U2

The Complete U2

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The Complete U2

So U2’s “digital box set” hit iTunes this morning. I can’t take a close look at it at the moment (no iTunes at work), but I’ll poke around later on. Mostly, I’m just posting this as an excuse to toss the little advertising banner up on the site in the desperate, misguided hope that one of my readers will have the money for the set, feel like buying it, and do so after clicking through from my site. Hey, I can dream, right?

Fifteen albums, 25 rare tracks, and a “digital booklet” (ahem….pdf file). I’ve gotta admit, if I had the money to blow, I wouldn’t mind picking it up.

Of course, I don’t have the money to blow, so it’s kind of a moot point (grin). Those silly little details keep tripping me up.

Update: Having had some time to take a look at the set…well, if some kind (rich) soul were to suddenly drop a \$150 iTunes gift certificate![][1] my way I wouldn’t be complaning. Nope, no complaints at all. ;)

[1]: http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&bids=78941.10000058&type=3&subid=0 {width=”1″ height=”1″}

Songs, A-Z

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Well, I didn’t read the rules of this game after I saw D’s list, so this list might seem a little odd. Rather than just list songs that start with a letter, I chose songs that I have in my .mp3 library, and where both the song title and the artist started with the respective letter of the alphabet. Uff!

The only times I couldn’t get a match for both were for X and Z, so I listed two songs, one for the song title that matched the letter, and one for the artist.

A: Ain’t Goin’ to Goa by A3
B: Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus
C: Codeine, Glue and You by Chemlab
D: Destillat (VNV Nation Mix) by Das Ich
E: Emanuelle by Ex-Voto
F: Fired Up! (Club 69 Future Mix) by Funky Green Dogs
G: Games Without Frontiers (Massive D/B Mix) by Peter Gabriel
H: Hernando’s Hideaway (from The Pajama Game) by Carol Haney
I: The Indigo Swing by Indigo Swing
J: Jane Says by Jane’s Addiction
K: Kylie Said to Jason by The KLF
L: Lucy’s F*ck*ng Sky by Lords of Acid
M: Moonbeam by Men Without Hats
N: Ninety-Nine Red Balloons by Nena
O: Only A Lad by Oingo Boingo
P: Point Blank by Pigface
Q: Quad City Funk by Quad City DJs
R: Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield Mix) by Renegade Soundwave
S: Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister
T: Twist in my Sobriety by Tanita Tikaram
U: Until the End of the World by U2
V: Vengababes from Outer Space by The Vengaboys
W: Wimoweh by The Weavers
X: Dear God by XTC (or) Xhemikals by DJ H. Geek
Y: Your Horoscope for Today by “Wierd Al” Yankovic
Z: Living Dead Girl (Subliminal Seduction Mix) by Rob Zombie (or) Zeros and Ones by Jesus Jones

A tribute album worth listening to

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Tribute albums have a tendency to be one of the most overdone and under-worthy genres in the music business. Take a bunch of songs by a worthy artist, farm them out to a bunch of bands that aren’t nearly as well known, and issue a ‘tribute’ album that usually tends to be an excercise in mediocrity — there will usually be one, maybe two tracks that shine through, while the rest range from ‘listenable’ to ‘why bother?’

However, while going through my CD collection, I’ve found something of a rare gem: We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 (this tends to happen when you’ve got 1000+ CD’s, by the way…it’s way too easy to lose track of music for a while). While this album does have a couple duds on it, the overall collection is definitely quite a few steps above the average tribute album — I’ve had it going on random for the past couple days without going absolutely buggy, which can be quite the rare thing. The majority of the tracks range from listenable to good, with probably between 3 and 5 real gems on here. If you’re at all into U2 and/or synth-pop/electronica, I can acually recommend picking this one up.

Here’s a quick track listing: Heaven 17 With or Without You / Information Society One / Front Line Assembly with Tiffany New Year’s Day / Razed in Black Pride / Dead or Alive Even Better Than the Real Thing / Spahn Ranch We Will Follow / Mission UK All I Want Is You / Electric Hellfire Club Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rosetta Stone October / Die Krupps Numb / Silverbeam with Ann Louise Where the Streets Have No Name / Bang Tango Even Better Than the Real Thing (Julian Beeston Mix) / The Polecats Desire / Intra-Venus Discotheque (Suspira Mix)