U2 * Pop - Hong Kong Mixes (Early Takes from 1996)
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2015
- Video Promocional creado para Island Records, para de alguna manera, mostrar lo que vendría en POP.
Richie Smyth: Early days on the Pop album Paul needed a piece to show the record company what was coming down the line. i shot the band recording and mixed it with B-Movie footage. Howie B came in as vibe master and Flood and Nellee gave me very early mixes to work with. The last footage from Cuba was shot by the late great Donal Gilligan.
i shot on super 16mm and Super 8mm over 2 days.
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Director: Richie Smyth
Música: U2
℗ 1996 PolyGram & © 1996 Island Records
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MOFO sounds good in this form. Also, sounds a lot more like Zooropa than what it ended up sounding. All in all, Pop is their most underrated album.
U2 are crazy🤣. They need to release all the Zooropa/Pop demos immediately. There’s so many hidden gems in there I know it.
The irony is that U2 been tryna be cool for decades. POP was/ is that album. If only they could see themselves. Iris pun intended. Always listen to the mother 🧐
If there’s one thing U2’s POP needs now, it’s a super deluxe box set. Original album plus outtakes (including the ones heard here), B-sides, single versions, and some other stuff they may have lying around in the vaults.
I'd love to hear the 'baby' versions of Pop
@@BBRemixes so would I. Pop was the first U2 album I bought when I started working and played it through my first hi-fi separates. I missed out on the tour though
When you’re right.
Maybe a box set with Zooropa, Passengers, and Pop era outtakes,
not to mention renditions of the one-off tracks from this period,
like Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.
incredible. would be great to get an alternative version of POP with those early mixes.
They’ve missed the boat. They could have made a cool 2-3 disc Pop 25 Deluxe album.
But like Rattle and Hum, and all things that have experienced less than stellar marks from the masses…. They ignore it like a failed experiment.
Sad, that.
So many tasty bits on Pop.
I absolutely love this era of the band.
0:20 Mofo
1:51 I'm not your baby
2:45 Miami
3:22 Do you feel loved
4:03 Playboy mansion
....Last Great U2 album.....Happy 18th Birthday, POP....timeless and priceless !!!!
m3cfister I'm totally agree with you!
Well said!
+Giovanni Sarro Thank you !!!
I love so much "Pop (1997)" and i think too that this album is a masterpiece, but IMO the last great U2 album is the sucessor of "Pop", the album "All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)".
IMO 2 Masterpieces that U2 released in sequence, i even think that Pop (1997) is better than Zooropa (1993)
@@LucasLima-ov4mq agree
The sound of four guys chopping down The Joshua Tree, then using the scraps to build a lemon-shaped spaceship chapel so they can travel between the pink and blue shores of Miami and the glitter-ball neon desert of Las Vegas. Truly Mesmerizing. Thank you for uploading this gem highlighting the visceral rawness of what the Pop album could have been. 👍🏼 🍋
Amazing sound. As has been the case with every album after Zooropa, they kept tinkering and polishing and removing the raw edges for the sake of mass consumption, I assume.
Pop is an incredible trip. Like in Field of Dreams, not everyone can see it. That's what I love about it.
This Is *Incredible*.....All POP rarities Should be released on CD and *FLAC/WAV* - Download *ASAP* !!!! NO lossy crap, Please !
I agree. POP album deserves DVD-A version multichannel/ remastered
While I love Pop way way way more than the haters, the more raw songs heard here (Mofo, Do You Feel Loved and The Playboy Mansion) sound far better than the over-processed ones on the final release.
While I won't say they sound "far greater", they are certainly diamonds in the rough. Would love to have a deluxe version of Pop that includes early outtakes.
EJ Spode while I love the technofied version of Mofo that was ultimately released, this one is like a blend of hip-hop and punk.
para mi, P🍋P fue el ultimo de los grandes albumes de U2, lo sigo escuchando y me sigue sonando tan grandioso como en aquel 97
Raw, bold, experimental, cool, badass, supreme...
looks like they were expecting POP to be an absolute Blockbuster Album with a Blockbuster Tour to follow.
It was. 🙄
@@Dave1031 fecking right it was, best shows I've ever seen and my favourite U2 album by a mile, still the album I put on for my friends to shie them just how good U2 were.
