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Zooropa is the eighth studio album by Irish rock band U2. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno, and the Edge, it was released on 5 July 1993 on Island Records. Inspired by the band's experiences on the Zoo TV Tour, Zooropa expanded on many of the tour's themes of technology and media oversaturation.
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- The album was originally supposed to be an EP to support the Zoo TV tour. In early 1993, U2 were coming off the first leg of their worldwide Zoo TV tour, an ambitious show that blew up the band’s video for “The Fly” into a postmodern, stadium-sized feast of sensory overload.
- The songs were constructed using a series of recorded samples and loops, a first for the band. An unsung hero of Zooropa is Robbie Adams, an assistant engineer on Achtung Baby who was brought on to Zoo TV to record the tour’s soundchecks and satirical TV messages and turn the most interesting bits into loops, which the band made into demos.
- The Edge received his first production credit on a U2 record. See Also. Watch U2 Cover Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over' at First Sphere Show of 2024.
- “Numb” samples footage from Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Zooropa is a sneaky political record in its views of a post–Cold War Europe grappling with the collapse of Communism, the rise of Neo-Nazism, the beginnings of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the EC’s uncertain future.
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Zooropa is the eighth studio album by Irish rock band U2. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno, and the Edge, it was released on 5 July 1993 on Island Records. Inspired by the band's experiences on the Zoo TV Tour, Zooropa expanded on many of the tour's themes of technology and media oversaturation.
Aug 13, 2023 · The lyrics of “Zooropa” are a reflection of the sense of confusion and uncertainty that dominated the world in the early 1990s. The song explores the impact of technology on society and the growing disconnect that can occur as a result.
Jul 7, 2023 · Published on. July 7, 2023. By. Paul Sexton. U2 'Zooropa' artwork - Courtesy: UMG. Even while they were on the road all over the world on the ZOO TV tour, the ideas for U2 ’s next album were...
Jul 5, 1993 · With Zooropa the results are far more satisfying: The album is a daring, imaginative coda to Achtung Baby (1991), U2’s first unqualified masterpiece. Zooropa defuses the daunting commercial ...
