U2 - Please (Live / Mural Mix)

Music video by U2 performing Please (Live / Mural Mix). An Island Records video; © 1997 Universal Music Operations Limited

[@piotrkubica5854]

POP is like Alien 3 - nobody uderstand how great it is. Even the creators.

[@pascalschwachhofer5502]

Best album !

[@LucasLima-ov4mq]

Is such a really great & underrated album, IMO better than Zooropa (1993).

[@flexiblestrategist9922]

I agree. I love this album. I remember d.j. Dave Hermann commending on how great this album is when it was released in 1997.

[@gordonirvine726]

I love you

[@wizard_hermit]

This is by far one of the best comment I ever seen on internet. Alien 3 is my favorite Alien movie in the original trilogy (no... no more movies after that). It's a complex David Fincher visional movie... it's all about your internal reactions you have when you see and hear it... it's dark, wet, strange colorized... Elliot Goldenthal soundtrack is awesome and give you hopeless feeling. But this is the way this film must conclude the trilogy... no hope... END ! The movie is also famous for its production problems and what it could be with the original scripts (the one with the religious monks and the wooden planet... God I swear I could kill to see this movie) This is exactly the same thing with *POP*. It's an underrated masterpiece, and the record is also famous for the production problems and what it could be (go hear the Hong Kong E.P.K demos versions...) So shame on you U2 for your lack of b*** not playing "Discothèque", "MOFO", Please" or "Last Night on Earth" anymore.

[@1click2know]

The Edge is in a class all by himself. The genius of his playing is in the simplicity. He can take a few notes and play them over and over again and yet still manage to fill the room with a multi-layered sound that is nothing short of incredible. He is one-of-a-kind standing in his corner of the stage making magic with his guitar(s).

[@nandeweg]

There’s a version of this recording without Bono’s voice. Makes you realize the instrumental layers in there. Incredible.

[@nandeweg]

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[@enriquerodriguez2254]

one of the most underrated songs of u2 and its fucking awesome!

[@CordeauxG]

I remember seeing them play this song live in Sydney in 1998. People were literally speechless at the end. The performance was so intense and charged with emotion. They blew us away. I think many in the crowd couldn't believe U2 had just played something so extraordinary.

[@katesmith3966]

Same in Brisbane, blown away , a lifetime memory engrained until the day I die ( with my friend, who by the end of this was concreted firmly to BEST lol ! ) we ran a muck at 15 yo , experiences that cement relationships !

[@dannyh5937]

This album was a masterpiece. It baffles me how people can think otherwise

[@peytonmcpherson2328]

Same

[@vinniesmyyth334]

Because it wasnt finished

[@YourLoyalDeserter]

tbh, as great as Please is live, this song sucks on the album. The bass is in the wrong key.

[@kall2thc]

@@YourLoyalDeserter The are two studio versions. The album, and the single. This live version corresponds to the single version, where the bass line at the end goes B A G# G (not the case on the album version).

[@YourLoyalDeserter]

@@kall2thc I'm aware. I said it sucks on the album, not in studio. The bass part on the album version is both played differently to the single version and played in the wrong key. Adam is in A minor, and the rest of the band is in B flat minor. They rushed the album version out at the last minute, and Adam must not have gotten the memo that they weren't playing a half step down (as they often do). He realizes the problem part-way through and then improvises in B flat minor for the rest of the song.

[@alexkasper5029]

Larry playing the drums from Sunday Bloody Sunday in the middle of the song is perfection. And then it goes into Streets, which is everything.

[@linneasaoirse]

I love how Larry wraps up the subject with the same drum bit as in SBS

[@SteelHurleys]

Same theme. Northern Ireland troubles in both songs.

[@Bonoscot]

Absolute outstanding this song and this version...One of the best experiences i had at a gig in my life.

[@cainfft008]

this song is why u2 is my favorite band.

[@MedalionDS9]

This song live, especially that solo/outro is insane

[@sarney631]

POP tour was amazing It was like a concert from the future

[@orange58729]

great bass line Adam!

[@melyssa2741]

This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, and when performed live Bono puts more emotion and feeling into it in my opinion…they did say that they were really a live band…that they were better on stage than not

[@feel4films889]

mely agree at 100% U2 concerts were and maybe still are something at another level. they've allways managed to innovate with shocking monster stage sets, so much spectacle visually huge and all that combined with heart shaking performances drilling thru your skin your heart and your very soul. Powerfull. No other band had ever put on a show as big as Zootv, before U2 did, after that no audiences on earth have ever seen something as astonishing as PopMart and then after that 360° Tour happened and it was again something never seen before on stage

[@BlusMusic2]

melyssa the live mtv awards version is the greatest version of this song kzbin.info/www/bejne/sH-oY2irht6GZ7c

[@gunnsmoke357]

AH…the 90s. When people would see a concert show with their own eyes.

