Rank Zooropa

[TinKnight]

1. Zooropa 6/10
2. Babyface 3/10
3. Numb 9/10
4. Lemon 7/10
5. Daddy's Gonna Pay 6/10
6. Stay 10/10
7. Some Days Are Better Than Others 1/10
8. The First Time 7/10
9. Dirty Day 3/10
10 The Wanderer 4/10

Stay is my absolute favorite U2 song, so I definitely have a soft spot for Zooropa. I also really like Numb and Lemon. Everything else though is almost complete garbage. Dirty Day, Babyface, Some Days are some of the worst songs U2 has ever made.

 

[cobl04]

Are you really a Tin Knight? Or do you just wear a tinfoil hat?

 

[TinKnight]

Are you really a Tin Knight? Or do you just wear a tinfoil hat?

Little of this, little of that.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Awesomeist thing about Zooropa: getting Johnny Cash, pre-Rick-Rubin-guided-revival, to sing over a simulacra of a shitty Holiday Inn backing about leaving his family for God.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Also, hardly anything recorded between about 1984 and 1999 has any place in a sentence with the words 'among their worst'.

 

[Musikwala]

Also, hardly anything recorded between about 1984 and 1999 has any place in a sentence with the words 'among their worst'.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Except maybe Red Light.









Except not. Because I like Red Light.

 

[Musikwala]

I also like Red Light. And The Refugee. And Babyface. And Miami. And Playboy Mansion. And Some Days.

Zooropa: Brilliant album! So different from all the rest. I cannot be bothered to rank the songs at this point. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts anyway.

 

[LemonMelon]

Except maybe Red Light.

Well that came out in 1983, so you're good.

 

[Kieran McConville]

The only really bad song to emerge from the middle period of U2 was maybe When Love Comes To Town. That is pretty dire.

 

[Musikwala]

The only really bad song to emerge from the middle period of U2 was maybe When Love Comes To Town. That is pretty dire.

Yeah that is probably my least fav song (studio) on R&H. Either that or Love Rescue Me, although I quite enjoy the lyrical quality of the latter.

 

[Axver]

The only really bad song to emerge from the middle period of U2 was maybe When Love Comes To Town. That is pretty dire.

No way that's as bad as the likes of Love Rescue Me, A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel, Babyface, Miami, Trip Through Your Wires, etc.

I'd also list a third of Achtung Baby but apparently that opinion isn't cool.

 

[Kieran McConville]

I really like Love Rescue Me and (although it was not quite album material) I fucking love A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel. In fact the only problem I really have with Rattle and Hum is the live versions (and live covers) are mostly nothing special. Most of the new tracks are... interesting. And in God Part II there's a nice foreshadowing of the kind of self-skewering swagger that would mark the early 90s.

 

[lazarus]

The only really bad song to emerge from the middle period of U2 was maybe When Love Comes To Town. That is pretty dire.

It's funny, that's pretty much the only studio track I skip on any of their albums from that time period.

 

[LemonMelon]

I love Trip Through Your Wires. That's a song I've never understood any of the disdain for. I mean, Some Days has some rather goofy lyrics, Babyface is creepy, etc. I get the hate there, though I completely disagree with it. Trip has always seemed likable enough to me.

 

[Kieran McConville]

It's funny, that's pretty much the only studio track I skip on any of their albums from that time period.

I'll say this for it, it's better live... but still, it's basically the U2 song even your dad's station plays.

 

[Musikwala]

Dad Rock?

 

[Axver]

Kieran doesn't love dad rock?

 

[djerdap]

I love Trip Through Your Wires. That's a song I've never understood any of the disdain for. I mean, Some Days has some rather goofy lyrics, Babyface is creepy, etc. I get the hate there, though I completely disagree with it. Trip has always seemed likable enough to me.

It has that insufferable country-western vibe, and the vocal melody is very annoying.

Good album though.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Kieran doesn't love dad rock?

When people say that dad rock isn't a meaningful phrase, I point to REO Speedwagon's 'Baby You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet', and When Love Comes to Town.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Oh and also Life Is A Highway.

 

[cobl04]

Trip Through Your Wires is fucking awesome.

 

[Axver]

It has that insufferable country-western vibe, and the vocal melody is very annoying.

Good album though.

This. Plus TTYW sticks out like a sore thumb, which is weird given the strong American influences on JT but there you go. If they'd kept Heartland - which was originally meant to be on the album - or used Spanish Eyes, there wouldn't have been a problem. Plus those are both much better songs.

When people say that dad rock isn't a meaningful phrase, I point to REO Speedwagon's 'Baby You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet', and When Love Comes to Town.

Oh and also Life Is A Highway.

Haha no kidding.

Trip Through Your Wires is fucking awesome.

Friggin'.

 

[Musikwala]

When people say that dad rock isn't a meaningful phrase, I point to REO Speedwagon's 'Baby You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet', and When Love Comes to Town.

Isn't that first one by Bachman Turner Overdrive?

Guys, the absolute epitome of dad rock has to be 'Old Time Rock And Roll' by Bob Seger.

 

[cobl04]

As much as I love Bob Seger I'd have to say Zoots right about that one.

 

[Musikwala]

FFS man! Zoots is dead. I killed him myself. With my bare hands.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger is the very sin qua non of dad rock.

On the other hand I quite like Night Moves, although it is arguably just as much dad rock.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Like a rock

 

[thavidesco]

Trip is funny, just imagine them in 1983 to be them so american country western

Some Days are too plain boring

 

[djerdap]

That's just darn hilarious.