It’s the last great U2 album. Strong songs and great production. Nothing that came after it had the same chemistry and magic!

@dasefxrob

Жыл бұрын

Amen

@jeshkam

Жыл бұрын

Some bits and pieces post-POP were great, at least IMO, for instance "Get On Your Boots", "The Million Dollar Hotel" lp but to be fair I haven't even heard the last two records and I don't care anymore whatsoever. Same relates to Depeche Mode. Their last great LP is "Ultra" from the same year, afterwards they had a couple of good songs including "Wrong", but I haven't even heard "Spirit". My instinct tells me it's sh*t. Looks like 1997 was the final year for most 1980s superbands when it comes to creativity.

@soeffingwhat

Жыл бұрын

I totally disagree. All that you can't leave behind is a brilliant Album which brought them back to the basics. POPis good and has its moments but it still could have been better had they given it more time. And How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb is brilliant to me.

@luisortizsolorzano5109

4 ай бұрын

I totally agree with you.

POP was an unfairly under-rated album! I think it's a brilliant record!

@abelisraelcruzayuso4682

4 жыл бұрын

Samy Benomran Amén! (and I effing mean it!)

@henrikpedersen1408

Жыл бұрын

A true masterpiece

@jonathancant2031

Жыл бұрын

Definitely

@christopherlawler9417

8 ай бұрын

A one of a kind record. The band said they needed more time to work on it, but I think they needed less. It was overworked and should have been a straightforward rock record tinged with electronica. The band went too far in trying to ride the wave of the scene at the time and lost themselves. I was 16 when it came out and recall just being confused by the entire thing. All of a sudden a very hip band was a posh, sporty looking act and everyone was expecting some kind of techno/electronica record, which it really wasn’t. They should have just remained themselves from the early 90s with this record and released almost any song but Discotheque as their first single, maybe Do you feel loved or last night on earth.

The more people hate on U2, the more I will savagely defend them. They have been so important to me since grade school. I know they are not as good as they used to be, but they still make some good jams sometimes. "Pop", which this TV special is supporting, is one of the deepest albums of my life. So fuck off if you dont like them.

@AlexanderGil

9 жыл бұрын

I strongly agree with you about U2 and the album "Pop". I frequently revisit that album.

@pant-hootingchimp8917

8 жыл бұрын

I've never understood the hate some people have for this incredible band. What have they ever done wrong? They're one of the best bands of all-time, in my opinion. I love their Pop era. It was inventive, creative and adventurous. U2 trying out new things, I love that.

@ch35t3rd3

7 жыл бұрын

+Spader Holic - What have they done wrong.....? Nothing!! U2 are the best band in the world. 1997 was a great year for me - This album was a part of it. I Love this album.

@DechantMusic

6 жыл бұрын

I am a Heavy Metal fan Hardcore! and even I love U2 they are something very special period. in my day we never had to defend what we liked sad that the web has turned Music into this sort of thing. celebrate the music and memories with others who do as well and someone who does not like it should respect that and just not say anything. or click on stuff they like seems simple to me of course it does not work that way don't Fight with each other music should unite people... and i feel a spirit on unity with U2 and i am sending out my love to all their fans....

I remember recording this on VHS when it came out. I had no idea it was gonna happen and lucked out and caught it. Loved the music on this album and loved this tv special. Hearing "Please" live like this is a great addition to this special. I wish the band would play POP songs live a lot more than they do.

Love the fact they always do what they want to do , POP was outstanding, if you don't dance to that you'll never dance and U2 have had me dancing all my life ......THE BEST EVER❤️

@alexmorrison9156

Жыл бұрын

Always did you mean

I love POP. Love it. Actually think lyrically a top album. Some folks can't get past the music. The lyrics to mofo, last night on earth, gone, please. That's just to name 4. It's a top 3 U2 album for me and I'm a mega fan. I've never watched this before either so thank you to who posted it.. Dennis hopper and U2? Win win!

