Product Description

This is essentially the first volume in the "best of U2" series. The collection includes material from their 1980 debutalbum 'Boy', right through to 1988's 'Rattle And Hum'. Eleven top 10 singles are included.

Track Listing

1. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
2. New Year's Day
3. With Or Without You
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Bad
7. Where The Streets Have No Name
8. I Will Follow
9. The Unforgettable Fire
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Desire
12. When Love Comes To Town - U2, B.B. King
13. Angel Of Harlem
14. All I Want Is You / October

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7488 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 67 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
One need hear only the first notes of this collection--the Edge's ringing guitar notes ushering in "Pride (In the Name of Love)"--to be taken back to 1984: Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher rule the Western world, the L.A. Olympics is the top sports story, and Ms. Pac-Man reigns at arcades. In rock & roll, there's U2 growing in stature with each new tour and title. Even doubters of the Irish lads have to concede that together they formed the one '80s band with the skill and sense of scale to take over the airwaves and concert stages in a decade of diminished expectations. This 15-song '80s best-of assortment (stick around for the hidden track) spans the decade, reaching back to 1980's "I Will Follow," when Bono and company were peach-fuzzy and earnest as choirboys, and tracking their path through their universal domination with 1988's Rattle and Hum. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

U2 at the peak of their powers!!
Although the band still manage to create great songs and sounds it was during the 1980s that they arguably produced some of their best work and indeed, created some of the songs of all time which made the band the worldwide phenomenon they are today.

Songs like Pride, With or with out you, I still haven't found what I'm looking for and Where the streets have no name are now iconic and serve to represent what was a golden era for U2 and the music world in general.

Even if your not bothered about the B sides this compilation is simply brilliant and well worth owning. For me it should be in any music lovers collection.

Just as a final note, the music does not stop at track 14. After 'All I want is you', you will be treated to a bonus track so be patient and let it roll on.

Excellent
This album is U2 at it's finest. For me their best music ever was out in the 80's and every one of those songs is represented here. The album starts off with Pride and moves through the brilliance that is U2 with New Years Day all the way through to All I want is You. The emotion of Sunday Bloody Sunday is evident every time and brings you right back to the first time you ever heard that song.

I believe this is one of those must have cd's of the 80's especially if you're a U2 fan.

Good album!!!!!!!!!:)
One of U2s best albums. All the classics are here. The voted and jugded the best song ever :With or without You is on it(track3). A truly emotional and Irish song:Sunday Bloody Sunday is included. A less known yet classic I will follow is trk8.
Download: With or without You,Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bad.