Look I'm straight but who's d*** do I have to suck to get these demos?!? Ill suck a bag full no bother to get a listen to these Pop demos, last truly amazing thing U2 ever did, they should maybe have kept Nellee Hooper as the main producer but still a phenomenal record, I remember when it came out I was 14 or 15, I put it on for my mates who didn't like U2 and they all wanted a copy of Discotheque, Do You Feel Loved, Mofo, Please, Miami and Wake Up Dead Man, they never wanted any U2 songs before or since and I've now after 24 years given up hope they have just one more in them, I don't think that's possible now and while they do some good songs now still that's all they are, good, they used to be great, blessings from Dublin to you all yeh 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
This guy gets it. Pass the bag, mate.
@@benk9947 😂 happy belated new year brother, respect to ye, hope life is treating you well in this mad woke old world.
This just proves my point that from Pop onwards, U2 got into a habit of massively overthinking and overcooking their albums. Maybe if they hadn't spent so long re-mixing and then mixing again and then un-remixing and then re-re-mixing and then doing a final mix on the way to the mastering lab, this album would've been more successful and true to what it was originally meant to be. Don't get me wrong, the final product is still INFINTIELY more imaginative and innovative and worth listening to than practically everything they've ever done since but from listening to this, it sounds like they lost the essence of what the album was supposed to be at some point along the way.
I think they should've used Zooropa as a model for how to make albums as far as time scale and creativity goes. Just ride that first massive wave of creativity for as long as it lasts and then dive off and get the album out there. Don't ride the wave in until it no longer exists and then sit on the beach wasting time waiting for the next one which might never come...
Peak U2 imo, Pop was their last truly great album, they've been good since here and there but back then they were the greatest band on earth , I recommend The Foals, 'My Number' 'Inhaler' 'Spanish Sahara' 'Mountain at my Gates' but you probably already know them, respect from Dublin.
Oh yeah. U2 1990-97 was badass.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY *POP* !!!! Timeless and priceless !!!!
wow, this stuff sounds so interesting.... I bet there are a good few gems from the pop sessions to yet be discovered.
William Sauer If only they'd release them !!!
Maybe they'll do a remaster next year for the 20th anniversary and include some unreleased songs or early mixes (a al Kindergarten Baby). They could also include this promo clip and the ABC TV special A Year In POP.
I wish they would release a special 2-CD 20th anniversary edition of Pop, like they did with Achtung Baby but as they didn't do that for Zooropa in 2013 I have my doubts with Pop. I hope I'm wrong though. Pop is a great album but I'm sure they left off some even greater songs or versions of songs that could have been on that album!
A lot of what ended up on Passengers and Pop was inspired by the band’s time in Tokyo at the tail end of the Zoo TV tour in December 1993 (see U2 At the End of the World by Bill Flanagan).
With that in mind,
I have constructed a hybrid of those records that might’ve been a double album in a parallel universe.
I call it Shinjuku,
based on an area of Tokyo that Bono mentioned in a Much Music interview after the last Zoo TV tour show.
I really emphasize the dance mix vibe upfront.
Pop Muzik
Mofo {some blend of the album version and the Mother’s Mix}
Discotheque {DM Deep Extended Club Mix}
•
Do You Feel Loved
Gone
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Last Night On Earth {First Night in Hell}
United Colours
Elvis Ate America
•
Staring At the Sun
Theme from Let’s Go Native
I’m Not Your Baby
Hallelujah
Corpse {These Chains Are Way Too Long}
Wake Up Dead Man
If God Will Send His Angels
One Minute Warning {featuring Holi}
•
Beach Sequence
Miss Sarajevo
Ito Okashi {featuring Holi}
Slug
Your Blue Room
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
I see it as starting in the nightclub,
then on the bullet train home,
waking up hungover,
on the beach,
followed by a quiet night in.
The Popmart tour EP would’ve included
Miami,
The Playboy Mansion,
Mofo {Mother’s Mix},
and the rock version of Discotheque.
Please and North and South of the River fit thematically yet feel outside of the non-political vibe of this collection.
That could’ve been a separate single.
Good one! I always thought Zooropa and Pop should have been a double Album with the more electronic and the rather traditional Songs seperated from each other.
