U2 - U218 Singles
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Free Music Review: Package created by one team, music selection picked by another?
Hit: 3 Stars
If you were a U2 fan back in the mid eighties, you'll understand what I mean. the CD cover was definitely a rip-off of the "U2 PAC II" singles package from the mid-80's (the typeface is exactly the same). And the fact that they used a 25 year old photo on the front cover is no coincidence, I'm sure. But then you look at the music chosen and you're back in the 21st century, again.
I wish that the group that made the cover art also picked the song selection. I suspect songs like "A Celebration" and the original "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" would have made the list. Instead of a re-hash of the same old songs that are already available on other CD's, I'm still waiting for the old singles to be upgraded to the digital world. Maybe in "U218, Part 2"....
Free Music Review: Decent Best Of Collection of U2 Hits Which Doesn't Really Cover The Band's Extraordinary Body of Work
Hit: 3 Stars
Imagine if you're a diehard Elton John or Billy Joel fan and their record distributors had released just one CD containing the greatest hits of their memorable musical careers. You'd be disappointed and quite upset, realizing that much of their excellent oeuvre hadn't made it onto a single CD greatest hits compilation. Well this is what diehard fans of U2 have to contend with in this latest, greatest hits collection that contains just 16 of the Irish rockers best songs, plus two new songs recorded especially for this compilation. While this collection may just be ideal for the casual fan or person unfamiliar with U2's great, truly important, body of work, others will be more inclined to collect the original album CDs and then select their own "greatest hits" compilation of U2's work (I am especially disappointed by the inexplicble absence of the great rock anthem "I Will Follow" from this CD compilation, since any serious fan of U2's music will mention this elegant song as one of the best from the band's early period (early to mid 1980s). There are two other, much better, compilations of their hit songs covering the periods from 1980 to 1990 and 1990 to 2000. Acquire these first before thinking of buying this disappointing CD compilation.Free Music Review: This is the end of U2 as we know it
Hit: 1 Stars
Bono ir too busy saving the world and struggling for his Nobel Prize nomination and the other three guys are too scared of going without him that their music has gone dry. HTDAAM was a bad album and the band keeps on trying to convince us that Vertigo is actually a great song!
Why do the release another greatest hits album while they only made one record since the previous hits compilation? Christmas, contractual appointments or collecting more money to save the world?
What happened to tracks like "Stay (Faraway so close)","The ground beneath her feet", "Bad", "I will follow", "Please" and why do they keep listing "Vertigo" and "Elevation" that certainly are arena rockers but don't have the quality of another singles?
And, why do they keep on using edited versions of songs like "Where the streets have no name", which is missing the beautiful ending? Again?
Even the Bee Gees put the 5 minute version of Staying Alive in their compilations!
Certainly they will not collect my money to save the world.
Free Music Review: You, too, can pay for these songs a third time!
Hit: 1 Stars
I have heard this collection. I do not own it, I have borrowed it.
To dissect the reasons for U2 releasing yet another compilation while two others are still on the market, you have to look at U2's character. What can they get out of it?
1) Christmas sales. Obviously.
2) Remastering. A task that should've been taken care of on "Best of 1980-1990" and "Best of 1990-2000" and most likely was.
3) A chance to show us more photographs, as if we all forgot what the band looked like.
4) A chance for U2 to further toot their own horn by including two songs from the insanely overrated "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb."
5) Bait songs! But there is a humble way around this by utilizing iTunes. Even Metallica have jumped on that bandwagon at this point.
6) To tell fans what to like and what not to like (that means you need to ignore "Boy," "October", "Zooropa" and "Pop").
7) To remind us that "With or Without You" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" were once hits. Silly me, I've forgotten! Who are U2 again?
"U218" rings of been-there-done-that almost 100% of its 74 plus minutes. "Pride," "New Year's Day," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and so many other monolithic songs have completely lost their meanings in the process. Although U2's credibility could be examined with much scrutiny lately what with the "Best of" collections, their appearance at the Super Bowl, their shameless caterwauling on an iPod commercial, a book written by them about them, and the release of the biggest turkey this customer has even heard with "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," this CD truly is the nail in the coffin. U2's legacy has cheapened to a new awe-inspiring low.
Oh, the bait songs. That's right, the folks at Island/Interscope knew they had to slide in a few extras to make sure that everyone, even people who own all of the U2 albums, will be buying this. "Window In The Skies" is a half-hearted throwaway and "The Saints Are Coming," recorded with Green Day, is merely okay. So there you go.
Free Music Review: U218 Singles
Hit: 5 Stars
I like this cd album so much and I love it. U2 is great and keep making more cd albums and I hope I'll see you in the concert in TD Waterhouse. I'm your fan and keep winning the awards.