The Best of 1980-1990 / B-Sides (Limited Edition)
Download links and information about The Best of 1980-1990 / B-Sides (Limited Edition) by U2. This album was released in 1998 and it belongs to Rock, Pop, Alternative genres. It contains 29 tracks with total duration of 02:04:40 minutes.
Artist: | U2 |
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Release date: | 1998 |
Genre: | Rock, Pop, Alternative |
Tracks: | 29 |
Duration: | 02:04:40 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Pride (In the Name of Love) | 3:50 |
2. | New Year's Day | 4:18 |
3. | With or Without You | 4:58 |
4. | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | 4:40 |
5. | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 4:42 |
6. | Bad | 5:51 |
7. | Where the Streets Have No Name (Single Edit) | 4:36 |
8. | I Will Follow | 3:37 |
9. | The Unforgettable Fire | 4:55 |
10. | Sweetest Thing (The Single Mix) | 3:03 |
11. | Desire | 2:59 |
12. | When Love Comes to Town (featuring B. B. King) | 4:18 |
13. | Angel of Harlem | 3:50 |
14. | All I Want Is You | 9:51 |
15. | The Three Sunrises | 3:51 |
16. | Spanish Eyes (Single Version) | 3:14 |
17. | Sweetest Thing | 3:02 |
18. | Love Comes Tumbling | 4:40 |
19. | Bass Trap (Edit) | 3:30 |
20. | Dancing Barefoot (Full Version) | 4:44 |
21. | Everlasting Love | 3:19 |
22. | Unchained Melody | 4:51 |
23. | Walk to the Water | 4:48 |
24. | Luminous Times (Hold on to Love) | 4:34 |
25. | Hallelujah Here She Comes | 3:59 |
26. | Silver and Gold | 4:37 |
27. | Endless Deep | 2:57 |
28. | A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel | 4:33 |
29. | Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl | 2:33 |
Details
[Edit]Island and U2 realized that longtime fans of the band wouldn't need The Best of 1980-1990. Unlike the proposed Best of 1990-2000, which would likely boast the non-LP "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" and the Passengers' "Miss Sarajevo," 1980-1990 contained nothing but material culled directly from the albums, which didn't exactly entice hardcore followers. So, the label and the band decided to pair the compilation with a collection of the group's B-sides from the '80s, none of which had ever appeared on an album before. For die-hard U2 fans, this is something of a godsend — not necessarily a holy grail, which would have been a complete B-sides collection, including the long-missing early EPs — since many of these tracks have been out of print for years. That's not to say they'll be entirely pleased with what they hear. The B-Sides is wildly uneven, fluctuating between a handful of lost masterpieces ("Spanish Eyes," "Sweetest Thing," "Hallelujah Here She Comes," "Silver and Gold," "A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel," "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl"), a momentum-crushing triptych of mediocre karaoke ("Dancing Barefoot," "Everlasting Love," "Unchained Melody"), and formless filler (pretty much everything else). Despite the uneven music, fans will need The B-Sides, not just for the handful of worthy contenders but for its sheer rarity. Not only have the B-sides themselves been difficult to locate, but the disc itself was designed as a collector's item: after the first week of sales, The B-Sides was pulled from the market, and Island shipped only The Best of 1980-1990. Clearly, this was a tactic to raise press awareness and boost sales, but that doesn't mean that fans shouldn't take advantage of its limited release.