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  2. Because I think we can all agree the "magic" of U2 isn't contained in songs like "Beautiful Day", "Pride", or "Get On Your Boots". Songs like "Ultraviolet", "Until the End of the World", "Zooropa", "Bad" - All of which are not singles- reveal much more of what they're capable of as opposed to (especially in the past ten years) what the radio wants people to hear. That's not the heart of U2...they're still great songs, but they aren't what keeps hardly anyone a U2 fan. It takes traces into their slightly lesser known catalog.

    I was a mildly interested fan until I saw the performances of the Boy songs on the Chicago DVD- songs I'd never heard before. Those gems drew me in and made me go back and listen to what I was missing. Wouldn't have found "Electric Co." or "An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart" on any common greatest hits album.
  3. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Because I think we can all agree the "magic" of U2 isn't contained in songs like "Beautiful Day", "Pride", or "Get On Your Boots". Songs like "Ultraviolet", "Until the End of the World", "Zooropa", "Bad" - All of which are not singles- reveal much more of what they're capable of as opposed to (especially in the past ten years) what the radio wants people to hear. That's not the heart of U2...they're still great songs, but they aren't what keeps hardly anyone a U2 fan. It takes traces into their slightly lesser known catalog.

    I was a mildly interested fan until I saw the performances of the Boy songs on the Chicago DVD- songs I'd never heard before. Those gems drew me in and made me go back and listen to what I was missing. Wouldn't have found "Electric Co." or "An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart" on any common greatest hits album.

    Fair points well made
  4. I've just periodically been giving my girlfriend each U2 cd over time. She's coming with me to Toronto to see them in July, so I'm making her get to know the band first

    I started with Unforgettable Fire, because she really loved A Sort Of Homecoming, then I gave her JT, then AB and Zooropa, and now she's listening to Boy, October, and War. Her favourite U2 song right now is Out Of Control. Gotta love it

    I'm curious to see how she recieves Pop
  5. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

    Because I think we can all agree the "magic" of U2 isn't contained in songs like "Beautiful Day", "Pride", or "Get On Your Boots". Songs like "Ultraviolet", "Until the End of the World", "Zooropa", "Bad" - All of which are not singles- reveal much more of what they're capable of as opposed to (especially in the past ten years) what the radio wants people to hear. That's not the heart of U2...they're still great songs, but they aren't what keeps hardly anyone a U2 fan. It takes traces into their slightly lesser known catalog.

    I


    Perfectly articulated, it's like your inside my head
  6. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

    Because I think we can all agree the "magic" of U2 isn't contained in songs like "Beautiful Day", "Pride", or "Get On Your Boots". Songs like "Ultraviolet", "Until the End of the World", "Zooropa", "Bad" - All of which are not singles- reveal much more of what they're capable of as opposed to (especially in the past ten years) what the radio wants people to hear. That's not the heart of U2...they're still great songs, but they aren't what keeps hardly anyone a U2 fan. It takes traces into their slightly lesser known catalog.

    I was a mildly interested fan until I saw the performances of the Boy songs on the Chicago DVD- songs I'd never heard before. Those gems drew me in and made me go back and listen to what I was missing. Wouldn't have found "Electric Co." or "An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart" on any common greatest hits album.


    That is exactly what I am talking about too. I don't want to give my friend just a Best Hits CD because that really isn't why I love this band. It's their depth of work that makes U2 special to me.

  7. Originally posted by lestertriplett87:[..]

    That is exactly what I am talking about too. I don't want to give my friend just a Best Hits CD because that really isn't why I love this band. It's their depth of work that makes U2 special to me.




    In that case, here's where I usually go when this sort of thing pops up for me. I always split into two discs, and use the same two mixes for whenever someone asks me this.

    Disc One: Love Puts the Blue Back In My Eye

    1. Mercy (Unreleased Version)
    2. All I Want is You
    3. City of Blinding Lights
    4. Walk On
    5. Bad
    6. Until the End of the World
    7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    8. Zooropa
    9. Where the Streets Have No Name
    10. Kite
    11. Elevation (Live at Slane Castle)
    12. Gone (New Mix)
    13. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    14. Hawkmoon 269
    15. A Sort of Homecoming (Wide Awake in America)
    16. The First Time

    Disc Two: Infinity is a Great Place to Start

    1. No Line on the Horizon
    2. One Tree Hill
    3. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
    4. Pride (In the Name of Love)
    5. With or Without You
    6. Desire
    7. Numb
    8. Mysterious Ways
    9. Last Night on Earth
    10. Electrical Storm (Orbit Mix)
    11. Even Better Than the Real Thing
    12. Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
    13. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
    14. New Years' Day
    15. Original of the Species
    16. Lady With the Spinning Head

    I generally always assume they know Beautiful Day, Vertigo, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and One.
  8. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

    In that case, here's where I usually go when this sort of thing pops up for me. I always split into two discs, and use the same two mixes for whenever someone asks me this.

    Disc One: Love Puts the Blue Back In My Eye

    1. Mercy (Unreleased Version)
    2. All I Want is You
    3. City of Blinding Lights
    4. Walk On
    5. Bad
    6. Until the End of the World
    7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    8. Zooropa
    9. Where the Streets Have No Name
    10. Kite
    11. Elevation (Live at Slane Castle)
    12. Gone (New Mix)
    13. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    14. Hawkmoon 269
    15. A Sort of Homecoming (Wide Awake in America)
    16. The First Time

    Disc Two: Infinity is a Great Place to Start

    1. No Line on the Horizon
    2. One Tree Hill
    3. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
    4. Pride (In the Name of Love)
    5. With or Without You
    6. Desire
    7. Numb
    8. Mysterious Ways
    9. Last Night on Earth
    10. Electrical Storm (Orbit Mix)
    11. Even Better Than the Real Thing
    12. Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
    13. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
    14. New Years' Day
    15. Original of the Species
    16. Lady With the Spinning Head

    I generally always assume they know Beautiful Day, Vertigo, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and One.


    But wouldn't they want a copy of these songs?

  9. I give people mixes to open their ears to new songs, not save them money.


  10. Not what I meant - I'm simply a completist, I suppose.

    I would assume they've already heard Pride and Streets...

    but not Hawkmoon 269.
  11. where are :

    love is blindness - if you wear that velvet dress .... ? soooo beautifull and "subtly pleasing to the ear"


  12. I've tried to make a "Best of..." compilation for U2 in the past - one CD, two CD's, even three CD's! - and always feel something is missing. For this reason, I try to avoid making them because it's a never-ending cycle.

    Give your friend the albums.
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