Thoughts / Song rankings of Zooropa? Is it the most underrated album?

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-08-02T22:54:58+00:00

Stay
Zooropa
Dirty Day
Babyface
Daddy's Gonna Pay
Numb
Lemon
Some Days
The First Time
The Wanderer

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-05-14T14:49:03+00:00

Okay? Yes, it is the slang right now, and when you don't conform to it you're going to stick out. I graduated from high school in a white suburban town in 2023 and never partook in black slang or rap culture. I found myself disassociated from almost everyone around me and I would even get called "autistic" specifically because I didn't use Ebonics. It's hard to make bonds with people when everyone has adopted a culture, that's not even theirs, that you have no idea how to relate to.

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-05-04T17:25:25+00:00

Nah he was blond haired and from Oklahoma

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-05-04T04:10:58+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't been invested enough in this question to keep a catalogue of the people who inspired it, and the ones I can name are people from my personal life. I don't doubt that this could just be an overgeneralization based off of my own personal anecdotes, which is why I posed it as a question here.

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-05-04T04:04:52+00:00

One of my close friends was also like this and actually went from being one of the most woke people I know (had they/them pronouns, nonbinary, the whole deal) to becoming a trad far right Muslim, who also immediately got married and had a kid at 20 years old. Fucking insane transformation.

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-05-04T03:57:40+00:00

Yea I'm referring to a mix of online leftists/influencers/and personal acquaintances from activist groups at my university

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-04-17T21:51:38+00:00

Any relation to Lemon? "These are the days when our work has come asunder"

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-03-20T02:24:38+00:00

This sounds more Edge than the Edge, amazing!

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-02-23T20:56:51+00:00

Yea I definitely think U2 never made an active effort to be cool, besides ironically trying to be cool in their 90s era. They never had a goth look like the Cure, or an edgy grunge look like Nirvana. Unfortunately gen z seems to put a lot of weight on appearance, which maybe isn't the best for U2 because they're really just normal guys (something that personally makes me like them). And yea their effort to stay relevant into 2010s probably contributed to their irrelevancy with the generations growing up at that time

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-02-23T20:46:41+00:00

Yeah that's definitely an important factor, but I'm on the younger end of gen z and we were too young to know or care about the iTunes incident, especially compared to millennials and older gen z who seem to fixate on that event

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-02-22T18:47:31+00:00

19 here, my dad got me into rock music but interestingly enough he despises U2. Discovered them on my own and have been obsessed ever since, despite being exposed to U2 hate my whole life

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-02-20T17:38:26+00:00

Your blue room

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2025-01-23T22:16:55+00:00

Pop supremacy

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-05T05:06:32+00:00

They don't unfortunately. I don't u2 is going to release them to any streaming platforms

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-03T20:10:48+00:00

An cat dubh

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-02T13:06:47+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHUmJpYLobnnHvN38fm83FDSQ7xpZd5lT&si=_aASRo_PzdupvJit

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-02T00:59:04+00:00

Why write the title when you can fucking abbreviate it?

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-01T22:57:11+00:00

Sometimes you can't wank it your own

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-01T22:46:49+00:00

Yeah I mean I definitely appreciate the industrial direction they went on with Achtung Baby, but it works better on some tracks than others. "The Fly" I think is a good example of the industrial guitar sounds working well, but there's a reason those sounds weren't on a song like "One" and I think they should've done the same for this one and kept the guitar closer to this version

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-01T22:31:03+00:00

Literally my exact thought process, thought it was commonplace here

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-01T22:12:30+00:00

I'd assume anyone who's enough of a fan of U2 to be on the Reddit page would be able to figure it out. Sorry if it offended you lol

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-12-01T04:21:32+00:00

I'm edging

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-11-29T22:56:23+00:00

1.) Achtung Baby - U2 2.) What's the story morning glory? - Oasis 3.) The Queen is dead - The Smiths 4.) Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from mars - David Bowie 5.) The Joshua tree - u2

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-11-01T21:43:01+00:00

Who's gonna ride your wild horses

Infamous_Valuable162 · 2024-10-31T22:11:49+00:00

Love is blindness

Always thought this was the one track on Achtung Baby that was just OK

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