It is soberingly difficult, when considering this collection, to imagine that there will ever be another group remotely comparable to u2. contemplate today's pretenders who are now roughly where u2 were when they released the earliest of these tracks. it's not easy to picture them having a career in 30 years time, much less one that fills stadiums and is more than a nostalgic cabaret turn. in the commercial stratosphere inhabited by u2, everything else is, as elvis costello astutely observed, "bullshit, or a trip to the circus."