Track Listing

1. Even Better Than The Real Thing
2. Mysterious Ways
3. Beautiful Day
4. Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
5. One
6. Miss Sarajevo
7. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
9. Gone (New Mix)
10. Until The End Of The World
11. The Hands That Built America (Theme From Gangs Of New York)
12. Discotheque (New Mix)
13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
14. Staring At The Sun (New Mix)
15. Numb (New Mix)
16. The First Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2493 in Music
• Published on: 2002
• Released on: 2002-11-12
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
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 (only half of its '80s output), projects whose gestations seemed perennially plagued by turmoil as much as mercurial creative instincts. But as this anthology chronicles, U2 ultimately managed a considerable feat: producing a memorable, lasting body of work in a decade where one of pop music's chief attributes was its disposability. The disc 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. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

In true U2 form strong fromstart to finish.
If I had a time capsule, this would be in it. A 'Best Of' that lives up to the title. This will forever be in my collection. As if U2 needed to prove their brilliance, this would be the album that does just that. I am on my second set as the first, I wore out. If you are not familiar with the band there couldn't be a more divine introduction. For those already hooked, surely a testiment to your devotion. A musical evolution worth listening to on a regular basis!

even better than the real thing
Though this certainly ain't exhaustive, it proves to be an interesting collection of their songs that are rendered in an alternative, spirited and "progressive" form that makes for lots of listening pleasure. The beauty of U2 is that you can effectively take twenty or thirty of their songs, add a few variations (such as re-interpretations) and it makes for inspired, enlightened and enjoyable listening. So many site the previous twenty years as their creative zenith...but man, haven't they delivered some monumental goods in the past twenty!

Beautiful Day
As a newly introduced fan, this is a great collection for someone like me. Love those '90s songs!