Definitive U2 ‘Best Of’ On The Way

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    soulsinging wrote:
    with only 16 tracks purporting to be their biggest hits... i dont see gloria making the cut ;)

    but i see your point. and that's cool. like i said, id like a live album. im only taking issue with the folks who seem to be looking for any excuse to label u2 as whores for releasing a greatest hits package that most of the public probably wants to have, especially when these same idiots will turn a blind eye to the extravagant whoring out of anything to do with the who by pete townshend.
    And I see yours......yes, a complete live album of recent vintage or even from a bygone day would be sweet.

    Yes, the Who sell out.........Hummer commercial anyone? (Happy Jack)

    But come on.......do we really need another cd with "Pride (in the name of Love)" on it when we could have "Gloria" remastered?
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    merkinball wrote:
    Thats my problem with the R.E.M IRS Years Disc, and Neil Youngs greatest hits. These remastered greatest hits collections sound great, but then they neglect the back catalog. You've gone to the effort to get some of the tracks done, why not keep going and clean the whole thing up? I had forgotten how much I liked early R.E.M., but I'm not buying any of the early cds (I have most on casette) until they bring them up to par with the IRS disc.
    True............I would love to have a remastered copy of at least "Decade" by Neil.
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  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    i usually don't like greatest hit compilations. period.
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    "Greatest hits albums are for housewives and little girls."

    -Bruce McCulloch, Kids in the Hall
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • Jammin909
    Jammin909 Posts: 888
    soulsinging wrote:
    id like a live album.

    Get a program to rip only the audio into Mp3 from the DVDs. I did that for the Boston release- soundboard quality!

    it's 245 MB's so same as a PJ boot.
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  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    soulsinging wrote:
    with only 16 tracks purporting to be their biggest hits... i dont see gloria making the cut ;)

    but i see your point. and that's cool. like i said, id like a live album. im only taking issue with the folks who seem to be looking for any excuse to label u2 as whores for releasing a greatest hits package that most of the public probably wants to have, especially when these same idiots will turn a blind eye to the extravagant whoring out of anything to do with the who by pete townshend.

    I'm not a fan of the Who neither.:)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    reeferchief wrote:
    I'm not a fan of the Who neither.:)

    me neither.

    though i do belt out a mean pinball wizard. :D

    and hello. don't fans of U2 already have all these songs on all the other albums they own?
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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    cd single.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • endlessparade
    endlessparade Posts: 99
    It's so easy to bash U2 these days.

    For sure, I won't be buying this cd.
  • Bleakest Harvest
    Bleakest Harvest Posts: 127
    endlessparade wrote:
    It's so easy to bash U2 these days.
    There's a very good reason for that.
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Bleakest Harvest wrote:
    There's a very good reason for that.

    When you dig your own grave, expect people to be there to cover you in dirt.
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  • Bleakest Harvest
    Bleakest Harvest Posts: 127
    Man, adding 2 new songs to entice their hapless fans to shell out for this is one hell of a cynical ploy.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    catefrances wrote:
    me neither.

    though i do belt out a mean pinball wizard. :D

    and hello. don't fans of U2 already have all these songs on all the other albums they own?

    didnt most fans of pearl jam already have all the songs on rearviewmirror? did you all piss and moan about what whores pearl jam were when they released a greatest hits? this album is more so for casual fans. people who latched on to the last few singles and would recognize the biggest hits from the back catalogue but have little interest in anything else. just as a lot of people will buy rearviewmirror without ever giving a shit about yield, or any other pearl jam album.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Jammin909 wrote:
    Get a program to rip only the audio into Mp3 from the DVDs. I did that for the Boston release- soundboard quality!

    it's 245 MB's so same as a PJ boot.

    dude, you're talking to a guy who bought a new computer and had fucked it up so bad within 3 days that he had to wipe it and start over. this sounds way out of my reach...
  • Bleakest Harvest
    Bleakest Harvest Posts: 127
    soulsinging wrote:
    didnt most fans of pearl jam already have all the songs on rearviewmirror? did you all piss and moan about what whores pearl jam were when they released a greatest hits? this album is more so for casual fans. people who latched on to the last few singles and would recognize the biggest hits from the back catalogue but have little interest in anything else. just as a lot of people will buy rearviewmirror without ever giving a shit about yield, or any other pearl jam album.
    We'll start bitching about PJ's best of after they release their 256th one, like U2 are.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    didnt most fans of pearl jam already have all the songs on rearviewmirror? did you all piss and moan about what whores pearl jam were when they released a greatest hits? this album is more so for casual fans. people who latched on to the last few singles and would recognize the biggest hits from the back catalogue but have little interest in anything else. just as a lot of people will buy rearviewmirror without ever giving a shit about yield, or any other pearl jam album.

    yes. as a matter of fact i did piss and moan when sony bought out rearviewmirror. and i didn't buy it. i already have all those songs. :D
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Bleakest Harvest wrote:
    We'll start bitching about PJ's best of after they release their 256th one, like U2 are.

    once again... name all 256 for me bigshot.

    theyve got 2... the first two covered different aspect of their career. kinda like the rem greatest hits everyone around here is raving about. of course, if u2 does it, it's clearly becos they're whores, whereas rem only does it for... the fans right? this will make 3, and it is the first and only to cover their entire career. given that a lot of people were unhappy with the way the previous ones turned out, i dont think this is extravagant.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    catefrances wrote:
    yes. as a matter of fact i did piss and moan when sony bought out rearviewmirror. and i didn't buy it. i already have all those songs. :D

    i did, cos im a pearl jam completist. but i wont buy this u2 album, nor do i own any of their other greatest hits albums, ive already got all their albums ;)

    when u2 goes the way of the who, then maybe ill come round to your side. can anyone even count the number of best of compilations the who have?
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    i did, cos im a pearl jam completist. but i wont buy this u2 album, nor do i own any of their other greatest hits albums, ive already got all their albums ;)

    when u2 goes the way of the who, then maybe ill come round to your side. can anyone even count the number of best of compilations the who have?

    i can count how many i've got. zero.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    catefrances wrote:
    i can count how many i've got. zero.

    maybe you're in the small minority of people who are actually consistent then. none of these people bitching about u2's greatest hits said a word about rem's recent greatest hits package.

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