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 Crashed 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33950 in DVD
• Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC VIDEO DIST.
• Released on: 2006-09-19
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Enhanced, Live, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 118 minutes

Features

• Filmed at the Football Stadium in Sydney, Australia, in November 1993. As well as the legendary live show, now digitally remastered, the new release comes with a bonus DVD of live tracks, mini-documentaries and the inimitable Video Confessional'. Format: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD Rating: NR Age: 602517044999 UPC: 602517044999 Manufacturer No: DVDB0007

Amazon.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

Customer Reviews

Can't wait to get this...
Well, I've never actually SEEN this show, but I've heard it. During the Zoo TV era, U2 reinvented themselves (not the first time, nor would it be the last) and it turned a lot of those "I used to listen to 'War' all the time in college" fans off to U2 and created comments like, "they haven't done anything good since 'Joshua Tree'." I don't see why. The Zoo TV era, whose music included Achtung Baby and Zooropa, is some of the best U2 ever. Now if only a Popmart DVD would be released...

Here's what's on the DVD from DVDTown.com (which I think was taken from the U2 site):

Synopsis
Filmed at the Football Stadium in Sydney, Australia, in November 1993. As well as the legendary live show, now digitally remastered, the new release comes with a bonus DVD of live tracks, mini-documentaries and the inimitable `Video Confessional'.

Disc One
* Show Opening
* Zoo Station
* The Fly
* Even Better Than The Real Thing
* Mysterious Ways
* One
* Unchained Melody
* Until The End Of The World
* New Year's Day
* Numb
* Angel Of Harlem
* Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
* Satellite Of Love
* Dirty Day
* Bullet The Blue Sky
* Running To Stand Still
* Where The Streets Have No Name
* Pride (In The Name Of Love)
* Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
* Lemon
* With Or Without You
* Love Is Blindness
* Can't Help Falling In Love
Disc Two
Bonus Tracks
* 1. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around the World
* 2. Desire
* (both taken live from the Zoo TV Special, Yankee Stadium, New York, 29th and 30th August 1992)
* 3. The Fly
* 4. Even Better than the Real Thing
* (both taken live from the Stop Sellafield Concert, G-Mex Centre, Manchester, 19th June 1992)
Documentaries
* A Fistful of Zoo TV
* Zoo TV - The Inside Story
* Trabantland
Extras
* Video Confessional
* Numb Karaoke

The best live U2
This is unquestionably the best live U2 on DVD, though "U2 Go Home -- Live from Sloane Castle" is also essential. The Zoo TV extravaganza was unprecedented in its scale and complexity, but what's amazing about this show is that the staging always complements the music, and never overwhelms it. The media-overload setup is absolutely dazzling, and it's imaginatively deployed throughout, but the emphasis is always on the four men at the heart of this great band. I bought this concert on VHS, found it later on a pirate VCD in Mexico, and am delighted to see it finally on DVD. Highlights include a "Mysterious Ways" for the ages (featuring fantastically passionate singing by Bono, and Morleigh Steinberg in a belly-dancer cameo -- she's the woman who would later become Edge's wife); a titanic "Until the End of the World" (aggressive and dangerous-seeming, in a way that U2 music rarely is); "Stay," "Bullet the Blue Sky," "Daddy's Gonna Pay ..." The rapturous Sydney crowd laps it all up and screams for more, and who wouldn't? This is an unmissable document of perhaps the most mind-bending rock-'n'-roll tour of all time.

Great Live Show
U2 fans will never forget the phenomenon that was known as Zoo TV. Zoo TV was a massively produced world tour that took rock band U2 all over the world. Long time fans may remember that they performed at the MTV Music Video Awards with Dana Carvey via satellite during the MTV Video Music Awards. The tour was in support of the groups 1991 album Achtung Baby.

It's surprising that such a well loved tour took so long to arrive on DVD. U2 Zoo TV Live From Sidney is now available on DVD for the first time. The single disc release includes a full color booklet and arrives in a special hard protective case. The concert that appears on the DVD was recorded on November 27th, 1993, a month before U2 wrapped up the nearly two year long tour.

U2 performed some of their biggest hits during this performance. Songs such as "New Years Day," "Pride (In the Name Of Love)," "With Or Without You," and "Where The Streets Have No Name," are among the hit songs performed during the concert.

U2 Zoo TV Live From Sidney has a running time of one hour and 56 minutes. The picture and sound quality are awesome. You really feel like you are at the concert when watching the show. The color booklet includes a 2006 forward written by Adrian Deevoy.