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The Joshua Tree by U2

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Where The Streets Have No Name (Album Version - Remastered) 5:36 1,129
2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Remastered) 4:37 1,128
3 With Or Without You (Remastered) 4:55 1,155
4 Bullet The Blue Sky (Remastered) 4:31 401
5 Running To Stand Still (Remastered) 4:17 649
6 Red Hill Mining Town (Remastered) 4:52 397
7 In God's Country (Remastered) 2:56 463
8 Trip Through Your Wires (Remastered) 3:31 385
9 One Tree Hill (Remastered) 5:22 429
10 Exit (Remastered) 4:13 324
11 Mothers Of The Disappeared (Remastered) 5:14 296
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Universal Music International Div. (2007) Released: 7 Dec 2007 11 tracks (50:04)
The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2, released March 9, 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November of 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. The album features the band’s exploration of roots rock, with their music exhibiting influences from blues-rock, folk rock, Southern rock, and gospel music. Lyrically, The Joshua Tree depicts the band’s fascination with America and many of the ideas it stands for. The album was produced and engineered by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.

The album increased the band’s stature “from heroes to superstars,” according to Rolling Stone. The album produced several hit singles, including “Where the Streets Have No Name”, “With or Without You”, and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, all of which remain radio staples. The Joshua Tree won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Album of the Year in Grammy Awards of 1988. In 2003, the album was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. The album is one of the world’s best-selling albums of all-time, having sold over 28 million copies. In 2007, a remastered version of the album was released to mark the 20th anniversary of its original release.

Following The Unforgettable Fire album, U2 realised that they “had no tradition, we were from outer space”, and they explored American blues, country and gospel music. Since that album, they had spent time with fellow Irish bands The Waterboys and Hothouse Flowers, and felt a sense of indigenous Irish music being blended with American folk music.
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  • caiotribbiani wrote:
    December 2011
    this album is a masterpiece. just being a no-brainer to dont recognize his value.

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  • caiotribbiani wrote:
    December 2011
    mk741 so why you waste your time coming here to post this stupid comment? do you know, I'm sure that you must love U2.

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  • RonB wrote:
    November 2011
    "Silver And Gold (Sun City Version)" this is actually performed by Artists United Against Apartheid which is Bono, Keith Richards and Ron Wood...

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  • Digidags wrote:
    November 2011
    für mich das beste Album...)(

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  • halo_dm2 wrote:
    October 2011
    (Remastered) They want you to think it sounds better but the truth is that it only sounds louder

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  • KamilVox wrote:
    October 2011
    Najlepszy album jaki w życiu słyszałem . ;)

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  • MayaSchatt wrote:
    October 2011
    their best album...

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  • mk741 wrote:
    September 2011
    Watching paint dry is more exciting than this album.

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  • mazquara wrote:
    August 2011
    my favorite U2 album!!

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  • JuniorMcCartney wrote:
    July 2011
    I believe in the Kingdom Come Then all the colors will Bleed into one But yes I'm still running

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  • CuntyWunty wrote:
    July 2011
    The best U2 album. Their magnum opus

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  • MusicalOwl79 wrote:
    July 2011
    saw U2 this past Saturday here in Nashville, I was working with Amnesty International......what a great night!!! Thank you U2 for all you do!! I think it gets over looked because Bono can be a dick sometimes!! great music and great causes!

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  • janeinator_ wrote:
    June 2011
    U2 at their best.

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  • David_J1973 wrote:
    May 2011
    "The reason this album is great is 60% Lanois and Eno's production. I'm seeing the word 'remastered' in the track listing above and dreading what vandalism may have been done compared to the LP ... let alone how shit it must sound as an mp3." [2] Luckily, I own an original 1987 pressing of the CD. No remastered bullshit garbage for me!!! EVER!!!!!

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  • kirilitza wrote:
    April 2011
    это по прежнему лучший альбом U2

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  • jehf-rock wrote:
    March 2011
    amazing album.

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  • csm-cz wrote:
    February 2011
    This was the first album that I bought for my own money. I was about 13 back then.

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  • Atitlan wrote:
    February 2011
    The reason this album is great is 60% Lanois and Eno's production. I'm seeing the word 'remastered' in the track listing above and dreading what vandalism may have been done compared to the LP ... let alone how shit it must sound as an mp3.

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  • Antonionii wrote:
    January 2011
    Everything has been said. The band took their fascination with the United States and mixed it up with their most moving, passionate and interesting piece of music they ever recorded. I was only 7 years old when this record came out but I just knew, even at such a young age that this one was really special. Everything about this album just glows with beauty. It may be the product of a bygone era and some songs sounds dated but the whole album is so perfectly produced and represents a band, an important one that really understood the medium and how to create something magnificient and again, important. The greatest album of the band, by a long shot. 10/10

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  • StoneAnima wrote:
    January 2011
    I think this album does its job in capturing essence and freedom of the American southwest. There's just something about this album that perfects what the group began with "The Unforgettable Fire." U2's first three albums sound very bleak and anguished, quintessentially European and wintry. This just has an undeniable "summer" sound that goes much further than just a "feel good hit of the summer" and evokes that image of a sunset behind a desert plain. Or maybe I'm just rambling.

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