U2

In the future, when aliens arrive on earth and ask to hear what the turn of the millennium sounded like, Supreme Global Emperor Hasselhoff will simply sit back and cue up this collection of singles by U2. Though light on early material (nothing from Boy or October, back when Bono's ego was dwarfed only by his ambition), this collection is the soundtrack to the ending of an era and the beginning of a new one, capturing the hope, the struggle, the cynicism and, ultimately, the joy of life in the '00s.

If you thought that U2's last two greatest-hits discs had just a few too many minor songs on
them, U218 Singles is the collection for you. Made in a land where Boy, October, Pop and
Zooropa don't exist, this CD is U2's catalog stripped down to the stadium-shaking
warhorses. With no attempt made to put them in chronological or any logical order
("Sunday Bloody Sunday" follows "Sweetest Thing"), the only reason anyone but... More >