U2 * Packs

Single packs


Maintained by Patrice Bruhat

"4 U2 PLAY"

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Format: [four 7"][orange, yellow, white, or black vinyls]
Contains: "U2-Three" [7"] / Another Day [7"] / I Will Follow [7"] / 11 O'Clock Tick Tock [7"]
Catalog number: [CBS Pac 1 \ Ireland \ 1980][repressings of the original 7" singles with original picture sleeves]
Comment: [the pack also exists with New Year's Day 7" instead of Another Day]

"U2 Pac II"

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Format: [four 7"]
Contains: Gloria [7"] / A Day Without Me [7"] / A Celebration [7"] / Fire [7"]
Catalog number: [CBS \ Ireland \ 1983][repressings with picture sleeves]
Comment: [the pack also exists with New Year's Day 7" instead of A Day Without Me]

"U2 Pac 3"

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Format: [four 7"]
Contains:
Pride/4th Of July [7" CBS 4727]
Love Comes Tumbling / 60 Seconds In Kingdom Come / The Three Sunrises [7" CBS 7024]
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Two Hearts Beat As One [7" CBS 7023]
Boomerang I / Boomerang II [7" CBS 7022]
Catalog number: [Ireland \ 1985][Sleeves are different from originals]
Comment: [I've seen Two Hearts Beat As One either instead of the Sunday Bloody Sunday 7" or as the flip side of Sunday Bloody Sunday]

[Here are some details about the U2 packs:
1979: orange label with UK-TM number in rim (black vinyl)
1981: coloured vinyls (orange,yellow,white) and black vinyls with red/black label
1982: orange label with or without "made in England" in rim
1985: red/white CBS label
1987: silver label, no picture sleeve]

"For You"

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Format: [cassette]
Contains: New Year's Day [12"] / Two Hearts Beat As One [12"]
Catalog number: [Island 25Y-183 \ Japan, unique PS]
Comment: [unique Japanese cassette containing songs from 2 12", and it's not a promo release]

The 7 Missing Tracks Plus The Singles

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Format: [3x5"CD]
Contains: With Or Without You [5"CD] / I Still Haven't Found [5"CD] / Where The Streets Have No Name [5"CD]
Catalog number: [Island 659 871 \ West Germany][The 3 5"CD singles packaged and sold together]
Comment: [Also called "U2 The Joshua Tree" and "3 CD Singles"]

The Joshua Tree Singles

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Format: [four 7"]
Tracks: With Or Without You [7"] / I Still Haven't Found [7"] / Where The Streets Have No Name [7"] / In God's Country [7"]
Catalog number: [Island U2 PK1 \ US \ 1987]

The Joshua Tree Collection / Joshua Tree Samplers

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sampler 1
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Format: [five 7" box set]
Contains:
Red Hill Mining Town/Where The Streets Have No Name [U2 6-1]
Trip Through Your Wires/Running To Stand Still [U2 6-2]
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/One Tree Hill [U2 6-3]
Exit/Mothers Of The Disappeared [U2 6-4]
In God's Country/Bullet The Blue Sky [U2 6-5]
Catalog number: [Island U2 6-1-5 \ UK \ dj promo \ 250 copies]
Comment: [the five singles were also issued individually as "Joshua Tree Samplers"]
[set of singles with white labels or big A labels, all with same PS except titles differences on front cover]
[some with misspress on U2 6-1, Red Hill Mining Town on both sides]

mispressing
mispressed sampler 1
big A-label
sampler 1 big A label
white label
sampler 1 white label

The Missing Tracks Vol. 2

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Format: [four 5"CD]
Contains: Desire [5"CD] / Angel Of Harlem [5"CD] / When Love Comes To Town [5"CD] / All I Want Is You [5"CD]

The Singles Collection

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Format: [twelve 5"CD in black box]
Contains: [Contains the 12 first CD singles]
Catalog number: [1000 Ltd ed numbered \ Germany]
Comment: [I'm not sure this box is official]

Achtung Baby Collection

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Format: [five 5"CD]
Comment: [I'm not sure this box is official]

The Best Of 1980-1990 boxset

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Format: [fourteen 7" + two CDs]
Contains: [Gold box that contains 14x7" with all songs from the Best Of and the B-sides except October. Included in the box is promo card case double cd copy of album and a booklet which is the same as commercial cd but in larger size.]
Catalog number: [BXU 211 \ UK promo \ 200 copies]
Comment: [All singles come with individual picture labels on 1 side with numbered 1 to 14 with credits on other side. Tracks are in the same order as on the CDs. B-side of single 14 contains the two last songs.All singles come housed in gold diecut sleeves with album title printed on front. It seems that Island ran out of these sleeves so some will only come in plain white sleeves instead]

The Best Of 1990-2000 boxset

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Format: [15x7" + two CDs]
Contains: [Gold box that contains 15x7" with all songs from the Best Of and the B-sides except The Fly. Included in the box is promo card case double cd copy of album and a booklet which is the same as commercial cd but in larger size.]
Catalog number: [BXU 213 \ UK promo]
Comment: [All singles come with individual picture labels on 1 side with numbered 1 to 15. Tracks are in the same order as on the CDs. All singles come housed in silver diecut sleeves.]