Buenos Aires 05-02-1998

Estadio River Plate

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

05 - February - 1998.

Attendance: 53.495 (sellout) - Support: Babasónicos, Illa Kuriaki, The Balderramas

Disc 1 (62:23)

01. Mofo

02. I Will Follow

03. Gone

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Last Night on Earth

06. Until the End of the World

07. New Year's Day

08. Pride (In the Name of Love)

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

10. All I Want is You

11. Staring at the Sun

12. Sunday Bloody Sunday

13. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (60:39)

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

10. Mothers of the Disappeared

Recording Equipment - History

Sonic Studios DSM6s + Sony TCD-D100 > DAT Master > CDR-Master > EAC > WAV > FLAC

Comments

A decent recording overall of the first of three nights in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Sound is clear but quite harsh, too. I have been told this show could be taped with the gear inside a bag placed on the ground. However, sound quality is better than expected, with pretty good sharpness. It just brings some reverb and high-end clipping, and an annoying warbling noise here and there, as explained in the next comments (by Petergoode and Justin Cook):

-- A bottom-tier recording from the PopMart Tour. The sound is strong, but the vocals are a bit distant. Clarity is good but not great. Audience noise is a bit of a disturbance at times. 'Mofo' cuts in during the last verse, so Disc 1 Track 1 is only 58 seconds long. During the quieter moments a slight warbling can be heard. The warbling is much more pronounced during 'Even Better than the Real Thing.' Before 'Last Night on Earth' begins it sounds like someone is walking on the recorder with a pair of spurs. The high end sounds a bit hollow, likely the result of some noise reduction somewhere in the lineage of this recording. 'Mothers of the Disappeared' cuts out at 3:05. There are brief skips during New Year's Day, and I Still Haven't Found. It runs a bit fast at Where the Streets Have No Name. --