Performance:
Yes, I’m giving them both 5/5. It’s a great show as well. Pretty good setlist, songs performed very well, although Bono’s voice does fail him sometimes, but nothing new about that! The band is in top form, energetic and happy they seem.
I was gonna do a song by song review, but it would get too long, so I describe only (IMHO) the highlights.
- Beautiful Day, I like the weird way they start it, Bono singing the “the heart is a bloom” a few times.

- NYD… (Bono’s voice starting to fail tho)

- What’s Going On, one of my favorite songs, covered by my favorite band, I know not many people like U2’s cover, but I just love it, and it’s performed completely and with great power here, the crowd following them, it’s amazing!

- Bad, a highlight of the show, great quality again, great performance, great audience.

- Streets, every little detail of it recorded, amazing audience power again, another highlight of the show (been relistening Bad – Streets all week ). Again, -

- ISHFWILF, the bass’s sound recorded so well + the great audience make this a great performance!

- Walk On, with the heroes on stage and the people's USA shouts after the song, a very emotional performance.

Some interesting notes…
- Bono’s little talk before Kite (on the end of the SBS file) makes the song more beautiful.

- I had to say this one: Angel of Harlem, Bono goes :”Laaaawrence!!” nice moment!

- About Bad, …does that girl scream out “Thank youuu….thaaank you!!” in the beginning?! .. ow, and I don’t really like the Molly Malone snippet.

- Streets… Bono’s religious talk in the beginning and that distant yell he does, add a lot to the song (much better than the chant on the the vertigo tour!).

- Bono doesn’t start in the right moment on ISHFWILF (or maybe It’s the edge playing wrong), Edge fixes the issue right away tho.

- One...Bono does a 4-5 minute speech!! It's a good speech tho, but I felt sorry for the Edge, he plays the little guitar bit over and over again for 4 minutes (on the vertigo tour they only had the intro track and no guitar till the end of the speech!)

Audience:
This part is only rated, not commented on.

Sound quality:
What can I say? It’s the best! To me it sounds the same as any of my official DVD rips. Perfect balance between the audience’s and the band’s sound, every detail of every song is heard pretty well, Adam’s bass is heard perfectly which shows what a great recording it is!

Overall:
I haven’t heard many Elevation shows, but this one was awesome. Reasons to get this boot:

- Amazing sound quality, crowd and band both recorded perfectly.
- First show after 9/11, thus, an amazing crowd, a great band, and also a historical show.

It was a great experience listening to this show, I enjoyed every second of it. It became a favorite of mine right after listening to the first 20 seconds of it. Go and get it right now, you’ll love it!

Performance:
Note: I was unable to listen to WOWY and the rest of the show (i.e. till the end of 40). This review is based on the pre-WOWY part. Unless something huge happens in that part, I think the overall review would be quite the same >>
Ow yea, it’s a great show despite the quality. Actually, the recording made me very sad, this show deserves a much better recording. After my ears got used to the quality, I really enjoyed the show itself!

>> Positive…
* It’s the Lovetown tour, it was an amazing tour after all! Bono is very much in form and does a great performance in my opinion…the voice is there, and the man himself is very much there!
Some highlights (all the songs are done wonderfully and memorable, but these still stand out):
*All Along A Watchtower, very good performance, it’s also got the Like A Hurricane snippet which goes great with it.
* Bullet The Blue Sky, Bono says some stuff about the American president talking to him, it does get a bit cheesy, but makes it cool, specially the ending “and I look at the Edge, he looks into my eyes and he says: ”Bono, I can see them fighter planes!”
* Running To Stand Still has got this guitar in the ending, I believe it’s Bono playing, very nice, the audience are amazing during this song, also near the ending suddenly Larry starts hitting the drums, very cool!
* The audience is still amazing during ISHFWILF, what’s with the doctor backstage and the fever… is he serious? ‘Cuase that would make this a cool moment. Also, “You’ve got a great country, great city, don’t fuck it up, alright?” …and then…Exodus
* Angel of Harlem with the B.B. King orchestra…long time since I had listened to this version The audience is again very well heard during When Love Comes To Town :”that was the day before love came to town!!” (note, BB’s guitar becomes annoying during this song, again, quality issues!)

>> Negative:
If we’re really talking about the show, I didn’t come across anything wrong with it…you could say that some of Bono’s comments sound cheesy and out of place…but not really, surely they matched the situation!

