An Cat Gav
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Agreed.
I also feel that Zooropa is the best mixed and best sounding of all U2 albums, it all just sounds so clean and clear. Beautiful.
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Agreed.
I also feel that Zooropa is the best mixed and best sounding of all U2 albums, it all just sounds so clean and clear. Beautiful.
LemonMelon
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What? For the very last leg, maybe. When they were playing 4 songs a night from ATYCLB, 6 from NLOTH and 2 from HTDAAB, I don't exactly think the 90s were taking center stage. 4 from Achtung Baby, 1 from Zooropa, 1 from Passengers, 0 from Pop and HMTMKMKM was probably the most common distribution. There were some 2nd leg shows with a whopping 3 (three!) 90s songs.
When they ramped it up on the final leg in the wake of the Achtung Baby remaster, a common distribution was 9 90s songs, 8 00s songs and 7 80s songs, which is actually quite balanced.
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Achtung Baby, Joshua Tree, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, and All That You Can't Leave Behind are the best U2 albums.
SpiralStaircase
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Zooropa is my absolute favourite. It's consistent, challenging, interesting, tuneful and lyrically brilliant. Knocks Achtung Baby into a cocked hat, too. Can't quite understand the love for AB that many on here have; it's good, but I can't quite see what's so radical about it. Zooropa on the other hand - just the drums on "Daddy's gonna pay", well, hearing that from the (then) Biggest Band in the World™ is still genuinely exciting.
BVS
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I think some of you are misunderstanding the band's quotes about Zooropa. Bono should probably stop using the word "hits", Edge is closer by using the word "classics". And he's right, the album doesn't have any songs that are remembered by anyone outside their core audience or MTV watchers from the early 90's. Every great U2 album, hell I would say every U2 album has at least one song that's remembered by pop culture except Zooropa, Pop, and NLOTH.
It's a brilliant album, but outside us it didn't really resonate. In fact I know some that think it sounds quite dated.
It's a brilliant album, but outside us it didn't really resonate. In fact I know some that think it sounds quite dated.
Nick66
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Oh, I think Discothèque is probably remembered by pop culture...though perhaps not in the way U2 would like.
Otherwise, I pretty much agree with your comment.
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Musikwala
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Let me guess. You think Pop or October is the worst.
redhill
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A good read to be sure but he missed the plot slightly with ATYCLB...
Telling that he misquotes the lyric “Home, that's where the heart is" when it's actually “Home, that's where the HURT is."
There was a darkness beneath a lot of the light on that album (or the other way around?)
Telling that he misquotes the lyric “Home, that's where the heart is" when it's actually “Home, that's where the HURT is."
There was a darkness beneath a lot of the light on that album (or the other way around?)
Musikwala
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The correct lyric is "Home, that's where the heart is".
redhill
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Well thanks for ruining the song for me ;]
Didn't he sing it that way live sometimes? It's much better when some of the saccharine edge is taken off...
Musikwala
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Well, sorry to ruin the song for you! I don't know if he sang it live as "hurt" or not. But U2 got pretty saccharine in the 2000s. You cannot escape that fact.
I don't know if he sang it live as "hurt" or not. But U2 got pretty saccharine in the 2000s. You cannot escape that fact.
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LemonMelon
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It's "hurt" according to U2wanderer as well. And my own ears.
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It's "hurt" in the liner notes.
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And hurt actually makes sense in the context of the video...with people literally running away from home...and obviously the house arrest situation for Aung San Suu Kyi. It's a masterful lyric really, especially the resigned way Bono states "that's where the hurt is..."
Musikwala
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I stand corrected then. But many lyric sites state it as "heart" and I've always personally sung it as heart.
BVS
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Many lyric websites are bullshit. One person types what they hear and then the others copy and paste. Over the years I've seen some truly butchered songs.
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