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The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2.It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 by Island Records.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 structures on The Joshua Tree.
"Like a Song..." U2 War: 1983 [6] "The Little Things That Give You Away" U2 Songs of Experience: 2017 [5] "Love and Peace or Else" U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 2004 [10] "Love Comes Tumbling" U2 "The Unforgettable Fire" single: 1985 [3] "Love Is All We Have Left" U2 Songs of Experience: 2017 [5] "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way ...
On 2 July 2011, U2 performed an extended snippet of the song, running for two verses, in Nashville, Tennessee as a part of their U2 360° Tour. Bono explained to the audience they chose to play the song in Nashville as a tribute to Cash and his wife June. "The Wanderer" was used as the intermission song during U2's 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour.
In 2017, U2 released Songs of Experience and began the 2017 and 2019 Joshua Tree Tours to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree. U2 have sold 175 million records worldwide. [7] With 52 million certified units by the RIAA, U2 rank as the 22nd-highest-selling music artist in the US. [8]
Wake Up Dead Man (song) Walk On (U2 song) The Wanderer (U2 song) When I Look at the World; When Love Comes to Town; Where the Streets Have No Name; White as Snow (song) Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses; Wild Honey (U2 song) Window in the Skies; Winter (U2 song) Wire (U2 song) With a Shout (Jerusalem) With or Without You
The Fly" is the seventh song on U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released as the album's first single. It has been described as "the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua Tree." [35] The song's subject is that of a phone call from someone in Hell who enjoys being there and telling the person on the other line what he has learned. [36 ...
"In God's Country" was released as a single in Canada and the United States in November 1987. The cover art (photographed by Anton Corbijn), sleeve (designed by Steve Averill), and B-sides ("Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Running to Stand Still") were identical to those used for U2's 1988 single "One Tree Hill," released only in New Zealand and Australia.
"Running to Stand Still" is a song by rock band U2, and it is the fifth track from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. A slow ballad based on piano and guitar, it describes a heroin-addicted couple living in Dublin's Ballymun flats; the towers have since become associated with the song.