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U218 Singles (U2, 2006) 
U2 - U218 Singles (CD 2006)

 
U2 - U218 Singles (CD 2006)

Title: U218 Singles
Artist: U2
Record Label: Mercury
Release Year: 2006
EAN: 0602517135499
Genre: Rock/Pop
Product ID: EPID59438332
Description: Includes a bonus track.By the time 2006's U218 SINGLES was released, U2 had been one of rock's reigning behemoths for a good quarter century. Whittling down the group's hefty discography to 18 tracks seems impossible, but U218 SINGLES so...
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Track Listing
1. I Will Follow
2. Beautiful Day
3. Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
5. With Or Without You
6. Vertigo
7. New Year's Day
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
10. Where The Streets Have No Name
11. Sweetest Thing
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday
13. One
14. Desire
15. Walk On
16. Elevation
17. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
18. Saints Are Coming - U2 & Green Day
19. Window In The Skies

Details
Number of CDs:1
Recording Type:Studio
Distributor:Universal Music
Recording Mode:Stereo

Album Notes
Includes a bonus track.By the time 2006's U218 SINGLES was released, U2 had been one of rock's reigning behemoths for a good quarter century. Whittling down the group's hefty discography to 18 tracks seems impossible, but U218 SINGLES solves the problem by focusing, as the title suggests, on singles. Consequently, some crucial tunes, namely early ones like "I Will Follow," "Gloria," and "Two Hearts Beat As One," are missing.But since one of U2's greatest strengths is their ability to create imaginative and engaging music that can also cross over into the mainstream, the collection brims with great material. Some of the band's best recorded moments--"Pride (In the Name of Love)," "New Year's Day," and "One," for example--are showcased, along with immediately familiar anthems like "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Mysterious Ways," and "Sweetest Thing." A handful of tunes from the 2000s--like "The Saints Are Coming," the band's famed collaboration with Green Day--round out the set. Most of these songs have already become a permanent part of the pop-culture fabric, but that doesn't lessen the appeal of hearing them on this smartly compiled set.

Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his CD is U2's catalog stripped down to the stadium-shaking warhorses...Q (p.154) - 4 stars out of 5 -- [T]here's a sense of personal care and attention here, as if the whole thing comes with U2's personal seal of approval.
Rolling Stone

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  U2 - U218 Singles
Review created: 10/07/07(updated 10/07/07)
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21 of 23 people found this review helpful.

It seems rock bands can get better with age! Don't knock this CD - it does precisely what it was intended to do - expose the band to a new generation of fans. So what if some hardcore fan's favourite songs aren't on it - the people who buy this CD won't want to hear those initially. If it does for others what it has done for me, then the fans should be thanking it. I always recall the flack The Best of Bob Dylan got (a similar "slimline hits only" collection) - but a colleague of mine only had to hear "Tangled Up In Blue" once from that particular CD and almost immediately amassed a 20-strong Dylan CD collection! A thrilling listen from start to finish and a couple of very good new tracks to boot.


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