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PopMart: Live from Mexico City

U2 · 1998

242 min · 44 tracks · alternative rock

Dance-floor electronics and arena-rock guitars meet beneath the glow of PopMart’s giant screen.

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Top tracks — play these first

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    Pop Muzik Start here — accessible entry with immediate hook
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    Mofo — The Pop track opens the concert proper with a hard electronic pulse, announcing how thoroughly the tour has absorbed dance music.
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday — The Edge takes the lead vocal in a stripped-back solo performance, providing a stark contrast to the surrounding spectacle.
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    Please — The politically charged Pop song stretches into a dramatic live arrangement before the transition into Where the Streets Have No Name.
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    Discothèque — Arriving after the mirrorball-lemon interlude, its dance-rock groove makes the tour’s collision of club culture and arena theater explicit.
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    Wake Up Dead Man — The closing song replaces the encore’s carnival atmosphere with a spare prayer addressed to an absent Christ.

Elevation

Our rating, out of 100 — and why.

AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.

57 /100
Foothills
Higher than 6% of albums we've rated

The album captures U2's live energy but lacks cohesive flow due to its mix of remixes and live tracks.

Composition 25% of the score
6/10

the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics

Craft 20% of the score
7/10

production, performance, arrangement

Durability 25% of the score
5/10

whether it rewards returning to it

Distinctiveness 18% of the score
6/10

whether it sounds like itself

Sequencing 12% of the score
4/10

running order, pacing, length

Influence 6/10

Significant within its genre. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.

Is this for you?

Good fit if you like

  • vibrant live performance energy
  • theatrical visuals enhancing experience
  • dancing through dynamic crescendos
  • anthemic sing-alongs with friends
  • immersive dual listening sessions

Maybe skip if you

  • prefer concise standalone tracks
  • seek quiet, introspective moments

Where this album fits

In the catalog
Fan Favorite — Beloved live album showcasing U2's ambitious stagecraft and performance energy.
Themes
Mexico City spectacle· social justice anthems· multimedia performance art
Career context
Released in 1998, this concert film documents U2’s PopMart tour following their 1997 album Pop. The Mexico City performance brought the band’s electronic experiments into an arena spectacle while revisiting songs from their earlier career.
Stylistic neighbors
Coldplay· Radiohead· The Killers
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Tracklist

Disc 1

  • 1 Pop Muzik Start here 4:31
  • 2 Mofo 4:45
  • 3 I Will Follow 2:59
  • 4 Gone 4:46
  • 5 Even Better Than the Real Thing 4:32
  • 6 Last Night on Earth 6:21
  • 7 Until the End of the World 5:03
  • 8 New Year’s Day 5:03
  • 9 Pride (In the Name of Love) 3:40
  • 10 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For 6:08
  • 11 All I Want Is You 3:18
  • 12 Desire 2:24
  • 13 Staring at the Sun 5:58
  • 14 Sunday Bloody Sunday 3:56
  • 15 Bullet the Blue Sky 6:04
  • 16 Please 7:04
  • 17 Where the Streets Have No Name 7:26
  • 18 Lemon (Perfecto mix) (part 1) 3:21
  • 19 Lemon (Perfecto mix) (part 2) 2:21
  • 20 Discothèque 5:35
  • 21 If You Wear That Velvet Dress 2:49
  • 22 With or Without You 7:54
  • 23 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me 5:44
  • 24 Mysterious Ways 6:29
  • 25 One 5:37
  • 26 Wake Up Dead Man 2:47

Disc 2

  • 1 Lemon for Sale (documentary) 5:10
  • 2 The Road to Sarajevo (documentary) 8:02
  • 3 A Tour of the Tour (documentary) 14:02
  • 4 Last Night on Earth – An Inside View (documentary) 4:19
  • 5 Please (live at Rotterdam) 6:41
  • 6 Where the Streets Have No Name (live at Rotterdam) 9:25
  • 7 Lemon (Perfecto mix) (live at Rotterdam) 1:59
  • 8 Discothèque (live at Rotterdam) 5:55
  • 9 If You Wear That Velvet Dress (live at Rotterdam) 2:39
  • 10 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (live at Edmonton) 5:41
  • 11 Mysterious Ways (live at Edmonton) 6:05
  • 12 One (live at Edmonton) 6:11
  • 13 Staring at the Sun (Miami version) 4:37
  • 14 Last Night on Earth – First Night in Hell 5:52
  • 15 Popmart Tour Visuals Montage 18:54
  • 16 All Kinds of Everything (karaoke version) 3:00
  • 17 Please (live mural cut) 5:52
  • 18 Visual Stage Tour 1:56

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