U2 - PLEASE live in Rotterdam

U2 - PLEASE live, MTV European Video Music Awards, 6 november 1997 in Ahoy Rotterdam

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[KOALAsounds]

the dark U2=their best tracks

[Wileylikethehawk]

I always have to laugh when guitarists say that The Edge isn't a good guitarist. He isn't a shredder, no - but what we are seeing in this video is absolute _mastery_ of guitar, end of story, full stop. Such great playing from everyone in this one.

[Lucas Rodrigues]

Pop indeed intends to pay tribute to club culture and music, the first three tracks were essencially about it - it's not mocking nor ironic, it's serious.

It's a heavy record which deals with contemporary issues with brightness, loveless sex (Do You Feel Loved), fame and self (Gone, MOFO), mídia and spirituality (Staring At The Sun, Last Night on Earth - see the video), consumism and religion (If God Will Send His Angels, The Playboy Mansion) with dark imagery overall. It's a status-quo picture

[TheToppstv]

right, this was just after princess diana's death

[Hiphopnrap71]

Just to add I first saw them at the Milton Keynes bowl in the 80's..but didn't realise what I was seeing and hearing...love vertigo tour aswell,crazy ass muzik in a crazy time for the world...please support the ONE organisation and RED..lets end all this shit forever...peace

[Hiphopnrap71]

Live at the pop mart tour and zoo was amazing,and I'm a die hard old school hip hop fan...but these lot are amazin..thought provoking and insightful..

[82bigall]

I completely agree, I was 15 when pop came out and I loved it, especially staring at the sun. I remember it being so relevant to the troubles in Northern Ireland and all the trouble in the balkands, I tried to play the guitar like the edge but i stuck to the simple chords of Oasis instead

[Kelly Draper]

I love you U2 OMG is the gratest or what?

[szabomiklos]

masterpiece.

[veg1024]

By the way, this is U2 almost 20 years into their existence. Show me another rock band who puts out this kind of quality and creativity after 20 years.

[veg1024]

This is not Rotterdam, it was the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on 4 September 1997. U2 was in the middle of the PopMart Tour, and took a break to perform this haunting monster masterpiece of a song to a crowd who didn't know what hit them. Only U2 can make you feel like you are at their own concert for a moment in time, and not just watching some group play a hit as part of the awards show. By the 3:40 mark U2 was filling the arena with the trademark U2 sound that could not be denied.

[haanos]

this is the most fucking performance, awesome, wonderful, i never stay tired in listening this and others beautiful songs from album POP, U2 4ever