U2
September 23, 1997
Kosevo Stadium
Sarajevo
Source: FM
Quality: Awesome
Lineage: Silver CD "Sarajevo" > EAC > flac (8) > wav > Steinberg ME > Har-Bal
> Waves S1 & L3 > CD Wave > TLH > flac (6) > wav > mp3@192 (itunes)
TRACK LIST
01. Theme M:I > Pop Muzik
02. Mofo
03. I Will Follow
04. Gone
05. Even Better Than The Real Thing
06. Last Night On Earth
07. Until The End Of The World
08. New Year's Day
09. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For > Stand By Me
11. All I Want Is You
12. Staring At The Sun
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Bullet The Blue Sky
15. Please
16. Where The Streets Have No Name
17. Lemon [Perfecto Mix]
18. Discotheque
19. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
20. With Or Without You
21. Miss Sarajevo
22. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
23. Mysterious Ways
24. One
25. Unchained Melody
Several versions of this show are circulating, mostly FM recordings.
I've also seen an incomplete pre-FM source and a remaster by the great thir13en with
four damaged tracks, but I've never heard the complete show in good quality.
To my ears, WW1 didn't do an excellent job EQ-wise. It just didn't sound like U2.
In addition the first track is damaged because Edge's voice was mixed in much too loud,
suppressing the music. Moreover, the FM recording I had suffered from about twenty tiny gaps,
digiclicks and fades. The SA showed a big drop at 16kHz, but it doesn't look worse to me
than a lot of other FM or SBD recordings I've seen.
This show is very emotional and to me the best and most enjoyable of the Popmart era.
Worth a lot of trouble to get things right. I ran the low-end through a compressor to a
chieve a warm and tight low. I used the Steinberg "Spectralizer" to gain some clarity.
The Har-Bal EQ was used to achieve a more natural sound. All in all, it sounds like U2
playing in a stadium now: big, rich and detailed. Finally I repaired the clicks and gaps,
and glued the different parts together to a seamless show. No fades halfway the show:
if you want to burn it, apply fades where you want them with Nero.
Enjoy & play it loud.
noiseless