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Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:34:15 -0500
Got the 'Best of' on Tuesday. It was selling fast for a small (pop. 12,000)
town in Southern Ontario. I already had it ordered through Music Blvd.
online for $21 US, but I couldn't wait to get it. I *had* to get it on the
day of release. So, I paid $35 Canadian, $40 with GST and PST (grrrr!) and
took my pricey baby home, knowing I had just gotten ripped off on the cost
of the thing, but.....
Got home, put it on the stereo, b-sides disc first, because I was always
into the whole 'Best of' idea for the b-sides. I have the 'Wide Awake In
America' EP, but I do not have any of the 80's singles and I have only
heard these b-sides over the internet. My husband has not heard most of
them at all. 'Three Sunrises" starts to play, I sing along, I know this
one well....my husband goes, "Oh, I know this one, I like this." Then
'Spanish Eyes', we look at each other and go "Wow!" both of us kind of
thrilled hearing something "new". And so it went, each song unfolding for
us as we listened to them, really, for the very first time. 'Bass Trap', so
beautiful, so ethereal. 'Everlasting Love', a cover of a song I loved as a
kid, but U2 does it much, much better and it's so much fun to listen to.
'Unchained Melody' next, who does it better than U2? And then....'Walk to
the Water'. We sit listening quietly, trying to catch Bono's
vocal...and...then we hear... "I'm on the outside, Let me in....Let me love
you.....Let me love you.....Let me....." My jaw dropped and I looked at my
husband. He was looking back at me just as amazed. My eyes grew wider with
every "Let me love you", my husband smiled at me then. I just shook my head
and closed my eyes. I love that vocal.....it goes beyond words.
Now..... 'Luminous Times' comes on. "I love you cause I need to, Not
because I need you, I love you cause I understand that God has given me you
hand, It holds me in a tiny fist, But still I need your kiss....Hold on to
love..." I have read those words in people's posts before, heard the song
online, but hearing it fully for the first time was.... um....emotional to
say the least. I opened my eyes, looked at my husband again, he had *tears*
in his eyes and so did I. I said, "Did you hear that?" He just nodded at
me. 'Luminous Times' is just the most beautiful love song. I will never
forget the look on my husbands face hearing that song for the first time,
or the way I felt hearing it the way it was meant to be heard for the first
time. We listen on, loving it all. Then, it ends with a shakily vocalized
"Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl". It ends with a last laugh, a grin.
I mean, here are these amazing songs, incredible vocals ahead of Party Girl
and then you hear this struggling vocal in this, well, kind of weird song
that sounds so much better on UABRS....it just made us laugh! This b-side
disc is *searches for word*....*can't find one*....
Next, we put on the best of disc and sang along *loudly* to the the best of
the best band. All of us, kids included, singing along, loving this music,
loving this band, feeling good.
What a ride that 'Best of' is, what an emotional ride. But what else would
one expect from U2, why would it be any other way?
Thank you, U2, for this 'Best of 1980-1990'. Thanks again for the
memories.....some from long ago and for some new ones from listening to
this 'Best of' for the first time.....
Faith, Hope and *Love*,
Di/Gloria2
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