Audience:
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Sound quality:
>> Positive…
* With all the quality issues, still the audience can be heard very well, especially at the parts where they have to be heard, when they make the songs special!
* The drums are quite loud and clear which makes it all sound very cool!

>> Negative…
* Everyone’s said it through the week…the quality isn’t good, though it’s not 2.5 either in my opinion…I would give it 3 myself. There are many parts where it just goes out of your hands, you’re hearing all this noise and wondering what’s going on!
* Edge’s guitar sometimes gets even annoying, during Streets, you almost can’t hear the guitar intro and then in the middle parts of the song, the guitar just becomes annoying! The Heartland snippet in the beginning is hardly noticeable because of the quality, if I didn’t know it was Heartland I would’ve thought that it’s just Bono talking nonsense!
* Small point, but All I Want Is You isn’t recorded right, in the beginning:”…your story to remain untold” and then suddenly a small *bam* and “…you’ll give me, a highway…”

Overall:
This is an amazing show, a blow-away, they are well in form, people follow them perfectly and everything seems to go as planned.
But the recording clearly fails the show here, It’s a 3 star recording for a 5+ star show.
If you’re used to bootlegs and are as die-hard a fan as we are here, I think you will enjoy it despite the whole recording quality issues.
The show won’t stay on my iPod (only because of the recording), but it’s not leaving my collection

Performance:
To tell you the truth…I’ve been digging hard trying to find problems with it, but it’s just great! Let’s see what I got in the end…

>> Positive…
* TOTALLY AWESOME!
* It’s the unforgettable fire tour; it really was only about the music back then. It’s weird that except for a few exceptions, the only thing that Bono says before a song starts, is the song’s name!
* The setlist is amazing now...as I (or maybe we) miss these old songs and want to see them played! There is A Sort of Homecoming, Seconds, TUF, October, Wire…
* All the songs are very well performed, there is no poor performance in my opinion, and they’re all done great! If I wanted to make a highlights list, it would have to be the whole setlist! Here are some standouts anyways! >>

- Almost 11 minutes long version of Bad !
- Electric Co. … 8 minutes long, with snippets and long jam-like thing in the middle!
- October>> NYD !
- As less heard songs live: TUF ,ASOH and 11 O’clock. Also, MLK blew me away!
- The made-up lyrics to Knockin’ on Heaven’s door are funny
- 9 minutes long ‘40’ + snippets, performed with the support band!

>> Negative:
There really wasn’t much, I had to dig hard for these:
* At some points, when Edge is doing backing vocals…he gets over Bono! I mean you hear more of him than Bono, which doesn’t really sound good, as Bono is singing in the actual melody whereas Edge’s is a bit different, not good to become main.
* Wire is not a favorite song of mine really, I did enjoy it anyways but the ending is awful really!

Audience:
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Sound quality:
>> Positive…
* Pretty awesome, it doesn’t switch between left and right, you get enough music enough audience. The Vocals and the music are both pretty clear. It IS a 4.5 star recording!

>> Negative…
* Not a surprise really, but we don’t have as much bass as I would like, but hey, that would definitely make it 5 stars! It IS still more in there than many other bootlegs (listen A Sort of Homecoming as an example)

Overall:
mazing! It was the first ever Unforgettable Fire tour bootleg I listened to. It exceeded my expectations. It’s a very good recording if you’re looking for the same thing as I was. I might suggest this other show as well, it’s got a longer and a bit better setlist (includes Indian Summer Sky, Surrender, Two Hearts Beat As One,...): 1984-10-23 - Nantes, France - St. Herblain (I found it right after having posted Chicago as this week’s bootleg!).

The whole bootleg and show are just great (talking about this week's show, not Nantes mentioned in the last paragraph!!)! Also, it’s interesting to hear them when they weren’t as big as they are now. The ego hadn’t done its work yet, they are a band who has just become famous and big…you can hear Bono’s comments that reflect this (telling the CBS people: “you want some people? Come up here!” or the comments before Knockin’… there is another part where he says they used to have 500 people watching them and that he’s glad there are so many watching now).

