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PopMart: Live From Mexico City

By Jonathan on November 22, 1998 11:12 PM
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Original Release Date: November 22, 1998

DVD Release Date: September 18, 2007

Duration: 127 Minutes (VHS), 217 Minutes (DVD)

Liner Notes (VHS):

Directed by David Mallet. Produced by Ned O'Hanlon. Executive Producer: Paul McGuinness. Associate Producer: Sheila Roche. Co-Producer: Diane Orrom. Lighting Designer: Allen Branton. Pop Mart Show Designer / Director: Willie Williams. Popmart Lighting Director: Bruce Ramus. Popmart Sound Engineer: Joe O'Herlihy. Sound Supervisors: Flood and Howie B. Sleeve Design: ABA, Dublin. Original Photography: Rebecca Hearfield (Cover) / Anton Corbijn / Kevin Mazur / Rankin / Ebet Roberts. A Dreamchaser Production for U2 Limited. Live from the Foro Sol Autodromo, Mexico City, December 3, 1997. Set featured world's largest video screen - 56X170' w/ 40' mirrorball lemon, & 20' olive on 100' cocktail stick! 24 tracks: "I Will Follow," "New Year's Day," "Desire," more. 22 camera shoot. Full 1997 concert. HiFi Sound. 48 Track Digital Stereo. Not Rated. DVD: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (4/3). AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Live, NTSC.

Liner Notes (DVD):

Artwork By (Sleeve/packaging Design): Shaughn McGrath. Co-producer: Dione Orrom. Co-producer (Associate): Sheila Roche. Engineer (5.1 Mix Consultant): Richard Rainey. Engineer (Sound Supervisor): Flood, Howie B. Engineer (Sound): Joe O'Herlihy. Mastered By (Stereo Sound): Arnie Acosta. Mixed By (5.1 Surround Sound Mix, Assistant): Jason Talton. Mixed By (5.1 Surround Sound Mix): Ted Hall. Mixed By (Original Stereo Sound Mix): Chris Potter. Directed By: David Mallet (tracks: 1-01 to 1-26). Dvd Production Coordinator: Bernie McGrath. Dvd Production Manager: Tara Mullen. Dvd Project Director: Steve Matthews. Dvd Project Manager: Candida Bottaci. Show Designer/director: Willie Williams. Sleeve Notes: Danny Eccleston. Photography - Anja Grabert, Anton Corbijn, Ebet Roberts, Kevin Davies, Kevin Mazur, Rankin. Photography (Cover): Rebecca Hearfield. Producer: Ned O'Hanlon. Technician (Audio Consultant And Quality Control): Cheryl Engels. Written by: U2 (tracks: 1-02 to 2-09, 2-17). Aspect: 4:3. Sound Disc 1: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1 Surround. Sound Disc 2: PCM Stereo. Format: 2xDVD 9, PAL. All tracks published by Universal Music Publishing International BV, except Blue Mountain Music Ltd. (UK), Mother Music (IRL), except: "Pop Muzik" - BMG Music Publishing, issued under license to Mother Records Ltd. "Love To Love You Baby" & "Life During Wartime" - Warner Chappell Music Ltd. "La Bamba" - Public Domain. "All Kinds Of Everything" - EMI Music Ltd. A Solo Too production for Universal Island Records Limited. (p) 2007 Universal Island Records Ltd. under exclusive license to Mercury Records Limited.

Track List:

  1. Pop Muzik (Written by: Robin Scott)
  2. Mofo
  3. I Will Follow
  4. Gone
  5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
  6. Last Night On Earth
  7. Until The End Of The World
  8. New Year's Day
  9. 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) (Intro)
  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

Track List (DVD Edition):

  1. Pop Muzik (Written by: Robin Scott) (4:30)
  2. Mofo (4:44)
  3. I Will Follow (2:59)
  4. Gone (4:45)
  5. Even Better Than The Real Thing (4:33)
  6. Last Night On Earth (6:21)
  7. Until The End Of The World (5:02)
  8. New Year's Day (5:00)
  9. Pride (In The Name Of Love) (3:42)
  10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (6:07)
  11. All I Want Is You (3:17)
  12. Desire / La Bamba (Snippet) (Written by: La Bamba, Traditional) (2:24)
  13. Staring At The Sun (5:57)
  14. Sunday Bloody Sunday (3:56)
  15. Bullet The Blue Sky (6:03)
  16. Please (7:02)
  17. Where The Streets Have No Name (7:24)
  18. Lemon (Perfecto Mix - Part 1) (3:22)
  19. Lemon (Perfecto Mix - Part 2) (2:22)
  20. Discotheque / Love To Love You Baby (Snippet) / Life During Wartime (Snippet) (Written by [Life During Wartime]: Byrne, Written by [Love To Love You Baby]: Summer, Moroder, Bellore) (5:35)
  21. If You Wear That Velvet Dress (2:48)
  22. With Or Without You (7:54)
  23. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (5:44)
  24. Mysterious Ways (6:28)
  25. One (5:37)
  26. Wake Up Dead Man (Incl. Credits) (2:45)