[@darkmage7280]

I was in that Helsinki gig back in '97. I've been to a plenty of concerts by many artists, and this still remains the #1 for me. I was 17, and my mind was just blown off its hinges.

[@fundamentalification]

I agree. I was there also in -97, almost infront row, and that gig was tattooed my brain permanently.

[@javierm2098]

This is a wonderful performance. Definitely in my top 5 U2 songs ever. Super underrated.

[@youtou_13]

This is the real live performance. No playback love it 😊

[@alessandroscotti6119]

Total fuckin masterpiece. So great, so forgotten

[@U2andColdplayFan]

It's intense when the Sunday Bloody Sunday drum beat kicks in, respectively it fits just as well in this song as it does in the other. Beautiful lyrics here, truly.

[@alexkasper5029]

One of my favorite times they have tweaked the live version of one of their songs. The drums from Sunday Bloody Sunday adds another layer of meaning to an already powerful song.

[@thuurmans]

This song is still a masterpiece in every way of the imagination.

[@ivansmola]

✊️

[@arcticmonkey3]

please.....

[@MH-qs6fn]

I don’t care what anyone says, The Edge dressed up like a Space Cowboy is badass 😎🎸

[@Kateybrown2]

I keep coming back to this live version, which I like even more than the one on the Pop Mart full length video. Even as a pastiche of probably two live concerts, this version is the most real, most raw, most passionate and experimentally artistic of them all. I love watching Larry wait for the beat, and Bono meaning every word he's saying. The Edge is just genious in this one - at his best.

[@1970brenz]

The album was way ahead of its time that's all!

[@carlorpedraza6873]

I was there, on december of 97, my first concert, amazing, live in Foro Sol México City, i will never forget it, the best band ever!

[@Swaitek]

One of the best U2 songs and this is a really great version of it.

[@jeffoliver2298]

This tour was truly groundbreaking, the screen behind them is 3,000 square feet in size (three thousand square feet). The biggest screen ever constructed, for anything - anywhere. Not just music but for anything. The cost of transporting this tour across the world was very high indeed, they didn't sell out some of the venues on the American leg of the tour and U2 feared several times on this tour that they were about to go bankrupt. Larry Mullen said in an interview later on: "we were on this tour, which was costing literally millions of pounds a week to put on, and we weren't selling out all the venues". Bono said of it later: "it would have broken most bands". What Bono meant was they were lucky enough to have personal wealth that was sufficient to subsidise the tour's losses. They were all personally out of pocket as a result, not just from the band account but from their personal accounts.

[@sanderhiemstra3086]

Best u2 song ever...

[@mrc2662]

I’m a bit late to comment but...is that true? They personally channelled cash into this tour to prevent bankruptcy?!

[@mysticedge4]

They almost went bankrupt for ZooTv also in the beginning then it became a hit then they were good

[@anthonyk5515]

@@mrc2662 Yes, for a good while they wouldn't be drawn on it - how much it was all costing. There were three screens in all. The constructed, current one; one under construction in the next venue; all this whilst the previous one was being taken down, in order to leapfrog the other two venues, to be constructed there. Three of these screens, three crews and three venues to rent out a any one time....Expensive!

[@kevincanning3051]

The lead in from this song to where the streets have no name live is breathtaking. I tear up every time

[@MedalionDS9]

Ah that live outro left me breathless... such an underrated live gem

[@andrewpittaway3023]

The guitar part in this version is only bettered by the Love is Blindness 'solo' during the Zoo TV Tour. Both however made my hair stand on end during the shows. Mind Blowing.

[@aaronsheridan8386]

Bonos lyrics are so powerful!

[@flexiblestrategist9922]

Edge can play the most simple chords but so much beauty and sweet sounds emanates from them.

[@feel4films889]

this tour was groundbreaking something huge innovative and yet so meaningful deep and emotional like never seen before in live music history

[@oktovrios]

This was their first concert in Greece ever! At my hometown Thessaloniki! The most spectacular thing we ever saw!!! I was in awe! This song gives me goosebumps! Best band ever!!!

[@darkmage7280]

Um, this is from Helsinki, Finland.

[@oktovrios]

@@darkmage7280 I mean the Pop mart tour

[@darkmage7280]

@@oktovrios Gotcha.

[@daniloribeiro2865]

it's 2020, corona is out there, and here I am enjoying this masterpiece

[@RajendarKumar-kc9br]

L.

