PopMart: Live from Mexico City

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PopMart: Live from Mexico City is a concert video release by rock band U2 from their PopMart Tour. Recorded on December 3, 1997 at Foro Sol on the band's featured stop in Mexico City, Mexico, it was released on VHS and Video CD in November 1998, and was re-released in September 2007 on DVD. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 1999.

Footage

The show opens with the non-dance version of "Mofo," and contains standard PopMart setlist inclusions. Bono forgets some of the lyrics of "Desire" during the acoustic set. While minor edits were made before release (such as Bono telling a fan to turn his laser pointer off at the end of "New Year's Day") this is the only U2 home video to date to contain a concert's complete setlist. Selected tracks from this performance were later released on the 2000 exclusive fan club-only live album, Hasta la Vista Baby!.

Captured on video, this concert is the only time that "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is not played on a Fender Stratocaster or Telecaster or "Bullet the Blue Sky" is not performed with a Fender Stratocaster (both are played with a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop).

Track listing

1. "Pop Muzik"
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)"
19. "Discothèque"
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"

"Pop Muzik" and "Lemon (Perfecto Mix)" are pre-recorded and played as the band makes its grand entrances through the audience at the beginning of the show and via mirrorball lemon for the first encore.

All songs written by U2, except for "Pop Muzik," written by Robin Scott's M.

DVD release

PopMart: Live from Mexico City was one of the first titles slated for release in the DVD format in 1997/98, and previews for it appeared on PolyGram DVDs of the time. But the PolyGram release was quietly canceled, leaving the DVD to languish until its re-release in September 2007, under the Island Records label. The DVD was released in a one and two-disc edition, similar to the DVD release of fellow U2 VHS to DVD release Zoo TV: Live from Sydney. Both editions feature the concert in its original 4:3 aspect ratio, remixed with Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, and PCM Stereo audio. The two-disc format features the following bonus features on disc two:

• Bonus Tracks
  • "Please," "Where the Streets Have No Name," "Discothèque" and "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" — taken live from Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, July 18, 1997
  • "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me," "Mysterious Ways" and "One" — taken live from Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, June 14, 1997
• Bonus Music Videos
  • "Staring at the Sun" (Miami Version)
    Directed by Morleigh Steinberg
  • "Last Night on Earth - First Night in Hell" (Remix Version)
    Directed by John Bland
• Documentaries
  • Lemon For Sale
  • The Road To Sarajevo
  • A Tour of the Tour
  • Last Night on Earth - One Day in Kansas
• PopMart Tour Visuals Montage
  Curated by Catherine Owens
• Extras
  • DVD-ROM features

Guitar equipment

• The Edge
  • Gibson Les Paul Custom
  • Rickenbacker 330-12
  • Gibson Les Paul Standard (goldtop)
  • Fender Stratocaster (various)
  • Taylor acoustic
  • Gretsch Country Gentleman
  • Fernandes Decade
  • Gretsch Country Classic.
• Bono
  • Gretsch Chet Atkins
  • Gibson ES-175 (red and blue)
  • Gibson Hummingbird