Bonus Track List (DVD Edition):

  1. Please (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (6:38)
  2. Where The Streets Have No Name (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (9:26)
  3. Lemon (Perfecto Mix) (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (1:58)
  4. Discothèque (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (5:56)
  5. If You Wear That Velvet Dress (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (2:39)
  6. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (Recorded at Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton on 14th June 1997) (5:40)
  7. Mysterious Ways (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (6:04)
  8. One (Recorded at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997) (6:11)
  9. Staring At The Sun (Miami Version) (Director: Morleigh Steinberg) (4:39)
  10. Last Night On Earth (First Night In Hell: Remix Version) (Director: John Bland, Remix: Jon Carter) (5:53)
  11. Lemon For Sale (5:11)
  12. The Road To Sarajevo (8:03)
  13. A Tour Of The Tour (14:03)
  14. Last Night On Earth - An Inside View (4:21)
  15. Popmart Tour Visuals Montage (Curated by: Catherine Owens) (18:55)
  16. All Kinds Of Everything (Karaoke Version) (Written by: Smith/Derry) (3:01)
  17. Visual Stage Tour (1:57)
  18. Please (Live Mural Cut) (5:54)

Catalog:

  • Australia:
    • VHS: Polygram 058 302-3
  • Canada:
    • VHS: Polygram 440 058 303-3
  • Hong Kong:
    • VCD: Polygram 059 079-2 (Two 5" Discs)
  • Japan:
    • LaserDisc: Polygram POLS-1026
  • UK:
    • VHS: Polygram 058 302-3
  • USA:
    • DVD: Island Records/Interscope/UMe 000903609 (Two Discs)
    • VHS: Polygram 440 058 303-3

Media Review:

Review: Popmart: Live from Mexico City [2 DVD]

4 stars (out of 5)

By William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

U2's Zoo TV tour of 1992-1993 was something of a parody of a big-time rock outing, with lead singer Bono adopting various satiric personas and the stage dominated by cars and television images. When the band prepared to return to stadium work in 1997, it faced the question of what you do when you're once again embarking on a journey you've made fun of before. This time, the band dropped at least some of the tongue-in-cheek attitude of Zoo TV, while retaining the large-scale staging effects it felt necessary to put on a show in a large outdoor venue. The production's designers seemed to have been influenced primarily by the title of U2's new album, Pop; to them, that meant pop art, as in the artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring, whose work was employed in the visuals, as well as their artistic sensibilities, built around utilizing cartoons, celebrities, and big washes of bright, garish colors. The giant stage was dominated by a huge arch that stood at the center, holding lights and, in a basket just below the top, presumably the video display hardware. The visual material was shown on a gigantic screen that formed the backdrop of the stage, rising 56 feet and spreading across another 170 feet. Beneath this, the bandmembers were dwarfed, often by their own images, displayed with various visual effects and in wildly unnatural hues. The dominant influence was Warhol's silk-screens of photographs of people like Marilyn Monroe, which actually turned up (along with a panoply of dead celebrities) during "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me."

In this two-plus-hour video, filmed on December 3, 1997, at the Foro Sol Autodromo in Mexico City, U2 showed that they had not entirely lost their sense of humor and certainly not their sense of spectacle, beginning the show by entering through the crowd to the strains of M's 1979 hit "Pop Muzik," Bono dressed in a hooded bathrobe as if he were a prizefighter, under which he wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a muscular physique. Guitarist the Edge sported a Western costume, complete with cowboy hat, looking like a lost member of the Village People with his Fu Manchu mustache; bassist Adam Clayton inexplicably wore a military helmet on his head and a surgical mask on his face to go with his white-framed glasses; drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. wore the same sort of sleeveless T-shirt he's been wearing on-stage throughout the band's history. Another comically stagey moment came at the start of the encores, which found the band emerging from a large, shining lemon to take a small thrust stage and play "Discothèque." All of this stagecraft threatened to overwhelm the music it was intended to support, which was a fairly straightforward U2 set mixing old favorites ("I Will Follow," "Even Better than the Real Thing," "New Year's Day," "Pride [In the Name of Love]," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "All I Want Is You," "Desire," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Where the Streets Have No Name," "With or Without You," "Mysterious Ways," "One") with selections from Pop ("Mofo," "Gone," "Staring at the Sun," "Last Night on Earth," "Please," "If You Wear That Velvet Dress"), the former clearly received with more enthusiasm than the latter, although a good time appears to have been had by all. [The two-DVD edition of the video released in 2007 adds another hour and 45 minutes of material on its second disc, including seven performances drawn from shows in Edmonton and Rotterdam; a couple of music videos; and documentary material, the highlight of which is U2 manager Paul McGuinness' backstage tour and interviews with various crew members.]

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