Product Description

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 LoveDisc 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* TrabantlandExtras* Video Confessional* Numb KaraokeFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD/CONCERTS Rating: NR UPC: 602517044975 Manufacturer No: DVDB0007394-09

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29541 in DVD
• Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
• Released on: 2006-09-19
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Limited Edition, Live, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 210 minutes

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

Must have for all U2 fans!
I remember the first time I saw this concert footage (on VHS) and thinking that surely it must rate as one of the greatest live shows ever - right up there with Peter Gabriel's "Secret World Live" (among many others). So I was very pleased when the U2 camp finally decided to release this monumental event on DVD.

And this DVD is great! But it could be better.

The main problem is the audio - Bono's vocals in particular. His vocals are too quiet in the overall mix. I had read that in another review before purchasing, and it's true. But that's my only complaint and the reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5.

This DVD captures a very special moment in time for one of the best rock bands in the world. They finally had the clout and the resources to put on a show like never before - a visual music experience that they had always dreamed of doing.

And if you like U2, you will love Zoo TV.

Really good, but not great
This is a cool document of the ZooTV Tour, the music's very good, and it's U2 - so 4 stars. Some highlights are the transition from "Running to Stand Still" into "Streets Have No Name", "Lemon", and Bono's clownish Devil. But, this DVD doesn't completely measure up. First off, it's shot for television (possibly a continuing irony of the Zoo TV statement, but not effectively capturing the feel of the show) and seems to be on high-end video, not film. Second, their performance, while it's U2, it's great; it's at a point where there was a lot more flash than substance. The show is big spectacle and Bono's performance in particular is full of bravado, but it seems to overshadow the songs. When the rock "show" takes precedence to the rock "songs" you lose something in translation. Also, the Limited Edition second disc, as is becoming more and more typical, doesn't bring too much to the party. I'm always a fan of seeing more songs, different camera angles, possibly even a straight audio-only show (like the Foo Fighters did and it's cool to have a whole second show just because...), but this second disc, frankly was no big deal. More for novelty sake, I guess. Overall, this is better for fans and completionists or those of you who witnessed that actual tour, but if you're going to get a live U2 DVD I'd highly recommend Slane Castle (lots of energy in front of some 40K people) or Live in Chicago 2005. Amazingly enough, and something I highly respect about this band, U2 seems to have gotten better with some age - they seem to be really enjoying themselves in these later performances where they dispense with most of the operatic theatrics and scale down to a straight up rock performance with cool lights.

collection piece
A great collection piece. Really, the last concert in U2 is original.
the Bono's voice is in fullness, music sounds excellent and perfomance is the best one of the band in last the 25 years.

The DVD-2 has some songs that aren't in the original version of concert in the 90's. Good colletion material.