@G_Ellis606

7 жыл бұрын

Dennis Hopper was a crazy U2 fan! RIP

@DechantMusic

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Hopper was a Rock and Roller he had thousands of Vinyl records i saw something about his record collection on PBS or something way back in like 98. and Dennis is awesome as well as U2 Pride was the first that actually made me cry and i was a huge fan from that day on... :)

@joeldukes303

5 жыл бұрын

Pop is absolutely amazing, wonderful and different. I love it

@goudagirl6095

3 жыл бұрын

I've been a U2 fan since almost their inception (or at least when their music first hit the US). However, I was obsessive about, and so hung up on, U2 only up until Joshua Tree, that when they completely changed tack in 1990 to Achtung Baby, I FREAKED, and divorced myself from them for about 5-7 years, because I couldn't handle it. Years later, I rediscovered them again (late 90s), dipping a toe into Achtung Baby, Pop, and Zooropa. I was already a fan of electronic music, so I was HOOKED. And then I proceeded to kick myself up one side and down another for YEARS afterward, realizing what I had missed during that time. It was truly their most heady, iconic, colorful, flamboyant, amazingly creative era, and I completely missed it! The experimental music, the outfits and personnae, THE LYRICS....it was all just mind-blowing. I lived on those 3 albums (CDs) alone for months and months. I've always been a day late and a dollar short on most things in life, but this really is one of the things I most sorely regret--not being a part of that "U2 era" and seeing them live during the 90s, when I had the chance. So Jim, I'm with you, I LOVE Pop, in fact, it's now my all time favorite U2 album. Who knew???

@wickfields

3 жыл бұрын

@@DechantMusic p

Fantastic memories. I lost my place 10ft away from the walk out stage bit at the old Wembley because I needed a shite. But ended up blagging my way into the old royal box. And watched from a rather lovely leather padded seat instead 😁

@thebrightsideofthemoon5829

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you shat on the queens royal chair 😂

If the "POPMART" tours were sold out at such a disadvantage to to the customers (meaning there were 1 ticket for every 10 people wanting to buy one) how could the so called idiot "critics" call POP a flop ? POP still happens to be one of U2's best, most underrated albums of all time ! Everyone knows that that has ever given it 2 listens or less that's a true music lover or truer U2 fan ! ! ! ! ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I totally love U2s work in the middle 90s! HoldMeThrillMe... Mission Impossible... Original Soundtracks Nr 1... Pop! That was really fresh music and beautifully produced. I don't like the fact that they kinda apologize for Pop and called it "unfinished".

@joeldukes303

5 жыл бұрын

Damn right... if anything, no line on the horizon is an underwhelming and unfinished album, despite several great songs

@mysticedge4

3 жыл бұрын

Zooropa And Actung were amazing too

@greengrugach1984

3 жыл бұрын

90's U2 were the last time they were the greatest band on earth, now they are good but the magic has gone, I still hope against hope they have one more in them, Pop AB and Zooropa for me 1, 2 and 3 of their best albums, Popmart tour was magical, there's no other word for it, truly magical, I got to see them at home in Dublin, twice in Wembley and once in Leeds Roundhay Park, every single one of them was magic 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@bestebassist

Жыл бұрын

They hit us the hardest with these albums.

I've always liked Pop and always will. Their imperfections just make it an even better album to come back to. Also that period was a hard time for me and these songs were the soundtrack to all the things that happened back then. And there was Sarajevo as well.

Best tour ever. The concept, the show and of course THE SONGS (both POP’s and the older ones) were epic. I was 17 but I’m still watching and listening today at 43 🤟🏻💥.

@roberthouston3809

7 ай бұрын

Nope...ZOOTV was better!

OMG. I gotta revisit this album again. Listening to these songs are giving me goosebumps and huge nostalgia!!! AAAHAHHHHAAA

Love or hate transform from rattle to zoo. Mind blowing. For me popmart their best show. Props

man i remember in my childhood all i watched was popmart live in mexico, and zoo tv man it was good times having 2/5 years old and spending a good part of the day wathcing u2 related stuff

@luistrejo479

6 жыл бұрын

Lion Wolf i was there. in pop mart Mexico :) ..and Vertigo,360 and The joshua Tree last tour.Viva Mexico :)

Thank you for sharing this. And all these years later, they're back in Vegas again ...

POP - a Masterpiece of Universal proportions !!! Eternal music !!! Actually better than eternal ('cause inside eternity nothing can diminish or grow, it stays the same...).....It just keeps on growing to new heights of passion !!! Just can't get enough of it !!!

