and now...Zooropa!

[djerdap]

Zooropa is great. It has masterpieces in songs like Lemon and Stay(best 2-song combo on a U2 album period), or Zooropa and Dirty Day(a fantastic rock song that was fully realized live). It has a few dull ones here and there(Babyface, Numb, Daddy's Gonna Pay), but it was a decent follow-up to Achtung Baby. Definitely one of their better albums.

 

[God Part III]

I think it's amazing.
The greatest opening track for any album ever too.

 

[TheFly84138]

Zooropa is a great album, period. Way better than other albums such as October, Unforgettable Fire and War.


P.S. Just type the damn song titles out instead of HMTMKMKM, it's lame.

 

[gareth brown]

Yeah...please...! I'm fed up with reading something like

UTEOTW
or
DGPFYCC
or
ICGAFHYTTNALATFW

...

It's crap, and it's almost as if U2 fans are trying to be all elite by being able to spot abbreviated titles and laughing as the un-learned ones struggle to decipher LETTERS instead of reading proper words in around 1/10 of the time...!

 

[TheFly84138]

Agreed blahblahblah. Is it really THAT HARD to type Love and Peace or Else instead of LAPOE?

 

[Canadiens1131]

Crashed Car has the absolutley best drum sound ever. B-Side my ass

 

[Axver]

What's wrong with abbreviations? They are a part of everyday usage. Or do you always write the United Nations, United States of America, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Central Intelligence Agency?

 

[Zoots]

What's wrong with abbreviations? They are a part of everyday usage. Or do you always write the United Nations, United States of America, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Central Intelligence Agency?

Oh please!!! You can't compare world famous abbreviations like NATO or USSR to something like TTTYAATW (tryin to throw your arms...)

 

[Axver]

Oh please!!! You can't compare world famous abbreviations like NATO or USSR to something like TTTYAATW (tryin to throw your arms...)

Why not?

 

[bsp77]

I think abbreviations are fine when they are the longer titles of easily recognizable songs. And yes, I think HMTMKMKM is easily recognizable. As long as people don't start throwing out stuff like LWTSH. Know what that is?

 

[Zoots]

Why not?

because people refer to those organizations only by the abbreviations. And nobody says Central Intelligence Agency, just CIA. But going around abbreviating everything is gonna confuse people. No, I don't know what LWTSH is. Can you tell what SIAMYCGOO is without thinking too much or looking at your CDs?

 

[bsp77]

because people refer to those organizations only by the abbreviations. And nobody says Central Intelligence Agency, just CIA. But going around abbreviating everything is gonna confuse people. No, I don't know what LWTSH is. Can you tell what SIAMYCGOO is without thinking too much or looking at your CDs?

Stuck in a Moment, about 2 seconds. I just find it fun to decipher them, not trying to be argumentative. I was kidding about LWTSH, you didn't have to actually think about it. Sometimes the abbreviations are difficult, I just hate writing some of the titles.

(It's Lady with the Spinning Head)

 

[Axver]

because people refer to those organizations only by the abbreviations. And nobody says Central Intelligence Agency, just CIA. But going around abbreviating everything is gonna confuse people. No, I don't know what LWTSH is. Can you tell what SIAMYCGOO is without thinking too much or looking at your CDs?

People frequently talk about the United Nations or the [United] States as well as using the abbreviations. Both are common usage in the general population. The organisations are known well and thus so are their abbreviations. And in the U2 fan community, where these songs are known well, it doesn't surprise me that their abbreviations are used frequently.

Also, I don't find it hard to figure out abbreviations. I didn't know LWTSH straight away, but I just thought of what U2 songs start with L and filled in the blanks. Took all of a second or two.

 

[ZeroDude]

Zooropa is actually a very influential piece of music, see Radiohead it must have been one of their favorite albums

 

[Pero]

Now let me see your comments on the follow up of AB!

Me thinks it could have been even greater than AB if it wasn't divided into A-side (1-5) and B-side (6-10).

That way it sounds like a 2 albums in one, and that's the only thing I don't like about it. Otherwise I don't have any big complaints. Classic U2 / Brian Eno Master-piece, starting with the brilliant title track.

Pure High-Tech/Sci-Fi/Drum & Synth Rock!

Maybe i'm a lunatic or stupid, but what a fuck are you talking about???????
i don't understand a thing you said, in plain english or pricaj hrvatski da te cijeli svijet razumije

 

[Aygo]

Axver, you're being selfish. When I subscribed this forum, do you think that I knew what ITABTAW was? Someone who's not used to this kind of abreviation's will have to take some minutes to check in his cd's what it means... Whay don't they write just Love and Peace in the place of LAPOE? It's not that difficult, come on!...
Don't compare USA or NATO that are current abreviations that everybody can recognize to UTEOTW or SABTO.

About the "High-Tech/Sci-Fi/Drum & Synth Rock" expression, I don't think much hard to "decifrate"... High-technology, Scientific-Fiction, Big drums and Synthetizered Rock... that's what Zooropa really is about...

 

[U2morrow]

Okay this is by far (REALLY FAR) my least favorite U2 album. I haven't listened to it since the year it came out I think so it probably deserves a second chance. But really I just don't get it...
I think mainly I can't stand the lyrics. Where is that poetry that I loved in pervious songs?!?
Ugh it just drives me crazy. It doesn't make sense lyrically or musically!!!! That said, I think I will give it another chance to grow on me. I'll make myself pop in the cassette () sometime this week.

 

[bsp77]

Okay this is by far (REALLY FAR) my least favorite U2 album. I haven't listened to it since the year it came out I think so it probably deserves a second chance. But really I just don't get it...
I think mainly I can't stand the lyrics. Where is that poetry that I loved in pervious songs?!?
Ugh it just drives me crazy. It doesn't make sense lyrically or musically!!!! That said, I think I will give it another chance to grow on me. I'll make myself pop in the cassette () sometime this week.

It gets better with every listen. Also, if you haven't listened to it since 1993 then you should really give it another chance. Don't know about you, but I was a fucking moron in 1993.

 

[ZeroDude]

I was 6 in 1993 but I loved it from day 1

 

[D'oh!]

ZOOROPA

 

[TheFly84138]

Abbreviations are fine for governmental institutions but not U2 songs.

 

[TheFly84138]

P.S. Zooropa kicks ass! WAY WAY WAY better than How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb! (winces knowing how many people will go crazy when they read this, heh)

 

[bsp77]

P.S. Zooropa kicks ass! WAY WAY WAY better than How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb! (winces knowing how many people will go crazy when they read this, heh)

Though only one WAY for me.

 

[TheFly84138]

Though only one WAY for me.

Haha. I like that!