Zoo TV was fantastic, colourful, amazing, magic. The sound and look of it was just its own fascinating thing. Magic is the only word fitting of what it was. Like a circus or something, leaving its mark, never to return. If I get to time travel, I think I'll just spend the rest of my days as a Zoo TV roadie in 1992-93.
FYI: This originally aired on a show called "The New Music" in Canada, on City TV/Muchmusic, early 90s. I know because I used to have this recorded on VHS!
The looking away The Edge does directly after he said that explaining Zoo TV destroys it , and Bono tries to convey the mechanics and purpose of Zoo TV is priceless. Bono has always been best singing, not talking.
To be fair, Bono doesn’t diss Nirvana specifically here. The editors of this video did. Pearl Jam played support for U2 in Italy just a few months before this interview was conducted, ffs!
U2 are WAYYYYYYYYYYY over most people's heads, just too much for them, most U2 fans are 'wannabes' or 'surface level' 'the deeper meaning' fans, well, are just in the minority...............
***** how pathetically shallow and a complete waste for certain bands even to perform when most of the crowd is dumb as shovels and there 'just to party' - zero band appreciation and understanding at all - it might as well be howdy doody up there - all these turds called people care about is 'partying' etc - the shit they call music today and for decades is pathetic
Fair enough, and Nirvana was sublime, but few things were more colorful and exciting than Zoo TV in the nineties. Judging from more recent offerings, it seems U2 blew all their creativity on it.
@@trr9230 yeah, sure. They got their $300 million deal in '98 when Polygram took over Island...but no more fkn' around , the big labels want HITS, not artsy bullsh%$
He put down white music like Nirvana because Nirvana was leading the music charts at the time , on MTV , VH1 and sales . I remember . Bottom line jealousy
+voutespancar I agree that it generally got a lot safer, though it depends on how deep you go with the music. what matters more than how safe the music is how good it is. mind you, I think a lot of credit should be given for a very interesting failed attempt at a song or a sound, Perhaps more than I might want to give credit for a very well done safe song. Some of them are deceptively safe. Song For Someone is a sweet little ballad that actually happens to deal with a first sexual encounter in honest and vulnerable terms. A Man And A Woman isn't sonically as interesting as their peak (1991-1993, in my opinion) though it is a fine piece of songwriting. Beautiful Day is deceptively easy songwriting. U2 were challenging themselves to write in class song construction terms. The Zoo era was epic though, no doubt about it. I adored a lot of the Passengers material as well. Miss Sarajevo, I believe, showed the way forward in terms of Bono's songwriting. One, Stay, Miss Sarajevo are his trifecta for the nineties. In a way, Zoo TV was so monumental that I felt a few years away from the road might have been more interesting. By that, I mean skip the Pop/Popmart period (not the songs, just skip the whole booking the tour before the album is finished and staggeringly costly and often incoherent tour theme) and focus on writing, writing, writing. A tour is hard work for these guys but in a way it's the easiest thing in that it isn't the hard work of songwriting. I always wanted them to have their Abbey Road/studio years period. In an alternate universe somewhere, that is exactly what U2 did. Then they capped off the decade with a massive world/record smashing tour to save the universe with several albums of new material to play...
+voutespancar oh, and I think laying low concerts-wise could have been a way to have a rest, write, record, release material, and take on a bit of mystery and excitement by going into guerrilla rock band mode. Just show up in places with only a few day's notice. Perhaps just show up in other places. No promoter. Just drop in places randomly when it feels good.
CEIVE4EVER It was safer, no doubt. This doesn't detract from its quality though. As for Miami, it's very, very different for them. What a crazy period of the band. I sometimes wonder what Pop would've been like had it been blended the vibes of Passengers. If the whole vibe had been focused on the feeling U2 got from being in Tokyo and Shinjuku, as featured in this clip. Noisy, claustrophobic, atmospheric, blissful, dirty, funny, heavy...I think a double album would've been a beautiful idea, actually.
Jason Lefler It wasn't safer no doubt. They were working with dance music and with machines in Zooropa they were working with atmospheres (Eno's world i.e. synthesisers) and with Pop they were trying to do new things. The Achtung Baby-Zooropa era was finished with The Passengers. I prefer Zooropa (in fact is my second favourite album) but Pop was the most different thing that they have made in their whole career
![1997 U2 [A Grand Madness]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vUhWFiAUEzI/mqdefault.jpg)
Zoo TV was fantastic, colourful, amazing, magic.
The sound and look of it was just its own fascinating thing.
Magic is the only word fitting of what it was. Like a circus or something, leaving its mark, never to return.
If I get to time travel, I think I'll just spend the rest of my days as a Zoo TV roadie in 1992-93.
min 12:20 "Nothing sharpens the mind like a very serious deadline..." So true , dude.
FYI: This originally aired on a show called "The New Music" in Canada, on City TV/Muchmusic, early 90s. I know because I used to have this recorded on VHS!
These guys have a way of making your day awesome 😊🙏💜
The looking away The Edge does directly after he said that explaining Zoo TV destroys it , and Bono tries to convey the mechanics and purpose of Zoo TV is priceless. Bono has always been best singing, not talking.
Which part?
