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U2’s first two greatest-hits albums neatly divided themselves by decade, with the first covering the ’80s and the second summing up the ’90s. Their third hits comp, 2006’s U218 Singles, is at once more ambitious and more concise, offering an overview of their first 26 years on a single disc comprised of 18 tracks — and since two of those are new songs, that leaves just 16 songs to tell their whole story. That’s not much space for a band with a career as lengthy and ambitious as U2, so it’s inevitable that some painful cuts have been made. Nothing from October, Zooropa or Pop is here, and unless you’re buying various import editions that have “I Will Follow” as a bonus track, there’s nothing from Boy, either. There’s only one cut each from The Unforgettable Fire and Rattle and Hum — and bucking conventional wisdom, none of their three widely accepted masterpieces — War, The Joshua Tree, or Achtung Baby — provide the most songs here. No, out of all the