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Although this 1987 album was neither their debut nor their first great record, it made perfect sense that The Joshua Tree would be the first deluxe reissue as it was the album that made U2 international superstars - plus, the group was ready to embark on this reissue campaign just in time for the album's 20th anniversary, perfect timing for all concerned. In other words, they're the perfect candidates for a deluxe edition reissue campaign, a project they finally began in a big way in 2007 when they released two deluxe editions of The Joshua Tree. Their early albums have not been remastered since the '80s, there are plenty of early singles and EPs that haven't shown up on CD, B-sides that aren't easily available, and rarities tucked away in the vault. K4.U2 is one of the handful of major rock acts that hasn't exploited their back catalog as much as they should. Silver And Gold (Sun City) Featuring – Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Steve Jordan One Tree Hill Reprise (Brian Eno 2017 Mix) I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Lillywhite Alternative Mix ’87) Where The Streets Have No Name (Flood Remix) With Or Without You (Daniel Lanois Remix)
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Red Hill Mining Town (Steve Lillywhite 2017 Mix)
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Running To Stand Still (Daniel Lanois Remix) The Joshua Tree Remixes, Outtakes & B-Sides I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 Live At Madison Square Garden 28th September 1987Į4. Never before have U2's big messages sounded so direct and personal.
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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. 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. Unexpectedly, U2 have also tempered their textural post-punk with American influences. 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. 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. Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as its 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.