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    Zooropa is the eighth studio album by Irish rock band U2. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno, and the Edge, it was released on 5 July 1993 on Island Records. Inspired by the band's experiences on the Zoo TV Tour, Zooropa expanded on many of the tour's themes of technology and media oversaturation.

  2. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupZooropa · U2Zooropa℗ 1993 Universal-Island Records Ltd.Released on: 1993-01-01Producer: The EdgeProducer: Brian E...

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    • The album was originally supposed to be an EP to support the Zoo TV tour. In early 1993, U2 were coming off the first leg of their worldwide Zoo TV tour, an ambitious show that blew up the band’s video for “The Fly” into a postmodern, stadium-sized feast of sensory overload.
    • The songs were constructed using a series of recorded samples and loops, a first for the band. An unsung hero of Zooropa is Robbie Adams, an assistant engineer on Achtung Baby who was brought on to Zoo TV to record the tour’s soundchecks and satirical TV messages and turn the most interesting bits into loops, which the band made into demos.
    • The Edge received his first production credit on a U2 record. See Also. Watch U2 Cover Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over' at First Sphere Show of 2024.
    • “Numb” samples footage from Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Zooropa is a sneaky political record in its views of a post–Cold War Europe grappling with the collapse of Communism, the rise of Neo-Nazism, the beginnings of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the EC’s uncertain future.
  3. Jul 5, 1993 · Initially intended to be just an EP, Zooropa became a full-fledged album with 10 tracks recorded in six-weeks, the fastest U2 album ever. Interesting releases from around the world included two Australian sets of 2 x 5 CD packs.

  4. " Zooropa " is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the opening track from their 1993 album of the same name. The song was the result of combining two pieces of music, the first of which was conceived in the studio, and the second of which was a soundcheck recording from one of the group's concert tours that was discovered by guitarist the Edge.

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  5. May 25, 2018 · U2's eighth studio album, released on 5 July, 1993, by Island Records. Recorded during the Zoo TV Tour at The Factory, Windmill Lane Studios and Westland Stu...

  6. Dec 20, 2020 · By Peyton Thomas. Genre: Rock. Label: Island. Reviewed: December 20, 2020. Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives...