U2 - Zoo TV, Live From Sydney

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Product Description ------------------- 1. Opening Track 2. Opening Sequence 3. Zoo Station 4. The Fly 5. Even Better Than The Real Thing 6. Mysterious Ways 7. One 8. Unchained Melody 9. Until The End Of The World 10. New Year's Day 11. Numb 12. Angel Of Harlem 13. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) 14. Satellite Of Love 15. Dirty Day 16. Bullet The Blue Sky 17. Running To Stand Still 18. Where The Streets Have No Name 19. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 20. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Ced Car 21. Show Me The Way To Go Home 22. Lemon 23. With Or Without You 24. Love Is Blindness 25. Can't Help Falling In Love .com ---- Zoo TV represents U2 at their most ambitious. The multimedia event combines two stages with live music, pre-recorded tracks, and 36 screens flashing an array of words and images. (Video artists include Kevin Godley, Anton Corbijn, and Brian Eno.) The theatricality extends to the quartet themselves, since Bono, as "The Fly," enters the scene in black patent leather--shades of '68 Elvis--while Adam Clayton sports a platinum mohawk. In order to recreate the experience for the home viewer, slogans are superimposed over footage from this 1993 engagement, e.g. "question everything," "this is not a rehearsal," etc. As Bono quips, "The latest and greatest in software, hardware, and menswear--we've got it all here." With so much going on, the most dynamic material tends to work best, like "The Real Thing," "Bullet the Blue Sky," and "Mysterious Ways," complete with belly dancer (in keeping with the song's Moroccan-set video). The foursome also tackles a few covers, like Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" and Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love." Towards the end of the latter, Reed appears via video monitor to sing along. Arguably, the whole Mister MacPhisto thing--Bono as satanic lounge lizard---doesn't quite work, but U2 deserves props for taking chances when most bands in their position would be resting on their laurels. With the accent on material from Achtung Baby and Zooropa,Zoo TV: Live From Sydney first appeared on VHS in 1994 and garnered a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. --Kathleen C. Fennessy