Word: zooropa
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...Buyer beware!" should be emblazoned prominently on every copy of the bizarre new U2 release, "Zooropa." This is not the listener-friendly Irish rock band that fans have come to expect. In fact, songwriter and lead vocalist Bono's trademark moan-wail is the only recognizable feature on the album...
...despite "Zooropa's" focus on techno, synthesized noise, or perhaps because of it, this may just be the U2 album with the greatest emotional depth. Gone are the rousing anthems and raw energy of their early albums ("Pride," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"), the spiritual ballads of "The Joshua Tree" and the dance rhythms of their 1991 LP, "Achtung Baby." "Zooropa" is the raw emotional waste of the new cyberpunk world of the '90s--humans lost in the mechanical morass of technology...
This turn should not have come completely by surprise. "Achtung Baby" contained hints of this latest incarnation, especially in the resonating "Zoo Station." And in many ways, "Zooropa" is nothing more than a musical extension of the still running Zoo TV Tour...
...replete with dozens of TV sets blaring MTV-style blips, caricatures the extravagances and banalities of the mass media. "Zooropa" takes this theme and creates an entirely new musical sound...