The Ideal Best Of '90-2000'

[intedomine]

This isn't just a selection of one's favourite 18 tracks from the period, but if it was up to you to compile the most comprehensive best of for the period of 1990 to 2000, what would it include:

Criteria:

- 18 songs

- the promotional single release (ala sweetest thing from 80-90), has to be a reworked version of one of u2's b-sides from the period.

- 11 singles

- 6 non-singles

- 1 reworked b-side

- ATYCLB can be included, as can the passengers project.


The intent is not simply to compile a list of favourite songs, but in a commercial sense, what would have been the ideal best of 90-2000 compilation u2 could have released.

What would have summed the decade up?

What compilation of tracks would be able to attract part-time u2 fans into possibly exapnding their desire to buy each of u2's studio albums?


It's in your hands....

 

[Axver]

Hmm ...

1. The Fly
2. Last Night On Earth
3. Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova 1 (Reworked B-Side Mix)
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Gone
6. Discotheque
7. Lemon
8. Mysterious Ways
9. One
10. Walk On
11. Kite
12. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
13. Your Blue Room
14. Beautiful Day
15. Acrobat
16. Please
17. Wake Up Dead Man
18. Love Is Blindness

I think that fits the criteria ...

 

[antietam]

1--zooropa
2-- even better than the real thing
3-- gone
4-- beautiful day
5-- lady with the spinning head (re-worked)
6-- trying to throw your arms around the world
7-- kite
8--ultraviolet (light my way)
9-- miss sarajevo
10-- one
11-- if god will send his angels
12--north and south of the river
13--staring at the sun
14-- walk on
15--who's gonna ride your wild horses
16-- stay ( faraway so close!)
17- acrobat
18-- numb
19-- your blue room
20-- slowdancing (new version)
21-- playboy mansion
22-- some days are better (new remix)
23-- So cruel (new remix)
24-- mofo
25--mysterious ways

 

[A Maaaaaaan]

1. Elevation (Tomb Raider version)
2. Beatiful day
3. Last night on earth (live from Mexico City)
4. Until the end of the world
5. Mofo
6. Kite
7. Stay (live from Sydney)
8. Gone (POP version)
9. Wake up dead man
10. Stuck
11. Mysterious ways (live from Slane Castle)
12. Please (single version)
13. North and south of the river (re-worked)
14. One
15. Staring at the sun (POP version)
16. Acrobat
17. Lemon
18. The Fly (live from Boston)

 

[Whats The Story?]

This isn't just a selection of one's favourite 18 tracks from the period, but if it was up to you to compile the most comprehensive best of for the period of 1990 to 2000, what would it include:

Criteria:

- 18 songs

- the promotional single release (ala sweetest thing from 80-90), has to be a reworked version of one of u2's b-sides from the period.

- 11 singles

- 6 non-singles

- 1 reworked b-side

- ATYCLB can be included, as can the passengers project.


The intent is not simply to compile a list of favourite songs, but in a commercial sense, what would have been the ideal best of 90-2000 compilation u2 could have released.

What would have summed the decade up?

What compilation of tracks would be able to attract part-time u2 fans into possibly exapnding their desire to buy each of u2's studio albums?


It's in your hands....

1.Zooropa
2.Even Better Than The Real Thing
3.Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
4.Please (single mix)
5.The Fly
6.The Ground Beneath Her Feet
7.Beautiful Day
8.One
9.Gone (the new mix)
10.Mysterious Ways
11.Discotheque (POP version)
12.Stay (Faraway so Close!)
13.Until The End Of The World
14.Staring At The Sun (POP version)
15.So Cruel
16.Elevation
17.Lemon
18.Where Did It All Go Wrong? (b-side re-worked)

 

[gareth brown]

My list goes for Double LP only. These tracks would not go very well in this order on CD as some tracks seem to me to make Album/Side openers. So they'd be arranged differentley on a CD Issue....

Side A-

Zooropa
The Fly
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Wild Horses (Album Version)
Your Blue Room

Side B-

Mofo
Lemon
Heaven and Hell (Salom? Sessions Demo Reworked- Released as a Limited Edition 7" Only Single with Acrobat as the B-Side)
Lady with the Spinning Head

Side C-

Salom?
Until the End of the World
Staring at the Sun (Album Version)
Discotheque (Edited to save listeners a long winded opening so far into the album. Just straight to the lyrics)
Daddy's Gonna Pay for your Crashed Car


Side D-

Acrobat
If you wear that Velvet Dress
Dirty Day
Love is Blindness

 

[alexvilagosh]

I'll do it with ATYCLB included as thats what they did. I think that now Beautiful Day will be on every U2 release now, as thats the only song people know .

