2024 the best of 1980 to 1990 review
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Limited edition version of their 2002 compilation includes the bonus B-sides disc. Universal. * Features the same tracks and packaging as the US limited edition version that is long discontinued.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language : English
Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 5.36 ounces
Manufacturer : Interscope Records
Date First Available : December 7, 2006
Label : Interscope Records
ASIN : B00006LU5V
Number of discs : 2
Reviewer: César
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lo mejor
Review: En este álbum se encuentran las mejores canciones de la banda, aparte que es gatefold. Esos años de U2 son los mejores. Recomendado el álbum por su buen sonido.
Reviewer: D. Uluca
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Clever Collection - Great New Mixes and Tracks
Review: This collection largely summarizes U2s last ten years. The limited edition is a must have by the fans of u2. The booklet has great photos and is fun to look over and over again. One wishes to have a poster of each picture. The first disc is simply great. No single artist on the face of this earth can top that disc. The new track Electrical Storm is great, as usual. The Hands That Built America, althought it feels a bit weird to listen for the first few times, is a good song. The new mix of Gone is far better than its album version and feels like a new song. Discotheque's New mix is also great, expect the "bum-che" oart at the end was omitted and it is weird to listen Bono just shout "Discotheque." Numb's new mix is also better than its album version. I would argue if the new Staring At the Sun is better than the album version. The new mix is more POP, maybe the way intended, but I am glad to have heard the POP album version.The B-Sides disc is one wild ride. It is hard to get used to the songs at first, but this disc surely represents what U2 has been trying to do in the last decade. It is filled with electronic music and techno mixes of the tracks. One thing is, it is good techno rather than lousy techno. Happiness is a warm Gun, Salome, Dirt Day, Summer Rain, Lady with the Spinning Head and Your Blue Room feat. Adam Clayton are the highlights of this disc. If God will send his angles and Lemon remixes are good. Other remixes just offer different approaches to the songs. It is a matter of taste, they are likeable but on the other hand hateable.The DVD bonus is a goodie. The history mix is very fun to watch over and over again. The Please video is almost a cover up for not including the song in the audio discs... If nothing else this disc only makes you want to buy the upcoming DVD of the Best of 1990 - 2000.Over all, this is a great disc to own. If you are not a fan I suggest the single disc version.
Reviewer: Jodi #1
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: U2 oldies
Review: Going to their concert- refreshed my memory
Reviewer: Richard D. Cappetto
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent!!!!!
Review: When it comes to HIT's CDs U2 knows how to do it right. Not only does this CD set contain a great selection of there hits (Even Better Then The Real Thing, Mysterious Day, Beautiful Day, One, Miss Sarajevo, Stay, Gone, Until The End Of The World, Etc.,) from 1990-2000, it gives us alternative mixes some of the hits such as Gone, Discotheque and Starring At The Sun and two new songs Electrical Storm (two versions) and The Hands That Built America. It also gives us a whole disk of B sides (Dirty Day junk Day mix, North and South Of The River, Salome, If God Will Send His Angels, etc.,), which are all very cool and a bonus DVD. The three disk makes this package a very good bargain. The Bonus DVD includes The History Mix, U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 DVD trailer, Please-Live Mural Cut, and Beautiful Day-EZE Version. This is a must get for any and every U2 fan and if you don;t have any U2 in your collection get this CD and There Best of 1980-1990, you won't be sorry.
Reviewer: Richard B. Luhrs
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Compilation or "New" Album? A Bit of Both
Review: The "Best Of..." label usually denotes a tiresomely obvious collection of an artist's most overplayed and/or overpurchased material, conveniently assembled for the car-stereo dilletante, with perhaps one or two new tracks tossed in to snare hardcore fans as well. U2's BEST OF 1990-2000, however, seems to be aimed primarily at the band's devotees, as it excludes nearly as many hits as it includes and offers up a wealth of remixes, non-album songs and new material to make up the shortfall. The result is something of a mixed bag, but one which should satisfy both light and heavy listeners for the most part. The 1991 classic ACHTUNG BABY is represented by four tracks - the vibrant love song "Even Better Than the Real Thing"; "Mysterious Ways" with its punchy danceability and singalong chorus; "One" (probably U2's most beautiful ballad) and the apocalyptically clever rocker"Until the End of the World." All essential tracks, to be sure. 1993's ZOOROPA contributes its own haunting ballad, "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)," along with a tasteful and vocals-heavy remix of The Edge's showcase "Numb" and - as a pleasant surprise - the pretty but relatively obscure "The First Time." 1997's POP retains its place as U2's most misunderstood and underrated work, with all three of its included songs presented in new mixes. "Gone," my own personal favorite, gets stripped of many of the overdubbed effects and echoes which defined the brilliant album version, but retains its superheavy sound and spirit. "Discotheque" fares less well, losing about thirty seconds in length and too many guitar tracks to compete with the original. "Staring at the Sun" is the least-tampered-with of the three, still a nice medium-tempo track with just enough darkness to give it bite. As for the 2000 megahit ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND, only two of its songs - the Grammy-winning anthem"Beautiful Day" and the pseudoinspirational "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get out Of" - make it onto this disc, which is quite a shock. Where's "Elevation"? Where's "Walk On"? For that matter, where's ZOOROPA's best-known track, "Lemon"? Not here. In their