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I don't see what's especially "searchable" about the U2-lyrics.org link, and it strikes me as redundant in light of the much more informative U2Wanderer.org link that includes, among other things, the complete album lyrics. But whatever. -- typhoon 09:39, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
This might seem minor, but how about standardizing the playing time for the songs between the main Zooropa page and the individual songs? I've been adding a bit of information to each of the songs to try and flesh them out, and I think the only thing left to do is a bit of housekeeping. Another six 03:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I'll go ahead and do that since the last discussion post was made over a year ago. My source, btw, is my iTunes rip. Another six 03:10, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
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in the Achtung boxset, and there are plenty of sources, including in the Achtung Baby page itself. -- TangoTizerWolfstone ( talk) 09:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
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The booklet has the message "The Freedom of Zooropa is awarded to Willie Mannion and Rob Kirwan". It's not in the article but what does this mean?-- TangoTizerWolfstone ( talk) 22:48, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
So, I understand there's a quote in a Mat Snow book that calls this album "experimental rock", which is the reason it was entered as a genre in the infobox. Listen... "experimental" is one of those words that music journalists often abuse to refer to musicians stretching their limits or dabbling in other genres. It's become a muddled term that is quite often not used properly. You would be hard pressed to find a song on Zooropa that is truly experimental by the definition set forth in the experimental rock article:
Although quite creative and different from U2's previous music, Zooropa doesn't seem to fit this definition to me. Because of the contentious, muddled nature of the "experimental" label, I think it would be best to only include the genre in the infobox if 1.) a source offers detailed commentary on the nature of the music describing what makes it experimental (e.g. odd instrumentation, unorthodox musical structure) or 2.) there are multiple sources available that describe the music as experimental rock. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 ( talk • contributions) 05:38, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Is there a particular reason to keep the Spin green circle in the ratings table? I know the Pitchfork review from last year was at one point added and removed, but in my opinion, it – or at least some numerical/star/graded rating – would be preferable to the, I think, rather incomprehensible Spin traffic light, insofar as I doubt most users would intuitively know what it means (I certainly didn't at first), and I don't think I've seen it used on any other article. Thoughts?-- TangoTizerWolfstone ( talk) 02:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
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I don't see what's especially "searchable" about the U2-lyrics.org link, and it strikes me as redundant in light of the much more informative U2Wanderer.org link that includes, among other things, the complete album lyrics. But whatever. -- typhoon 09:39, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
This might seem minor, but how about standardizing the playing time for the songs between the main Zooropa page and the individual songs? I've been adding a bit of information to each of the songs to try and flesh them out, and I think the only thing left to do is a bit of housekeeping. Another six 03:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I'll go ahead and do that since the last discussion post was made over a year ago. My source, btw, is my iTunes rip. Another six 03:10, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Zooropa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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The booklet has the message "The Freedom of Zooropa is awarded to Willie Mannion and Rob Kirwan". It's not in the article but what does this mean?-- TangoTizerWolfstone ( talk) 22:48, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
So, I understand there's a quote in a Mat Snow book that calls this album "experimental rock", which is the reason it was entered as a genre in the infobox. Listen... "experimental" is one of those words that music journalists often abuse to refer to musicians stretching their limits or dabbling in other genres. It's become a muddled term that is quite often not used properly. You would be hard pressed to find a song on Zooropa that is truly experimental by the definition set forth in the experimental rock article:
Although quite creative and different from U2's previous music, Zooropa doesn't seem to fit this definition to me. Because of the contentious, muddled nature of the "experimental" label, I think it would be best to only include the genre in the infobox if 1.) a source offers detailed commentary on the nature of the music describing what makes it experimental (e.g. odd instrumentation, unorthodox musical structure) or 2.) there are multiple sources available that describe the music as experimental rock. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 ( talk • contributions) 05:38, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Is there a particular reason to keep the Spin green circle in the ratings table? I know the Pitchfork review from last year was at one point added and removed, but in my opinion, it – or at least some numerical/star/graded rating – would be preferable to the, I think, rather incomprehensible Spin traffic light, insofar as I doubt most users would intuitively know what it means (I certainly didn't at first), and I don't think I've seen it used on any other article. Thoughts?-- TangoTizerWolfstone ( talk) 02:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)