U2 - The Joshua Tree (Island U26) (Italy 1987, 1st press) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1)

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U2 - The Joshua Tree
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Cat#: Island U26 | Country/Year: Italy 1987 | Resolution: 24-96 & 16-44.1

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U2 - The Joshua Tree (Island 208 219) (EU 1987, 1st Press, VINYL)

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U2 - The Joshua Tree

Label: Island Records
Catalog#: U26
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: Italy
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop

Tracklist:
A1 Where The Streets Have No Name
A2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
A3 With Or Without You
A4 Bullet The Blue Sky
A5 Running To Stand Still

B1 Red Hill Mining Town
B2 In God's Country
B3 Trip Through Your Wires
B4 One Tree Hill
B5 Exit
B6 Mothers Of The Disappeared

Notes:

To the memory of Greg Carroll 1960-1986.

Made in Italy on label only.
All legal infos in italian.
S.I.A.E. stamp on label.

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/U2-The-Joshua-Tree/release/1359757
Wikipedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as a basis, U2 expanded those innovations by scaling back the songs to a personal setting and adding a grittier attack for its follow-up, The Joshua Tree. It's a move that returns them to the sweeping, anthemic rock of War, but if War was an exploding political bomb, The Joshua Tree is a journey through its aftermath, trying to find sense and hope in the desperation. That means that even the anthems — the epic opener "Where the Streets Have No Name," the yearning "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" — have seeds of doubt within their soaring choruses, and those fears take root throughout the album, whether it's in the mournful sliding acoustic guitars of "Running to Stand Still," the surging "One Tree Hill," or the hypnotic elegy "Mothers of the Disappeared." So it might seem a little ironic that U2 became superstars on the back of such a dark record, but their focus has never been clearer, nor has their music been catchier, than on The Joshua Tree. Unexpectedly, U2 have also tempered their textural post-punk with American influences. Not only are Bono's lyrics obsessed with America, but country and blues influences are heard throughout the record, and instead of using these as roots, they're used as ways to add texture to the music. With the uniformly excellent songs — only the clumsy, heavy rock and portentous lyrics of "Bullet the Blue Sky" fall flat — the result is a powerful, uncompromising record that became a hit due to its vision and its melody. Never before have U2's big messages sounded so direct and personal. allmusicguide


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