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The Joshua Tree (Music)
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The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album recorded by Irish rock band U2. It was released through Island Records on 3 March 1987.Incorporating Darker and Edgier subject matter and instrumentation, the album transcended the band's more political output of The '80s to incorporate themes of identity, power, and betrayal, which resonated with audiences worldwide. U2's most well-regarded hits featured on the album, such as "With or Without You", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "Where the Streets Have No Name", received massive airplay. The Joshua Tree topped the charts in over 20 countries, certifying U2's international stardom.Produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, the record featured an elaborate production style which ramped the richly-layered style of The Unforgettable Fire up to eleven and represented the culmination of U2's style at the time. Bolstered by the band's desire to experiment in the studio, Bono began to favor open-throated vocals over mumbled lyrics, shifting the band from a Post-Punk act with a post-punk audience to a more overtly Alternative Rock act for more mainstream markets. The music drew from Folk Music and Country Music, as well as Progressive Rock and Indie Pop, which combined pastoral imagery with spiritual ideals. The Joshua Tree has been described as a loose Concept Album which examines various aspects of The American Dream, without losing sincerity or accessibility in the process. Indeed, the album won 2 Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal, and Album of the Year.As for its legacy, it was featured in an episode of the documentary TV series Classic Albums. In 2014, it was even inducted in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically and aesthetically important". In hindsight, the album was also one of many whose American success heralded the rise of Alternative Rock as a mainstream force in American music, alongside other releases in 1987 including R.E.M.'s Document, 10,000 Maniacs' In My Tribe, Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust, New Order's Substance, and Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses. However, this success mostly rested on the band's heavy-handed subject matter and rich instrumentation, which ultimately hurt U2 after the critical failure of their 1988 follow-up Rattle and Hum. The band would soon depart from these styles in 1991's Achtung Baby.The album had some slight controversy in 1988, after assassin Robert John Bardo claimed he was inspired to kill actress Rebecca Shaeffer due to the song "Exit" on this album, but this accusation quickly blew over (the band would subsequently retire the song from their live shows until 2017).The Joshua tree pictured on the back cover of The Joshua Tree was located not in Joshua Tree National Park, but at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. The tree was knocked over by high winds in 2000. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: "Bullet The Blue Sky", compared to the other songs on the album. | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "Bullet The Blue Sky" and "Mothers Of The Disappeared" are protest songs against the USA's backing of right-wing dictatorships in South America during The '80s. "Mothers of the Disappeared" commemorates the "Madres de Plaza de Mayo", a group of women who protested in the streets and whose children had been "disappeared" by the dictatorial regimes of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Jorge Rafaele Videla in Argentina. The song also criticises the Ronald Reagan administration for backing these regimes. "Bullet The Blue Sky" is critical of the US military intervention during The Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980's. "One Tree Hill" refers to the Chilean political activist and folk singer Víctor Jara, who was tortured and murdered when dictator Augusto Pinochet took over Chile in 1973. "Silver and Gold" is written from the point of view of a political prisoner in South Africa, originally for the Sun City protest album. "Red Hill Mining Town" is an indirect protest song, examining the personal difficulties and collapsed relationships of a mining town in the midst of the UK's 1984-1985 mining strike. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: The band is seen in the Mojave Desert, California, near a Joshua tree. | |
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New Sound Album | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_22093e9b | comment |
New Sound Album: On this album the band took influence from American Blues and Country Music. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: "Bullet The Blue Sky" "In God's Country" "Wave of Sorrow," in addition to name-dropping the Queen of Sheba, ends with a version of the Beatitudes incorporating Bono's experiences in Ethiopia. | |
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| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_26b2747 | type |
Alliterative Title | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_26b2747 | comment |
Alliterative Title: "Bullet the Blue Sky". | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Inverted, as the album starts with the longest song. | |
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The Stars Are Going Out | |
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The Stars Are Going Out: "One Tree Hill" pulls imagery from the Book of Revelation: | |
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Boléro Effect | |
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Boléro Effect: Used magnificently in "Luminous Times." | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Bono saw the album as a collection of songs about the good and bad things about the U.S.A. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: The lonely tree on the album's back cover fell in 2000. In its place is now a plaque reading "Have you found what you're looking for?" | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Evoked in "Silver and Gold": | |
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War for Fun and Profit | |
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War for Fun and Profit: "Bullet the Blue Sky" makes reference to greedy corporations who abet war to generate a profit: | |
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Rooftop Concert | |
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Rooftop Concert: In the music video of "Where The Streets Have No Name", U2 performs on top of a roof. | |
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Record Producer | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_6053dc28 | comment |
Record Producer: Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. | |
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| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_67784113 | type |
Non-Appearing Title | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_67784113 | comment |
