The Best Of... as they should have been...

[theu2fly]

I want to rearrange the current Best Ofs, for what real fans would want to see...

1980-1990
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. Gloria
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. New Year's Day
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
9. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
10. Bad
11. With Or Without You
12. Party Girl
13. Out Of Control
14. A Sort Of Homecoming
15. 40

BONUS TRACK: One Tree Hill

1990-2000
1. Elevation
2. The Fly
3. Beautiful Day
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Discotheque
7. Lemon
8. Dirty Day
9. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
10. Last Night On Earth
11. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
12. Miss Sarajevo
13. One
14. Walk On

BONUS TRACK: The First Time

 

[phillyfan26]

80-90
1. Out of Control
2. I Will Follow
3. Gloria
4. Fire
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. New Year's Day
7. Pride
8. Unforgettable Fire
9. Bad
10. Where the Streets Have No Name
11. With or Without You
12. One Tree Hill
13. Angel of Harlem
14. Desire
15. All I Want is You

90-00
1. The Fly
2. Mysterious Ways
3. Until the End of the World
4. One
5. Zooropa
6. Stay
7. The First Time
8. Dirty Day (some new mix)
9. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
10. Miss Sarajevo
11. Gone (90-00 mix)
12. Discotheque (90-00 mix with Boom-Cha's)
13. Please
14. Staring at the Sun (90-00 mix)
15. Wake Up Dead Man

I would save the ATYCLB for 2000-2010 so that they'd have enough, cause they won't have too many albums at their current pace.

 

[bono_man2002]

You mean what you want to see

Best of's are usually just a collection off singles plus a few good tracks of an album anyway.

Real fans go out and buy the Cd's with the other songs on them anyways.

 

[bono_man2002]

I would save the ATYCLB for 2000-2010 so that they'd have enough, cause they won't have too many albums at their current pace.

Elevation, Walk On, Stuck In A Moment all "Will" count towads the (if there is a) Best Of 2000-2010, Along with Vertigo, COBL , Sometimes and ABOY, OOTS plus whats to come....

 

[Clawgrabber]

stuck won't count toward a 2000-2010 b/c it was already on 90-00 (which, along with bd being included was a big mistake)

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

01. Pride
02. New Year's Day
03. With Or Without You
04. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
05. Sunday Bloody Sunday
06. Bad
07. Where The Streets Have No Name
08. 11 O' Clock Tick Tock
09. I Will Follow
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. A Sort Of A Homecoming
12. Out Of Control
13. Desire
14. Angel Of Harlem
15. Gloria
16. Bullet The Blue Sky
17. All I Want Is You
18. 40

Running Time: 1:19:57


01. Even Better Than The Real Thing
02. Beautiful Day
03. Stay
04. Stuck In A Moment
05. Gone (New Mix)
06. Until The End Of The World
07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
08. The Fly
09. Numb
10. Please
11. Kite
12. Mysterious Ways
13. Discothèque
14. Lemon
15. Miss Sarajevo
16. One
17. Walk On

Running Time: 1:20:00

I very much wish Elevation was there but there was no space to it. Some of those songs would probably be cut shorter here and there (like Streets was) to make the album flow a little better.

 

[bono_man2002]

stuck won't count toward a 2000-2010 b/c it was already on 90-00 (which, along with bd being included was a big mistake)

Oh yeah I forgot about stuck being on 90-00

 

[shortfuse]

As i would have liked
I will put them in chronological order.

1. Out of control
2. The Electric co.
3. I will follow
4. Gloria
5. Scarlet (maybe as a hidden or bonus track... but it should definitely be there)
6. Sunday bloody sunday
7. New years day
8. 40
9. Pride
10. Bad
11. A sort of homecoming
12. The Unforgettable fire
13. WTSHNN
14. ISHFWILF
15. WOWY
16. In gods country
17. All i want is you
18. Heartland

Its a pity that stellar tracks like One Tree Hill, Desire and Mothers of the dissapeared are not there.... but there is so much great music to choose from.

1. The Fly
2. One
3. until the end of the world
4. Mysterious Ways
5. Zooropa
6. The first time
7. Stay
8. Lemon
9. Gone (new mix)
10. Last night on earth
11. Discotheque (no boomchas)
12. Do you feel loved?
13. Electrical storm (william orbit mix)
14. The hands that built America

I think ATYCLB songs should not have been on it. If they must be, the the first 4 songs can be added to this.

