- Sunday Bloody Sunday – Pillar
- Beautiful Day – Sanctus Real
- 40 – Starfield
- Love Is Blindness – Sixpence None the Richer
- Gloria – Audio Adrenaline
- Grace – Nichole Nordeman
- All I Want Is You – Jars of Clay
- Mysterious Ways – toby Mac
- Pride (In the Name of Love) – Delirious
- One – Tait
- With or Without You – GRITS featuring Jadyn Maria
- When Love Comes to Town – Todd Agnew
- Where the Streets Have No Name – Chris Tomlin
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But this is more than just a benefit for a vital cause. It's also a fine tribute to the music of U2. The band's a worthwhile choice not only for their worldwide success or Bono's work with DATA, but also because the band has long alluded to themes of compassion, perseverance, and faith in their songs—perfect subjects for an album conceptually born out of charity. If nothing else,
U2 fans are undoubtedly curious how the band's classics hold up here. It'd be near impossible to improve upon U2's oft-imitated-rarely-duplicated anthemic rock, elevated by Bono's passionate vocals and The Edge's brilliant guitar work. Still, the only real fumble is a densely jumbled hip-hop cover of "With or Without You" by GRITS and the soulful voice of Jadyn Maria. It's a nice try for something different, but too much so in this case—you might appreciate it if you also enjoyed P. Diddy's remake of The Police's "Every Breath You Take." Less shaky is Audio Adrenaline's appropriately bold but overproduced version of "Gloria," and while a straightforward performance by Jars of Clay of the anthemic power ballad "All I Want Is You" could have been glorious, this bouncy, gritty blues rendition is likely to earn mixed reactions.
But most of the covers remain very true to the originals. It's no surprise that the heavily U2-influenced Delirious delivers a spot-on imitation with "Pride (In the Name of Love)," an ode to those who have given their lives faithfully serving others. If only Martin Smith could belt the vocals as high as Bono once did. Likewise, Chris Tomlin's usually strong voice sounds relatively wimpy—compared to Bono's—on "Where the Streets Have No Name," this album's most overtly faithful remake. Michael Tait's expressive lead vocal is well matched for a straightforward cover of the affecting ballad "One," and Todd Agnew delivers a strong B.B. King impersonation for the blues-rock jam "When Love Comes to Town." New band Starfield performs a fine modern rock interpretation of the Psalm-derived "40," while Sanctus Real offers a slightly punchier and noisier remake of "Beautiful Day," this album's first radio single.