PopMartyrs
PopMart Foxboro, Massachusetts
02 July 1997
(72:47)
(56:26)

Disc 1:
1. Pop Muzik
2. Mofo
3. I Will Follow
4. Gone
5. Even Better Than the Real Thing
6. Last Night On Earth
7. Until the End Of the World
8. New Year's Day
9. Pride (In the Name of Love)
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. Stand By Me
12. All I Want Is You
13. Staring At the Sun
14. Suspicious Minds
15. Miami
16. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2:
1. Please
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
3. Lemon
4. Discotheque
5. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
6. With Or Without You
7. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
8. Mysterious Ways
9. One
10. MLK
11. Rain

Source:
    *Audience
        *Taper: Unknown
        *Title: "Pop Stars"

    *Soundboard
        *Taper: Unknown
        *Title: NONE
 

NOTE: I created this matrix bootleg by mixing together an "Pop Stars" (Excellent Audience) and an unnamed soundboard recording (Good/Very Good Soundboard).  The two recordings were mixed together "as is", with the only editing performed during the mixing process being the stretching of the audience recording to comport with the soundboard recording.  As is usually the case, the lengths of the two recordings differed slightly.  The variations in speed were so intense that I had to break the concert up into over 100 segments to get portions to match properly.

The audience recording was louder than the soundboard recording, so it essentially serves as the base.  The sound on the audience recording is more dynamic, so this is a good thing.  In the end, the soundboard recording essentially augments the audience recording.  The end result is a bootleg that sounds more like an audience recording than a soundboard recording, with audience noise audible between tracks.

The soundboard recording contained several skips during "Pride", so if you listen very closely, you will hear a few brief segments of this song that are solely the audience recording.  In addition, fades on the soundboard recording necessitated fades on the matrix recording between "Streets" and the playing of "Lemon" over the PA during intermission as well as between "With Or Without You" and "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me".  The soundboard recording does not include "One", "MLK", or "Rain", so these songs are straight from the audience recording.

After mixing the audience and soundboard recordings together, I ran the matrix recording through Cool Edit 2000's noise reduction feature (Transform -> Noise Reduction -> Hiss Reduction -> Standard Hiss Reduction) to get rid of a noticeable hiss from the soundboard recording.  This feature of Cool Edit is pretty well designed, but a slight loss of high end (most noticeable in the flat/tinny sound of the cymbals) is audible as a result of the noise reduction.

While not quite on the same level as the Elevation matrix recordings, this is still a solid bootleg that makes for a pretty cool listen.