![]() Of course, you could equally argue ‘The Joshua Tree’ was to blame for the bands who subsequently traded in pointless bombast and vapid bluster, starting the craze for huge, billowing songs about nothing whatsoever, and mobilising a slew of callow young twats who all wanted to be The Biggest Band In The World. You can hear that epic sound flowing through the work of Coldplay, Snow Patrol, late-period Kings Of Leon… even Noel Gallagher has noted that if “I could write a song like ‘Running To Stand Still’, I could die happy”. ‘The Joshua Tree’ duly handed U2 their megastar status – it had shifted 14 million copies by the end of 1988 – but also gave them their legacy, sparking the concept in a million young bands that it was possible to be big without being Phil Collins. Most of all, revisit U2’s ultimate lost gem – ‘Running To Stand Still’ – wherein Bono captured smacked-up poverty in Dublin shortly before he was whisked away to the ivory tower. I remember listening to songs from The Joshua Tree album as a preteen on my staticky clock radio, struck by U2’s carefully crafted music that builds into anthems, and lyrics exploring. Take the passive/aggressive ‘Exit’, or the sunny-side-up ‘One Tree Hill’. Take ‘Bullet The Blue Sky’, with Edge’s Hendrix-worthy sonic freakouts and a Bono soliloquy inspired by the El Salvador civil war. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. You won’t find else anything that could be played over Goal Of The Month montages, ‘Beautiful Day’-style, but rather, a string of eclectic and light-footed classics. In contrast to the ambient experimentation of their 1984 release, The Unforgettable Fire, the band aimed for a harder-hitting sound within the limitation of conventional song. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Weirdly, though, after those first three songs – each released as a single – ‘The Joshua Tree’ changes tack entirely. The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2.
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