believe me good will come

U2 are releasing a new ‘best of’ compilation on 20 November. A best of best of…Titled U218 Singles, it features sixteen of their best known songs, a new track called ‘Window on the Sky’, and their cover of the Slits’ ‘The Saints are Coming’ (a collaboration with Green Day).

So, come 20 November, three of U2’s last five albums will be ‘best of’ compilations (I guess if you’re struggling to create good new music then it makes sense to recycle your old music…).

Here are my sixteen favourite U2 songs (excluding B-sides, covers or live versions) -

01 Running to Standstill
02 One
03 Mothers of the Disappeared
04 Please
05 With or Without You
06 Mysterious Ways
07 Mofo
08 Discotheque [original Pop version]
09 Do You Feel Loved
10 One Tree Hill
11 Lemon
12 Miss Sarajevo [full-length Passengers version]
13 All I Want Is You
14 Tomorrow
15 Where the Streets Have No Name
16 New Year’s Day [full-length War version]

“I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad.”

“There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!”

“They are nowhere near the airport. They are lost in the desert…They can not read a compass - they are retarded.”

“They have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.”

“We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back.”

“Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them.”

[and sometimes he told the truth:]

“I speak better English than this villain Bush.”

“I think they will not win, those bastards.”

“Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can’t understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.”

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