The Joshua Tree
by U2
This album has been added to 6 private lists and 15 public lists:
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1987
JamesOn their seminal 5th LP, U2 figured out how to make scale feel spacious. The Edge’s guitar lines leave huge amounts of air around them, which gives songs like “Where the Streets Have No Name” and “With or Without You” their sense of lift. The album reaches toward American mythology without fully trusting it, and that uncertainty gives it more depth than much of their later material. It sounds like a band trying to locate itself inside a landscape larger than its own ambition.
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RussellA favorite from my youth. First concert with my son.
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Apple Top 100
HazelHappy to have this on as background music.
The singles aside, wouldn't go out of my way to revisit the whole album. -
Favorite Albums of All Time
DavidWhat can I say? This is just another monumental and gargantuan album. I see it similar to Rush’s Moving Pictures—an album so large and impactful that every track is a 10/10. I have a vivid memory of seeing a news clip on TV where a news host was talking about “U2 taking over America" at my mother's workplace. I would have been 5 years old.
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FIFS music run
Nipun Suresh❤︎ the masters of ballads and poetic lyrics
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Soundtrack of my life, BK (Before Kids)
Michele TierraSo many of U2 albums have played a key role in my life. This one in particular, though, was really helpful to me during a difficult time during my New College years. I was pretty lost for awhile, but this album kept me grounded and filled me with a sense of truth and goodness.
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