Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 3

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Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 3
Compilation album by
various artists
Released2005 (2005)
RecordedDublin, Ireland, 2005
GenreAcoustic, pop, cover songs
Length2 discs, 96:00
LabelRMG Chart Entertainment Ltd.
Even Better Than the Real Thing series chronology
Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 2
(2004) 		Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 3
(2005)

Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 3 is an Irish charity two-disc album featuring a variety of artists performing acoustic covers. Despite the title of the series being taken from a U2 song, the previous albums did not contain any U2 covers. This third, two-disc volume departs from this and is entirely composed of U2 songs, many of them by artists who recorded covers for volume one or volume two.[1]

It was released in 2005 by RMG Chart Entertainment Ltd., and like the other albums, most of the songs were recorded "live and acoustic" on The Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM. Proceeds from the album were donated to the UNICEF Tsunami relief fund.[2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by U2, with lyrics by Bono

Side one
No.TitleCovered byLength
1."All I Want Is You"Mark Geary4:00
2."40"The Frames4:38
3."When Love Comes to Town"Declan O'Rourke3:31
4."Seconds"Mundy3:46
5."Mothers of the Disappeared"Paddy Casey3:15
6."Heartland"Bell X13:59
7."So Cruel"Erin McKeown3:23
8."Even Better Than the Real Thing"Jack L3:15
9."Running to Stand Still"Mickey Harte5:12
10."October"Divine Comedy2:34
11."Sunday Bloody Sunday"Lisa Bresnan4:32
12."Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses"Tom Baxter5:11
Side two
No.TitleCovered byLength
1."One"Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club4:02
2."New Year's Day"Aslan4:33
3."With or Without You"The Walls3:56
4."I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"Juliet Turner4:17
5."Love Is Blindness"The Devlins featuring Sharon Corr3:19
6."Bad"Luka Bloom5:27
7."Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses"Picturehouse5:20
8."A Sort of Homecoming"Hazel Kaneswaran4:13
9."Love Rescue Me"Roesy4:53
10."Vertigo"Elvis & Kevin Doyle3:28
11."Sunday Bloody Sunday"Damien Dempsey4:35
12."Van Diemen's Land"George Murphy3:47
13."Sweetest Thing"St Fiachra’s Junior School Choir2:39

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Walshe, John. "Even Better Than The Real Thing Vol 3". Hotpress.
  2. ^ "Various Artists – Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol 3 (Songs of U2)". RTÉ. 18 April 2005.
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