Seeing staples like "All I Wanna Do", "Heart-Shaped Box", and "Mr. Jones" in the back half of the list...that's my sign that this might have been the strongest overall year of the exercise.
As a big fan of U2, I somehow never considered Zooropa to be a "full" album, so I think that fits with your "Achtung Baby 1.5" notion. It's good! Just... not a standalone, IMO.
The Top 70 Modern Rock Tracks of 1993-94 (Part 1)
Seeing staples like "All I Wanna Do", "Heart-Shaped Box", and "Mr. Jones" in the back half of the list...that's my sign that this might have been the strongest overall year of the exercise.
As a big fan of U2, I somehow never considered Zooropa to be a "full" album, so I think that fits with your "Achtung Baby 1.5" notion. It's good! Just... not a standalone, IMO.