Popmart
Legs (4): Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe, Leg 3: North America, Leg 4: Rest Of The World
Shows: 111
  1. Fantastic time...I still love the Popmart era, the clothing, the stage, the Pop-Album...for me one of the best moments off all times with U2 is the legendary 2nd night in Dublin 1997, the show, where Princess Diana died early in the morning in Paris.
  2. The tour got off to a rocky start ,up to that point U2 rarely had negative criticism aimed at them apart from sections of the British press but they were under rehearsed and it took them a while to nail the songs live ,had the album done well in the US they would still be playing it live .



  3. Looks like how they were going to look when the lemon opened up
  4. How the hell has it been 23 years? I remember that Popmart announcement like it was yesterday. I was 14 at the time. My cousin called me and said "Turn on MTV, U2 are playing in a K-Mart!" I thought "WTF??" Sure enough, there it was!! I was so excited that they were touring, and that they actually were going to perform in my city (Columbus). That was a great time for my formative years, and a great time for U2!! I will always be a Pop/Popmart fan of the highest order!!
  5. Without challenging or criticising your perspective, this was the moment U2 almost lost me as a fan. It just felt like Eno was having too much influence and taking them too far left of their original fan base with esoteric artiness. But I persevered and, much later, came to appreciate the dark lyricism of Pop.
  6. POP esoteric? really?
  7. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Without challenging or criticising your perspective, this was the moment U2 almost lost me as a fan. It just felt like Eno was having too much influence and taking them too far left of their original fan base with esoteric artiness. But I persevered and, much later, came to appreciate the dark lyricism of Pop.
    Might want to check again on the producers of this album. I’m pretty sure Brian Eno wasn’t involved on this one.
  8. Flood, Howie B Produced this album,
  9. Esoteric: understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest.

    Yeah right, dressing like the Village People for your first single and launching your world tour in a K-mart store made easy sense to everybody.
  10. He may not have produced that album but he'd had a huge influence on them for over 10 years that saw them become increasingly less familiar to their 80s fans from AB to Zooropa to Passengers. Pop felt like another step away again, under his influence, if not through hands on production credits.

    It's easy to look back now and call the 90s their golden era but they disengaged a lot of early fans and perplexed many in the industry at that time with their new sound.