Dancealbum
1. Zooropa
2. Pop Muzik (as some sort of Skit)
3. Mofo (but closer to the Liveversion from Mexico)
4. Discoteque
5. Numb
6. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
7. Dirty Day (Junk Day Mix)
8. Do you feel Loved?
9. Miami (Also more like the Live version)
10. Lemon
11. Hold Me, Thrill Me
Normal Album
1. The first Time
2. Staring At The Sun
3. Holy Joe (Garage Mix)
4. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
5. Gone
6. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
7. If God WIll Send His Angels
8. Last Night On Earth (Including that kickass Solo they used to play Live)
9. Please (Single Mix)
10. Wake Up Dead Man
11. The Wanderer (Hidden Track)
Mofo {some blend of the album version and the Mother’s Mix}
Discotheque {DM Deep Extended Club Mix}
•
Do You Feel Loved
Gone
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Last Night On Earth {First Night in Hell}
United Colours
Elvis Ate America
•
"Playboy..." HONG KONG '96 sessions
Theme from Let’s Go Native
and THATS IT. Thats your POP CD.
Love that analog delay slowing down in Mofo! Sounds so cool.
Really like the sound of the metal blasts under Mofo. What a shame that version wasn't properly recorded.
Fantastic!
*Love POP!!!*
The grestest mistake U2 made going into this album was to give away so many great songs to other artists or projects instead of keeping them for the Pop album, they gave away half of the album, Miss Sarajevo, Thieve of your heart, Goldeneye, In the name of the father, Your blue room, I'm not yout baby, Hmtmkmkm, Holy Joe. What an album it could have been.
A Super Deluxe reissue could help remedy some of the problems you have identified.
They didn't give away "Miss Sarajevo" and "Your Blue Room"; they released them under the Passengers moniker on Original Soundtracks 1 (OS1). Now OS1 *should* have been released as a U2 album, IMHO (a few months before its release, it was listed in a Tower Records computer as an upcoming U2 album titled Always Forever Now), but they chose not to do that in the end, unfortunately.
Also, I believe "Goldeneye" was created specifically for the movie itself; to my understanding, it was not a track they had in development that they just gave the filmmakers. The same is also true of "In the Name of the Father," I think.
Fantástico !!!
Last of the great U2 CDs ... The Polygram behemoth took over Island Records in '96. Time to put on yer big boy pants, son. U2 got their $70 MILLION contract ($500 million today), but no more fkn' around, Polygram wants bankable HITS!!!
Why didn't we get a Pop box set for the 20th anniversary? :(
Epic! I💜u2!
That mix of MOFO is great .... Larry vibing along! Get well mate!
We're SOON approaching *POP*'s 19th birthday (4th of March) !!!! Happy Birthday to U2's greatest album : *POP* !!!!
6 years later, the world has gone mad woke and I hope life is treating you well, Pop will forever be the last truly incredible U2 album, my favourite by a mile, I just can't get excited about the glorified remix album Songs of Predictability, one bloody song off pop and its one of the only two duds on that epic album the other being Playboy Mansion, respect from Dublin 🇮🇪🤝🌎
@@greengrugach1984 Total respect from Romania, Brother !
@@cristian.ilie.018 mighty Romania, defenders of Europe for millenia and STILL holding the line for Europe 🇮🇪🤝🇷🇴 you have no idea how much you warriors are respected here and we are grateful, the globalists would erase all of our culture given their way, so on behalf of Ireland and the rest of Europe THANK YOU!!! my friend Gabor is from there, I will visit one day soon, beautiful country that puts Ireland to shame, God bless you brother 🙏
@@greengrugach1984 Thank You ! My IG name is the same as my YT name, the one after ”@” ! Cant type these here, YT keeps deleting my comments ! God Bless ! Im also on facebook , same name ! Join the tribe !
@@cristian.ilie.018 I'll find you brother, much respect for the invite, God bless ye warrior 🙏
this version sounds awesome!
I'm Not Your Baby really should have been on this album. The version with Sinead is nice but the instrumental is one the coolest things from these sessions. Sounds even better here with just the Bono gibberish over it.
I think U2 needs to go to South America or something, do some drugs, and produce a stoner album. They could use something like that.
They did. And the album was called “Original Soundtracks 1” by Passengers 🙃
@@jjwankenobi great call !!
Passengers is one hell of a drug
Last of the great U2 CDs ... The monster label Polygram took over Island Records in '96. Time to put on yer big boy pants, kiddos. U2 got their $70 MILLION contract ($500 million today), but no more fkn' around. Polygram wants bankable HITS!! PERIOD!!!
