U2 - Popmart Live From Mexico City (Limited Edition) (Deluxe Version) (DVD)

Advantages: A great concert with surprisingly good special features.
Disadvantages: A few finicky menu screens

...If you think U2's just about 'Vertigo' and 'Beautiful Day', buy this. Visually and sonically, this DVD is stunning. For a start, the stage set is overblown and ridiculous - a forty-foot lemon, a huge McDonald's-style arch, and so on - but the music is more than big enough to take it on, especially given the huge improvement in the remastered sound. Let me take a quick tour round some of the highlights. The opener, Mofo, will blow your mind if you've not heard this sort of thing from U2 before - in fact, even if you have, the Mexico City version is arguably one of the best. A totally stripped-down Sunday Bloody Sunday solo by The Edge is just one example of the reinvention that the warhorses of the U2 setlist have undergone. 'One' is one of the best performances of that song ever, and the combination of Please followed by Streets is... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic quality live show.
Disadvantages: Could feature more insight.

...2006: There's a chill in the air, the leaves are on the ground and the stores already have holiday music playing. All of this can mean only thing—a new U2 product has hit the shelves. U2, no doubt having great success with the multiple versions of 2004's release of "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," have released two versions of the companion live DVD. The regular edition comes packaged with only the concert DVD while the deluxe version includes a second disc with the "Beyond the Tour" documentary, show designer Willie Williams's surveillance cuts and an alternate version of "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" by Phil Joanou. I wish, however, that there had been a supreme deluxe version that had the members of U2 sitting down for a candid interview about the tour. Perhaps next time guys? The extras on the bonus disc are... Read review

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Advantages: A great deal, see review
Disadvantages: minor details really, see review

...baby" and "Zooropa". From 1990 to 2000, U2 made 5 original albums ("Achtung Baby" [1991]; "Zooropa" [1993]; "Passengers" [1995]; "Pop" [1997]; "All that you can't leave behind" [2000]).There are two best of U2 divided into two periods : 1980-1990 & 1990-2000 and songs which do not appear on U2 albums but on films soundtrack. If you compare the CD and the DVD, you'll note that there are more videos on this DVD, that's why I find it definitely more interesting. The main difference is that on the CD, you'll find the song "The first time" (which first appeared on "Zooropa") and as for the limited edition, a number of b-sides and remixes whereas they are not on the DVD. To be honest, I don't remember exactly when I bought this DVD and how much it was. I remember that a friend had lent me hers but I definitely wanted mine. So, I found it... Read review

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