 

[JanuaryStar]

I definitely agree on '40' and 'One Tree Hill', and some others, too

 

[phillyfan26]

Elevation, Walk On, Stuck In A Moment all "Will" count towads the (if there is a) Best Of 2000-2010, Along with Vertigo, COBL , Sometimes and ABOY, OOTS plus whats to come....

I want more so I can avoid hearing ABOY on a Best Of.

Beautiful Day
Vertigo
Elevation
Stuck in a Moment
Walk On
City of Blinding Lights
Sometimes
OOTS
Love and Peace
Other Songs

 

[Utoo]

Guys, check out the Where The Album Has No Name subforum.

 

[namkcuR]

U2: In The Slipstream[Boxset][14CD]

Disc 1: The Best Of 1980-1990

1.Where The Streets Have No Name
2.Pride(In The Name Of Love)
3.Sunday Bloody Sunday
4.Bullet The Blue Sky
5.I Will Follow
6.11 O'Clock Tick Tock
7.Out Of Control
8.New Year's Day
9.Gloria
10.Angel Of Harlem
11.Desire
12.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
13.Bad
14.With Or Without You
15.The Unforgettable Fire
16.Running To Stand Still
17.All I Want Is You
18."40"

Disc 2: The B-Sides 1980-1990

1.Touch
2.Party Girl
3.Endless Deep
4.Treasure(Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop)
5.Bass Trap
6.Love Comes Tumbling
7.The Three Sunrises
8.Luminous Times
9.Walk To The Water
10.Spanish Eyes
11.Deep In The Heart
12.Sweetest Thing
13.Silver And Gold
14.Race Against Time
15.Hallelujah(Here She Comes)
16.A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
17.Everlasting Love
18.Dancing Barefoot
19.Unchained Melody

Disc 3: Unreleased & Rare 1980-1990

1.Be There
2.Wild Irish Rose
(Other Unreleased stuff from the 80s - I can't think of anything else right now)

Disc 4: 1980-1990 Live

1.I Will Follow(Elevation Boston)
2.Gloria(UABRS)
3.11 O'Clock Tick Tock(UABRS)
4.An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart(Vertigo Chicago)
5.Sunday Bloody Sunday(R&H)
6.New Year's Day(Popmart Mexico)
7.Pride(R&H)
8.Bad(R&H)
9.The Unforgettable Fire(Rock's Hottest Ticket)
10.Where The Streets Have No Name(ZooTV Sydney)
11.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For(Popmart Mexico)
12.With Or Without You(Rock's Hottest Ticket)
13.Bullet The Blue Sky(ZooTV Sydney)
14.Running To Stand Still(ZooTV Sydney)
15.One Tree Hill(Lovetown Point Depot 12/26/89)
16.Desire(ZooTV Stockholm)
17.Angel Of Harlem(ZooTV Sydney)
18.All I Want Is You(Lovetown Point Depot 12/30/89)

Disc 5: The Best Of 1990-2000

1.Even Better Than The Real Thing(Single Mix)
2.Mysterious Ways
3.Discotheque
4.Mofo
5.Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
6.Gone
7.Numb
8.Lemon
9.Miss Sarajevo
10.Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses(Temple Bar Mix)
11.If God Will Send His Angels(Single Mix)
12.Stay(Faraway, So Close)
13.Staring At The Sun
14.The Fly
15.Until The End Of The World
16.Please(Single Version)
17.One

Disc 6: The B-Sides 1990-2000

1.Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk
2.Night And Day
3.Satellite Of Love
4.Lady With The Spinning Head(Extended Dance Mix)
5.Salome
6.Where Did It All Go Wrong
7.Paint It Black
8.Fortunate Son
9.Can't Help Falling In Love
10.Slow Dancing
11.I Got You Under My Skin
12.Holy Joe(Garage Mix)
13.Pop Muzik(Popmart Mix)
14.Happiness Is A Warm Gun
15.Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad
16.North And South Of The River

Disc 7: Unreleased & Rare 1990-2000

1.Take You Down(Salome Demo)
2.She's Gonna Blow Your House Down(Salome Demo)
3.Laughing In The Face Of Love/Backmask(Salome Demo)
4.Morning Child(Salome Demo)
5.Heaven And Hell(Salome Demo)
6.The Wanderer(Bono Version)
7.Wake Up Dead Man(Edge's Original Gothic Version)
8.If You Wear That Velvet Dress(Jools Holland Version)
9.Pop Demo From Whence COBL was born
10.Acrobat(Hershey Soundcheck Acoustic Live Version)
11.So Cruel(Hershey Soundcheck Live Version)
12-15: Those soundcheck demos that were played before a Popmart gig that no one could ever label

Disc 8: Remixes 1990-2000

1.Even Better Than The Real Thing(Perfecto Mix)
2.Even Better Than The Real Thing(V16 Exit Wound Mix)
3.The Lounge Fly Mix
4.Mysterious Ways(Perfecto Mix)
5.Salome(Zooromancer Mix)
6.Numb(Soul Assassins Mix)
7.Numb(Gimme Some More Dignity Mix)
8.Lemon(Perfecto Mix)
9.Lemon(Big Yard Club Mix)
10.Stay(Faraway, So Close)(Underdog Mix)
11.Dirty Day(Bitter Kiss Mix)
12.Discotheque(Hexidecimal Mix)
13.Mofo(Phunk Force Mix)
14.If God Will Send His Angels(Grand Jury Mix)
15.Staring At The Sun(Monster Truck Mix)

Disc 9: 1990-2000 Live

1.Even Better Than The Real Thing(Popmart Mexico City)
2.One(Modena, War Child Concert)
3.Until The End Of The World (ZooTV Sydney)
4.The Fly(ZooTV Sydney)
5.Mysterious Ways(ZooTV Sydney)
6.Ultraviolet(ZooTV Stockholm)
7.Love Is Blindness(ZooTV Sydney)
8.Numb(ZooTV Sydney)
9.Lemon(ZooTV Sydney)
10.Stay(ZooTV Sydney)
11.Dirty Day(ZooTV Sydney)
12.Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me(Popmart Mexico City)
13.Miss Sarajevo(Vertigo Milan)
14.Discotheque(Popmart Mexico City)
15.Mofo(1997 MTV Europan Music Awards)
16.Staring At The Sun(Popmart Mexico City)
17.Gone(Popmart Mexico City)
18.Miami(8/28/97, Popmart, Leeds)
19.Please(Popmart Mexico City)

Disc 10: The Best Of 2000-2010

1.Elevation(Tomb Raider Mix)
2.Beautiful Day
3.Electrical Storm(William Orbit Mix)
4.City Of Blinding Lights
5.Vertigo
6.The Saints
7.Kite
8.Sometimes
9.Stuck In A Moment
10.Ground Beneath Her Feet
11.Love And Peace Or Else
12.Original Of The Species
13.Walk On

Disc 11: The B-Sides 2000-2010

1.Always
2.Summer Rain
3.Big Girls Are Best
4.Are You Gonna Wait Forever
5.Neon Lights
6.Ava Maria
7.Falling At Your Feet
8.Stateless
(If you can think of more b-sides from this era, do tell)

Disc 12: The Remixes 2000-2010

1.Beautiful Day(Perfecto Mix)
2.Beautiful Day(David Holmes Mix)
3.Stuck In A Moment(Acoustic Mix)
4.Elevation(Influx Mix)
5.Walk On(Hallelujah Mix)
6.Walk On(Single Mix)
7.New York(Nice Mix)
8.New York(Nasty Mix)
9.Vertigo(Jacknife Lee 12" Mix)
10.Vertigo(Radanka Mix)
11.Miracle Drug(Radanka Mix)

Disc 13: Unreleased 2000-2010

1.'Home'(Part of what eventually became 'Walk On') Demo
2.Original Of The Species(Original ATYCLB demo version that once played during a 60 Minutes broadcast)
3.Levitate
4.Flower Child
5.Electrical Storm(BBC Leak Version)
6.Native Son(Vertigo Alternate Version)
7.Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own(Alternate Version)
8.All Because Of You(Alternate Version)
9.Yahweh(Alternate Version)
10.Xanax And Wine
11.Love You Like Mad
12.Smile

Disc 14: 2000-2010 Live

1.Beautiful Day(Vertigo Chicago)
2.Stuck In A Moment(Conan O'Brien Performance 2005)
3.Elevation(Elevation Boston)
4.Walk On(Elevation Slane)
5.Kite(Elevation Boston)
6.Sweetest Thing(3/24/01, Elevation Tour, Miami)
7.New York(TRL Performance, 10/30/00)
8.Hands That Built America(Oscar Performance 2003)
9.Vertigo(Vertigo Milan)
10.Sometimes(Vertigo Chicago)
11.Love And Peace Or Else(Katrina Performance)
12.City Of Blinding Lights(Vertigo Milan)
13.Original Of The Species(Vertigo Chicago)
14.Yahweh(Vertigo Chicago)
15.Crumbs From Your Table(10/11/05, Vertigo Tour, New York)
16.Fast Cars(10/11/05, Vertigo Tour, New York)

 

[BVS]

I want to rearrange the current Best Ofs, for what real fans would want to see...

Real fans?

Why would you make 'best ofs' for "real fans"?

 

[BigMacPhisto]

U2: Volume One

1. Out Of Control (Single Mix)
2. Another Day
3. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
2. A Day Without Me
3. I Will Follow
4. Stories For Boys (Album Mix)
5. Fire
6. Gloria
7. I Fall Down
8. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
9. Tomorrow
10. October
11. A Celebration
12. New Year's Day
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Seconds
15. Drowning Man
16. Two Hearts Beat As One
17. Surrender
18. The Electric Co. (Live from UABRS)
19. '40' (Live from UABRS)

U2: Volume Two

1. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Wire
4. Bad (Live from Wide Awake In America)
5. A Sort Of Homecoming (Live from Wide Awake In America)
6. With Or Without You
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Mix)
9. In God's Country
10. One Tree Hill
11. Bullet The Blue Sky
12. Running To Stand Still
13. Spanish Eyes
14. Sweetest Thing (Original Mix)
15. Desire
16. Angel Of Harlem
17. When Love Comes To Town
18. All I Want Is You

U2: Volume Three

1. The Fly
2. Mysterious Ways
3. One
4. Even Better Than The Real Thing (Single Version)
5. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Temple Bar Mix)
6. Until The End Of The World
7. Numb
8. Lemon (Edit)
9. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
10. Zooropa (Promo Single Edit)
11. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
12. Miss Sarajevo (Radio Edit)
13. Your Blue Room (Radio Edit)
14. Discotheque
15. Staring At The Sun
16. Last Night On Earth (Single Mix)
17. Please (Single Mix)
18. If God Will Send His Angels (Single Mix)

U2: Volume Four

1. Beautiful Day
2. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
3. Elevation (Tomb Raider Mix)
4. Walk On (Single Mix)
5. Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
6. The Hands That Built America
7. Vertigo
8. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. All Beause Of You (Single Mix)
11. Original Of The Species (Single Mix)

A strong enough collection of major songs, while still leaving enough deeper cuts from the studio albums, making those still an essential listen.

 

[vaz02]

I want to rearrange the current Best Ofs, for what real fans would want to see...

1980-1990
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. Gloria
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. New Year's Day
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
9. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
10. Bad
11. With Or Without You
12. Party Girl
13. Out Of Control
14. A Sort Of Homecoming
15. 40

BONUS TRACK: One Tree Hill

1990-2000
1. Elevation
2. The Fly
3. Beautiful Day
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Discotheque
7. Lemon
8. Dirty Day
9. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
10. Last Night On Earth
11. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
12. Miss Sarajevo
13. One
14. Walk On

BONUS TRACK: The First Time

Now thats worth buying.

 

[Aygo]

The compilations should've been something like this...

Volume One (fall 1989)

Disc one: 1. Where the streets have no name / 2. I will follow / 3. New Year's Day (edit) / 4. Pride / 5. I still haven't found what I'm looking for / 6. With or without you / 7. Sunday bloody Sunday / 8. Bad / 9. The unforgettable fire / 10. Gloria (edit) / 11. She's a mystery to me (U2 version - new bonus track) / 12. Desire / 13. When love comes to town / 14. Angel of Harlem / 15. All I want is you / 16. '40' (live)

Disc two: 1. The three sunrises / 2. Spanish eyes / 3. Sweetest thing / 4. Love comes tumbling / 5. Bass trap / 6. 11 o'clock tick tock / 7. Silver and gold / 8. Deep in the heart / 9. Walk to the water / 10. Dancing barefoot / 11. everlasting love / 12. Unchained melody / 13. A room at the heartbreak hotel / 14. Party girl (live) / 15. Boomerang II / 16. Hallelujah here she comes / 17. Wild irish rose / * Things to make and do (hidden track)


Volume Two (fall 1999)

Disc one: 1. MoFo (edit) / 2. The fly / 3. Even better than the real thing / 4. Gone (new mix - new bonus track) / 5. Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me / 6. Stay (faraway, so close!) / 7. Lemon (edit) / 8. Discotheque (edit) / 9. Numb (edit) / 10. If God will send His angels (single v.) / 11. Who's gonna ride your wild horses (Temple bar edit) / 12. Mysterious ways / 13. One / 14. Staring at the sun / 15. Last night on Earth (single v.) / 16. Miss Sarajevo (single edit) / 17. Please (UK edit)

Disc two: 1. Lady with the spinning head (extended) / 2. Dirty day (Bitter Kiss mix) / 3. Holy Joe (Garage mix) / 4. Salome / 5. Satellite of love / 6. Night and day (edit) / 7. Pop Muzik (Popmart mix edit) / 8. MoFo (Phunk Phorce mix) / 9. Even better than the real thing (Perfecto mix edit) / 10. Discotheque (Hexidecimal mix edit) / 11. Numb (Soul Assassins mix) / 12. Lemon (Bad Yard edit) / 13. Bottoms (Zoo station remix) / 14. Your blue room / 15. North and south of the river / 16. Slow dancing / 17. One (live from Modena, 1995)


maybe this will give me some clues for when I make an alternate history, just for fun...

 

[ponkine]

U2: In The Slipstream[Boxset][14CD]


Disc 4: 1980-1990 Live

1.I Will Follow(Elevation Boston)
2.Gloria(UABRS)
3.11 O'Clock Tick Tock(UABRS)
4.An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart(Vertigo Chicago)
5.Sunday Bloody Sunday(R&H)
6.New Year's Day(Popmart Mexico)
7.Pride(R&H)
8.Bad(R&H)
9.The Unforgettable Fire(Rock's Hottest Ticket)
10.Where The Streets Have No Name(ZooTV Sydney)
11.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For(Popmart Mexico)
12.With Or Without You(Rock's Hottest Ticket)
13.Bullet The Blue Sky(ZooTV Sydney)
14.Running To Stand Still(ZooTV Sydney)
15.One Tree Hill(Lovetown Point Depot 12/26/89)
16.Desire(ZooTV Stockholm)
17.Angel Of Harlem(ZooTV Sydney)
18.All I Want Is You(Lovetown Point Depot 12/30/89)

Your collection would the most ambitious U2 project ever I bet you the band will be go insane trying to do something like that

Anyway, I'd like to point out just one thing: It's clear that every fan has his/her own preferences for Best ofs, but when you try to make a compilation from a live Decade (in this case, 80s) it doesn't make sense to include performances of 90s and 00s on it . It's clear you're a very enthusiastic fan (as me ) but the weaker part on your project is (by far) live CD's. VERY LIMITED amount of concerts presented . Don't forget the band have much more concerts recordings, like Boston 1981, Riverboat President 1982, Hattem 1982, Loreley 1983, Boston 1983, London 1984, Birmingham 1984, Dublin 1985, Most of third leg of Joshua Tree, Sydney 1989, Dublin 1989, Most of Zoo TV and Popmart gigs, etc

 

[the tourist]

Best Of 1980-1990:

01. Where The Streets Have No Name (full)
02. I Will Follow
03. Gloria
04. New Year's Day
05. The Unforgettable Fire
06. With Or Without You
07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08. Desire
09. Angel Of Harlem
10. Pride
11. 11 O' Clock Tick Tock (remastered, re-recorded)
12. Out Of Control
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. One Tree Hill
15. Bad
16. All I Want Is You
17. October

B-Sides 1980-1990

01. Beautiful Ghost (remastered)
02. The Sweetest Thing
03. Luminous Times
04. Walk To The Water
05. Spanish Eyes
06. Everlasting Love
07. Dancing Barefoot
08. Unchained Melody
09. Love Comes Tumbling
10. The Three Sunrises
11. Silver And Gold
12. The Endless Deep
13. Trash Trampoline And The Party Girl
14. Halleljuah Here She Comes
15. A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
16. Deep In The Heart
17. Race Against Time


The Best Of 1990-2000

01. Zooropa
02. Even Better Than The Real Thing
03. Mysterious Ways
04. Discotheque
05. Staring At The Sun
06. Stay
07. One
08. Last Night On Earth (single version)
09. Numb
10. Lemon
11. Until The End Of The World
12. The Fly
13. Gone
14. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
15. Please (single version)
16. Miss Sarajevo
17. The Ground Beneath Her Feet

B-Sides 1990-2000

01. Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk
02. Lady With The Spinning Head (Extended)
03. Salome
04. Stateless
05. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
06. Your Blue Room
07. Night And Day
08. I've Got You Under My Skin
09. Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad
10. North And South Of The River
11. Holy Joe (Garage)
12. Where Did It All Go Wrong?
13. Satellite Of Love
14. Slow Dancing
15. Dirty Day (remix)
16. Lemon (perfecto remix)
17. Can't Help Falling In Love

 

[Nisse]

Best of 1980-1990
1. Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Version)
2. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
3. Gloria
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. Angel Of Harlem
6. Desire
7. I Will Follow
8. Out Of Control
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Bullet The Blue Sky
11. New Year's Day
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
14. I Fall Down
15. Bad (Best of edit)
16. The Electric Co. (edit)
17. All I Want Is You (Single edit)
18. With Or Without You
19. 40

Bonus disc:
1. A Sort Of Homecoming (Live version different vocal mix)
2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window (Live at Red Rocks)
3. A Day Without Me (Live at Red Rocks)
4. The Magic Carpet (Demo)
5. Street Mission (Demo)
6. Out Of Control (U2:3)
7. Stories For Boys (U2:3)
8. Boy/Girl (U2:3)
9. Two Hearts Beat As One (Edit)
10. When Love Comes To Town (Single edit)
11. In God's Country
12. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live in Boston 1983)
13. The Dream Is Over (Demo)
14. Another Day
15. Shadows And Tall Trees (Demo)
16. The Fool (Demo)
17. A Celebration
18. Party Girl (Red Rocks)
19. One Tree Hill (Live in Tempe)
20. Running To Stand Still
21. MLK

Inspired by R.E.M.'s latest best of

 

[An Cat Gav]

1980-1990

All I Want Is You
Sweetest Thing
Angel Of Harlem
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Years Day
Gloria
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
October (Hidden Track)
Where The Streets Have No Name
Bad
With Or Without You
Unforgettable Fire
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
When Love Comes To Town
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Desire
Out Of Control
A Celebration

1990-2000

The Fly
Elevation
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
Electrical Storm [William Orbit Mix]
Night and Day
One
Miss Sarajevo
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Gone [New Mix]
Until The End Of The World
The Hands That Built America [Theme Fron 'Gangs Of New York']
Lemon (Perfecto Mix)
Discotheque
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Staring At The Sun
Numb
The First Time
Walk On

 

[ponkine]

Best of 1980-1990
1. Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Version)
2. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
3. Gloria
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. Angel Of Harlem
6. Desire
7. I Will Follow
8. Out Of Control
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Bullet The Blue Sky
11. New Year's Day
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
14. I Fall Down
15. Bad (Best of edit)
16. The Electric Co. (edit)
17. All I Want Is You (Single edit)
18. With Or Without You
19. 40

Bonus disc:
1. A Sort Of Homecoming (Live version different vocal mix)
2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window (Live at Red Rocks)
3. A Day Without Me (Live at Red Rocks)
4. The Magic Carpet (Demo)
5. Street Mission (Demo)
6. Out Of Control (U2:3)
7. Stories For Boys (U2:3)
8. Boy/Girl (U2:3)
9. Two Hearts Beat As One (Edit)
10. When Love Comes To Town (Single edit)
11. In God's Country
12. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live in Boston 1983)
13. The Dream Is Over (Demo)
14. Another Day
15. Shadows And Tall Trees (Demo)
16. The Fool (Demo)
17. A Celebration
18. Party Girl (Red Rocks)
19. One Tree Hill (Live in Tempe)
20. Running To Stand Still
21. MLK

Inspired by R.E.M.'s latest best of

Such a killer compilation !!!!. I'm dying to see your best of 1990-2000 now

 

[zepher25]

i dont understand why you people dont think Beautiful day should have been on 1990-2000, if you actually knew about U2 you would know that Beautiful Day was released on 9th October 2000, therefore it is in the time period of 1990-2000, come to think of it, ATYCLB is from 2000 so everything could have gone one it, most of those songs are far better than that weird disco crap from the Mid-Late 90's

 

[ponkine]

i dont understand why you people dont think Beautiful day should have been on 1990-2000, if you actually knew about U2 you would know that Beautiful Day was released on 9th October 2000, therefore it is in the time period of 1990-2000, come to think of it, ATYCLB is from 2000 so everything could have gone one it, most of those songs are far better than that weird disco crap from the Mid-Late 90's

First of all:

You people?

Second: fans are right. Despite Beautiful Day it was included on "best" (Best?) of 1990-2000 it should have been included on another compilation instead, because best of 1990-2000 should have been a compilation of a decade: The 90s and it's clear that Beautiful Day and Stuck In A Moment aren't part of the 90s . Man, you talk like if any band desicion were just unquestionable and perfect, and that's a mistake. They made several unforgivable omissions and they made it even worse with the inclusion of "new mixes" instead of the original songs. Moreover, the B-Sides disc was just excrement, as just as crap and disposable as The Hands That Built America.

The result was just atrocious: both critics and fans hated the compilation (just see amazon.com reviews), and while Best of 1980-1990 sold 18 million copies, "Best" of 1990-2000 sold just 5-6 million ones.

Among the omissions, songs like Lemon, The Fly, Zooropa, Mofo, etc and the original versions of Discotheque, Staring At The Sun, Gone and Numb are much more representative of the essence of 90s U2 Even Mission Impossible could have been included, because it represents the experimentation and the desire of tearing down the walls in their sound during the 90s. Also all these songs show why U2 was a band that established musical tendencies and the sound to follow in the 90s, because they weren't afraid of making something new, pushing unknown limits in music and sound



PS: Nisse, I'm waiting for your Best of 1990-2000

 

[Bonochick]

I want to rearrange the current Best Ofs, for what real fans would want to see...

What defines "real fans"?

 

[Salome]

Second: fans are right. Despite Beautiful Day it was included on "best" (Best?) of 1990-2000 it should have been included on another compilation instead, because best of 1990-2000 should have been a compilation of a decade: The 90s and it's clear that Beautiful Day and Stuck In A Moment aren't part of the 90s . Man, you talk like if any band desicion were just unquestionable and perfect, and that's a mistake. They made several unforgivable omissions and they made it even worse with the inclusion of "new mixes" instead of the original songs. Moreover, the B-Sides disc was just excrement, as just as crap and disposable as The Hands That Built America.

The result was just atrocious: both critics and fans hated the compilation (just see amazon.com reviews), and while Best of 1980-1990 sold 18 million copies, "Best" of 1990-2000 sold just 5-6 million ones.

Among the omissions, songs like Lemon, The Fly, Zooropa, Mofo, etc and the original versions of Discotheque, Staring At The Sun, Gone and Numb are much more representative of the essence of 90s U2 Even Mission Impossible could have been included, because it represents the experimentation and the desire of tearing down the walls in their sound during the 90s. Also all these songs show why U2 was a band that established musical tendencies and the sound to follow in the 90s, because they weren't afraid of making something new, pushing unknown limits in music and sound

so you reckon they would have sold more copies of the 1990-2000 best of if instead of Beautiful Day (the song that *single*handedly put U2 back on the map as the biggest band in the world) and Stuck in a moment .... they had put Lemon and Mofo on there?
interesting theory

the "you talk like if any band desicion were just unquestionable and perfect" is as poor as most of your arguements are
even a blind man with sunglasses on can see that it makes sense putting those songs on an album that's just a compilation anyway because:
1 - Beautiful Day sells albums
2 - a compilation album of 3 regular albums would be in line with something the Britney Spearse's of this planet do
3 - 2000 is actually included in the title
nor Bono or Larry visited me to whisper this bit of info in my ear to post it on the net
it's sheer logic

could I have made a better compilation for fans?
I definitely could have (that being said, it makes a more pleasurable listening experience than the 80s compilation for me even though the 80s compilation has far more songs on it that I love)
but it would have been completely redundant since the only people interested in buying it would be the people who already owned the original albums


in other words:
your post made no sense

 

[the tourist]

By your logic, it sounds like Night And Day should have been on the Best of 1980-1990 b-sides.... Because although it has a more comparable sound to Achtung Baby, it was released between 1980 and 1990.

As for Beautiful Day being on the Best of 1990-2000, I personally think that Electrical Storm and The Hands That Built America had much less business being on there. I think that instead of releasing a couple of brand new songs (with a pretention that they're "better" -- since it's called the "best of" -- than songs they left off) which aren't even from the defined era was a poor move.

I think they also should have been more conscious of the fact that there is a Best of 2000-2010 that they will probably release and that songs such as Beautiful Day and Stuck In A Moment would be good for that. Unless they put those songs on both. Which they could do.