[@smp4467]

It's 2022, Corona is still out there, and here I am enjoying this masterpiece

[@klausmcleod9023]

diktatur is out there.... please stand up...... not only listen the lyric.... life ... i stand up... everytimer

[@Basil_Hallward]

Best tune out of a masterful brilliant album!!

[@Nemova]

I was 16 years old on 21 January 1998. U2 had been my favourite band since I was 11. The PopMart Tour gig in Rio de Janeiro was my first live concert ever. I still believe I died and came back to life that night. I was never the same.

[@useritoo]

One of the best U2 songs ever.

[@MrJhonStreet]

I didn’t listen POP when it came out cause I was to little. But now grown up I really enjoy it at my daily life. This one and Zooropa have a great sound and the lyrics are really amazing to me. Just can’t stop listen to it, and I wonder what happened when bands used to experiment with sounds, on this days is hard to find diverse music.

[@manconoo]

This blows away Radiohead by a country mile. This has to be one of the greatest ever live performances of any song EVER!!! INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

[@JosefTrejbal]

Fun fact: Thom actually snippeted this song in one of the live shows kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHXboHlvnL-bbNE

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Both bands are great. Radiohead has far more complex music, but U2 tends to be more catchy.

[@ciarancosgrave]

Apples and Oranges...

[@nickkabbabe1953]

U2 are my favourite band but I love Radiohead also. Radiohead are my best friend's favourite band!

[@trentrez6643]

Who brought up Radiohead?

[@sanderhiemstra3086]

Best U2 song ever...

[@bertrandl4166]

Just another masterpiece from The Edge... I just say "Monsieur..."

[@rossco78]

Genius for Larry to play the Sunday Bloody Sunday drum part during the middle 8 signally the link between the two songs.

[@DaLerMusic]

One of my favorites, and yes, music can be fragile and powerful at the same time Awesome!

[@RedJoe10]

Love that Pop record, its full of lost classics.

[@zakarialaouira]

Im From Algeria And Pop Is One Of The Greatest Music Albums In History

[@juanpablocamafernandez9297]

No existen las palabras para describir esta espectacular canción de U2 Please. Como otros temas que no son valorados como good part 2, kite, a sort of homecoming, Mothers Of The Disappeared, Ultra Violet, Running To Stand Still, All I Want Is You, Lemon ... y muhcas otras mas. La mas grande banda de rock de todos los tiempos. Por siempre

[@magicoi2142]

Stunning performance, always loved this!

[@marcoalla4931]

the best version ever! U2They are the best ❤️💯❤️

[@destube]

This is a fantastic song from an excellent album which doesnt get the recognition it deserves!!!

[@amadan34]

one of my favourites. edge kills it!

[@blinky6667]

oh god, this is sooo good

[@michaelmcguinness4108]

What a fantastic tour, I love it.. 😀👍,,, please is a beautiful song.

[@Nighthawk5210]

Incredible song from one of their best lps. This live version is 🔥🔥🔥. Adam's bass is smokin'.

[@Kyparaniekkasotilas]

This live recording is from Helsinki Olympic stadium recorded on 9 August 1997. In the end of the video (5:21 min.) you can see Metsäliitto's ad (Metsäliitto is a Finnish pulp, paper and timber manufacturer). It's told also in Wikipedia: ""The History Mix" is a video montage anthologizing the band's nineties albums and tours. The live version of "Please" is from the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland, recorded on 9 August 1997 and directed by Maurice Linnane."

[@morand-gw7xn]

Feyenoord stadium ....

[@danielmelo7146]

Absolutely extraordinary!

[@edipomatheus5036]

one of the best songs of pop album, u2 rocks!

[@c.t.6697]

Something about the way he lifts the mike in the last 30 seconds gets me every time. Like it's symbolic for something I can't put my finger on but is moving to see.

[@NirSharma1]

much of whathappens in u2 live is symbolic and mysterious :)..familiar yet unfamiliar

[@mysticedge4]

It’s called a Bono move lol I do it all the time I play with the stand all the time I move it up and down when I sing

[@progitaliano]

one of the best song of U2 !! POP it is a great album!!!

[@feel4films889]

Luigi Azario yes and it's underrated probably misunderstood but it's so much better than U2's latest 2 studio albums imo

[@LucasLima-ov4mq]

@@feel4films889 Without doubt is better than the last two albums, and better than NLOTH (2009), Pop is really great considering U2 last albums is only on par with ATYCLB (2000), i like HTDAAB (2004) very much too.

[@MrAndyCarrol]

Classic U2 and the transition from this into streets was out of this world

[@gilesdar20]

The Best version of this great song live, very touching for this time of the mess that we have around the world 🌍..

