NME.com confirms what we mentioned a few weeks ago. U2 will release a Greatest Hits out in late November. Unlike previous stocking stuffers The Best of 1980-1990 and The Best of 1990-2000, this will be just one disc and will include two new Rick Rubin-produced songs produced. (One being that Green Day collab from Monday Night Football.)
NME says the other 16 tracks have not been confirmed, but claims “the band have encouraged fans to ‘start predicting now.’”
Another U2 singles collection! Totally unnecessary, you say? Well, not quite. All proceeds from this album will go to relieving third world debt. Just kidding. Bono just needs a new pair of shades for his giant head.
Hope it has “With Or Without You.” Great soundtrack for burying a loved one.
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Resissue, repackage, repackage.
The Smiths had at least three best of albums. The Cure has three. REM has three. seems to be the magic number.
I guess goofy looking sunglasses and publicity stunts… er… social crusades don’t pay for themselves.
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra Track (and a tacky badge)
As a U2 fan I only have one word for this: excessive.
i wonder if ‘Miss Sarajevo’ will make it.
and whether the songs from Pop (if any) will be the originals, or the watered-down William Orbit mixes they included on that revisionist 1990-2000 collection.
I used to get cranky about stuff like this, especially the “two new songs” shit, but thanks to file-sharing and online music stores, it’s easy to just buy/borrow/find the new tracks and leave the collection for the casual music fan who only wants the hits (I mean, does any serious music fan think that a 20+ year career can be reduced to one album? Heck, if Bob Dylan and the Beatles can each have a one-disc greatest hits, anyone can)
Anyways, expect a tracklisting that rightfully places emphasis on Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby, neglects October and most of the band’s 1990s work and places more emphasis on the last two albums than they deserve. It will look something like this:
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year?s Day
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Bad
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven?t Found What I?m Looking For
With or Without You
Even Better Than the Real Thing
One
Mysterious Ways
Staring at the Sun
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment You Can?t Get Out Of
Vertigo
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Mmmmm…that’s good consumption!
as a non-U2 fan, I only have one choice, to continue quoting mozzer:
World tour, media whore, Please the Press in Belgium, this was your life…
and also I should mention that The Virgin Prunes were always far superior to U2.
where do U2 stand on file-sharing? are they still as prescient on issues of technology as when Edge got clowned by the guy from Negativland in Mondo 2000?
Pop definitely got a bad wrap nothing comes close to touching Mofo on the last two records.
I didn’t realize U2 worked with Green Day between 1990 and 2000.
How many songs from that shitty album POP will be on there? I bet at least 3 or 4. All turds.
What? No extra disc of Howie B remixes?
Just in time for Christmas, eh? How wonderfully crass, and certainly befitting the “world’ greatest current rock ‘n roll band.”
What difference does this make? Why do some of you hate so much? Why shouldn’t U2 sell another best of?
The fact is that there is no reason U2 shouldn’t release another best of. I’m not the biggest U2 fan, but I don’t begrudge them the money they make. They deserve it! U2 have written some amazing songs and are not only better than most bands that you listen to, they’ve helped more people than you… So what if they’re mainstream and (God forbid) try to make some money. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Who out there makes music that they don’t want people to buy?
BTW, (and it’s time that some of you know this)… NEGATIVLAND SUCKED HARD ANYWAY! and they were retarded to name an album after U2… That shit was horrible! Unlistenable music for B-Holes! You should be embarrassed that you still listen to that crap.
Sanctimonious followed by insulting is always a great methodology. . .
Anyways. . .
Negativland is/are full of mostly genius ideas and create wonderful and challenging experimental music. They are unlistenable to some that feel them too diffucult, sure, but so is Steve Reich or Nurse with Wound to those same people. It does not devalue their achievements.
The U2 album by Negativland was a masterstroke for its time, and they were one the first groups to really expand the outlined areas around ownership and appropriation in the arts, which extrapolated into the form of mashups has a lot of people dancing their asses off at hipster and non-hipster parties everywhere. Furthermore, no press is bad press, and Negativland received plenty after their U2 stunt.
I call “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” unlistenable. It about ruined my yakisoba when i heard the whole thing at a noodle place. U2 were really on a great tear with Zooropa and Pop, pressing forward their own boundaries, finding a way to couch Bono’s political polemics in fascinating music and further developing an outstanding reputaion as a group that stays with the times on their own terms. I would rather hear a band actually trying and maybe sometimes falling short, like those two records, than a band getting lazy, boring, and old, like the most recent two.
Either way, U2 has made their money. They have more money than they could ever spend. As does their record label(s). Why shouldn’t they stop, then? When is enough actually enough?