I never really, really liked Stay when I bought the best of CD all those years ago (I still haven't got the Zooropa album*
) I found it listenable but not brilliant, it always seemed to me that it wasn't quite right somehow, not as good as it could have been, slow, boring, must have been a song from U2 rubbish era that all bands go through I thought.
HOWEVER, Yesterday I bought the best of DVD (so I could watch the videos...obviously) and watched the Stay video today. It was beautiful. Really suited the song and has actually helped the song itself to grow on me. A similiar thing happened with New Year's Day. I loved it when I first heard it, then disliked it, then I saw the opening 30 secs of the video on U2.com and I fell in love with it again. Whenever New Year's Day is played on the radio I think it's such a good radio track because it's quite lengthy but doesn't seem to feel like it.
*I contemplated buying it in HMV but as I'd already got in my hand 2 DVDs I decided it would be either CD and 1 DVD or 2 DVDs, not all three. So in the end I went for the 2 DVDs, reasoning that I'd already got a number of the Zooropa songs on the best of CD so it would keep whilst I'd not got any of the videos.