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Album Review
by SashaS
5-11-2002
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| U2's 'The Best Of' not as good as pt. 1 |
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U2 (+ 2): 'The Best Of...'
(Various)
U2, Manics, Pulp
U2
‘The Best of 1990 – 2000’
(Universal Island)
Just a quartet of years down the road from the compilation covering the U2’s early period, we get the second instalment that covers 1990 to the present. All the chart action is revisited here and it is only a question which period of the band you do prefer. For us, it’ll be the first decade because the band was fresh, hungry, eager and still trying to impress upon the world they were really the (self-styled) ‘Best Rock’n’Roll band in the world’, rather than the slick music-machine that reflects reality more than anticipating it.
New hit-single, ‘Electrical Storm’, well… the rockstocratic band should have tried harder. The other new track, ‘The Hands That Built America’, is much better. (There is also a DVD counterpart, issued at the beginning of Dec.)
7.5/10
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Manic Street Preacher
‘Forever Delayed’
(Sony)
As the title states, this album’s been long in coming – 13 years. Finally, the band collects all the charting choons and it is a bloody great collection. Although we’ve always disapproved of the political sentiment the band likes to drop (we’ve always felt it being cosmetic socialism), there are tracks that really capture the l’esprit de generation. For us, it is the tracks that are less obvious that pull at our emo-strings, such as ‘Australia’, ‘Kevin Carter’ and ‘Tsunami’…
The initial quantities were issued with an extra CD of ‘Remix’ songs by Chemical Bros, Avalanches, Mogwai, Ian Brown, Massive Attack…
8/10
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Pulp
‘Hits’
(Universal Island)
Pulp are in limbo: they refused to renew their contract, Jarvis Cocker is moving to France and the band is rumoured to have split up, although they stated recently to have decided to take a year off. The most interesting collection of past moments but it will probably sell the least of this trio due to being the most peculiar. A really brill journey through the songbook of this, one of the most, English bands.
Jarvis Cocker and his band of musos are so quintessentially local a monument should be erected in the newly established Garden of Britain. ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’, ‘Sorted For E’s & Wizz’, ‘Help The Aged’, ‘Disco 2000’, ‘Bad Cover Version’, there are so many quirky goodies here!
8.6/10
SashaS
5-11-2002
U2’s album ‘The Best Of 1990-200’ is released 04 November 2002 on Universal-Island
Manic Street Preacher’s CD ‘Forever Delayed’ was released on 28 October 2002 on Sony
Pulp’s album ‘Hits’ is released 11 November 2002 on Universal-Island
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