8:29 - 9:03 Just beautiful melodic guitar from The Edge. The ZooTV/Zooropa version of "Ultraviolet" will always be the best for me.
They predicted the future with ZooTV. Now we need a new group with a new sound to get the world to log off and participate in their life.
I’ll try My band needs a drummer and a bassist and we’re 13
1991-1993: The pinnacle of U2. Everything that followed is just a footnote.
myklrl bollocks, their still huge , still the biggest band ever
Wrong: it was until 97
myklrl and Omar are both wrong. Pop is hugely underrated, shame you don’t get it 22 years later.... try again
Muito bom curto u2 desde meus 19 anos
To be fair,
Bono doesn’t diss Nirvana specifically here.
The editors of this video did.
Pearl Jam played support for U2
in Italy just a few months before this interview was conducted, ffs!
U2 are WAYYYYYYYYYYY over most people's heads, just too much for them, most U2 fans are 'wannabes' or 'surface level' 'the deeper meaning' fans, well, are just in the minority...............
*****
how pathetically shallow and a complete waste for certain bands even to perform when most of the crowd is dumb as shovels and there 'just to party' - zero band appreciation and understanding at all - it might as well be howdy doody up there - all these turds called people care about is 'partying' etc - the shit they call music today and for decades is pathetic
Wonder Man I couldn't agree more.
No mystery about Steely Dan. Just THE BEST musicianship,Production and songwriting.
8:01 Nirvana diss LOL
7:07 Bono was right, but 7 years later with ATYCLB in 2000, the band became exactly what he fought. Dull.
I have not met anyone who dislikes ATYCLB
Exactly
And was calling u2 a folk band with electric guitars.
min 8:00 Whoa, easy Mr Rattle n Hum... last time I checked Teen Spirit got 1.1 BILLION views, bud. Take it down a notch McPhisto.
Fair enough, and Nirvana was sublime, but few things were more colorful and exciting than Zoo TV in the nineties.
Judging from more recent offerings, it seems U2 blew all their creativity on it.
@@trr9230 yeah, sure. They got their $300 million deal in '98 when Polygram took over Island...but no more fkn' around , the big labels want HITS, not artsy bullsh%$
Bono's bald spots
You conveyed both your insecurity and envy in just 3 words. That’s quite impressive
@@BudFuddlacker It was a joke made 3 years ago. Chill. B looks great then and now.
He put down white music like Nirvana because Nirvana was leading the music charts at the time , on MTV , VH1 and sales .
I remember .
Bottom line jealousy
They are dismissing the grunge midle class white kids thre, but U2 post Pop was as safe and boring music for middle class white people
+voutespancar I agree that it generally got a lot safer,
though it depends on how deep you go with the music.
what matters more than how safe the music is how good it is.
mind you, I think a lot of credit should be given for a very interesting failed attempt at a song or a sound,
Perhaps more than I might want to give credit for a very well done safe song.
Some of them are deceptively safe.
Song For Someone is a sweet little ballad that actually happens to deal with a first sexual encounter in honest and vulnerable terms.
A Man And A Woman isn't sonically as interesting as their peak
(1991-1993, in my opinion)
though it is a fine piece of songwriting.
Beautiful Day is deceptively easy songwriting.
U2 were challenging themselves to write in class song construction terms.
The Zoo era was epic though, no doubt about it.
I adored a lot of the Passengers material as well.
Miss Sarajevo, I believe, showed the way forward in terms of Bono's songwriting.
One, Stay, Miss Sarajevo are his trifecta for the nineties.
In a way, Zoo TV was so monumental that I felt a few years away from the road might have been more interesting.
By that, I mean skip the Pop/Popmart period
(not the songs, just skip the whole booking the tour before the album is finished and staggeringly costly and often incoherent tour theme)
and focus on writing, writing, writing.
A tour is hard work for these guys but in a way it's the easiest thing in that it isn't the hard work of songwriting.
I always wanted them to have their Abbey Road/studio years period.
In an alternate universe somewhere,
that is exactly what U2 did.
Then they capped off the decade with a massive world/record smashing tour to save the universe with several albums of new material to play...
+voutespancar oh, and I think laying low concerts-wise could have been a way to have a rest, write, record, release material, and take on a bit of mystery and excitement by going into guerrilla rock band mode.
Just show up in places with only a few day's notice.
Perhaps just show up in other places.
No promoter.
Just drop in places randomly when it feels good.
No way, safer was All that You Can't leave behind. Miami is the most radical song that they've ever made.
CEIVE4EVER It was safer, no doubt.
This doesn't detract from its quality though.
As for Miami, it's very, very different for them.
What a crazy period of the band.
I sometimes wonder what Pop would've been like had it been blended the vibes of Passengers.
If the whole vibe had been focused on the feeling U2 got from being in Tokyo and Shinjuku, as featured in this clip.
Noisy, claustrophobic, atmospheric, blissful, dirty, funny, heavy...I think a double album would've been a beautiful idea, actually.
Jason Lefler It wasn't safer no doubt. They were working with dance music and with machines in Zooropa they were working with atmospheres (Eno's world i.e. synthesisers) and with Pop they were trying to do new things. The Achtung Baby-Zooropa era was finished with The Passengers. I prefer Zooropa (in fact is my second favourite album) but Pop was the most different thing that they have made in their whole career