It’s a joke folks still dob’t get 25 years later. They thought Discotheque was a serious song 😂

Discotheque was a serious song it was a pre to Vertigo. Bono saw the future Rap and Dance are POP musik in 2024 In a way U2 we’re discovering what music and entertainment as a whole was gonna be like in 2024! Now everyone tours a Popmart show and people see it as the norm u2 really played futuristic music to everyone back in 1997!!!

+Stereotype23 absolutely agree with you. was just going to write something of the sort. I was in the two concerts they did in spain on that tour, and even realising then that their zootv must have been a bigger and more creative challenge, here they were still playing, taking risks. Imen, even now, just watching this, I can feel the same excitement as when some bits of it before going to the concerts. It´s there, you can feel it. They were alive. To me, they completaly lost with their next album,

Thé 90’s were my favorite too, I love zooropa and Pop very much

It’s called being in your 30s when your on top of the world, U2 now are nearly 60 and are family men , get your shit together dude

hahah c'mon!, it was a very needed "come back to basics" album more acustic, it was a good move a very nice album ... but sadly no more interesting things since then, from 2010 everything has been downhill

Yeah, very sincere; that's why they were pimping K-Mart and McDonalds on this tour.

Agreed and never will

B side to discotheque 🎊

Sounds very Verve-ish

No-Beanie Edge was left in the POP era of U2, along with “actually being cool”

I mean thereafter . Everything after pop was pandering to the critics. They lost their true selves.

They had the same reaction to rattle and hum in 1988

I think you mean guacamole

I forget the name of the actual affliction. But, basically.....his eyes are extremely sensitive to light

It's possible closed

I'm assuming like myself that you were born on the year this was broadcast?

That exact Kmart still exist in 2020. You can find it at 770 Broadway, East Village NYC. You can googlestreet behind the building on Lafayette St. and see the Kmart signs.

Ed Glenn except Pop wasn’t his prime, silly man

maybe it was Romeo Gigli glasses at that time

They were imitation copies of ‘80s Diesel Sunglasses. You could buy an all black version back in the ‘90s for a $1. Bono’s Yellow Lense ones I saw went for $5 in Atlantic City in the ‘90s..I have a pair of Red Plastic ones with black lenses I got as a kid in the 80’s.

The Japanese edition of POP has the same song with a different mix (called 'Guilty') as a bonus track. Its real expensive unless you're lucky to find it used on eBay.

On the discotheque single CD, there is a studio recorded version. Must be vary rare but I do have one.

yeah especially since they are all out of business

The fly

Actually, he said if they found a sponsor they didn't need to kiss ass to, they'd gladly take their money. So I guess they did. That's smart business.

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Couldn't agree more. Here are four extremely wealthy men who had, by then, consumed more than you ever will in your lifetime, ranting about consumerism in a shop where the low-income class can find good bargains, although these same four men will happily sell you their albums and tours. Doesn't get more confusing, hypocritical, condescending and out of touch than this. Why not give away their albums for free (which they later did but for marketing reasons only), or propose solutions against blind consumerism if that was their focus. (As a reminder, Bono later on made advertising for Louis Vuitton bags... Go figure.) Pop was a decent album although it needed more work and Popmart had lots of fun but the message once again was confusing and condescending and lacked a clear focus. It was a mess. Basically, with ZooTV and Zooropa, U2 managed to get the key to artistic freedom and could have gone in so many directions had they wanted to (ie. Passengers,). Yet, they didn't know what to do with this freedom, messed up on pop, and ultimately, went back into their golden cage by 2000 and threw away the key. They lost all relevance to me once ATYCTB came out. A shame.

@@bernardhenin I agree with most of this. I saw them on this tour (popmart) on Halloween in Detroit and it was pretty crazy....gigantic screen.....Bono wearing a Freddy Kreuger glove for the encore (lol), etc. Going from Zooropa, which I still hold as their best album IMO to Passengers, which was filled with interesting music and tangents.....the public interest in what U2 were going to do next was extremely high. Pop had some interesting moments and I did like the Disco-ish slant on some of the songs as I loved Disco when I was a little kid. But, overall....Pop was a swing and miss due to the fact that they had to book the tour a year in advance, so...essentially, they boxed themselves in with a hard deadline that they couldn't push back. They could have used an extra six months or so to flesh out more ideas and another six months to dial in the rehearsals and proper planning of the tour. This is essentially why those first few shows had so many technical difficulties and musical miscues, not enough rehearsal time. I admire their bravery on such a large reach to do nothing but stadiums, pretty ballsy at the time for that band to do. I never went to another U2 show after the Popmart tour, but from what I could see...the 360 Tour was essentially the Popmart tour on steroids. Would have been cool to see that tour. I'm definitely in agreement that the next album and tour in 2001 was a step back to more familiar territory for the band. That trifecta of albums, Achtung Baby, Zooropa, and Passengers should have been the linchpin to greater things, new avenues to explore musically, etc. Some of the best artists (Bowie, Neil Young, etc.) had that level of uncertainty to them, you didn't know where they were going to go next. I loved that about them and U2 definitely had that ability as well. I can hear the argument that U2 figured out what they were best at by the time 2001 came along and decided to stay in their lane going forward, but it's still a shame to me when you listen to their 90's output on what could have been for them in the 2000's and beyond.

@@furnitureconsortium I will never understand the lack of self awareness in this fandom. Imagine talking about Passengers like it's one of the albums, lol. Worst fandom in the world.

Only to most of us Americans, who don't appreciate art. But PopMart as a production did get better as time went on. The early part wasn't as good, because of the album, which wasn't ready to be finished, and the mistake of letting their manager at the time book tour dates before the album was finished, which also cut into rehearsal time. But overall the shows were pretty good, and the official tour video "PopMart Live in Mexico City" is something the band are very proud of.