**Comments: Just wanted to point this out…it’s interesting how similar this show sounds to Joshua Tree Tour shows (particularly Paris 87, as I was listening to it at the same time). Of course, JT had new songs and a more confident band…but the (very short) speeches/comments (such as “for a very special man…” or “this is a big place but we’re bigger than this place”) and performances are very similar, which shows they didn’t spend as much time as they do now on how the tours should be, it REALLY was only about the music (though maybe we’re lucky that they changed their manners, or all the shows would be the same, up till now! )

Performance:
>> Positive…
* It’s ZOO TV y’all! Can’t go that wrong.
* Seriously now! As others pointed out, they do an amazing job up until NYD. Every song is nailed, the performances are all awesome.
* The mistakes. Yep, positive point for me. Makes it much more interesting! We’ve all heard NYD so many times; it’s cooler when there is a mistake in it!! Even the technical issues such as the synth cutting off during Bad are still nice!
* The show has many of the special ZOOTV moments, the encore break with the confessions, the white house call, etc.
* Bono isn't the one fucking up the show...he is who saves it a couple of times actually (this is true about most of the ZOO TV shows tho).

>> Negative:
* As stated before, ISHFWILF doesn’t work when done acoustic!
* There are better ZOOTV setlists…SBS really doesn’t belong there (ok, I’m being picky!)

Highlights:
* The beginning with the intro up till before NYD.
* RTSS and Streets are amazing as usual. The second verse ‘Streets’ nicely changed:”Don’t wanna take shelter from the DC rain, these are the streets without name!”, Bono in top form and improvising!
* TTYAATW, this song has become a favorite of mine. Wish it had the fish and bicycle part tho!
* The stuff that Dan said, such as Desire and the “ugly son of a bitch” or UV and “when I was all fucked up!”…cool parts.
* Of course the white house phone call and the encore break.

Audience:
Default rating as no crowd noise presend due to this being a soundboard recording.

Sound quality:
>> Positive…
* Soundboard. That should describe it. Every instrument and the vocals are clear and in good quality. I had lots of fun with Adam’s bass on this boot, you don’t get the bass so clear on other bootlegs.

>> Negative…
*As others pointed out, it’s a soundboard, so there is a big lack of audience in it. It’s not that clear in the middle of the songs, but you really expect there to be something in the more silent parts…but. One part where I really missed it was in the beginning of ‘Streets’ specially when they turn the lights on with full power.

Overall:
The bootleg includes the full intro of the concert, which has the “drug of a nation” bit and the one with Bush doing “We Will Rock You!”
Of course you get the Fly, and you have him playing around with the TV. You get the now famous RTSS into Streets. Then during the encore break (which is very well included in the download as a separate mp3) you have the confession videos which are pretty funny (and are another of those special ZOOTV stuff). You then have Mirrorball Man, and you have a white house phone call which is something that ZOO TV is famous for.

To conclude, this is a bootleg that shows very well what ZOO TV was about, it’s got all of what’s interesting about ZOO TV. It’s also got great quality, if it had an audience matrixed with it, it could end up as one of the best ever.
The video bootleg is a must tho, if you’re going for this bootleg, I suggest you give the DVD a try, a good proshot of a lovely show.

Performance:
I must confess that I expected this to be a terrible show, having my ideas of Popmart + hearing about the beginning of Popmart and that they were underprepared ...but I was proved wrong. I DID enjoy this show despite of all mistakes and problems, and it was much better than what I had expected.
Clearly it's not their best show, and as some of you have said it's a very bad one. They weren't prepared of course, therefore most of the new songs are just screwed up, but the old songs are mostly well done. Details...
* Although it's a new song, Mofo is done quite well, and as you get the bass and drums, the music is just amazing!
* One of the old songs not done so well is I Will Follow, probably because they didn't play it during ZooTV.
* Last Night On Earth is done better later on Popmart, but this one isn't bad either, and Bono's voice is actually quite good. It does get messed up a bit, like around 4:40 "You gotta give it away"...there is something wrong with it! They also screw up the ending, doesn't sound good!
* Gone, what a beautiful song, yet Bono sings it badly, specially the ending is kinda irritating ("gone, gone, gone,...") !
* Until The End of The World is performed well, there seem to be technical problems tho, a bit in the beginning and specially the end. There is something wrong with Edge's guitar sound in the end (before and during "lalala...lalala").
* IGWSHA, I didn't know it was ever performed live, it was interesting to hear it, but they absolutley fuck it up. Why is it performed like this?! They seem very confused during this one! The "I like San Diego" bit in the end sounds pathetic...as if he is trying to make it up to them! :-|
* Staring At The Sun is better in acoustic, but it isn't that bad here either. Bono's fine on this one.
* Daydream Believer is quite nice actually!! If I'm not wrong, that is The Edge singing! A highlight of the show in my opinion!
* Miami is done mostly like the studio version, not bad, not so good either.
* Please is fine, Bono messes it up a bit in the middle, around 3:05 when it goes silent and Bono has to sing "So love is big...". Why are there Sunday Bloody Sunday drums in there?!...They weren't able to show the beauty of "Please into Streets" but it ain't bad, and Streets is done quite well. You gotta love that guy in the audience who yells “Where the streets have no name!!” when it’s about to start!
* Discotheque is well done. WOWY is just amazing, mostly because you get all of Adam's bass which makes it awesome.
* HMTMKMKM is messed up in the beginning, they don't start the music right after the alarm like song in the beginning, the rest of it is ok. Mysterious Ways is fine and so is One (older songs, as mentioned above).