Singles:
The Fly
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
One
Stay
Lemon
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Discotheque
Please
Beautiful Day
Stuck In A Moment

Non-Single:
Until The End Of The World
Love Is Blindness
Acrobat
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Gone
Peace On Earth

Reworked B-Side:
Something from the Salome sessions.

01. Even Better Than The Real Thing
02. Mysterious Ways
03. Beautiful Day
04. Until The End Of The World
05. One
06. Stay
07. Gone
08. Discotheque
09. Stuck In A Moment
10. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
11. Lemon
12. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
13. Acrobat
14. Peace On Earth
15. Reworked song
16. The Fly
17. Please
18. Love Is Blindness

 

[pepokiss]

Reworked B-Side:
Something from the Salome sessions.

15. Reworked song

AH....... I love that one...

"reworked sooooooooooonnng... fills up my looooooooove... reworked song"

 

[* MoFo *]

"I loooooooooooooooove you re-worled soooooooooooong."

Sing it, bro

 

[intedomine]

singles:

the fly
one
mysterious ways
even better than the real thing
numb
miss sarajevo
hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
discotheque
please
beautiful day
walk on

non-singles:

ultraviolet
until the end of the world
lemon
do you feel loved
new york
Gone

Rework:
Where did it all go wrong?

 

[intedomine]

1--zooropa
2-- even better than the real thing
3-- gone
4-- beautiful day
5-- lady with the spinning head (re-worked)
6-- trying to throw your arms around the world
7-- kite
8--ultraviolet (light my way)
9-- miss sarajevo
10-- one
11-- if god will send his angels
12--north and south of the river
13--staring at the sun
14-- walk on
15--who's gonna ride your wild horses
16-- stay ( faraway so close!)
17- acrobat
18-- numb
19-- your blue room
20-- slowdancing (new version)
21-- playboy mansion
22-- some days are better (new remix)
23-- So cruel (new remix)
24-- mofo
25--mysterious ways

25 songs? i dunno if a compact disc can last that long to be fair

 

[gareth brown]

Booo! Shame!

 

[gareth brown]

What about B-Sides Discs?

 

[jick]

This isn't just a selection of one's favourite 18 tracks from the period, but if it was up to you to compile the most comprehensive best of for the period of 1990 to 2000, what would it include:

Criteria:

- 18 songs

- the promotional single release (ala sweetest thing from 80-90), has to be a reworked version of one of u2's b-sides from the period.

- 11 singles

- 6 non-singles

- 1 reworked b-side

- ATYCLB can be included, as can the passengers project.


The intent is not simply to compile a list of favourite songs, but in a commercial sense, what would have been the ideal best of 90-2000 compilation u2 could have released.

What would have summed the decade up?

What compilation of tracks would be able to attract part-time u2 fans into possibly exapnding their desire to buy each of u2's studio albums?


It's in your hands....

You mean the current Best Of 1990-2000 is not ideal? I guess you don't trust U2 to give you the best they can give. Perhaps when they release their new album, it won't be ideal as there could have been more preferred tracks left off the album right?

Cheers,

J

 

[Liesje]

Re: Re: The Ideal Best Of '90-2000'

I guess you don't trust U2 to give you the best they can give.

*gives Jick Best-Hypocrite-Ever award*

 

[lew07]

1.Beautiful Day
2.Do You Feel Loved
3.In a Little While
4.One
5.The Fly
6.Mysterious Ways
7.Stuck In a Moment...
8.Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
9.Starring at the sun
10.Walk On
11.Even Better than the real thing
12.Stay
13.Miami
14.Electrical storm
15.Elevation
16.Gone
17.the first time
18.so cruel

 

[intedomine]

nah i dont trust u2.......i felt the compilation offered an inadequate reflection of the decade......

....i can never be satisfied, and nor can anyone else be completely satisfied when it comes to a best of.....

 

[jick]

nah i dont trust u2.......i felt the compilation offered an inadequate reflection of the decade......

....i can never be satisfied, and nor can anyone else be completely satisfied when it comes to a best of.....

