Babyface fucking rules.

[LuckyNumber7]

The Wanderer is an AWESOME song. I just have a hard time basing it versus the other songs on the album considering it's just as much Johnny Cash making that song awesome as it is U2.

1. Numb 2. Babyface 3. Lemon 4. Stay 5. Some Days 6. Zooropa 7. Dirty Day 8. The First Time 9. Crashed Car

and once again, The Wanderer is it's own awesomeness. If I were to stick it in there though, tied with Stay. Actually making that list though just made me appreciate Zooropa so much more.

 

[cobl04]

The First Time is stellar.

I don't like the synths on The Wanderer much either.

 

[Earnie Shavers]

Agreed, the mixing on Dirty Day is pretty bad/flat.

But...

that god-awful "from father to son" verse.

Love that part.

 

[intedomine]

I like Babyface. It's enjoyable.

I like Zooropa, Lemon, Stay, Crashed Car, Some Days, First Time and Wanderer better though..

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Babyface is the only u2 song I always skip. There is not a song they've done I dislike more.

 

[mikal]

i don't hate Babyface, i just think HMTMKMKM works so much better in the #2 slot.

and yeah, Zooropa is my 2nd favorite U2 album behind Achtung. some days it's #1.

 

[cobl04]

Babyface is the only u2 song I always skip. There is not a song they've done I dislike more.

I'm sorry, did you not get the memo at the start of the thread?

 

[dan_smee]

Love Babyface. Great thread. Can't agree with Some Days. Feels like they phoned it in lyric wise. Music is good.

The Wanderer is the balls, and I LOVE Stay into Daddy's Gonna Pay

 

[dan_smee]

Also, love the first time. When it kicks in at the start of the Million Dollar Hotel movie, massive moment

I made a best of the 90's of my favourite 90's songs, with more emphasis on transitions than so much the songs I liked most. I picked my 25 favourites, then built a tracklist around trasitions:

1. Zooropa
2. Last Night on Earth (single version)
3. Your Blue Room
4. IGWSHA (Single version)
5. Ultraviolet
6. Stay
7. So Cruel
8. The First Time
9. Zoo Station
10. Gone
11. North and South of the River
12. Acrobat
13. HMTMKMKM
14. Please (single version) best transition, strings outtro on HMTM into stringso intro on please
15. Do You Feel Loved?
16. Love is Blindness

Funny that Zooropa is my 2nd favourite U2 album, but only 3 songs made this list.

I tihnk that the strength of that album is in the quality overall, the production, layering etc, but yeah, Babyface is massively underrated

 

[cobl04]

Feels like they phoned it in lyric wise.

See this I don't understand. The lyrics are tongue-in-cheek. Some days are sulky, some days have a grin / and some days have bouncers that won't let you in. That's brilliant! It's taking the done-to-death idea of a bad day and coming up with different, funny ways of saying it.

 

[edge-evans]

Some days are dry. Some days are leaky?

Did his 7 year old kid write that? Not exactly "scream without raising your voice." This song was a lyrical harbinger of things to come ala "butter on toast." The only weak link on the album. However, Lemon is incredible lyrically.

 

[lemonfly]

Love Babyface. I've always interpreted the song as being about a lonely guy watching porn, and feeling like he has a connection with the porn actress ('I feel that I must be your best friend'). Not really creepy, just perceptive.

 

[cobl04]

Sure, if you take it seriously. But then you're completely missing the point. Completely.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Babyface is the only u2 song I always skip. There is not a song they've done I dislike more.

Same here however I have added Stand Up Comedy to my dislike list. I always skip both.

 

[lemonfly]

Sure, if you take it seriously. But then you're completely missing the point. Completely.

The point being the song is really about television and the media is general? Yeah sure. But I interpret it more literally. The great thing about Bono's lyrics is you can interpret them in more than one way...

 

[cobl04]

The point being the song is really about television and the media is general? Yeah sure. But I interpret it more literally. The great thing about Bono's lyrics is you can interpret them in more than one way...

Sorry I was talking to the post above yours, about Some Days. Should have quoted

 

[coolian2]

i want have unprotected sex with this album.

 

[BVS]

i want have unprotected sex with this album.

You'll be getting my sloppy seconds...

 

[mama cass]

Zooropa is a boy and he's mine

 

[lemonfly]

Sorry I was talking to the post above yours, about Some Days. Should have quoted

Ah, no problem thenSome Days is equally awesome. Luuurve that bassline.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I'm sorry, did you not get the memo at the start of the thread?

meh, it's easier to just read the title and make broad assumptions

 

[gvox]

Not my least favorite song, but I generally skip it. Boring.

 

[Swan269]

i totally misread the title of the thread...I thought you meant rules during the listening to babyface....

 

[alanah]

Add me to the list of those who like Babyface..

 

[cobl04]

i totally misread the title of the thread...I thought you meant rules during the listening to babyface....

you must be watching porn.

 

[Zoo_Fly]

I used to skip over Dirty Day every time I listened to the album, but after hearing the Bitter Kiss mix, which is more dynamic and a bit less mellow, it made me go back and relisten. I can now appreciate Dirty Day a lot more, though I still prefer the Bitter Kiss mix.

 

[zuropa_fit]

Zooropa is a boy and he's mine

Zooropa is a girl and I would move to Massachusettes for her.

 

[dan_smee]

Love the wikipedia aricle on Zooropa the song that was posted in the Zooropa discussion thread:

Basically mentions that the Wanderer is the 'antidote' to Zooropa IE Zooropa is meant to be about two people coming to terms with lviing in a futuristic incarnation of European society, and the second half is about uncertainty and moral confusion. The Wanderer is about certainty

 

[The Sad Punk]

Zooropa, yes please.

 

[ElectricalStorm]

Always when I hear the ending of Zooropa, Babyface starts playing in my head. It's not one of my favorite songs, but I still love it.
It think it really belongs on that spot on Zooropa.