Booo to Zooropa getting the boot, but I expected it.
My, such harsh language.....
Zooropa
It's more like a
teary-eyed hug at the door, finally releasing my hand away from Zoropa as it descends my home's front steps.
For methe song Zooropa never left my pantheonn of beloved songs- so having it played live was a U2 Concert dream come true in '11!!!
Zooropa (the song) shares a sense of aural openess/expansivness that i translate into the psychological- when the "...and I have no compass, and I have no map..." etc intensely swoops in.
With IGC. ...partially in the use of the desert imaegdry and those shimmering chords/notes Edge plays in it.
the zooropa imagedry of this un-named city "lets skip the subway, let's go to the overground" is vague enough that it could be several Mega Metropolises while in IGC it's somewhat more specific and this is what totally bonds me to this song from the very first time i heard it
from my post in JTBATC
The 2 repeats of cascading guitar notes in IGC ... after you just hear Adam's bass and maybe a bit of drums... Bono calls out "Edge" and then that happens. woaah!
Since they are partly singing about the American SW Desert, and I''ve been in the high desert of Arizona twice...
There's a sacred mountin called Agatha a few miles before Monument Valley that suddenly appears over the horizon (look it up, i'm sure you'll be impressed).
I had to ask my friend who was driving to please stop so I could take a few photos....... well, that's one of the images that almost sprang up of it's own volition upon hearin those notes the first and subsequence times, plus riding through those highways with cystaline air and amazing rock formations and colors all there before us!
A fantastic viseral experience of expansiveness out there in the world that
IG evokes right now trumps the interior visions (also of expansiveness) that Zooropa brings me.
And as much as I love Stay & Dirty Day....
... JT
also has "Bullet the Blue Sky" which for some reason over the years I never associate it with the JT recording anymore-- somehow it's shifted "onto" AB, when i think of which record it's on!