U2 - U218 Singles
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Track List: U218 Singles
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- Beautiful Day
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Pride (In The Name Of Love)
- With Or Without You
- Vertigo
- New Year's Day
- Mysterious Ways
- Stuck In A Momeny You Can't Get Out Of
- Where The Streets Have No Name
- Sweetest Thing
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- One
- Desire
- Walk On
- Elevation
- Somtimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
- The Saints Are Coming
- Window In The Skies
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Album Details: U218 Singles
- Release Date:
- 11/21/2006
- Label:
- Interscope Records
- UPC:
- 602517135420
User Reviews: U218 Singles
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U2 - 18 Singles
, January 5, 2007Reviewer:
The Brave Eagle - See all The Brave Eagle's reviews -
U2's Best and Some More
, December 31, 2006Reviewer:
Eric Halcon - See all Eric Halcon's reviews Pros: The Best of U2! :)
Cons: Well, there were 2 volumes out before! :(
This is a must-have for any U2 fan. Growing up to their music, I recall how their 1987 CD, The Joshua Tree, was a staple in anyone's collection. I guess with the onset of the new millennium, this compilation will also open the ears (and hopefully, the eyes as well) of the new generation of the greatest export of Ireland, musically that is. Ranging from the classic With or Without You to their collaboration with Green Day titled The Saints Are Coming, the CD shines from start to finish. However, missing from the tracklisting are Lemon and Discotheque. Anyone who has purchased The Best of U2 1980-1990 and 1990-2000 will think twice before buying this opus. But I am an exception. ...
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Pro Reviews: U218 Singles
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews U2's first two greatesthits albums neatly divided themselves by decade, with the first covering the '80s and the second summing up the '90s. Their third hits comp, 2006's U218 Singles, is at once more ambitious and more concise, offering an overview of their first 26 years on a single disc comprised of 18 tracks and since two of those are new songs, that leaves just 16 songs to tell their whole story. That's not much space for a band with a career as lengthy and ambitious as U2, so it's inevitable that some painful cuts have been made. Nothing from October, Zooropa or Pop is here, and unless you're buying various import editions that have "I Will Follow" as a bonus track, there's nothing from Boy, either. There's only one cut each from The Unforgettable Fire and Rattle and Hum and bucking conventional wisdom, none of their three widelyaccepted masterpieces War, The Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby provide the most songs here. No, out of all their albums the one that dominates U218 Singles is All That You Can't Leave Behind, their 2000 comeback from the depths of the misguided Pop, and one of two records that they've released since their last hits compilation, The Best of 19902000. The other record they've released since then is How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which provides two songs here or, as many as there are from War and Achtung Baby. What this means is that this compilation skews very heavily toward latterday U2 eight out of 18 tracks, a full 44percent of the collection, are from 2000 on, which means that U218 Singles presents the classicist version of the band, featuring the anthems from the group at their peak, plus the highlights from when U2 were trying their best to sound like U2 at their peak. They did it quite well, of course, from both a commercial and artistic standpoint, sometimes writing songs that stood proudly alongside "Pride (In the Name of Love)" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (as in "Beautiful Day") and sometimes not ("Elevation"). When it's all mixed together, it paints a portrait of a band that's a little slicker and streamlined than they often were, and it's hard not to miss the bighearted yet moody band that made "Bad," "Gloria," and "A Sort of Homecoming," not to mention the middleaged Euro experimentalists responsible for "Numb" and "Stay (Faraway, So Close)," two essential components of the band that has been forced aside by the arena rock pros on display here. |
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Pros: Perfect
Cons: Nothing!
Can't say anymore, can't be better because I'm a rox F4n!
Those are their greatest songs of U2.
I love the songs which have the lyric can raise everybody's faint.So, the song i like the most in this album n' also all the U2's Album is "Sometimes u can't make it on ur own".Also it makes me easier to sleep... ZzZz...
N'... Now i wanna sleep.... because i'm listening Sometimes u can't make it on ur own.....
*Note: Dis' review should be read by my friends! :p