Among U2’s songs on their greatest album of the ’90s, Achtung Baby, is “Mysterious Ways” and “Even Better Than the Real Thing.” Both are the strongest rock on the album and perhaps some of the strongest that year. At the time I really preferred EBTTRT to MW. Even’s whirl of guitars and breakthrough video was superior at the time. However I’ve found that “Mysterious Ways” has much more lasting power. Its hard hitting cords give it much more universal appeal toward today’s listeners. It is not unusual to hear it played on the local “hits” station. While on the other hand, I have not heard “Even Better Than the Real Thing” played for a long time.
This discussion was brought along because I’ve had a chance to really listen to U2’s Best of 1990-2000. I think it was released prematurely. The Best of 1980-1990 wasn’t released until 1998, therefore the Best of 1990-2000 should have been released in 2008. We haven’t had a chance to let the music from 2000’s “All that You Can’t Leave Behind” to really sink in. Certainly “Beautiful Day” belonged on the “Best of” album. But perhaps other sings like “Peace on Earth” and “Elevation” should have been included also.
I have been putting together a webpage for a Christian camp. Volunteer work. I don’t mind doing it. I believe in the purpose of the camp. The only problem is that person who originally put together the webpage used Dreamweaver, a program I do not have. Some of the buttons on the page use the Flash plug-in, rather than a jpeg or gif file. I can’t seem to figure out how to link to a certain page in Flash. I suspect the specific link is embedded in the Flash file. Blame it on me never really understanding the public’s interest in Flash. That being the case, I’ll have to do one of two things. Either send the page back to the person who originally did it….or redo the page using gifs and javascript mouseovers instead.
Its been interesting to say the least. During the past couple of weeks 3 people have contacted me about webdesign work. I think if I ever did web design for a living, I would learn to hate it. Right now its just for fun. If it was work, the fun would have been taking out of it. Most people could learn how to do web design just like I learned it. Sit down and figure it out. Webdesign jobs come and go. Its either the hot thing or none at all….which is why I don’t want to put all my faith into it. It’s fickle.