Like Achtung Baby , the 1992–1993 Zoo TV Tour was a break with the band’s past. In contrast to the austere stage setups of previous U2 tours, Zoo TV was an elaborate multimedia event. It satirised the pervasive nature of television and its blurring of news, entertainment, and home shopping…
Read More
London Records ‘ 1992 offer to buy the ailing label fell through.
The band’s next album, Republic , was shadowed by the collapse of their long-time label, Factory Records , in 1992. The label had been ailing due to financial difficulties and was forced to declare bankruptcy.
Funplex , the band’s first original album in 16 years (since 1992’s Good Stuff ), was released on March 25, 2008, by Astralwerks . Talking about the record’s sound, Strickland noted, “It’s loud, sexy rock and roll with the beat turned up to hot pink.” The album was produced by…
Read More
1992 marked the fifth anniversary of Buck-Tick’s major label debut. While a “best-of” compilation album was considered to celebrate the occasion, some members of the band wanted to create a new album. They instead released the self-cover album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits in March. The band…
Read More
In 1990, the band was featured as the nightclub performers in the Direct-to-Video film, Pale Blood . Songs included were Fire and the Rain, Bite the Hand That Feeds, and So Strange. In 1991, Restless Records released the Real Live Sound live album, recorded at The Roxy in Hollywood on…
Read More
Cooper made a cameo appearance in the 1992 comedy film Wayne’s World . Cooper and his band first appear on stage performing “Feed My Frankenstein” from their studio album Hey Stoopid . Afterward at a backstage party, the movie’s main characters Wayne Cambell and Garth Algar discover that when offstage,…
Read More
Nearing the end of 1992 Soda began showcasing their sixth studio album Dynamo , first introduced to the public with six concerts at Obras.
The album, eventually released near the end of 1992, is stylistically a shoegazing album, and was met with alienation and shock from many fans of the band, who found its radical shift in style from Canción Animal discomforting and challenging to cope with.
Achtung Baby was released in November 1991. The album represented a calculated change in musical and thematic style, their most dramatic since The Unforgettable Fire . Sonically, the record incorporated influences from alternative rock , dance, and industrial music, and Bono referred to it as “four men chopping down the…
Read More