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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - U2 - The Best of - 1980-1990
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $44.86
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Starring: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., Keith Duffy
Directed By: Barry Devlin, Donald Cammell, Gavin Taylor, Kevin Godley, Lynn-Maree Milburn
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0044005185935
Format: Best of
Label: Polygram Video
Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Polygram Video
Release Date: 1999-07-27
Running Time: 78
Studio: Polygram Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2002-12-10
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Summary: Missing several hidden videos.
Comment: Decent compilation, featuring most of their 80's classics, but what is simply unforgivable is not including the whole video stuff from 80's. 'Gloria', 'A Celebration', 'Two Hearts Beat As One', 'A Sort Of Homecoming', 'Bad' (the old video, not the well known Rattle & Hum Version - you can watch it on www.poplemon.com), 'Spanish Eyes', 'Red Hill Minning Town', 'In God's Country' and 'Night And Day' are missing.
For Worse, we must keep watching the same used footage from Rattle & Hum. 'Bad' and 'When Love Comes To Town' were taken from that movie. Didn't they have another filmed version of that songs?. Shame on U2 for keep going with the same stuff again and again. It would be so exciting to watching hidden footage of those songs.
Rumors say they're going to release a DVD Boxset by late this year. I really don't want 'remastered' versions of shows we've been watching for even 22 years. Rather, I'm fond of watching previously unreleased footage.
Just in case, here's a list of several unreleased PRO-SHOT filmed concerts from early 80's to Pop Mart Tour (I didn't include Elevation because there're 2 DVD's out there from the same Tour). Cheers
1- Belfast 23-01-1981 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
2- Berlin 04-11-1981 (Great Goncert)
3- New York 22-11-1981 (Good Concert)
4- Hattem 14-05-1982 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
5- Roskilde 02-07-1982 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
6- Devore 03-05-1983 (Great Concert)
7- St. Goarshausen 20-08-1983 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
8- Dortmund 21-11-1984 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
9- Montreal 27-03-1985 (Great Concert)
10-Los Angeles 18-11-1987 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
11-Dublin 31-12-1989 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
12-Stockholm 11-06-1992 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
13-Washington 16-08-1992 (Great Concert)
14-Anaheim 14-11-1992 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
15-Dublin 28-08-1993 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
16-Adelaide 16-11-1993 (Great Concert)
17-Rotterdam 18-07-1997 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
18-Sao Baulo 31-01-1998 (Great Concert)
19-Santiago 11-02-1998 (AWESOME CONCERT!)
What the hell are U2 waiting for?
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Summary: Great videos that should be on DVD...
Comment: I have seen VCD copies out there, which some people might prefer in the meantime...
But the videos included here go from the promos to live cuts.
"Pride" and "New Years Day" start it off, then "Joshua Tree" cuts "With Or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".
We then see them live in "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Bad", continuing through to "All I Want Is You" in the same running order the CD is in.
As an extra, you get "One Tree Hill" an outtake from "Rattle and Hum" and kind of "cheated" with putting a re-recorded "Sweetest Thing" on there, which turned out to be a hit song in the 90s, which is also included on the "Joshua Tree Classic Albums" DVD.
I can't find much at fault with the videotape. It's a great quality video from beginning to end, and because it's a "greatest hits", it covers the basics. The promos for the most part still look great, although I'm sure U2 were somewhat embarrassed by the really early footage. But if you can find the VCD version of it, the sound quality is obviously better.
But there is definitely room for improvement:
"One Tree Hill" should be included for a "Rattle and Hum" special edition rather than tacking it to the end here. "Bad" from the "Unforgettable Fire" video should've been on here.
Not enough songs...but it's a "greatest hits". And people will debate about chronological order versus mixing the different eras to give it some sort of cohesion.
Hopefully the DVD will be similar to the "1990-2000" Greatest Hits in including a lot of extras. The promos that should be on there should include the "Outside It's America" documentary, the filming of "Where The Streets Have No Name", the promo videos "Gloria", the rarely seen "A Celebration" (someone needs to tell them that this really isn't a bad video), the alternate videos to "Pride", "Two Hearts Beat As One", "A Sort of Homecoming", the alternate to "With Or Without You", "Red Hill Mining Town", "Merry Christmas(Baby Please Come Home), the "Desire" remix, "Night And Day", and other promos I may have forgotten to include and 2 concerts, 1 filmed in 1981, and the other filmed in Australia for the "Lovetown" tour ("Making of Unforgettable Fire" is already available on the "U2 Go Home" DVD).
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Summary: DVD Must be released
Comment: This is another example of a music video that should be on DVD,
Please release it!
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Summary: Good video compilation, but...
Comment: ...not a complete one. Again, like the album of the same name, it's missing songs, it's not in chronological order, and - unlike THE BEST OF 1990-2000, it's not on DVD yet!!!!! Here's what could have been the tracklisting for the original VHS release and what should be for the DVD (and as a bonus, the UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY/LIVE AT RED ROCKS concert video should be included):1. I Will Follow
2. Gloria
3. New Year's Day
4. Pride...In The Name Of Love (two versions)
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Bad (two "live" versions)
7. A Sort Of Homecoming
8. Where The Streets Have No Name
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10. With Or Without You
11. Bullet The Blue Sky (LIVE)
12. One Tree Hill
13. The Sweetest Thing
14. Desire
15. When Love Comes To Town
16. Angel Of Harlem
17. All I Want Is You
UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY/LIVE AT RED ROCKS (bonus material)---------
1. Surrender
2. Seconds
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. The Electric Co.
5. October
6. New Year's Day
7. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
8. A Day Without Me
9. Gloria
10. Party Girl
11. 11 O' Clock Tick Tock
12. I Will Follow
13. '40' (by the way, the video for "Sunday Bloody Sunday" on 1980-1990 was taken from the LIVE AT RED ROCKS concert so that's why I didn't list it with the other promo videos)
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Summary: ?????
Comment: Why isn't this available on DVD? When it is issued on DVD, they should include the unreleased Red Hill Mining Town video by Neil Jordan. Hopefully their merchandising team has thought ahead with Best of 1990-2000 and will automatically issue it on DVD as well as VHS.
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