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This is a great collection
of U2's 90's work, and
represents those 4 albums, plus
extra's all pulled together in
this
Best of
1990-2000 album.
U2's second decade often seemed
as preoccupied with the band's
burgeoning superstardom-and how
to confront/confound it--as it
did with creating music.
The band managed only four
albums during the era ,projects
whose gestations seemed
perennially plagued by turmoil
as much as mercurial creative
instincts.
But as this rewarding,
30-track double-disc
anthology chronicles, U2
ultimately managed a
considerable feat: producing a
memorable, lasting body of work
in a decade when one of pop
music's chief attributes was
its disposability.
Disc one mixes hits like
"Mysterious Ways" and "One"
with seductive soundtrack cuts
(the title track to Wim
Wenders's Until the End of the
World, Batman Forever's "Hold
Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill
Me"), new mixes of
"Discotheque," "Staring at the
Sun," and "Numb," and a pair of
strong new tracks, the Orbit
mix of "Electrical Storm" and
"The Hands that Built America,"
the title track from Martin
Scorsese's Gangs of New
York.
The second disc compiles the
band's more experimental
B-sides from the epoch (many of
them remixes), and offers up a
concise encapsulation of the
band's fascination with--and
shrewd incorporation
of--electronica and club
music.
The bonus DVD contains a
generous collection of videos
of songs from disc one, along
with alternate versions,
director commentaries,
additional bonus tracks such as
"If God Will Send His Angels"
and "Lemon," as well as a
mini-documentary of the band's
historic 1997 Bosnian concert,
The Road to Sarajevo.
Click here to
purchase.
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