U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
Pop Rock, Alternative Rock, New wave | 2007 | DVD-9 | ~7.49 Gb | Scans(jpg, 600dpi) -> 23 Mb
MPEG-2 Video, PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | AC-3 6ch, 448Kbps/DTS 6ch, 768Kbps/LPCM 2ch, 1536Kbps
Pop Rock, Alternative Rock, New wave | 2007 | DVD-9 | ~7.49 Gb | Scans(jpg, 600dpi) -> 23 Mb
MPEG-2 Video, PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | AC-3 6ch, 448Kbps/DTS 6ch, 768Kbps/LPCM 2ch, 1536Kbps
This stunning concert documentary sheds fresh light on U2's controversial 1997 Popmart tour, the Irish rockers' gaudy, epic trek in support of their electronica-edged Pop album. Mixed reactions to the pulsing, dance friendly music on Pop and disappointing ticket sales to stateside Popmart shows were interpreted as evidence that the band's new sound and look were merely opportunistic.
Yet one need only view Popmart Live alongside the Rolling Stones' contemporaneous Bridges to Babylon 1998 long-form video to grasp U2's underlying passion and conviction. While Popmart trumps the Stones (ringmasters of the original rock & roll circus and among the principal inventors of stadium rock) in terms of sheer scale, U2's presentation still strikes thematic sparks missing from the Stones' more conservative designs for the Bridges stage.
With its vast, ramped stage and enveloping video backdrop, the Popmart set serves the band's posttechno impulses, yet the music remains rooted in U2's passionate, high-flying rock style, using its skittering dance rhythms and garish pop-art motifs to support the band's underlying themes, not replace them. Filmed in Mexico City before a huge reverent crowd, the concert balances close-ups against the quartet's often mesmerizing staging effects; the camera work sustains a sense of the show's outsized physical setting, while expertly closing the distance between us and the band.
The band also shrewdly integrates older songs into the pumped up, burnished arranging style heard on Pop while stripping down newer material in less varnished, more vulnerable settings. A series of duets with just Bono and the Edge on acoustic guitars underscores that strategy.~ Sam Sutherland
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U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
Tracklist:
01. Pop Muzik
02. Mofo
03. I Will Follow
04. Gone
05. Even Better Than the Real Thing
06. Last Night on Earth
07. Until the End of the World
08. New Year's Day
09. Pride (in the Name of Love)
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for
11. All I Want Is You
12. Desire
13. Staring At the Sun
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Bullet the Blue Sky
16. Please
17. Where the Streets Have No Name
18. Lemon (Perfecto Mix)
19. Discotheque
20. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
21. With Or Without You
22. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
23. Mysterious Ways
24. One
25. Wake Up Dead Man
Title: U2 - Popmart Live from Mexico City (1997)
Size: 7.57 Gb ( 7 942 960,00 KBytes ) - DVD-9
Enabled regions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
VTS_01 :
Play Length: 02:06:33
Video: PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR
Audio:
English (LinearPCM, 2 ch)
English (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
English (DTS, 6 ch)
Size: 7.57 Gb ( 7 942 960,00 KBytes ) - DVD-9
Enabled regions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
VTS_01 :
Play Length: 02:06:33
Video: PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR
Audio:
English (LinearPCM, 2 ch)
English (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
English (DTS, 6 ch)
U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
U2 - Popmart: Live from Mexico City (1997)
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