Pop
Loops, sampling and club influences meet guitar-band songwriting on Pop. The finished record captures both U2's appetite for experimentation and the pressure of an approaching world tour.
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Inside the recording
- Producers
- Flood; Howie B; Steve Osborne
- Engineering & mixing
- Flood, Steve Osborne, Howie B, Mark "Spike" Stent, Alan Moulder
- Recording locations
- Hanover Quay (Dublin); Windmill Lane (Dublin); The Works (Dublin); South Beach (Miami); The Hit Factory New York City
- In the studio
- Larry's back problems affected the early sessions, and a booked PopMart tour imposed a deadline before the band felt the material was finished.
Selected credits, not an exhaustive personnel list. Release credits — U2SongsPersonnel & background — Wikipedia
Tracks
- DiscothèqueStudio Version
- Do You Feel LovedStudio Version
- MofoStudio Version
- If God Will Send His AngelsStudio Version
- Staring at the SunStudio Version
- Last Night on EarthStudio Version
- GoneStudio Version
- MiamiStudio Version
- The Playboy MansionStudio Version
- If You Wear that Velvet DressStudio Version
- PleaseStudio Version
- Wake Up Dead ManStudio Version - Uncensored
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Chart positions
Certifications
Grammys & other honours
No work-specific award win has been verified for this entry. This is not a claim that none exists.
Selected documented achievements, not a worldwide exhaustive register. Certifications are award levels, not current sales estimates. Song and video awards appear on the relevant song pages and are not automatically credited to the album.
Did you know?
Several songs were later revisited for singles or compilations. Those later mixes are not the same recordings as every track on the original album.