The album that made U2 famous, THE JOSHUA TREE led ROLLING STONE to call U2 "the only band that matters" and, for millions of people, simply WAS the 1980s. Amongst U2 fans, it is widely considered their finest work (along with 1991's ACHTUNG BABY).
TRACKLIST
1: Where The Streets Have No Name
2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3: With Or Without You
4: Bullet The Blue Sky
5: Running To Stand Still
6: Red Hill Mining Town
7: In God's Country
8: Trip Through Your Wires
9: One Tree Hill
10: Exit
11: Moters Of The Disappeared
NOTES on THE JOSHUA TREE
Released in 1986 to deafening critical acclaim, THE JOSHUA TREE catapulted U2 into the limelight they had been inching into since 1983's WAR. Originally concieved of as a double album (which would have encompassed the B-sides found on the singles of the album, as well as some of the b-sides for RATTLE AND HUM), the band trimmed it down to a single album to avoid commercial suicide. It turned out to be commercial Nirvana, as the album has sold 12 million copies to date as U2's top-selling record.
The hit singles from THE JOSHUA TREE were indeed mega-hits. "With Or Without You" was the first U2 song to go to #1 in America; "Where The Streets Have No Name" is one of the most instantly recognizable music videos in the industry's history (And is much imitated, most recently by Limp Bizkit); and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is the symbol of optimistic, 1980s U2 for most of the nation. The album itself (along with its successor, RATTLE AND HUM) tells the story of U2's love-affair with America, from the shining good to the squalid bad ("Bullet The Blue Sky" is one of the most politically-oriented U2 songs, condemning America's actions in Nicaragua). Hailing from Ireland, the band was enamored of America's mythological qualities, and they captured them perfectly through music.
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