place we get a new song, "Electrical Storm," which has some catchy moments but doesn't sound like it's destined to become one of U2's classics; the curious "Miss Sarajevo," a droning number featuring an interlude by Luciano Pavarotti; and two soundtrack items - "The Hands That Built America" from "Gangs of New York" and "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me," a strong rocker from 1995's "Batman Forever." As noted earlier, most of this material is of greater interest to U2 fans than dabblers, but that's okay; in the absence of a new album proper,this"greatest hits plus" package fills the hole in effective if rather uneven fashion. Which brings us, some two years later, to THE B-SIDES. As anyone conversant with U2's recorded output knows, the band's 1990s CD singles tended to focus more on remixes, extensions and other such exotic mutilations of the A-side than on genuine non-album backing tracks. That in itself is neither a good nor a bad thing; but while giving various big-name engineers and DJs a chance to play around with U2 tapes might result in some diverting dancefloor fantasias, it doesn't exactly make for essential listening. Nevertheless, tortured explorations of latterday U2 hits swallow up most of THE B-SIDES 1990-2000 at the expense of other uncollected songs which would undoubtedly be of greater interest to anyone not in the habit of hosting raves. Anyway, to make a (sometimes very) long story short, "Even Better Than the Real Thing (Perfecto Mix)" is about as far from perfecto as I can imagine such a thing being, disemboweling this briliant song and dragging its innards out over nearly seven minutes of robot drums, girl singers and an ambience best described as a whole lotta nothin'. Conversely, "Mysterious Ways (Solar Plexus Club Mix)" is superfluous precisely because it varies so little from the original, which is still better. The same might be said of "Dirty Day (Junk Day Mix)" but for the fact that the original version isn't on the BEST OF disc, meaning this will have to do. On the other hand, "Numb" having already been rethought to good effect on the accompanying compilation, the aggravating "Gimme Some More Dignity Mix" is a perfect excuse to go and see whether the beer is cold yet, while "Lemon (Jeep Mix)" serves only to reaffirm one's shock at the exclusion of the brilliant album track from THE BEST OF 1990-2000. "Discotheque (Hexidecimal Mix)" is even less impressive than the deflated version on the anthology, but "If God Will Send His Angels (Big Yam Mix)" is at least as strong as the original POP track, leaving the song's structure intact behind a more adventurous soundstage. Ironically, the most successful remixes on this collection are in fact those of a pair of non-LP tracks. The psychedelic opus "Lady With a Spinning Head," probably the greatest of all U2 B-sides in its original four-minute form, is only strengthened in this "Extended Dance Mix" by an extra two minutes of alternately punchy and paradisiac synthesizer inserts. "Salome," rather lacklustre in its initial incarnation, also gains something in its lengthier presentation here. A POP-era workout on the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" stomps along agreeably, making one wish U2 had seen fit to stick some more examples of its small but interesting crop of 1990s covers onto this collection. Elsewhere, the "original" mix of "Electrical Storm" is arguably superior to the Wiliam Orbit rethink on THE BEST OF 1990-2000, but either version of this mediocre song would be more than sufficient without the other. "Summer Rain" almost sounds like a demo, and not a terribly promising one at that. "North and South of the River" is okay but no more, while the Passengers' Leonard Cohen tribute "Your Blue Room," though a beautiful song, is actually a bit of a cheat here since its initial appearance was not as a B-side but as an album track. I'm not sure what inspired U2 to select these particular recordings, many of which must rank among the band's least accessible work, for inclusion in this compilation; but given the underrepresentation of ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND on the BEST OF disc, one is tempted to wonder if a conscious effort has been made here to reestablish U2's cutting-edge credibility in the wake of such an overtly (and successfully) mainstream release. Pure conjecture, of course - much like the remixes themselves. For avowed fans and the merely curious alike, however, all that really matters is that the great U2 B-sides package, like the great U2 hits collection, still has yet to be released.
Reviewer: Edward Dunn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Vendor replaced a missing disc CD quickly and efficiently. Good, responsive customer service.
Review: Good, used CD with all booklets and intact jewel case.
Reviewer: Adam
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: U2: More music less militantism
Review: This compilation of the best U2 had to offer since 1990 is a tribute to the evolving style of the group. Foregoing their tried and true militant musical style of the 1980's, U2 created such monolithic albums as "Achtung Baby" and "All That You Can't Leave Behind." This was also a time during which U2 sought to expand their sound by venturing into the land of electronic music with the album Zooropa.The two CD set includes the songs that truly encapsulate the sound of U2 during the 90's, and even though the second CD has some of the less popular b-sides the first CD is nonstop musical bliss. This album is a must have for all fans of U2 and is a good place to start for those of you not familiar with the musical range of this band.
Reviewer: Tico
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Reviewer: Kenny
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great product
Reviewer: bettina63
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: schöne playlist, perfekt fürs auto!schneller versand, gut verpackt!
Reviewer: Thiti sartmas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Neuf est en bon état c'était pour un cadeau d'anniversaire d'une de mes copines a était très satisfaite et très surprise de voir que l'on pouvait encore trouver cet album en vinyle en plus d'époque d'après la date sur la jaquette.
Reviewer: Alberto Codina Bosch
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Es un recopilatorio muy bueno de U2 lo recomiendo mucho.