U2 - U2 - The Best of 1990-2000
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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
Free Music Review: I can't take this 'Best of' seriously
Hit: 1 Stars
That 'Rest Of The Best' idea sounds more interesting than this poorly represented 'Best Of'. Many obvious standouts are missing, as 'Please', 'Lemon', 'The Fly', etc. To add insult to injury we also have an unforgivable doubling up of 'Discotheque', 'Staring At The Sun', 'Gone' and 'Numb'. Plus 2 blatant inclusions to attract the many U2 completists: 'Electrical Storm' and 'The Hands That Built America'.
Buy their 90's statements instead: Achtung Baby, Zooropa and POP.
Free Music Review: Where's the long-time rumored 'The Rest Of The Best'?
Hit: 2 Stars
This is a dreadful compilation. This is not a 'Best Of'. I don't even need to talk about those shameful 'new mixes'. They just destroyed 3 songs of Pop and 1 song of Zooropa. As a R.E.M fan pointed out about R.E.M's 'In time: Best of': "And how did those new songs merit "great" status, anyway? I bought this CD in order to listen to songs that have already proved their weight, not to listen to anything new".
The truth is both 'Electrical Storm' and 'The Hands That Built America' were another hit and miss stuff of the worst U2 decade ever.
I just want to see out there their long-time rumored 'The Rest Of The Best'. My suggestions:
CD1: 1- Out Of Control, 2- The Electric Co, 3- Gloria, 4- I Threw a Brick Through a Window, 5- A Celebration, 6- Seconds, 7- Two Hearts Beat As One, 8- '40', 9- A Sort Of Homecoming, 10- MLK, 11- Bullet The Blue Sky, 12- Running To Stand Still, 13- In God's Country, 14- One Tree Hill, 15- God Part II, 16- Heartland
CD2: 1- Zoo Station, 2- The Fly, 3- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, 4- Acrobat, 5- Love Is Blindness, 6- Zooropa, 7- Numb (ORIGINAL), 8- Lemon, 9- Discoth?que (ORIGINAL), 10- Staring at the Sun (ORIGINAL), 11- Last Night on Earth (Single), 12- Mofo, 13- Please (Single), 14- Elevation, 15- Kite, 16- Walk On.
It's in your hands U2!.
Free Music Review: You can reach, but you can't grab it
Hit: 3 Stars
I liked this CD a whole lot, but it still fails as a greatest-hits compilation.
Five of the songs on U2's Best of 1990-2000 are alternate mixes than the familiar single versions. I actually greatly prefer the new mix of "Discoth?que" from the one on the Pop album, and the William Orbit mix of "Electrical Storm" is fantastic and puts the single version to shame. The fact remains, though, that they belong on the bonus disc, not the compilation itself. What I don't understand is if U2 were going to release a new single to promote this CD, why release the (quite different) version from the "limited edition" version of the album rather than the one on the standard release? Makes no sense. "Gone," a song I never liked much to begin with, is also quite different, but I can't really comment on it. The new mix of "Staring at the Sun" doesn't seem to be too different; all I can really notice is more accentuated electric guitar. "Numb," one of my favorite U2 songs, sounds better in the new mix, with the backing vocals more up front. Still though, all songs on a greatest hits compilation should be either album versions or single edits, not remixes.
My other major complaint is song selection. I know that the album All That You Can't Leave Behind was still commercially warm, so that led to its under-representation on this album. But if you're just going to put two songs from it on here, why not the two most popular songs, "Beautiful Day" and "Elevation?" "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" is a good song, but it's no "Elevation." And where's "Mofo?" "Lemon?" "If God Will Send His Angels?" "The Fly?" All of those have no reason not to be on this compilation. Maybe it should have been two CDs.
I must say again that I liked the alternate mixes of these songs better than the originals. When I burn my own U2 mix CD, "Discoth?que," "Electrical Storm," and "Numb" will come from this collection, not their respective albums. But that doesn't guarantee you'll like these versions better, which is why this is somewhat of a disappointment.
Free Music Review: I can't call this compilation as "Best Of"
Hit: 1 Stars
Terrible, just terrible. Go and buy their most fantastic albums ever created, I mean, the experimental 90s era:
Achtung Baby - Zooropa - Pop.
If I were you, I wouldn't pay even 1 dollar to listen to those awful "new mixes" ( Discotheque, Staring At The Sun, Gone and Numb ). Go and listen to original versions instead !!. SAVE YOUR MONEY. Both Electrical Storm and The Hands That Built America are worthless, just filler singles - Hit and miss - in order to sell more copies of this shameful compilation.
If you're a REAL U2 fan, you should buy those brilliant 90s albums instead, trust me, you won't be dissapointed at all.