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Track Listings
| 1. Even Better Than The Real Thing |
| 2. Mysterious Ways |
| 3. Beautiful Day |
| 4. Electrical Storm |
| 5. One |
| 6. Miss Sarajevo - Passengers, Luciano Pavarotti |
| 7. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) |
| 8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of |
| 9. Gone |
| 10. Until The End Of The World |
| 11. The Hands That Built America (Theme From Gangs Of New York) |
| 12. Discotheque |
| 13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me |
| 14. Staring At The Sun |
| 15. Numb |
| 16. The First Time |
| 17. The Fly |
The Best of 1990-2000 can be seen as an introduction to the reinvented U2 (Part One), the group who ruined irony for everyone. Gone were the mullets, canyon-scraping guitars and "locust winds", and out came the fly shades, leather and TV remote. Bono hid behind a mask, started enjoying himself, and the band began making the best, most interesting, diverse and rewarding music of their career. When grouped together, however, the material on The Best of 1990-2000 feels mix-matched. But that is hardly surprising considering the between-album sonic leaps (bordering on artistic self-indulgence and poncy-Enofications with Passengers) and only half finishing Pop.
Despite Pop's patchiness, the songs' zeitgeist experimentation and fundamental nonchalant attitude to their own position in the U2 scheme of things are both invigorating and satisfying. Notably though, they've been reworked (i.e., finished) here: "Staring at the Sun" apparently suffering from "mid-temp syndrome". The new versions are better, and the new songs "Electrical Storm" and "The Hands that Built America" are stronger still. However nothing comes close to the dark, bruised masterpieces from Achtung Baby, particularly "The Fly". The track order is odd, with some telling omissions ("Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses") and strange inclusions ("The First Time"), which just goes to show how hard the band have considered the songs as they see them today. Let's hope that after their current back to basics attitude they'll go all weird again soon. --Ben Johncock
Description
The second volume of U2's 'Best Of' series which features songs released by the band from 1990-2000. Includes tracks taken from 'Achtung Baby', 'Zooropa', 'Passengers', 'Pop' and 'All That You Can't Leave Behind'. In addition are two new tracks and selected songs which have been reworked by Mike Hedges.