Lista utworów:

The Best Of 1980 - 1990 (CD 1)

1. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
2. New Year's Day
3. With Or Without You
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Bad
7. Where The Streets Have No Name
8. I Will Follow
9. The Unforgettable Fire
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Desire
12. When Love Comes To Town
13. Angel Of Harlem
14. All I Want Is You

The B-Sides Of 1980 - 1990 (CD 2)

1. The Three Sunrises
2. Spanish Eyes
3. Sweetest Thing
4. Love Comes Tumbling
5. Bass Trap
6. Dancing Barefoot
7. Everlasting Love
8. Unchained Melody
9. Walk To The Water
10. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
11. Hallelujah Here She Comes
12. Silver And Gold
13. Endless Deep
14. A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
15. Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girl

Informacje:

Bono: Vokal i gitara
The Edge: Gitara, klawisze i wokal
Adam Clayton: Gitara basowa
Larry Mullen: Perkusja

Muzyka: U2
Słowa: Bono
Manager : Paul McGuinness
Producent : ???

Format: Płyta CD
Nr katalogowy: 314 572 612-2
Data wydania: 3/4 listopad 1998
Island Records Ltd.

Recenzja:

Island and U2 realized that longtime fans of the band wouldn't need The Best of 1980-1990. Unlike the proposed The Best of 1990-2000, which would likely boast the non-LP "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" and the Passengers' "Miss Sarajevo," 1980-1990 contained nothing but material culled directly from the albums, which didn't exactly entice hardcore followers. So, the label and the band decided to pair the compilation with a collection of the group's B-sides from the '80s, none of which had ever appeared on an album before. For diehard U2 fans, this is something of a godsend - not necessarily a holy grail, which would have been a complete B-sides collection, including the long-missing early EPs - since many of these tracks have been out of print for years. That's not to say they'll be entirely pleased with what they hear. The B-Sides is wildly uneven, fluctuating between a handful of lost masterpieces ("Spanish Eyes," "Sweetest Thing," "Hallelujah Here She Comes," "Silver and Gold," "A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel," "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl"), a momentum-crushing triptych of mediocre karaoke ("Dancing Barefoot," "Everlasting Love," "Unchained Melody") and gormless filler (pretty much everything else). Despite the uneven music, fans will need The B-Sides, not just for the handful of worthy contenders, but for its sheer rarity. Not only have the B-sides themselves been difficult to locate, but the disc itself was designed as a collectors' item: after the first week of sales, The B-Sides was pulled from the market, and Island shipped only The Best of 1980-1990. Clearly, this was a tactic to raise press awareness and boost sales, but that doesn't mean that fans shouldn't take advantage of its limited release.

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine