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I'm hoping for either Please or Ground Beneath Her Feet as a hidden track.
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![]() What I mean is that it is more than possible that the Best Of album was thought with the idea of encompassing the greatest audience possible: make it attractive for non-U2 fans with some of their greatest hits and for fans at the same time by giving them favourite songs like Gone and Until The End Of The World and some new material. However, I believe that diehards would have bought it anyway new stuff or not and that a Best Of should reflect the best moments of the band during the period it is supposed to cover. This is obviously a difficult task since what's "best" to some people is not "best" to others. Maybe it could've been simplified to a "Greatest Hits" which would have resulted in less arguing and would have undoubtedly sold equally well among the fans and the non-fans. In my opinion, the proposed list is halfway between an album intended for the fans and an album aimed at general public, not fulfilling either objective. Quote:
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In my opinion this "Best Of" album is only partially what it claims to be, not particularly because of the individual tunes chosen or the ones left out since this is a matter of strict personal taste, but because there are too many "anomalies" for a compilation album which is meant to portray a selection of the work done during the last decade and from which curiously there's a lot to choose. In fact I think it's rather a messy jumble: a) a partial inclusion of ATYCLB - not too reasonable IMHO - either it is included or it isn't. Particularly I'm for no, but if the decision was yes, how can Elevation (and Kite or Walk On) be left out? This is not personal taste, Elevation was a major hit and if I'm not mistaken Walk On did fine too and it is a fans fave! b) Miss Sarajevo is a great song, it's unmistakably in the U2 tradition, Original Sountracks is a fantastic album, but it wasn't an official U2 release but a Passengers one - this is a U2 Best Of. In that line of reasoning, the Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack, Bono's solo contribution to In The Name Of The Father or the Bono/Sinatra collaboration could have been considered for inclusion too. c) The re-worked material may be great but it wasn't released in that format in the covered period. d) Two entirely new tracks. This can hardly be called a U2 Best of 1990/2000!! On another account, my "complaint" stems from the fact that I don't see the album as doing U2's brilliant musical production of the last decade enough justice. I'm not one of those who support the "they should have done this, they should have done that". I believe it's artists' perogative to put out what they consider they have to and our prerogative as public to say yea or nay. In this case this album is a nay for me and I won't probably buy it - maybe I'll later change my mind or maybe someone's going to give it to me ![]() |
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It could be October backwards!
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the hidden track should be Mofo (explicit remix)
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War Child
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TGBHF or PLEASE
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Just to address the "Numb" issue brought up within the post, I know quite a few people outside of the "U2 fanbase" who know that song...and most of these feel it's their best song to date (one friend was upset when I told them that they didn't play it on the Elevation Tour!)...plus, the Edge performed it on one of the MTV awards ('93 I think), so it is somewhat known...
Back to topic, I would choose TGBHF also...it's a beautiful song, well worth the recognition. |
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On The First Time:
It makes sense it would make the cut, seeing that it was on TWO releases: Zooropa and the M$H soundtrack. |
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__________________or WGRYWH or Please or TGBHF Can we have more than one hidden track? ![]() |
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