Instead of any of those four songs, I'd rather have seen Last Night On Earth, The Fly, Lemon, and maybe a reworked b-side from the era (perhaps Where Did It All Go Wrong?), a-la The Sweetest Thing.

 

[the tourist]

1 - Beautiful Day sells albums

Yes, you're right. It sold All That You Can't Leave Behind.

 

[ponkine]

could I have made a better compilation for fans?
I definitely could have (that being said, it makes a more pleasurable listening experience than the 80s compilation for me even though the 80s compilation has far more songs on it that I love)
but it would have been completely redundant since the only people interested in buying it would be the people who already owned the original albums


in other words:
your post made no sense

I agree with you: U2 18 will be redundant and makes no sense

Which post made no sense now?

 

[LMP]

Re: Re: The Best Of... as they should have been...

What defines "real fans"?

you have to know what color Bono's underpants are this week.

Why not just go to the other 132 threads about "remaking the Best Ofs"

I know I posted in about 30 of them.

 

[Clawgrabber]

so you reckon they would have sold more copies of the 1990-2000 best of if instead of Beautiful Day (the song that *single*handedly put U2 back on the map as the biggest band in the world) and Stuck in a moment .... they had put Lemon and Mofo on there?
interesting theory

the "you talk like if any band desicion were just unquestionable and perfect" is as poor as most of your arguements are
even a blind man with sunglasses on can see that it makes sense putting those songs on an album that's just a compilation anyway because:
1 - Beautiful Day sells albums
2 - a compilation album of 3 regular albums would be in line with something the Britney Spearse's of this planet do

sorry, but beautiful day doesn't fit for several reasons:

1. Theme: to reiterate what others have said, this was a best of the nineties. Beautiful Day is from a new decade with a new sound. It doesn't sound good alongside the other tracks from the nineties
2. the tracks omitted from the best of are glaring. i know many "non-fans" who have complained that the second best of isn't as good as the first, and have asked why "lemon" and "who's gonna ride" aren't on there. They don't ask about please because that song is probably something they haven't heard, but it should be on there too.
3. saving Beautiful Day and stuck would have been smart. why? you think releasing a best of from only 3 cds is "britney spears"? Try releasing one from 2 and a half (if they finish the new album in 07 or 08, and given their track record i don't think they will record another before the end of the decade, then all they have for 00-10 are ATYCLB, HTDAAB, and the Rubin Album. They already "blew their wad" with the ATYCLB songs, splitting them in half and reducing the number of real hits for VOL 3 significantly) YEah, beautiful day sells records, but it should have been on the same Best Of as Stuck, Elevation, Walk On.
Splitting those tracks was an enormous mistake.
4. They wouldn't have been pulling from 3 records. They would have been pulling from 4 (if you include passengers) plus a huge single (Hold Me)
5. they had no less than 16 major singles from the decade, and including GONE and UNTIL THE END, they had plenty of tracks not to pillage the OUGHTS.
6. I will repeat: splitting the tracks greatly reduces the possibility of enough tracks for VOL 3
7. MOST IMPORTANT: You want real hard reasons? DATES.

I Will Follow was released in OCTOBER 1980. All I Want Is You in June 1989.

The key fact here is that each Best Of has the chronological overlap date of their first year. (I.e.) 1980-1990 and 1990-2000 share "1990", so there must be some determining factor to understand which decade the song goes with. Since I WILL FOLLOW came out in OCTOBER 1980, and IT IS INCLUDED in 1980, then by the same token BD being released in October 2000 dictates that it be included in the 2000-2010.

The chronology should be Jan 1 1980 - Dec 31 1989 = EIGHTIES,
Jan 1 1990 - Dec 31 1999 = Nineties
Jan 1 2000 - Dec 31 2009 = Oughties

I still don't understand how people don't see this. Beautiful Day didn't come out in the ninties. Saying that if it came out in the first year of a new decade (1980, 1990, 2000) that it should be included in the PREVIOUS decade is completely illogical.

Yeah, Beautiful Day sells albums, but including it on ANOTHER CD 2 years after ATYCLB is not the way to make new fans or get people who found U2 in 2000 to buy another CD. THey look at the tracklist, see they already have 2 songs and pass. That is why it didn't sell as many copies as the first best of. it was too soon to include recent hits, while omitting obvious shoe ins.

i could go on all day, because BD's inclusion defies ALL LOGIC. but i will stop there