U2 the joshua tree 30th anniversary boxset

You get a huge amount of content in the set, too.Д«ut there's also a good amount of reading material involved, too - including new liner notes on the album itself by U2 biographer Bill Flanagan something to keep obsessive fans happy and pique the interest of casual observers. It's also pretty gorgerous to look at and to hold, with an embossed outer box and some beautiful gold detailing. There's a lot in it and it feels like an investment. Its 30th anniversary is the reason they're on tour at the moment, after all. that I'm most familiar with, so when a chance to review the 7LP Super Deluxe Vinyl edition of the iconic album arose, I jumped on it. That said, The Joshua Tree is one of the albums by Bono and co. In short, I guess I am the quintessential fairweather U2 fan who'll sing the praises of (as well as along with) every track on their 'Best Of' collection. Like a lot of people, there are plenty of songs from their back catalogue that I adore, their longevity is to be admired and they are still a phenomenal live band вЂ“ their last Dublin gig at the 3Arena had some of the best visuals I've ever seen at a gig and they still undoubtedly have the stage presence, technical ability and vocal prowess after almost forty years in the business вЂ“ but I've never fallen head-over-heels in love with an entire album from start to finish. Never before have U2's big messages sounded so direct and personal.Let's start with a disclaimer: it's almost blasphemous to admit as an Irish person, but I've never been a die-hard U2 fan. With the uniformly excellent songs - only the clumsy, heavy rock and portentous lyrics of 'Bullet the Blue Sky' fall flat - the result is a powerful, uncompromising record that became a hit due to its vision and its melody. Not only are Bono's lyrics obsessed with America, but country and blues influences are heard throughout the record, and instead of using these as roots, they're used as ways to add texture to the music. Unexpectedly, U2 have also tempered their textural post-punk with American influences.

That means that even the anthems - the epic opener 'Where the Streets Have No Name,' the yearning 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' - have seeds of doubt within their soaring choruses, and those fears take root throughout the album, whether it's in the mournful sliding acoustic guitars of 'Running to Stand Still,' the surging 'One Tree Hill,' or the hypnotic elegy 'Mothers of the Disappeared.' So it might seem a little ironic that U2 became superstars on the back of such a dark record, but their focus has never been clearer, nor has their music been catchier, than on The Joshua Tree.

It's a move that returns them to the sweeping, anthemic rock of War, but if War was an exploding political bomb, The Joshua Tree is a journey through its aftermath, trying to find sense and hope in the desperation.

Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as a basis, U2 expanded those innovations by scaling back the songs to a personal setting and adding a grittier attack for its follow-up, The Joshua Tree.

U2 the joshua tree 30th anniversary boxset