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''The Joshua Tree'' is the fifth studio album by Irish Rock band U2 , released on March 9 , 1987 on Island Records . It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois . The album was massively successful. It has often been praised by music critics as the band's best album and one of the best rock albums of all time. ''The Joshua Tree'' won the Album Of The Year award at the Grammy Awards Of 1988 . HISTORY Following '' The Unforgettable Fire '' album, the band realised that "U2 had no tradition, we were from outer space", and they explored American Blues , Country and Gospel Music .Bono in McCormick (2006), p.169 Furthermore, they spent time with fellow Irish bands The Waterboys and Hothouse Flowers and felt a sense of indigenous Irish music being blended with American folk music.McCormick (2006), p.172 Friendships with Bob Dylan , Van Morrison and Keith Richards encouraged the band to look back to the roots of rock music and focused Bono on his skills as a song and lyric writer.McCormick (2006), p.179 The band wanted to build on ''The Unforgettable Fire's'' atmospherics, but also sought a more hard-hitting sound within the strict discipline of conventional song structures, rather than ''The Unforgettable Fire''’s often out-of-focus experimentation.1 cited in The wild beauty, cultural richness, spiritual vacancy and ferocious violence of America are explored to compelling effect in virtually every aspect of ''The Joshua Tree''—in the title and the cover art, the blues and country borrowings evident in the music...Indeed, Bono says that "dismantling the mythology of America" is an important part of ''The Joshua Tree's'' artistic objective. U2 interrupted their 1986 album sessions to serve as a headline act on Amnesty International's A Conspiracy Of Hope Tour . Rather than being a distraction, the tour added extra intensity and power to their new music, providing extra focus on what they wanted to say.McCormick (2006), p.174 In his 1986 travels to San Salvador and Nicaragua , Bono saw first hand the distress of peasants bullied in internal conflicts, and this was a central influence on the album, most noticeably on " Bullet The Blue Sky " and " Mothers Of The Disappeared ". The album juxtaposes antipathy towards America, including anger at American Foreign Policy In Central America , against the band's deep fascination with the country, its open spaces, freedom and what it stood for.McCormick (2006), p.186 The band wanted music with a sense of location, a 'cinematic' quality; its music and lyrics drew on imagery created by American writers the band had been reading.3 RELEASE AND SUCCESS Named '', 2006 . The Joshua Tree Tour sold out Arenas and Stadium s around the world, the first time the band had consistently played venues of that size. "With or Without You", the album's first single and one of the band's most well-known songs, uses an effect called " Infinite Guitar ", developed by Michael Brook , to infinitely sustain notes. In 1989, it was rated #3 on ''''). It came second place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums . It came in at #10 in ABC-TV's My Favourite Album, which aired in Australia in December 2006. The album has sold over 10 million copies in the ''. Retrieved on 07-15 - 2007 and more than 25 million copies worldwide, it remains the band's best-selling album. It was followed by the successful worldwide Joshua Tree Tour . The videos "With or Without You" and " Where The Streets Have No Name " (directed by Meiert Avis) and "I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For" (directed by Barry Devlin) saturated MTV, making the band much more visible to both casual music listeners and fans. The original tree on the cover photos died around the year 2000.http://www.joshuatreenationalpark.net/u2tree.htm TRACK LISTING Music by U2, lyrics by Bono. #" Where The Streets Have No Name " – 5:37 #" I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For " – 4:37 #" With Or Without You " – 4:56 #" Bullet The Blue Sky " – 4:32 #" Running To Stand Still " – 4:18 #" Red Hill Mining Town " – 4:52 #" In God's Country " – 2:57 #" Trip Through Your Wires " – 3:32 #" One Tree Hill " – 5:23 #" Exit " – 4:13 #" Mothers Of The Disappeared " – 5:14 "With or Without You", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", and "Where the Streets Have No Name" were released as singles internationally and became smash hits. In addition, "In God's Country" was released as a fourth single in North America with modest success, and "One Tree Hill" was released as a fourth single in New Zealand . "Red Hill Mining Town" had originally been slated as a single before it was realized during rehearsals for the Joshua Tree Tour that Bono could not hit the high notes in the song; it ended up being the only number not played on the tour from this album. According to Bono in a BBC TV documentary, the track order for the album was devised by singer Kirsty MacColl . She put her favorite song first, then her second favorite, and so on.''Kirsty: The Life and Music of Kirsty MacColl'', BBC2, 3 March 2001 The original CD pressings of the album incorrectly indexed the ending of "One Tree Hill" at 4:43 and the beginning of "Exit" at 4:53. This is because a final, quieter stanza of "One Tree Hill" ("Oh, great ocean...") occurs once the song has died down and apparently ended. As a result, the stanza was for a long time thought to be the beginning of "Exit," even though it completely contrasts in tone with "Exit." This error has been corrected on later editions. In 1996, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab remastered the album and released it as a special gold CD. This edition has slightly different running times, and features a slight change in the synthesised rhythm pattern just before the fade-out of "Mothers of the Disappeared" that is not audible on the Island CD editions. A number of songs that were released as B-sides were thought to have been considered for a double-album version of The Joshua Tree. Though Bono was the most vocal proponent of this extended version of the album, The Edge successfully argued for the 11-track version that was ultimately released . "Spanish Eyes" and "Deep in the Heart" were released as B-sides to the "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" single. "Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)" and "Walk to the Water" were released as B-sides to the "With or Without You" single. "Sweetest Thing", "Silver and Gold", and "Race Against Time" were released as B-sides to the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single. CHART POSITIONS AND SALES PERSONNEL
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