u2 started writing songs on the album all that you can't leave behind, which included the song i look at the world written in 1998.
when did u2 start writing songs on the album all that you can't leave behind, which included the song i look at the world written?
1998
the eleventh chapter, 1998–01: the last of the rock stars, follows the release of "all that you can't leave behind" and the death of bono's father on 21 august 2001, a day after the band was due to play their first concert at slane castle for their elevation tour. the final chapter, 2002–06: until the end of the world, opens with the band playing at the super bowl xxxvi in january 2002 for the halftime show. u2 played three songs, "beautiful day", "mlk", and "where the streets have no name" while the names of the victims from the september 11 attacks were projected onto a sheet behind the stage, and, at the conclusion of the last song, bono opened his jacket to reveal an american flag printed into the lining. the experience was described by them as "terrifying". the book then deals with the releases of "the best of 1990–2000", which included two new songs from the monaco sessions, "electrical storm" and "the hands that built america". the book concludes with anecdotes and circumstances taken from the recording sessions of "how to dismantle an atomic bomb" and the following vertigo tour.
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the band took a considerably more conservative, stripped down approach with "pop"'s follow-up, "all that you can't leave behind" (2000), along with the elevation tour that supported it; "all that you can't leave behind" features a "more traditional u2 sound." the few songs from "pop" that were performed on the elevation tour ("discothèque", "gone", "please", "staring at the sun", and "wake up dead man") were often presented in relatively bare-bones versions. on the vertigo tour, songs from "pop" were even more rarely played; "discothèque" was played twice at the beginning of the third leg, while other "pop" songs appeared merely as snippets. no "pop" songs appeared on the band's u2 360° tour, though the chorus and guitar riff of "discotheque" did appear as a regular snippet during the "dance" remix of the song "i'll go crazy if i don't go crazy tonight" late in the tour. u2 did not play a single song from the album on their innocence + experience tour in 2015, although "mofo" was sampled twice in the earliest tour dates. "pop" was the only u2 album that u2 did not play a single song from for the full duration of their tour. "pop" was viewed as u2's "most neglected album" with the band "effectively [disowning] the record by purging its material from setlists." although he reiterated his belief that the album was rushed, the edge still viewed "pop" as a "great record," and said, "i was very proud of it by the end of the tour. we finally figured it out by the time we made . it was an amazing show that i'm really proud of." in the same interview, edge also states, "we started out trying to make a dance-culture record and then realized at the end there are things we can do that no edm producer or artist can do, so let’s try and have it both ways. in that case, we probably went too far in the other direction. we probably needed to allow a bit more of the electronica to survive."
pop (u2 album)