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About greatest hits album that contain new songs - I agree so, so much. Especially when it comes to U2's newest hits record, The Best Of U2 1990-2000. There is NO LOGIC in this collection, at all. There's two newly recorded 2002 songs, making the title inaccurate. They leave out two MASSIVE recent 2000 hits "Walk On" and "Elevation", which they are apparently saving for the third hits volume. Then, they go and rewrite their own history by re-recording three songs from Pop (one of which was never actually a single, "Gone", but I'm glad it's on their cos it is one of the best songs from that period), and one from Zooropa. They leave out songs that were actually hits ("Lemon"), and put on an amazing Zooropa album track "The First Time", but inexplicably tack on an actual huge hit "The Fly" as an unlisted bonus track. It's so bizarre, and needlessly complicated.
I thought the last time they put out a greatest hits record, they did a great job of having the 'new single' make sense - "The Sweetest Thing" was a popular b-side from the Joshua Tree era, so there was nothing anachronistic about having that song on the collection, it made perfect sense. U2 have a lot of b-sides and leftover tracks from the 90s - I just don't understand why they didn't pull the same trick twice. Or, just consider the addition of non-LP songs like "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" a bonus in and of itself. Or, just let the hits sell themselves. |
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