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U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987) [Non-Remastered]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 23 Oct 2024 12:22:46

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987) [Non-Remastered]

The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 by Island Records. In contrast to the ambient experimentation of their 1984 release The Unforgettable Fire, on The Joshua Tree U2 aimed for a harder-hitting sound within the limitation of conventional song structures. The album is influenced by American and Irish roots music, and depicts the band's love–hate relationship with the United States, with socially and politically conscious lyrics embellished with spiritual imagery. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album at number 27 on their 2012 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", calling it "an album that turns spiritual quests and political struggles into uplifting stadium singalongs".

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.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. Where The Streets Have No Name (05:38)
02. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (04:38)
03. With Or Without You (04:56)
04. Bullet The Blue Sky (04:32)
05. Running To Stand Still (04:17)
06. Red Hill Mining Town (04:54)
07. In God's Country (02:57)
08. Trip Through Your Wires (03:32)
09. One Tree Hill (05:23)
10. Exit (04:13)
11. Mothers Of The Disappeared (05:11)

EAC log

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EAC extraction logfile from 14. May 2011, 14:22

U2 / The Joshua Tree

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DR log

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log date: 2013-06-14 21:13:39

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