I liked Pop and Popmart, but Achtung Baby! and ZooTV.... That whole scene was lightning in a bottle. A grand madness indeed !

The Best Band in the World.👏🇦🇺

@marlenesullivan3113

5 ай бұрын

YES, SIMPLY THE GREATEST

R.I.P Dennis :(

"Pop" was a great and bombastic album, i remember at the time it was released. That's a pitty it ended up not the way they wanted.

Pop was so ahead of it's time, it' now sounds like it could be released today.

hermoso documental de u2

Love that album

U2 ARE THE AWESOME 4 🎵

It’s so nice to see so much love for POP on this thread..... I guess folks who don’t already love it wouldn’t be watching a doc on it, but it’s nice to see other true fans. I feel like a lot of people who are asked if they like U2, many will say yes, but other than maybe beautiful day or vertigo, they don’t know a single tune from anything after achtung baby.... they know singles fromWar, Joshua Tree, and Achtung.

I thought they’d lost it with this album, but the live show changed my mind. It was off the wall, different from Zoo TV, but throughly entertaining.

I was at Murrayfield that tour , and Joshua tree. Celtic Park for Zoo TV, 2 nights at SECC for All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Hydro for Innocence and Experience. I could only hear Adams bass from my Saughton Prison cell in Edinburgh for their Vertigo tour ( gutted ) Still can’t believe they left Scotland out for the 2nd Joshua Tree tour 2018, after all we are their Celtic cousins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💚 🇮🇪

I still think the live show for this album should have been "ZOO TV brought to you by your friends at POP MART - Remember, at POP MART we sell the world!" - and had the ZOO TV set with the Golden Arch and Giant Lemon UFO slapped in front of it with fake POP MART commercials on the giant video screens. Honesty when you listen to the albums Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop it all sounds like a trilogy

YOU GUYS HAVE MADE EXCELLENT MUSUC SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

Love this special bring some good memories...

The irony of it all was U2 would become the thing they never wanted to be in 2000 onwards, good, back in the 90's though? They were truly the best band on earth, Pop was sadly the last truly great thing they ever did.

@JeenFab

9 ай бұрын

@greengrugach1984 they actually never wanted to become what they became in the 90s either, in the 80s they tried to hold up this image of being a pure rock n roll band with 5 dollar tickets, but at one point they got so big they just blew that all up and there was zoo tv

great video love the music of U2

Adorei!!!!!

One of their better over looked albums ... all the songs are excellent pop rocks😂

Li amo da quando ero ragazzina,e continuerò ad amarli,sono il top del top.Grandi,meravigliosi e danno tanta emozione.

dennis hopper was a brilliant narrator!

Like queen with hot space a refreshing and different u2 album!

I remember recording this and lost the vhs tape, thanks for the upload

"Stick together a man and a woman" lyrics would probably be classed as transphobic or racist now, how far we've come now we are falling backwards fast.

@Autumn_Forest_

2 жыл бұрын

Amen! And the Joshua Tree would be considered too Christian (and therefore homophobic and anti-abortion) by today's moronic youth.

I still love this album, although they did actually release better versions of Please (Please is perhaps one of the greatest songs ever written) and Last Night on Earth when they were later released as singles, although I suspect these versions developed from the live versions they were doing on tour. My only regret here is that the band went on to regret this album and tour, leading them I think to go backwards since this, although they've had some great songs since (One Step Closer, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, In A Little While, New York, Magnificent, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Raised By Wolves).

@pant-hootingchimp8917

8 жыл бұрын

They don't regret the tour, from what I've read. They think the tour is one of their best ever, but they're dissatisfied with the Pop album because they couldn't finish it the way they wanted. Shame. I do like the album a lot. Not every track but there's some good stuff on it. The tour was brilliant. I love watching the Live In Mexico DVD. Apart from poor Bono suffering ongoing throat problems that tour he was still on fire, performance wise and the whole show is incredible! I wish they would be this adventurous again! :)

@CarlosBacardi

8 жыл бұрын

+Spader Holic I actually think from a musical. performance (e.g. Bullet the Blue Sky, even Pride, which they've generally played too slowly since the early 90s) and even visual point of view, PopMart was even better than Zoo TV, although Zoo TV's cultural impact couldn't have been bettered, simply because of how much it changed their image, surprised the industry and revived their career. PopMart was the first time I ever went to see a band, 2nd September 1997 (I think), at Murrayfield in Edinburgh.

