd recorded/titled that never made the final cut ("Nosejob", "Untidy Life", "Sparky's Left the Planet" - the latter reportedly about Adam - being among them) ...

    What happened to all that stuff?

    And I am not suggesting these songs were "complete" by any means, but still ... there's GOTTA be a trove of stuff leftover from this album's recording sessions, especially when members of the band (at the time of its release) claimed they had 30 some-odd tracks to choose from before they even settled on the final 10 tunes.

    Now, if ANY and/or ALL of that material went on to become OTHER songs on other albums ("Passengers", "Pop", etc) that's fine ... but I feel like after 30 years, we would've hear about it. Plus, there HAD to be a least one aural bone or two to pick amongst the leftovers after all this time, no? Something worthy of reconsideration, at the minimum ...

    I dunno, maybe I'm wrong to raise this point ... but again, I am by no means disgruntled; just flummoxed. I feel like given this was an immense opportunity to share some cool bonus material with the fans, which would not only capitalize on the popularity of the original release but get even MORE folks excited about buying something other than just a T-shirt or, ya know, a pricier vinyl version. Lord knows plenty of us already have the LP in multiple formats, because there's such huge appreciation for its truly "out there" content ...

    Bottom line: I think it's strange that ZOOROPA - one of U2's most lauded and experimental records - is getting little more than the bare minimum in terms of ... well, EXTRAS or special treatment after 30 years.

    After all, UNFORGETTABLE FIRE, THE JOSHUA TREE and ACHTUNG BABY got that treatment, didn't they?

    So ... why didn't ZOOROPA? Doesn't it deserve the same?

    Anyway ... just my .02 cents. Thoughts, folks?
    Totally agree it's another lazy cash grab they could have put a mixture of unreleased tracks demos and live recordings they had from that era and made it a much more appealing release .