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  1. I like IGWSHA Single version better than the album version! The album version seemed naked in a sense where they added some sound to the Single. Plus I like the video too. Mofo was definitely the best opener to a concert by far! Funny how the first 3 tracks sets you up for a "party" type album...then it gets dark on you. I liked WUDM better live than from the album. I would take Please from the album and live. I really disliked the Single version and the video that accompanied it. I wish they would have placed LNOE in their setlist during the Elevation Tour rather than Gone. It's just a better song in my own opinion. Also a huge fan of IYWTVD. VERY SEXY. All in all Pop was well ahead of it's time. If it were put out 10 years later it probably would have been huge.
  2. Good to see that there's much love for this album. Hopefully some Pop songs will appear on the live show soon


  4. Think it's been said before, the 360 stage is just crying out for some ZooTV/Popmart performances. The 360 stage is probably the biggest and most in your face since Popmart and songs like The Fly, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Zoo Station, Mofo, Last Night On Earth etc would just utilise the setup to the max.

    I can't see U2 recycling parts of the Zoo/Popmart tour because I don't think it's their style. Pop Muzik/Mofo intro belonged to Popmart and that's where it should stay, but I don't see no problem with throwing some Pop classics into the live show.

    It hardly even matters anymore that Pop was seen as unsuccessful, it's had 13 years to mature or fade into the abyss. For me it's grown and become one of my favourite albums, not just of U2 but of any artist. Half the crowd will be Beautiful Day/Vertigo childs and will probably not have heard a Popmart show (excpet maybe the Mexico DVD/VHS). Back in 1997, the band had to promote the album and played pretty much the whole of Pop on tour for many nights, a lot of the songs grew over the course of the tour and obviously made an impression on the band as Gone, Staring At The Sun and Wake Up Dead Man made an appearance in the Elevation tour. Please and Discotheque have also been played since. I think you know when U2 really enjoy a song when it doesn't just last for the duration of it's tour.

    Staring At The Sun seems the easiest song to bring back since it's just Edge/Bono on acoustic guitars and I'm sure they could familiarise themselves with the song again. Songs like Mofo/Last Night On Earth/Gone I suspect would take a bit more time to get back into the setlist because to really work, they'd have to have some video/light sequences set up (can't they re-use the Popmart visuals?).

    Either way, just sneaking a song in every 2/3 shows would be great. People at the show aren't going to think "Oh, here comes asong from Pop, let's go..." they'll probably enjoy it and the band probably would as well. The fact that a handful of songs remained through into the Elevation tour says enough.
  6. I LOVE this album - my U2 fascination starts in early 1997 and it was because of combination of two such different albums as The Unforgettable Fire (which i discovered back then) and new U2 record which was POP. SAME BAND AND TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ALBUMS - I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!!! I love u2 90's albums and sometimes i think of POP as U2's last GREAT, INNOVATIWE, AHEAD OF IT'S TIME record. Now i'm a "die-hard" and "completlist" fan of U2 and every album of every "u2-era" is important to me - but POP was the album that starts everything U2-related to me!

    I remember hearing Discotheque and Mofo for the first time - really loud - and i've got chills down my spine - it was so new sound to me - priceless memory!!!
  7. Originally posted by andrzej:I LOVE this album - my U2 fascination starts in early 1997 and it was because of combination of two such different albums as The Unforgettable Fire (which i discovered back then) and new U2 record which was POP. SAME BAND AND TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ALBUMS - I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!!! I love u2 90's albums and sometimes i think of POP as U2's last GREAT, INNOVATIWE, AHEAD OF IT'S TIME record. Now i'm a "die-hard" and "completlist" fan of U2 and every album of every "u2-era" is important to me - but POP was the album that starts everything U2-related to me!

    I remember hearing Discotheque and Mofo for the first time - really loud - and i've got chills down my spine - it was so new sound to me - priceless memory!!!


    Pop is an incredible album. As a collector of various U2 items, it's the Pop related items that I like the most.
  8. Originally posted by iTim:[..]

    Pop is an incredible album. As a collector of various U2 items, it's the Pop related items that I like the most.


    True that. The Pop merch is definitely the ultimate coolest of all U2-related collectibles.
  9. In my opinion Pop is the best U2 album, well I consider this as the greatest achievement in the history of art. I discovered U2 in 1997 and became a die-hard fan then. Pop was my first U2 album so this fact may have some impact on my strong appreciation of it.
    Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to see any Popmart or Elevation concert. As we all know the band in fact stopped playing Pop songs None of the Vertigo and 360 shows I attended included a song from Pop. My biggest dream still did not come true...
  10. Discotheque NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT BACK AS THE ENCORE OPENER. Just imagine the claw going apesh** during the guitar intro and Bono with the laser jacket
  11. Originally posted by Genaro92U2:Discotheque NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT BACK AS THE ENCORE OPENER. Just imagine the claw going apesh** during the guitar intro and Bono with the laser jacket


    i would adore this
  12. Could just imagine that little interlude beofre the encore breaking out into "You can reeeeach..." then at the end of the verse, Edge's guitar kicks in and the whole thing goes off with a bang.

    They even have the mirrorball at the top of the claw, why not have a disco?
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