@thebrightsideofthemoon5829

4 жыл бұрын

Wayne Baxter , I was at Murrayfield that tour , and Joshua tree. Celtic Park for Zoo TV, 2 nights at SECC for All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Hydro for Innocence and Experience. I could only hear Adams bass from my Saughton Prison cell in Edinburgh for their Vertigo tour ( gutted ) Still can’t believe they left Scotland out for the 2nd Joshua Tree tour 2018, after all we are their Celtic cousins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💚 🇮🇪

Since The Joshua Tree -Pop era was the best of U2 I miss experimental sounds by Eno.He gave them a fresh avant-garde sounds

@19:41 "musical nostaligia" - Bono, U2 of the 90's would have hated what they have become, no more avant-garde experimental amazing music now from them just corporate music now, 80 and especially 90's U2 were truly the best band on earth, they certainty did have "all the colours", 2000 onwards they've had a few flashes of their brilliance but not enough, they've released good records post 2000 but as the man said 'good is the enemy of great'.

To us it’s the risk of changing things but it’s exciting! Rather than the fear of “may be if we change something, something will go wrong". I think it’s more likely to go wrong if we don’t change. Adam

MIAMI! MY MAMMY POP IS A GREAT LP. IN FACT IT'S THE LAST GREAT U2 LP. EVERYTHING AFTER IS PLAYING SAFE AND TOO FORMULATED.

@joeldukes303

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

AT ZOO TV YOU COULD DO EVERYTHING!

I want to see Gone Live 😭😭😭😭😭

Not a well received album when it came out .. it’s a fantastic album ❤️❤️

10:55 - The joke about watching television soon wore off. Now it's a reality. £100 to watch TV with 10,000 other people isn't fun anymore.

@souldier6075

5 жыл бұрын

ZOO TV was something more for most off us. It was a true experience that never really got boring, even watching the ZOO TV live in Sydney is still a trip. Its more than just watching TV with a lot of people. That just my 2cents though.

33:50 PLEASE

Looking back in time and knowing i have know I guess they are a fan of Alvin Toffler

Said the pouper who has never got out of his head literally

@9:39: "Put your hands against the screen!"

u2u

The last great album that u2 made it

Oh yea... I love rattle and hum as well😁 maybe it's me!

Pick a round any round,meet the canvas.eduacating archie

First time I was ever disappointed with seeing U2 Live. In fairness it was early in their tour but the magic wasn't there. Like every album there are great songs on it and Pop does have those but it's not a cohesive work of art.

The hurricane prevented the phone call apology is a metaphor what ever that means

They did air this... It was the years worse ratings for that time period for ABC. I was shocked to hear that @ the time.

21:29, 21:45, 27:12, 29:24

@giovannisarro4758

4 жыл бұрын

The Core!

It did air

Remember the good auld days when men were men and panseys were flowers ,i remember the value of the human life was priceless now it’s a fix.sorry im annoyed and spooked

I think U2 are obviously huge but contemporary nah in music terms they need to get with the scene

Baille ath cliath go haillean,,,write a song about the state of Ireland

10:15 Oh dear, that wouldn't fly today...

I can see why ABC decided not to air this.

@chaseme65

6 жыл бұрын

Except they did air this. I watched it on ABC. It was, however, one of the lowest rated tv shows of the year.

Why destroy something like me?i done this myself

Yes - All Respects due here..But my taste in music include Simon & Garfunkel . !.

Not a bad record and certainly in its own unique category, but the hype machine didn’t do this record any good. I remember all the hoopla leading up to the release causing a big disappointment. Really wish they would have released it with a modest tour and no ABC special. I think it would have been better received.

POP was a flop. 🥳🎉

Achtung + ZOOropa + POPmart ...released 30 years too early.

POP was a great album, unfortunately it came after Achtung Baby which is considered by many to be one of the best albums ever, POP can be considered a "sophomore slump" IMHO because U2 essentially became a new band in 1991 But I think a lot of major bands hit a slump in the late 90s, mainstream music was a mixing pot of musical genres during that time