PopMart New Jersey - Night One

Giants Stadium

East Rutherford (New Jersey), USA.

31 - May - 1997.

Attendance: 46.650 (sellout) - Support: Fun Lovin' Criminals, Longpigs

Disc 1 (63:19)

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Gone

06. Pride (In the Name of Love)

07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

08. Stand by Me

09. Last Night on Earth

10. Until the End of the World

11. If God Will Send His Angels

12. Staring at the Sun

13. - Daydream Believer  (karaoke) -

14. Miami

15. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (50:14)

01. Please

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

04. Discothèque

05. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

06. With or Without You

07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

08. Mysterious Ways

09. One

Comments

This was the first of three concerts in East Rutherford (NJ, USA) at the famous Giants Stadium. This show was the only one that was a soldout, with the second one being almost a soldout, and the third too far from being it. This version was sped-up by Chris Wolf, as the pitch was too slow. These are Chris Wolf's comments, taken from his trading website:

"Source: Earfeed > unknown recording device > CD-R > SHN > WAV > Goldwave pitch adjustment > SHN.

Here is another one of those hoarded earpiece recordings to pop up. This one sounds pretty good, except that it played way too slow. I fixed that. All I did to this recording was correct the play back speed, and adjusted the track listing a little bit. Originally, disc 1 contained a full version of Please and the beginning intro of Where the Streets Have No Name. Disc 2 then started off with Please again. This seemed redundant and silly to me, so I just finished disc 1 with Bullet the Blue Sky. The recording levels at times are too high, and the recording is distorted in spots, but it is not something to really worry about. There are a few drop-outs here and there, but that can be expected with an earfeed recording. I think this one was recorded from The Edge's feed, as his guitar and vocals are very loud in the mix. When he sings he is usually drowning out Bono. This was the last time they performed the full band version of Staring at the Sun."

Well, this one sounds quite powerful, but saturated in some spots. During Mofo, volume fluctuates a bit, until getting the right level, as Pop Muzik sounded distant and pretty low. Mofo contains some seconds of nasty skipping, and a good portion of saturation. The Lemon Intermission also contains huge portions of distortion. There are pops between a few of the tracks. As Chris mentiond above, it seems to come from Edge's earpiece, because when he sings, he really overcomes Bono's voice.