The Joshua Tree

Performer: U2
Artist: Brian Eno; Daniel Lanois
Engineer: Flood; Dave Meegan; Pat McCarthy; Patrick McCarthy; Bob Doidge; Flood
Producer: Brian Eno; Daniel Lanois; Brian Eno; Daniel Lanois
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: U2: Bono (vocals, harmonica); The Edge (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Adam Clayton (bass); Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums). Additional personnel includes: Daniel Lanois (guitar, keyboards, tambourine, background vocals); Brian Eno (keyboards, programming, background vocals). Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland. THE JOSHUA TREE won the 1987 Grammy award for album of the year. U2: Bono (vocals, harmonica); The Edge (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Adam Clayton (bass); Larry Mullen Jr. (drums). Additional personnel includes: Daniel Lanois (guitar, keyboards, tambourine, background vocals); Brian Eno (keyboards, programming, background vocals). Engineers include: Flood. Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Personnel: Bono (vocals, harmonica, background vocals); The Edge (guitar, background vocals); Armin Family (strings); Daniel Lanois (omnichord, tambourine, background vocals); Brian Eno (keyboards, programming, background vocals). Audio Mixers: Mark Wallace; Mark Wallis; Steve Lillywhite. Audio Remasterer: Arnie Acosta. Liner Note Author: Bill Flanagan. Recording information: Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin, Ireland. Photographer: Anton Corbijn. Unknown Contributor Roles: Daniel Lanois; Armin Family; The Edge; U2; Bono . Arranger: Paul Barrett. Few bands are as ready for superstardom as U2 circa 1986. After chart successes with WAR and THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE and a high profile appearance at Live Aid, the Irish quartet holed up at a Dublin studio with engineers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and crafted the definitive sound of late '80s mainstream rock. Deftly marrying WAR's edgy bombast, THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE's impressionism, Eno's ambient flourishes, and the band's newfound interest in American roots music, THE JOSHUA TREE is U2's crowning moment, a perfect nexus of the band's expansive muse and the popular zeitgeist. It consistently ranks in the higher reaches of critics' lists of the greatest albums of all time. Thanks to both Eno's georgeous production and a stellar set of songs, the album has aged stunningly. The first three tracks--the rousing "Where the Streets Have No Name," the gospel-inflected "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," and the tortured, echo-drenched ballad "With or Without You"--have all become FM standards, but cuts such as "Red Hill Mining Town," "Running to Stand Still," and "In God's Country," with grittier Americana influences, resonate just as emphatically. The rhythm section's propulsive minimalism (Larry Mullen, Jr. and Adam Clayton) provides the perfect bedrock for the Edge's veritable clinic on guitar effects and economy. Like the best U2, however, the album belongs to Bono, whose soulful voice hitches an epic passion to lyrics both deeply personal and overtly political.

Rolling Stone (p.85) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best moments connect on a physical level -- the glistening bass groove of 'With or Without You' and the Hendrix-worship guitar storm of 'Bullet the Blue Sky.'" Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80s" survey. Q (10/01, p.91) - Ranked #12 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" - "...This collection of downbeat rock made U2 superstars..." Uncut (pp.108-109) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It still bristles with the bravado of a band shaping up for a shot at the title, daring to believe that they could make their idols their peers." CMJ (1/6/03, p.15) - Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time" CMJ (1/5/04, p.20) - Ranked #1 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1987" Billboard - Ranked as the #14 hit album of the 80s. Q (Magazine) (p.115) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Their reinvention of stadium rock sounds as impassioned as ever....A finely balanced mix of intimacy and power..."

U2's Bono was one of the few real rock heroes of the 1980s, leading the Irish band to international recognition with a charged, political approach to music. The band's early efforts brought a stadium-size presence to post-punk, with Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's distinct guitar lines interacting seamlessly with the rhythm section of bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. In 1987, U2 broke through to superstardom with THE JOSHUA TREE, a grand culmination of their '80s sound. In the 1990s, however, the band very purposefully deflated that epic image, simultaneously adding ambient, dance, and electronica touches on 1991's ACHTUNG BABY. Mining that vein for much of the decade, U2 kicked off the 21st century with a triumphant return to form that was embraced by new and longtime fans alike.

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