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'Window In The Skies' is the second single release from the band's 2006 best-of compilation U218 Singles and is one of two new tracks on the album - the other being a cover of the Skids' 'The Saints Are Coming', which was a collaboration with U.S. punk band Green Day.Although I'm open to correction on this point, I believe that mention in the sleeve note is the closest Gree Day have ever come to appearing on a Now album. That's not a fact that bothers me greatly but if you're a fan, don't hold your breath waiting for me to post about them on here. I do remember there was some controversy about that single at the time, because it was a charity release but some felt that it took the shine off the gesture to use it as bait for an otherwise pointless hits compilation drawing on the one album U2 had released since their previous retrospective.
Anyway, long-term readers might have guessed by now which way this post will go from the fact that I've spent the first paragraph talking about a song that isn't on the album, and indeed a band who aren't on there. If so you'd be right, because this is an even worse U2 impression than the Killers, the real nadir of the self-pastiche that has been their stock in trade for most of this century. Bono mumbles some idealistic lyrics about a just world or something and the band jangle away at the hundredth re-write of 'Where The Streets Have No Name' and everyone else dozes off. This inevitably got a lot of radio play at the time and when it was released on New Year's Day(!) 2007 it unsurprisingly reached the Top 10 (it's more surprising that it was their last Top 10 single to date) but its descent was swift even by U2 standards and the song was almost instantly forgotten. I'm sure I didn't hear it once between about February 2007 and the day I bought this CD, and I haven't played it much since either.
Also appearing on: Now 4, 5, 20, 22, 32, 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 53, 57 [LMC vs U2], 60, 61, 62, 63, 72
Available on: U218 Singles [2 Disk]
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