100% Pop Rock
U2
100% Pop Rock is a two‑CD live compilation of U2 concert recordings from the early 1980s, rather than a traditional studio album. Released in Europe in 2022 (with some later reissues in 2025), it is an unofficial/grey‑market title issued by Radio Broadcast Music Ltd. and Laser Media, built from radio‑broadcast tapes and packaged as a “luxury digisleeve” release. The set runs just over two hours and focuses on the band’s post‑punk, pop‑rock phase around the Boy and War eras, when their sound was raw, urgent, and heavily guitar‑driven.
Disc 1 presents a full 1983 show from the War tour, featuring live versions of “Out of Control,” “Twilight,” “An Cat Dubh,” “Surrender,” “Two Hearts Beat As One,” “Seconds,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “The Electric Co,” “New Year’s Day,” “Gloria,” “Party Girl,” “11 O’Clock Tick Tock,” “I Will Follow,” “40,” and more, capturing U2 as they transition from club stages into larger concert halls. Disc 2 goes back to 1981, around the Boy tour, with performances of “The Ocean,” “11 O’Clock Tick Tock,” “I Will Follow,” “I Fall Down,” “Touch,” “Another Time, Another Place,” “Things to Make and Do,” “Stories for Boys,” “Boy/Girl,” “Out of Control,” and “Twilight,” offering a snapshot of their earliest, lean and youthful live energy. Because the release offers no detailed liner notes, only the years 1981 and 1983 are listed, but fans and retailers describe it as a radio‑broadcast compilation that appeals mainly to collectors who want a document of U2’s formative live sound, even though it is not part of the band’s official discography.
100% Pop Rock
U2
100% Pop Rock is a two‑CD live compilation of U2 concert recordings from the early 1980s, rather than a traditional studio album. Released in Europe in 2022 (with some later reissues in 2025), it is an unofficial/grey‑market title issued by Radio Broadcast Music Ltd. and Laser Media, built from radio‑broadcast tapes and packaged as a “luxury digisleeve” release. The set runs just over two hours and focuses on the band’s post‑punk, pop‑rock phase around the Boy and War eras, when their sound was raw, urgent, and heavily guitar‑driven.
Disc 1 presents a full 1983 show from the War tour, featuring live versions of “Out of Control,” “Twilight,” “An Cat Dubh,” “Surrender,” “Two Hearts Beat As One,” “Seconds,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “The Electric Co,” “New Year’s Day,” “Gloria,” “Party Girl,” “11 O’Clock Tick Tock,” “I Will Follow,” “40,” and more, capturing U2 as they transition from club stages into larger concert halls. Disc 2 goes back to 1981, around the Boy tour, with performances of “The Ocean,” “11 O’Clock Tick Tock,” “I Will Follow,” “I Fall Down,” “Touch,” “Another Time, Another Place,” “Things to Make and Do,” “Stories for Boys,” “Boy/Girl,” “Out of Control,” and “Twilight,” offering a snapshot of their earliest, lean and youthful live energy. Because the release offers no detailed liner notes, only the years 1981 and 1983 are listed, but fans and retailers describe it as a radio‑broadcast compilation that appeals mainly to collectors who want a document of U2’s formative live sound, even though it is not part of the band’s official discography.