Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated

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Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« on: May 18, 2024, 12:46:11 PM »
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2024, 12:48:33 PM »
Some Days might not be a masterpiece but it’s got a vibe.

Voting Numb. Glad it exists but it’s the one I’d be least excited for if it popped up on a playlist.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2024, 01:36:50 PM »
Daddy or Somedays. 2 songs that should never have seen the light of day.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2024, 01:39:22 PM »
Daddy is going to get my Underrated vote.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2024, 02:02:26 PM »
Some Days

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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2024, 03:03:03 PM »
The Wanderer. If Bono had sung it it would probably be my fav, but as it stands it's not really a U2 song (at least to my ears). My Zooropa playlist has the live version from 2004 with a cleaned-up intro.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2024, 04:07:53 PM »
The Wanderer. If Bono had sung it it would probably be my fav, but as it stands it's not really a U2 song (at least to my ears). My Zooropa playlist has the live version from 2004 with a cleaned-up intro.

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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2024, 04:23:17 PM »
The Wanderer. If Bono had sung it it would probably be my fav, but as it stands it's not really a U2 song (at least to my ears). My Zooropa playlist has the live version from 2004 with a cleaned-up intro.

I like the version they did at his tribute show.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2024, 06:34:20 PM »
Some Days. Still a good little song that fits the album.

Shout out to the lyric:
"Your skin is white but you think you're a brother, some days are better than others"
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2024, 06:38:04 PM »
Actually their only album I can listen to these days without any skips or tweaks to the playlist….

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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2024, 06:43:53 PM »
This isn’t Australia; you don’t have to.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2024, 06:55:17 PM »
This isn’t Australia; you don’t have to.

Tell you what I’ll do. Have a long flight back home on Monday, so I will download the album on my tablet and I’ll listen to it (haven’t done that in a while, for any of their albums) and if there’s the slightest whiff of me maybe wanting to skip a song, the vote will come in.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2024, 07:17:00 PM »
The Wanderer. If Bono had sung it it would probably be my fav, but as it stands it's not really a U2 song (at least to my ears). My Zooropa playlist has the live version from 2004 with a cleaned-up intro.

I like the version they did at his tribute show.

Yep, that's the one!
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2024, 07:35:37 PM »
The song I’m most likely to skip : Stay.

It’s a well crafted song, but I find it too sugary. A bit like Wild Horses. Probably overplayed too, especially since I don’t like the acoustic version they play on stage most of the time.

Also, I’m not sure it really fits the mood of the album.
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Re: Zooropa / WORST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2024, 08:35:36 PM »
This isn’t Australia; you don’t have to.

Tell you what I’ll do. Have a long flight back home on Monday, so I will download the album on my tablet and I’ll listen to it (haven’t done that in a while, for any of their albums) and if there’s the slightest whiff of me maybe wanting to skip a song, the vote will come in.

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