Non-Appearing Title: "Exit," "Mothers of the Disappeared" and "Red Hill Mining Town" (the phrase "Red Hill Town" does appear in it, but not the full title). Also, the title of the album never appears in the lyrics. "Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)" goes the route of having such a title followed by the refrain in parentheses. "Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)" does the reverse, oddly enough. | |
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| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_6f2fe973 | type |
Epic Instrumental Opener | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener: "Where The Streets Have No Name" has almost two minutes of instrumental buildup before the first lyrics. | |
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| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_705148cf | type |
Location Song | |
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Location Song: "In God's Country," i.e. America, and "Red Hill Mining Town." | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: Type 3, generally: America is the land of violence, religiosity, dreams, drug abuse, and hope. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "Where the Streets Have No Name": | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Walk to the Water" feature poems recited to instrumentation. | |
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Exposed to the Elements | |
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Exposed to the Elements: The band members are pictured on the cover with their coats off, implying it was hot desert weather. In reality, it was freezing cold, but for the sake of the desert image they took off these warm coats. | |
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Boy Meets Girl | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_ab5677c1 | comment |
Boy Meets Girl: "Walk to the Water" begins with a spoken-word verse describing this. Also mentioned in "The Sweetest Thing": "Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl." | |
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Evolving Music | |
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Evolving Music: "Desert of Our Love" eventually turned into "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," after a long process of studio tinkering. | |
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The Masochism Tango | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_ad1ab367 | comment |
The Masochism Tango: "The Sweetest Thing". Also "Spanish Eyes" alludes to this: | |
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Wanderlust Song | |
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Wanderlust Song: "Where the Streets Have No Name". "One Tree Hill", "Desert of Our Love", and "Walk to the Water" reference various places in the United States. | |
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Weakness Turns Her On | |
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Weakness Turns Her On: "The Sweetest Thing": | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Silver and Gold" sets its angry tone by cursing in the first line: "In the shithouse a shotgun..." | |
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The '80s | |
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"Bullet The Blue Sky" and "Mothers Of The Disappeared" are protest songs against the USA's backing of right-wing dictatorships in South America during The '80s. "Mothers of the Disappeared" commemorates the "Madres de Plaza de Mayo", a group of women who protested in the streets and whose children had been "disappeared" by the dictatorial regimes of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Jorge Rafaele Videla in Argentina. The song also criticises the Ronald Reagan administration for backing these regimes. "Bullet The Blue Sky" is critical of the US military intervention during The Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980's. | |
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B-Side | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_c2c4e614 | comment |
B-Side: Six of the bonus tracks were originally B-sides: "Luminous Times," "Walk to the Water," "Deep in the Heart," "Spanish Eyes," "Silver and Gold" and "Race Against Time." | |
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Blues | |
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Blues: The album goes back to the roots of rock. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: Like most of Anton Corbijn's pictures, the band is photographed in black-and-white. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Exit". | |
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"Somewhere" Song | |
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"Somewhere" Song: "Where the Streets Have No Name" is an ideal land where it doesn't matter what neighborhood you come from — hence the nameless streets. | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: "Bullet the Blue Sky" (unless you count the whoo-oo-oo-oos) and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". | |
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Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them | |
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Can't Live with Them, Can't Live without Them: "With Or Without You". | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Luminous Times" doesn't explicitly mention sex but the music slowly builds to a thundering climax behind lyrics like this: | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: "Running To Stand Still" is about a heroin-addicted woman. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_e40f6792 | comment |
Design Student's Orgasm: The album cover and photographs inside the booklet were taken by Anton Corbijn. | |
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Grief Song | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_e680af6f | comment |
Grief Song: "One Tree Hill" was written in memory of their roadie Greg Carroll, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1986. | |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better | |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" has a strong gospel influence and features The Edge, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois providing backing vocals. | |
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| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_ed54283 | type |
Single Mom Stripper | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_ed54283 | comment |
Single Mom Stripper: Referred to in "Wave of Sorrow": | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_ee9bf817 | comment |
Sanity Slippage Song: "Exit" is about a man sliding into madness and committing some violent act. | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: "In God's Country" is dedicated to the Statue of Liberty, personifying both liberty and America in the song. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_f76b8969 | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_fa77309d | type |
Alternate Album Cover | |
| The Joshua Tree (Music) / int_fa77309d | comment |
Alternate Album Cover: The CD, LP, and cassette releases of the album each use a different photograph of the band, all taken from the same photo session. | |
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1.0 | |
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