U2 can never satisfy you so why bother listening? I guess its the musical journey you are after, not the destination. You take great joy in the pursuit of the ever-elusive perfection. It is a great thing to have blind faith in U2 and perceive them as perfect, but it is an even greater thing to put doubt and unsatisfaction in the forefront, so that you will be one with U2 in that ever elusive search for satisfaction. You lack of trust and satisfaction for U2 is sometimes reminiscent of Bono seeming lack of belief in God, when in fact it is just a ranting similar to the Psalms when King David shouts out "why have your forsaken my my God?" Now, you are screaming, "U2 I don't trust you, I am never satisfied by you" --- yet you still run to their music and find some comfort in it. That is the essence of a U2 fan.

Cheers,

J

 

[Salome]

The intent is not simply to compile a list of favourite songs, but in a commercial sense, what would have been the ideal best of 90-2000 compilation u2 could have released.

seems to me that alexvilagosh is the only one who even cmes close to matching this criteria

 

[jacobus]

1) The Fly
2) Even Better Than The Real Thing
3) Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
4) Acrobat
5) Until The End Of The World
6) Mysterious Ways
7) Gone
8) Elevation
9) Miami
10) Stuck In A Moment
11) Stay
12) One
13) Beautiful Day
14) Lemon
15) Daddys Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
16) Numb
17) The Wanderer
18) Walk On

Bonus: Miss Sarajevo - Love Is Blindness

 

[jacobus]

i forgot to include MOFO as a bonus

btw mofo, gone & miami are the supreme tracks on pop

 

[gareth brown]

Does it have to be commercially satisfying? I always like these threads to let me sort out my productional 'fantasies'. (ie. the sort of U2 product I'd love. With the sort of format I'd adore to have in my collection etc...)..and guess I got carried away with mine...but I'm not changing, partly because I cannot change it anyway...so there..

 

[gareth brown]

Hey! Found this while looking for another old thread! I think this one is a great idea! Come on, guys, let's get some more playlists down!

 

[babyman]

1 until the end of the world
2 hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
3 one
4 beautiful day
5 gone
6 numb
7 stay
8 lady with the spinning head
9 the fly
10 who's gonna ride your wild horses
11 please
12 lemon
13 ultra violet
14 dirty day
15 the first time
16 miss sarajevo
17 if you wear that velvet dress
18 tryin' to throw your arms around the world

 

[U2girl]

1. The fly
2. Mysterious ways
3. One
4. Until the end of the world
5. Stay
6. Lemon
7. Babyface
8. Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me (it was released as a single, right?)
9 Discotheque
10. Staring at the sun
11. Gone
12. Beautiful day
13. Walk on
14. Kite
15. Stateless (can we include MDH soundtrack?)
16. In a little while
17. Sweetest thing '98 version
18. Reworked North and south of the river

 

[intedomine]

yeah i guess the MDH soundtrack couldve been included, i might rethink mine again

 

[gareth brown]

I was thinking of re-doing mine, but I think mine is perfect! Matter of personal tastes though, I myself would prefer the records i wrote down, while more would possibly want more Pop or more Achtung Baby...like i said, matter of personal taste!

 

[madonna's child]

I surprised myself with the list I came up with...

1. Zooropa
2. The Fly
3. Even Better Then the Real Thing
4. Salome (re-worked single)
5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
6. Mysterious Ways
7. Beautiful Day
8. Staring at the Sun
9. One
10. If God Will Send His Angels
11. Stay
12. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
13. Until the End of the World
14. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
15. Kite
16. The First Time
17. Walk On
18. Can't Help Falling in Love... Acrobat (ghost track)

 

[BigMacPhisto]

11 Singles:

The Fly
Mysterious Ways
One
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Stay
Miss Sarajevo
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Discotheque
Staring At The Sun
If God Will Send His Angels

6 Other Tracks:

Until The End of the World
Numb (Video Single Only)
Lemon (Not a US Single)
Your Blue Room
Gone
The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Reworked B-Side:

North And South of the River

 

[OzAurora]

The 11 singles
The fly
Mysterious ways
One
Even better than the real thing
Lemon
numb
Stay
HMTMKMKM
Beautiful day
Do you feel loved
Miss Sarajevo

Re-worked B-side
Salome- I think that would of worked quite well in the now more techno friendly music era, but then again I actually really liked the orbit version of electrical storm, I actually liked it more than the entire contents of ATYCLB

6 Non singles
Gone
Until the end of the world
Zoo station
Love is blindness
mofo
some days