Zooropa (studio album) by U2

Zooropa by U2
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 1,117th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 621 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1993 (20th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (216th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,117th)

U2 bestography

Zooropa is ranked 7th best out of 36 albums by U2 on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by U2 is The Joshua Tree which is ranked number 52 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,977.

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Rating: 78 (118 votes)Comments: 2
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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 621 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.5/100, a mean average of 69.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.7.

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From 11/13/2024 04:27
Zooropa was first U2 album I ever listened to front to back all the way through and it’s the album that got me into U2.

Great underrated album that should be at least rated in their Top 5 best overall albums and it shouldn’t be rated below All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
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100/100
From 11/09/2024 17:09
U2 at their most eclectic and futuristic. Sure, they may have spent the later stretch of their career chasing trends and would-be pop hits (Songs of Innocence comes to mind) but pop in this underrated gem of an album from 1993 and remember that for a while there, U2 were truly cutting edge.
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35/100
From 08/06/2022 18:12
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80/100
From 03/04/2021 20:21
Its a good album, their trying a different sound here and to some extent it works. I like all the songs, but their is no great songs apart from Stay the fifth track.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 05/02/2018 19:43
I still have the original tape! It plays great and sounds superb through my recently acquired Denon tape deck, Rega amp and B & W speakers, a damn site better than it ever sounded in my tinny car stereo some years ago. It is like listening to a new album through decent audio kit and has re-awakened me to the fact that it was a reasonable album. I really like 'Zooropa' and 'Lemon', 'Babyface' is a bit weak, musically and lyrically. 'Numb' would quite happily sit on a Radiohead album so must have sounded way ahead of its time in 1993. Bit of a mixed bag really.
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95/100
From 01/10/2018 21:49
One of my favorites by U2! Love ALL the songs
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From 01/04/2018 14:41
At first, I was a bit disappointed with this album. It was released rather quickly after "Achtung Baby", and I suppose I was expecting the new one to be part two. It wasn't.
However, there are quite a few good tracks here. And it seems as perhaps the band doesn't take themselves quite so seriously here. It's a decent record, and to be honest, it's the last one by these guys that I enjoy from start to finish.
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90/100
From 01/04/2018 05:22
A lot of the music sounds like stuff Brian Eno would produce for David Bowie and it works for U2. It does not have a huge hit but it’s a really cool record.
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80/100
From 12/22/2016 15:07
I remember being mega-hyped about this album in '93, but critics really seemed to hate it at the time. It was derided for all sorts of reasons, though chances are that it simply suffered from over-arching expectations following the massive success of Achtung Baby. In any case, the negative reception was probably what ensured that Zooropa would be U2's last foray into art rock, and their last genuine attempt at trying something innovative and interesting with the rock genre (which Radiohead would do much more effectively with OK Computer a couple of years later). All things considered this is the last U2 album I can bear to listen to, everything since has been pap in my opinion.
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From 10/04/2016 01:31
At the time of its release the sound was something new for a pop/rock band. It was a forward step record. Not saying it was better than what was before. It was just 'new'.
Today it doesn't sound that way so IMO Lemon and Stay away are the two tracks still worthy after the dust has settled down.
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