U2 - U2 - The Best of 1990-2000
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Free Music Review: Waste of money
Hit: 1 Stars
U2 are an albums band!!!
Buy Achtung Baby, Zooropa, and Pop!!!
trust me you won't be dissapointed!!!!
Free Music Review: U2s best of 1990-2000.
Hit: 1 Stars
Problems?
*Uneccesary remixes of "Zooporopa" and "Pop" tunes, quite oviously to tone down the actual musical aspect here and make it fit in with the rubbishy U2 commercial 2000 era sound that is so mainstream accesible.
*Numerous and vital tracks that made U2 so relevant and important musically in the 90s!! This album totally missed the whole point!
How it should of gone.
1. Even Better Than The Real Thing
2. Mysterious Ways
3. The Fly (missed out!)
4. One
5. Until the end of the world
6. Lemon (missed out!)
7. Stay (faraway so close)
8. Numb (commerialised eg. remixed)
9. Discotheque (commerialised eg. remixed)
10. Staring at the sun (commerialised eg. remixed)
11. If god would send his angels (missed out!)
12. Please (missed out!)
13. Last night on earth (missed out!)
(dare "Mofo" make an attempt to fit in on this album??)
14. Kite (not on the album)
15. When I look at the world (not on the album)
16. Walk On (not on the album)
17. Electrical Storm (could of sounded alot better than it did)
18. The ground beneath her feet (another vital song that many would of liked had it got the exposure)
So many artists are forgetting music is about "actual music" not how many an album sells, or how popular it is.
Heak U2 are in pop culture territory music wise now in 2005
(or nearly, not quite thank goodness), and the rest of the music scene is as fake as it has ever been, sad ):
Free Music Review: Stick with Auchtung Baby or War
Hit: 3 Stars
A decent complilation, but if you want the REAL flavour of U2, it is infinitely better to buy their best CD Auchung Baby, or their best early CD, War... in both those cases they manage to move beyond their fairlyl mainstream pop-rock genre into some unique and wonderous places...Cheers.
Free Music Review: PRAIRIE WHEAT AND MEADOW MUFFINS
Hit: 3 Stars
Toward the end of RATTLE AND HUM, Bono announced that U2 would disappear and come back a different band. We hear these kinds of promises all the time and so no one took them all that seriously. But they did change. Their Christian, Pacifist do-gooder image was turned inside out and Bono turned into this "Fly" character in greasy hair and sunglasses complete with a sweaty, creepy aura that was intended to repeal as much as his earlier image attracted. The bass player (the openly non-Christian in the group) getting busted for cocaine at the airport helped things along.
Thus a disconnect was achieved-in some ways all too well. If for one generation U2 came to its creative apex with JOSHUA TREE, for this next group of youth ACHTUNG BABY said it all. For those coming of age in the 1990's, the U2 of the 1980's was just a little too precious in its earnest mysticism of OCTOBER and THE UNFORGETABLE FIRE. Meanwhile, early fans of the band tended to find the band's new pretense of decadence and excess masking an even more earnest social awareness just a little bit too obvious and boring. Individual songs could shine; but the albums themselves were not that memorable. Early fans found themselves not giving a damn.
U2 THE BEST OF 1990-2000 & B SIDES will not help. It is a confusing mish-mash of hits, re-mixes, new songs, re-mixes of the new songs, movie soundtrack songs and I suppose what stands in for "B-Sides" in this age of digital. 30 cuts over two discs is an awful long listen and for my money I could have lived without half of it. I do quite enjoy "Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)" and have put it into the mix of songs I keep for personal listening pleasure. But "Mrs. Sarajevo" and "The Hands That Built America" are sonic turds of the worst of rock in movies.
Meanwhile, the world burns. Bono runs to the U.N. to beg for compassion and then the band flies off to some godforsaken corner of the earth to play "Beautiful Day" to the uncomprehending and unfortunate natives. All is meant well and good is done. Maybe that is enough. That still doesn't mean this album is any good. Bits and pieces are good. As a whole it is a drag.
Free Music Review: Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a HUGE Beatles fan, and Eric Clapton is number 2. But U2 is unbelievably AWESOME!! I just saw U2 last night in LA, and if I could, I would pay whatever it takes to see them again. This compilation covers my favorite era of their music. My all-time favorite U2 song is Mysterious Ways. Buy this CD, pay whatever you have to for tickets, it is all WORTH it!!
Jacquelyn
Cherry Valley, California