Chizip said:
BTW Dave Matthews fans bash the CD Everyday because it sucks, not because it has a self titled song on the album.
Will you marry me?
Zooropa: The Song
...would be a cool movie
No really, Zooropa is amazing. The song structure is unlike anything I've ever heard really, but still makes sense. Experimental without being too...detached. I love everything about this song. The intro, the slogans, the change at 4:00...some fucking great lyrics too: "Uncertainty can be a guiding light"
As for the album Zooropa...
...I threw that in the recycling bin
No really, I have been listening to Zooropa like crazy lately. I even changed my LJ layout to be like the album
I've always loved it though. I got into U2 when I was 9 with POP and soon after I started getting more U2 albums... Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, October, The Unforgettable Fire, and Zooropa were the ones I got fairly early on. All pretty drastically different (well not JT to RH but Pop to JT? October to Zooropa? yeah...) but I loved them all, really, I would listen to them all. I didn't necessarily like every song but I loved the albums as a whole and I took everything in easily. I really don't think it occured to me at that age how fucking diverse U2 was. I was just like "this is U2, I like U2. This is also U2, I like U2." Each album was like a part of the whole that was U2.
Speaking of Pop (this totally relates I swear), my little third grade self had difficulty finding people who shared my affection for U2...but I did meet this one guy who knew the song Discotheque. I was thrilled. I asked him if he had Pop and he said "Yeah I had it for like a week then I threw it away."
I don't think I talked to that kid much after that... I'd say that's as bad as or worse than throwing away Zooropa
Back to our regularly scheduled programming: Zooropa is one of U2's best albums. It takes away almost everything that you would associate with U2 yet is somehow also very distinctly U2. I mean, who else could have made that album? Song by song:
Zooropa - we've covered this. Brilliant.
Babyface - Severely underrated. I enjoy this song greatly. It's "cute." And Bono singing "coming home late at night to turn you on love..."
Numb - Possibly the most un-U2 song ever (save some stuff on Passengers). I love it. The drums are excellent, very catchy. I get the DRUMBEAT to Numb stuck in my head. Edge's monotone contrasting with the falsetto works well...and interesting lyrics, too. And the music video is hilarious!
Lemon - A masterpiece. I used to like this song, not go crazy over it like everyone else, but lately it has won me over totally. Unlike anything U2 has ever done. I really like it live too. The music video is the best "arty" one they've done.
Stay - It's up there with With or Without You and One as far as I'm concerned. Amazing lyrics. Beautiful. Great music video. Overall a classic.
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car - This used to be one of my favourites from the album, I still love it. Dark and cool, and brilliant on the Sydney vid.
Some Days Are Better Than Others - Okay. So it's not U2's most profound song ever. But I still love it. I think the lyrics are actually good and quite amusing at times - "your skin is white but you think you're a brother"
The First Time - Probably one of the most underrated U2 songs ever, it's often forgotten... such a beautiful ballad, kinda Velvet Underground-ish. It has some of Bono's best and most personal lyrics, and when the piano swells up toward the end it's orgasmic.
Dirty Day - Speaking of orgasmic... go sign the Dirty Day petition, this song needs to be played live a lot. I'd say live this is the best off the album. The album version is perfectly brilliant on its own though.
The Wanderer - I used to not dig this song so much but now I like it. Though I think Cash does an excellent job it would be interesting to hear Bono's vocal take on it, I have heard that from demos he sounded incredible. It's hard to imagine anyone but Johnny Cash singing it though...
Overall: This album rules. Anyone that throws it in the trash must have garbage for brains
I think I love Zooropa a little too much. I'm starting to think I like it more than JT