Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland) is cut from the same emotive cloth as Luminous Times, with a quivering piano offering the backdrop as Bono raps on the horrors of his 1985 quest to Africa. While U2 followers will never get tired of hearing lost classics such as the boisterous love song Spanish Eyes, the yearning magic of Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) or the brooding Deep In The Heart, it’s the material emerging on disc for the first time that proves how inventive the band were at the time. As well as their original appearances on the three major Joshua Tree singles, many of these tracks have since been mined for studio albums (Silver & Gold reappeared in an arrogant live format on Rattle & Hum), hits collections (The Best Of 1980-1990’s bonus disc pilfered half a dozen of these initial cast-offs) or even as singles in their own right (a lifeless re-recording of The Sweetest Thing hit number one in Australia in 1998). It’s the extras included in this special package that now warrant further attention.īonus CD: There’s little doubt that The Joshua Tree era was the most fruitful and prolific time for original U2 B-sides, avoiding the remixes and covers which populated flipsides from Rattle & Hum on. While the original album’s classic singles With Or Without You, Where The Streets Have No Name and I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For made U2 household names around the world and assisted the album notch up more than 20-million album sales, it’s already been thoroughly dissected and theorised over by critics intrigued by the album’s American heart and Bono’s magnetic lyrical attraction/repulsion for its geographical, cultural and political spheres. Only seven years into their recording career and still in their mid-20s, U2’s 1987 album of power and passion has been released in a deluxe 20th anniversary package that delivers a remastered and correctly indexed version of the original album, a disc of tracks which didn’t make the final cut as well as a DVD of live performances and unreleased music clips. The track listing is as follows: 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 and Mothers Of The Disappeared.Īchtung Baby was described as the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree, but the grand old titan remains a beauty to behold despite its creators attempting to fell its influence on their next epic.
* A limited edition box set containing two CD's and a DVD featuring The Joshua Tree Tour live from the Hippodrome in Paris and other rare video footage. * A deluxe edition including a second CD of b-sides and demos from the original album sessions.
* A double 12" gatefold vinyl format, with the original album pressed across two 180 gram audiophile discs. * A standard CD featuring liner notes from Bill Flanagan, lyrics and unseen photographs from long time collaborator Anton Corbijn. The digitally remastered edition came in four formats: Including a clutch of the band's biggest ever tracks - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Where The Streets Have No Name and With Or Without You - The Joshua Tree went on to sell more than 20 million copies. In 1987, The Joshua Tree reached Number 1 around the world and won a Grammy for 'Album of the Year', while U2 won the Brit Award for Best International Act and Time Magazine put the band on its cover, proclaiming them 'Rock's Hottest Ticket'.
U2 THE JOSHUA TREE CLASSIC ALBUMS DVD SERIES
This episode of the CLASSIC ALBUMS series details the making of U2's chart-topping album through interviews with band members, archival film footage, and live performances.In 2007, U2's landmark 1987 release The Joshua Tree, was digitally remastered from the original analogue tapes to mark 20 years since its release. The record's crossover appeal stems from its emotional exploration of universal topics such as love ("With or Without You"), death ("One Tree Hill"), and spiritual longing ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For") without sacrificing any of the trademark social consciousness of the band's earlier albums ("Bullet the Blue Sky," "Mothers of the Disappeared"). Released in March of that year, THE JOSHUA TREE became U2's first number-one album and won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. After toiling for years as an underground cult favorite with a rabidly devoted fan base, Irish rock band U2 finally broke through to mainstream success on the strength of their 1987 opus THE JOSHUA TREE.