tracks: 17
total time: 72:56
year:
genre:
ids: rock / 09111611

1.The Three Sunrises
3:54

2.Spanish Eyes
3:16

3.Sweetest Thing (original version)
3:04

4.Love Comes Tumbling
4:42

5.Bass Trap
3:32

6.Dancing Barefoot
4:47

7.Everlasting Love
3:21

8.Unchained Melody
4:53

9.Walk To The Water
4:48

10.Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
4:37

11.Hallelujah Here She Comes
4:01

12.Silver And Gold
4:39

13.Endless Deep
2:59

14.A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
4:33

15.Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girl
5:06

16.Bad
5:50

17.The Unforgettable Fire
4:52

It may be hard to remember, but before "Lemon," before they became ego-imprisoned rock stars with an overweening interest in hanging out with supermodels, U2 used to be quite good, actually. If the band's superlative two-disc best-of package (the limited-edition release that also includes B-sides) does nothing else, it highlights the ultimate hollowness of the band's current Dark Period, which they will hopefully soon be leaving.
The first disc includes every hit (except for a curiously missing "Two Hearts Beat as One") from "I Will Follow" to "All I Want Is You," and will serve to remind everyone who loves U2 why they once had good reason to do so. But it's the second disc -- which contains previously import-only rarities like "Dancing Barefoot" and "Everlasting Love" -- that is truly indispensable: After all, who wouldn't rather hear an obscure gem like "Hallelujah, Here She Comes" than the fine-but-overplayed "Pride" for the fiftymillionth time?

Disc Two also contains the beyond-wonderful originalversion of the cult classic "Sweetest Thing" -- compare that to the recently redone version on Disc One that is a tarted-up and unlistenable atrocity. U2 would be well off to leave the past alone. At this point, it's allmost fans have left.