Zooropa [Import]

U2 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B000J234RA
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #741,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start to Finish Brilliant, January 29, 2009

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fro493 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zooropa (Audio CD)

Highly underrated album. A daring electronic venture by U2, high marks on creativity, a sonic soundscape vastly different than anything they'd done before, exploring new sounds and mastering alternative ways of musical expression --- but having said that, if you're not open to hearing music that's not played on the radio 1000 times a day, polished & overly-commercialized, then you likely will not appreciate the brilliance of this album and should pass on it...but boy would you be missing out on what music and art are truly all about!

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More like a demo CD than a real one...., May 4, 2008

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Grigory's Girl "Grigory's Girl" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zooropa (Audio CD)

This is undoubtedly U2's worst album. It feels like a homemade demo CD, or perhaps it's leftovers from the vastly superior Achtung Baby. Regardless, it's not a particularly good CD, poorly crafted, written, and performed. The first single, Numb, feels like a backing track without any enhancement. While this can work sometimes in music, it doesn't here. It ends up feeling cheap. Lemon is a little better, but still has that cheap, sinking feeling. The best songs on the album are Stay, Faraway, So Close (from the Wim Wenders film), The First Time (a lovely ballad), and the great closer, The Wanderer. The Wanderer is a great U2 song, with stunning lead vocals by Johnny Cash and a great, brooding lyric that reads like Cash wrote it himself. The CD booklet cover art is stunning as well, like the cover art in Achtung Baby and Pop. If you're a U2 completist, pick it up. If not, you can safely ignore it (except for The Wanderer).