Zooropa Portugal

Estadio Jose Alvalade

Lisbon, Portugal.

15 - May - 1993.

Attendance: 63.500 (sellout) - Support: Utah Saints

Disc 1 (58:05)

01. Drumming Boys Intro (PA)

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Mysterious Ways

06. One

07. She's a Mystery to Me

08. Until the End of the World

09. New Year's Day

10. Dirty Old Town

11. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World / Happy Birthday to Maria

12. Angel of Harlem

13. When Love Comes to Town

14. Satellite of Love

Disc 2 (59:33)

01. Bad / All I Want is You

02. Bullet the Blue Sky

03. Running to Stand Still

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. Pride (In the Name of Love)

06. - ZooTV Videoconfessionals -

07. Desire / MacPhisto phone call

08. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

09. With or Without You

10. Love is Blindness

11. Can't Help Falling in Love / Can't Help Falling in Love (PA)

Comments

A hard-to-listen item, to sum up. Let me say that music / vocals are not that bad, I'd even say that they sound pretty good although somewhat muffled... but there are tons of screaming, talking and singing. Taper and friends having conversations and singing on the mics (!!), lots of hysterical screaming by a bunch of girls, individual voices and some other conversations make this item to be for completists only. Moreover, there are continous volume adjustements throughout the recording, a good portion of hiss in the background and buzzing / rumbling noises here and there. However, when people calm down, sound is really nice, with instruments and vocals very well audible and clean, much more than decent quality. I have to remark that sound gets a bit far, or a bit closer, by times. But, yes, screaming and singing are most of the time over the music, which ruin what could be a nice recording.

A pretty standard show. Bono danced with a girl called Maria during Arms Around the World, and that day was her birthday, so the singer sang with the crowd 'Happy Birthday' to her.

There's an edit between tracks 7 and 8 (CD1), that causes Until the End of the World to cut in, missing the very first seconds. A pair of skips are noticeable during Arms Around the World from 03:04 to 03:20. Same thing occurs at 02:40 in Bad, cutting off a pair of seconds.