This listing is for U2 Popmart Live From Mexico City VHS Video Tape.
Label: Polygram Video – 058 302-3, Island Records – 058 302-3
Format: VHS, PAL, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Nov 22, 1998
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Arena Rock
Tracklist:
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
18a Lemon (Perfecto Mix) (Intro)
18b Discothèque
19 If You Wear That Velvet Dress
20 With Or Without You
21 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
22 Mysterious Ways
23 One
24 Wake Up Dead Man
PopMart: Live from Mexico City is a concert film by Irish rock band U2. It was shot on 3 December 1997 at Foro Sol in Mexico City, Mexico, during their PopMart Tour. 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 2000. Select songs from the release were featured on the 2000 live album Hasta la Vista Baby! U2 Live from Mexico City. 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 that contains 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!
Rob Brunner of Entertainment Weekly said that "unless your living room is the size of the Mexican stadium where this show was shot... the TV version of the PopMart behemoth will seem numbingly excessive, despite energetic versions of 'Where the Streets Have No Name' and 'New Year's Day'". Ben Wener of the Orange County Register said the video "convincingly argues that the much-ballyhooed south of the border jaunt.. wasn't as bad as first imagined" and that though it is unlikely to change fans' minds about their "mediocre tunes" of the time, "it does prove that, in the show's best moments, U2 was trying to accomplish something beyond flash and kitsch". Lawrie Zion of The Age said, "though hardly groundbreaking, the Popmart tour turned out to be an above-average fan pleaser and the video shows a band that obviously knows how to get the most out of the stadium environment". She singled out the Edge's solo performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" as the highlight.
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