Universal Vinyl

About this product

This 18-track greatest hits-style album contains 16 of the band’s most popular singles and two new tracks including a collaboration with Green Day on a cover of The Skids’ track ‘The Saints Are Coming’. It’s presented here on vinyl, as every classic rock band should be.

With a career this broad and rich it is inevitable that any compilation is defined as much by what’s missing as what it holds.

U218 Singles delves as far back as War for ‘New Year’s Day’ and up to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb with ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Sometime You Cant Make It On Your Own’.

It bucks the accepted wisdom of their early masterpieces - War, The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby all provide just one track each – and rewardingly focuses on latterday U2.

It also includes two ‘new’ tracks produced by Rick Rubin, ‘Window In The Skies’ and ‘The Saints Are Coming’, which had its lyrics rewritten slightly to address the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

This sinuously muscular compilation illustrates that U2, though much-evolved, remain the standard by which other bands are measured.