Happy 23rd Birthday to *POP* !!!!!!!
great !!!
this is gold
Wow... let's see, I hear Mofo, Gone (?), Miami, Discotheque (?), and The Playboy Mansion. This is all so interesting, I'd love to hear more of it!
+Matthew LaTorre At 0:37 Edge and Adam are playing the riff that would eventually become 'Do You Feel Loved'.
Matthew LaTorre the second one is I'm not your Baby
Se o U2 não lancar essas demos eu voto para que algum fã use uma IA pra completar essas músicas. Isso é muito foda. Muito Rock n Roll.
SUPERB.........
Magic
Pure Magic !!!!
Espero que cuando saquen la reedición del disco, esa versión rockera de MOFO esté incluida...
Abel Israel Cruz Ayuso Y yo tambien !!!
Pop is the last great U2 album. It’s my favorite.
Same, respect from Dublin 🇮🇪🤝🌎 I've been waiting over a quarter of a century for U2 to blow my mind again but no, they haven't, I'm closing in on 40 now, time to let go.
@@greengrugach1984 There’s a new 40 track retrospective coming mid March. “Reimagined” versions of their songs. Sounds pretty tacky.
@@KRAZEEIZATION ah mate it sounds abysmal, we can all guess how they are going to sound, all slowed down, woker lyrics, less electric guitar, acoustics self indulgent tat, if the Beautiful Day and Pride are their best mixes of the tracks we've heard a 100 times already are the standard I'll pass on it, tacky and cringe move my friend
@@greengrugach1984 It should bd called “Songs of Repetition”!
@@KRAZEEIZATION 😂 bloody right
Back when U2 had a pair of bollox.
need for the sake of my sanity this playboy mansion demo! just give me the price!!!!
the "I'm not your baby" song with vocals is available on the Sinead Oconnor collaborations album....vocals by Sinead and Bono. The other mixes should one day be released, maybe 2027? Pop deluxe edition please.
I love POP. Pity there was not a 20th Anno version with extra tracks etc! Scummy!
Yeah.......I feel the same !
don't forget the "im not your baby" thrown in there.
Literally everything here is better than what ended up on the album
Everything on Pop is infinitely better than the predictable music they've released 2000 onwards, Pop was U2's last masterpiece, flashes of brilliance on each album but few and far between, the nearest they got is NLOTH and that's a good album, Pop was a great album, it's brave, experimental and 25 years ahead of it's time, you can actually hear Larry and Adam, who were incredible on this album, Discotheque, DYFL, Mofo, IGWSHA, Staring at the Sun, Please, Last Night on Earth, Gone, Miami (incredible live), Velvet Dress, Gone, Wake up Dead Man, Holy Joe should have made the album instead of the only dud on the album Playboy Mansion, the Popmart tour was truly incredible, i was 14 when Pop released March 1997 and it was the first U2 album i bought and it blew me away, my friends who only like dance and hiphop love the album, they dont like any of the new ones, 90's U2 were the best band on earth, now they are good but they used to be great, it's just taste mate, i prefer when U2 are brave and experimental rather than predictable, been waiting for a quarter of a century for them to blow me away again but each record they've released has been overdone, too many cooks, trying too hard to get hit singles but they used to be better, as Bono said in 1994 at the grammys "....we will continue to abuse our position and f***** up the mainstream" now they are part of the mainstream, regardless of our different views i wish you well and respect from D9 Ireland 🇮🇪
why their demos sound so potent
Questi U2 non esistono più.
Loro stessi li hanno sotterrati.
Peccato!
What's that song that Bono sings "I'm not your baby"?
Its called I'm not your baby :\
The end of violence soundtrack, look that czcams.com/video/FdZGIimB1Ik/video.html
What the...????
Please help, I really really cannot find the song that is played between 2:45 and 3:07 and I really am a die-hard U2 fan but I cannot find this damn part anywhere.
sounds like an early demo for Miami
It because Miami as the person above wrote already, respect from Dublin to you both.
Over time Edge now starting ti looks like Spock lol Bono aged disastrously and continues Larry turned into a overly serious faced disabled uncool drum snob and Adam still keeps it too Posh for This World 😆
FUCKING BADASS