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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. The record was a continuation of the group's ...
- 5 July 1993
- February–May 1993 in Dublin, Ireland
Jul 5, 1993 · Lyrics. Initially intended to be just an EP, Zooropa became a full-fledged album with 10 tracks recorded in six-weeks, the fastest U2 album ever. Interesting releases from around the world included two Australian sets of 2 x 5 CD packs. The first 2 x 5 CD pack included a copy of the Stay (Swing Format) single as the 2nd bonus CD.
Zooropa (song) " Zooropa " is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the opening track from their 1993 album of the same name. The song was the result of combining two pieces of music, the first of which was conceived in the studio, and the second of which was a soundcheck recording from one of the group's concert tours that was discovered by ...
- 6:30, 4:42 (edit)
- 5 July 1993
- March–May 1993
- Alternative rock
- 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.
Jul 5, 1993 · When did U2 release Zooropa? Album Credits. Featuring Johnny Cash. Producers Brian Eno, The Edge (Guitarist) & Flood. Writers Adam Clayton, Bono, The Edge (Guitarist) & 1 more.
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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 ...
Dec 20, 2020 · Zooropa wasn’t the band’s last risky move—that would be the 1997 flop Pop, or maybe the non-consensual downloading of 2014’s herpetic Songs of Innocence onto every iPod in the free world ...