Audience:
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Sound quality:
>> Pros:
*It's a good recording, a great feature of it being that you can perfectly hear Adam's Bass which makes everything much cooler. You also get a good listen of the other three.

>> Cons:
* The vocals again, Bono's voice gets drowned in the music a few times, but it's not that much noticeable. It's probably partly because of Bono's voice and not the recording.
* I (as someone who really enjoys hearing the audience reactions) didn't get enough of the audience...at times when they were singing along, you could hear them but it's very low, doesn't show the power. But you probably can't just get everything in a recording unless it's an official DVDrip or some broadcast.

Overall:
As a bootleg it has a good recording, you get what you have to get of the music very well, you don't get all the audience, but it's fine.
About the show, it's an interesting one to have, see them mess things up and compare it to when they figured it out. But, if you are looking for a bootleg to show you what Popmart was all about don't go near this one...try Mexicofo or something else.

Performance:
What can you say? It's ZooTV Y'all! It doesn't get bad. The boys are great, Bono sounds wonderful, it's all great!
I haven't heard many ZooTV bootlegs, but this one surely got to me. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Let's get some detail here >>

>>Pros:
* Great setlist! Of course, it's not the dream setlist (doesn't include stuff like I Will Follow) but if you look
at it in a realistic way, it's one of the best! You get 9 out of the 12 achtung songs, you get the good oldies
(REALLY GREAT stuff from JT and R&H, you don't see them together all the time! + NYD, Pride, and an awesome Bad!),
and you get 3 great covers (Unchained Melody,Satellite of Love and Can't Help Falling In Love).
* A great performance of One, makes you go all dreamy!
* Larry singing Dirty Old Town which is always a joy!
* We have TTTYAATW (loooong song names :S!) in the setlist, it's a nice live song.
* A Good Bad!
* A weird version of Desire, which in spite of the sound jumping from speaker to speaker (again!), it's still interesting!
* The closing of the show, (and by that I mean the last four songs) is just amazing. I'm gonna have to say that ZooTV had the best endings for shows,
UV, WOWY, LIB and the Can't Help..., all great, rather calm songs which are great to end the show ... You also get a bit of Elvis in the end, which is cool!

>> Cons:
Not many, as I said it's a good performance. Just a few things...
* In Bad, Bono starts singing right when Edge's guitar starts, I don't know if it's a mistake (as it's not usually done that way) or not but I don't like it.
But this is too much detail, the rest of it is great.
* NYD could have been better, I don't know what wrong with it, but there is something!
* The electronica like start for WOWY...not good!

Audience:
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Sound quality:
>> Pros:
* The music is recorded pretty well, you can hear all the instruments quite well, specially you get a good listen of Larry's work
which makes it amazing (It's always great when you get more of the drums in a bootleg, makes it sound great!).
* You get pretty good audience reactions without it becoming extra noise!

>> Cons:
* The vocals, it seemed to me that at some points where the music gets a bit louder, specially in the first
few songs (and maybe NYD), you can't get what Bono is singing (which isn't normal for the "bit" of loudness I'm talking about). But it's not that
much and you forget about it after a couple of songs.
* It also has this problem again, the sound just keeps jumping from Left to Right and then to Left again, which can
get pretty annoying at a lot of parts. You are totally enjoying the music and suddenly the sound starts jumping around!

Overall:
I totally loved the show, the show is great almost flawless, the recording could have been better, but it isn't that bad, it gets you enough of what you need.
This could give you an 'overall' idea: I'm not taking it off my iPod for now (I did take Gelsenkirchen off right away ).