[@ianglenn9467]

Number 2 on my all time list of best live u2 performances ever. With or without you - live Tempe #1. Both have perfect timing, sound, vocals and powerful ambiance. "shards of glass splinters like rain, but you can only feel your own pain" - goose bumps forever.

[@DIASDEMUSICA]

This SBS part II. One of their bests !!

[@leandrepascualbouys7648]

Much better than the studio version , 4:14 masterpiece

[@Nighthawk5210]

Love the studio version too but this is amazing

[@Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart]

So love is big, is bigger than us but love is not what you're thinking of

[@mathieugreenwood1832]

Easily the best song from its album! And this live version is truly special!

[@ThePhog]

September, streets capsizing Spilling over down the drains Shard of glass, splinters like rain But you could only feel your own pain

[@Carminuccio79]

such an amazing performance...

[@animalmusical9054]

Great version.

[@WHR17]

Popmart is not my fav U2 album, but this track is 🔥

[@vaniroquai]

Perfect guitar part of the The Edge and Adam 4:11 to 5:09!!!! O_O. PERFECTION!

[@joeybom]

Incredible Live performance

[@SandMusics]

Best U2 song live!

[@gordonirvine726]

Incredible performance of an incredible song which they developed into this live triumph of emotion.

[@PatricioMty22]

very different from the original version, but much better ....very nice guitar sound

[@gastoncomeau6484]

Thanks for posting this amazing live version...so much better than the studio version. Very powerful lyrics...I iwsh they wrote more music like this. Such an under-rated song. U2 forever!

[@fundamentalification]

I`m still very proud and glad I was there in -97 @ Helsinki Olympic Stadion.

[@Discip1000]

I was there too :)

[@gustavomota1153]

Best versión ever.

[@renacaseywilhelm]

stunning song!

[@lavidaesbella68]

Por favor, ellos siempre serán el grupo de nuestras vidas, impresionantes....

[@achtungbaby28]

possibly the best thing i'll ever hear

[@csaconsulting4068]

wonderful, U2 1997 gig in Reggio Emilia, best gig I've ever been to.

[@Yeshuashai1]

U2 passed the beatles white album with the joshua tree, U2 was, is, and will be the greatest true rock n roll band that ever existed, undisputable, they cover every category, everybody, i dont care what they say, has their own favorite U2 song, i think only norwegian band a-ha recently retired hold, attendance record in the 80s in brazil

[@marilynvibe]

no words...just a strong feeling everytime I hear this fabolous song..as every U2's song..Forever U2.

[@majkellomakaroff8375]

U2 masterpiece trilogy Achtung Baby, Zooropa and POP

[@ontheball88]

One of the more underappreciated things about U2 in my opinion is how they can turn songs that might not be the best from the albums into GOLD when they're played live. On the album, this song is good - not great. This performance, however, is just classic.

[@manconoo]

Best band since The Beatles.

[@KiChangHuan]

No doubt..

[@SaiAbitathaDUCIC]

No doubt

[@klausmcleod9023]

for me to... 1980 i was so sad , to young for the beatles, i ask why ...... and then i found U2 for me.. great

[@daMorg07]

one of the last really great U2 songs. intense

[@bonoman7628]

take note: this was 13yrs ago!! please!! the only thing this amazing band ever fucked up on was becoming bigger & bigger!! absolute genius from a bunch of battling irish boys who state they are NOT the most accomplished musical talent.

[@felipeepilefelipe]

The last U2 perfect album, Pop.

[@pedrovictor9306]

Amazing, how u2 songs live version better than original album version this songs.

[@ernesto1978]

Una de las canciones más grandes, exelente, brillante, grande U2

[@thuurmans]

Great song.

[@IronRevolution]

90's U2 was just the fucking best. Taking risks, exploring new stuff

[@docteurneo]

Probablement la meilleure version de cette chanson dramatique, dure et si touchante... Merci Bono, Merci U2 pour cette prière sincère. Paix.

[@VETALEJ]

amazing, ... i love that album! and the videos from that tour, there is just something about them at that period., more raw unique , and deep then now.. i think.

[@filipposalemi5665]

Heaven's song...

[@sergiohenrique8988]

Umas das melhores banda de rock do mundo!🎙🎸🤘🇧🇷

[@minouche411]

Cet version est incroyable! ça transporte et les paroles superbes et on peu vraiment ressentir l'émoion dans la voix de Bono

[@janisvox]

curti cada momento desse show ...inclusive inesquecivel pq foi um dos melhores shows que ja fui em minha vida turne pop mart em são paulo.

[@thagoff]

pop is by far the best U2 album