U2

U218: Singles (Interscope)

Besides passable Green Day duet “The Saints Are Coming” and “Electrical Storm” rewrite “Window on the Skies,” there’s nothing here you haven’t heard a thousand times before, nothing you wouldn’t mind hearing a thousand times again. Die-hards have to wait until the box set for “Gloria” and “Faraway (So Close!),” or even “Bad” and “Bullet the Blue Sky,” but if there’s any possible way someone you know hasn’t had the pleasure, this is the one-stop way to do it. Collector’s editions add a bonus DVD of “Vertigo” live in Milan, worth the extra cash for Bono’s operatic “Miss Sarajevo.”

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This article appears in December 29 • 2006.

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