The Joshua tree [sound recording] / U2.
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MusicPublisher number: B0010285-02 | IslandB0010286-02 | IslandB001028602 | IslandPublication details: New York, NY : Island, 2007.Edition: Deluxe edDescription: 2 sound discs (108 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (ill. ; 13 x 15 cm.)Subject(s): | Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Main Library | CD | POP/ROCK U2 | Available | staining on insert. 11/23/2022 | 33111008252005 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Compact discs.
Originally released 1987.
Program notes and lyrics in accompanying book. Discs are in separate pockets of book. Book is in a cardboard sleeve.
Album. Where the streets have no name -- I still haven't found what I'm looking for -- With or without you -- Bullet the blue sky -- Running to stand still -- Red hill mining town -- In God's country -- Trip through your wires -- One tree hill -- Exit -- Mothers of the disappeared -- Bonus audio CD. Luminous times (hold on to love) -- Walk to the water -- Spanish eyes -- Deep in the heart -- Silver and gold -- Sweetest thing -- Race against time -- Where the streets have no name -- Silver and gold -- Beautiful ghost/Introduction to songs of experience -- Wave of sorrow (Birdland) -- Desert of our love -- Rise up -- Drunk chicken/America.
U2.