Combine Achtung Baby and Zooropa!

[Miggy D]

Zooropa has always been considered a sort of extension to Achtung Baby, so I thought it would be interesting to see how the albums would do if combined into one. Unfortunately, cuts have to be made. The mission: make a 12 track combo album. Order matters! Here's mine:

1. Zooropa
2. The Fly
3. One
4. Even Better Than The Real Thing
5. Numb (New Mix)
6. Stay (Far Away, So Close!)
7. So Cruel
8. Until The End Of The World
9. Mysterious Ways
10. Acrobat
11. Love Is Blindness
12. The First Time

And it was called: Zootung.


Sheesh. That took about 25 minutes to do. I snagged both albums from my iTunes library and started rearranging them inside of a playlist, listening to snippets of each song as I changed around the arrangement, seeing which would work best with each other. I don't know if I'm completely satisfied with the order, but upon listen, it seems to flow relatively well. Zooropa just strikes me as a better opening track than Zoo Station. I like Zoo Station, don't get me wrong, but Zooropa has just stood up better. It's like trying to compare between two children you love. I thought Numb was a nice follow up to EBTTRT, and I kind of went a bit outside the boundaries by choosing the new mix, but it's such a fuller, more complete mix of the song I just couldn't settle for the original. I hope you'll let that one slide. 'Stay' and 'So Cruel' sound as though they were always meant to go side by side, and UTEOTW is a nice follow up to that couplet of songs. Mysterious Ways lightens things up again before plunging against into darkness with Acrobat and Love Is Blindness. The First Time is a perfect album closer, especially after Love Is Blindness.

Whew!

Your turn, guys.

-Mike

 

[Tombola]

1. Zoo Station
2. The Fly
3. Mysterious Ways
4. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
5. Numb
6. Lemon
7. Acrobat
8. Dirty Day
9. Zooropa
10. Even Better Than The Real Thing
11. One
12. Until The End Of The World

 

[ShellBeThere]

Goodness me; it's an interesting idea,
but I can't live with the idea of cutting up AB.
At least not right now.
For instance, I can't imagine For the first time, coming after love is blindness.



that last sentence sounds a little funny...

gotta run.cheers all!

 

[Lancemc]

i don't liek the idea of either of thes albums being chopped up, but here's my combo album

1. zoo station (of course)
2. The fly
3. ultraviolet
4. wake up dead man (originally from the zooropa sessions)
5. stay
6. dirty day
7. acrobat
8. love is blindness
9. lemon
10. mysterious ways
11. one
12. the wanderer (bono lead vocals)

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

zootung baby
1. zooropa
2. even better than the real thing
4. mysterious ways
5. dirty day
6. so cruel
7. the first time
8. one
9. love is blindness
10. until the end of the world
11. the fly
12. numb

 

[david]

I think Zooropa and Pop should be combined.

 

[Axver]

1. Zooropa
2. The Fly
3. Until The End Of The World
4. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
5. One
6. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
7. Some Days Are Better Than Others
8. Lemon
9. Numb
10. Acrobat
11. Love Is Blindness

I have no twelfth track.

 

[kitten84]

I wouldn't chop Zooropa to pieces because I love that album. I like Achtung Baby too but I just got it last Christmas and I have stronger "relationship" with Zooropa.
I did the combination anyways.
These are the songs I would like to put on the album but I didn't think too much about the order.

1. Zooropa
2. One
3. Lemon
4. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
5. Some Days Are Better Than Others
6. So Cruel
7. Even Better Than the Real Thing
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Numb
10. Until the End of the World
11. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
12. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

 

[discothequeLP]

1- Zooropa
2- Babyface
3- Numb
4- Lemon
5- Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
6- Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
7- Some Days Are Better Than Others
8- The First Time
9- Dirty Day
10- The Wanderer





edit: Acthung Baby and Zooropa aren't the same thing. Zooropa is 3x better. you can't combine War with October, can you?

 

[Sonic]

1. Zooropa
2. The Fly
3. Until The End Of The World
4. Even Better Than The Real Thing
5. Lemon
6. Numb
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stay
9. One
10. Ultra Violet
11. Acrobat
12. Love Is Blindness

 

[Miggy D]

1- Zooropa
2- Babyface
3- Numb
4- Lemon
5- Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
6- Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
7- Some Days Are Better Than Others
8- The First Time
9- Dirty Day
10- The Wanderer





edit: Acthung Baby and Zooropa aren't the same thing. Zooropa is 3x better. you can't combine War with October, can you?

Zooropa, better than Achtung Baby? I think a few people would disagree with you there. Zooropa is a good album, but Achtung Baby is so much more complete! Zooropa is kind of like an experimental throw-off, whereas Achtung Baby seems whole, flowing perfectly from one song to the next. Even in terms of production values, Achtung sounds fuller and deeper. Zooropa at times sounds rather 'thin'.

But hey, just one man's opinion!

-Miggster

 

[popacrobat]

1- Until the End of the World
2- The Fly
3- Dirty Day
4- Numb
5- Acrobat
6- Mysterious Ways
7- Lemon
8- Stay
9- Even Better Than The Real Thing
10- Love is Blindness
11- The Wanderer
12- One

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

heresy

 

[ShellBeThere]

Heresy, I agree, but the exercise made me appreciate Zooropa even more and realize how it would feel unfun to cut either up.I'm just less sure about Zooropa cuz I'm still working thru that one as an LP.
Like I need to find time to do *that* too right now, thanks a lot...
cheerio!

 

[intedomine]

1. Zoo Station
2. The Fly
3. Lemon
4. Ultraviolet
5. Zooropa
6. Even Better Than the Real Thing
7. One
8. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
9. Numb
10. Mysterious Ways
11. Acrobat
12. Love is Blindness