The Joshua Tree
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March 9, 1987 |
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50 min 11 s |
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Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois |
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The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by the Irish rock band U2 and was released on March 9, 1987 by the Island Records label. The producers were Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois . The album is dedicated to Bono's friend and roadie Greg Caroll, who died in a motorcycle accident in Dublin in 1986 at the age of 26 .
With The Joshua Tree, the band combines the self-confident, aggressive tone of the Boy and War albums as well as the atmospheric and ramified approach of October and The Unforgettable Fire with an increased willingness to experiment as well as simple melodies and musical structures. The Joshua Tree was ranked 26th among the 500 best albums in pop music by Rolling Stone in 2003 .
history
After U2 had reached a first career high point with the 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire and the Live Aid concert in July 1985, the band began realizing the follow-up album in 1985. To create a pleasant working atmosphere, the band did not record the album in a recording studio , but in a remote house (Danesmoate House), where bassist Adam Clayton now lives. At that time the band members felt the development of the music of the 1980s as rather negative. That's why they wanted to give their new album a new kind of sound. Bassist Adam Clayton said:
“In my opinion we didn't feel at all connected with what was going on musically at that time, it was the era of synth pop . New Wave as the American answer hadn't really hit America yet, maybe A Flock of Seagulls were just starting, at least there were already small attempts to break new musical territory. "
The album continues the acoustic experiments of The Unforgettable Fire . For example, the first album title Where the Streets Have No Name begins with a gentle organ introduction , similar to the end of MLK , the last song on the album The Unforgettable Fire , over which the guitarist The Edge plays a simple, echo-laden arpeggio . He lets every single note sound two or three times, which results in a very dense sound. This is achieved by splitting the input signal into several individual signals, which are then recorded offset from each other by means of delay techniques ( delay ) between 200 and 600 ms . The individual echoes also alternate in the stereo panorama from right to left.
With or Without You , the first single on the album and one of the band's best-known songs, uses the above-mentionedtechnique called "infinite guitar" developedby Michael Brook , in which an electronic sensor thatreactsto the feedback generates an arbitrarily long final phase of the sound including a change in the overtone structure by means of an equalizer .
Musically, the band began to incorporate American folk and blues into their songwriting. This influence is particularly noticeable in the ballad Running to Stand Still , which deals with the drug problem in Dublin , and in the blues Trip Through Your Wires .
The Rolling Stone described the album as one of the "Three Masterpieces" of the band, in addition to Achtung Baby and All That You Can not Leave Behind ; it also appeared at number 26 on Rolling Stone's "500 best albums of all time". In 2001, The Joshua Tree was named # 6 on CCM Magazine's "Most Great Contemporary Christian Music Albums" list.
The album was followed by the worldwide sold-out Joshua Tree Tour . The videos for 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) were broadcast on MTV .
Subjects and title list
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The eleven tracks on the album revolve around individual subject areas and their relationships to one another with different linguistic and musical design elements.
On a real level, the album is about the reconciliation with the death of Greg Carroll. This presents itself on a more general level than a meditation on loss and redemption , which is expressed, for example, in the symbols of water and desert as well as various biblical references.
From a more political-social perspective, the album praises and criticizes the USA both ideally and in its real manifestations as a divided, rather “questionable country”. The same conflict is in turn reflected from a more personal point of view in songs that depict the “human conflict”.
The producer Brian Eno summarizes this in the following words: "The result is simply a rich and tightly woven shell called the album."
Political and social
The Joshua Tree album is strongly influenced by U2's political and social commitment. Topics are taken up that were not dealt with in the album War , which was, for example, about the Northern Ireland conflict (Sunday Bloody Sunday) or the danger of a nuclear war (Seconds) .
Bullet the Blue Sky is an attack on American politics at the time in the Central American state of El Salvador . The USA supported the right-wing, dictatorial military government there against considerable domestic and foreign political resistance . This waged a dirty war against insurgents and political opponents and in the early 1980s murdered around 40,000 opposition members - around 0.8% of the population - under the eyes of numerous US military advisers . The relative domestic political calm in El Salvador that followed the mass murder of the opposition, which was officially denied or played down by the US government, the Reagan administration explained to the American public with the white lie that the successful land reform of the government there led to general pacification have led. At the time the album was made in 1987, state, US-backed repression was still in full swing, and by the end of the decade the number of victims had risen to around 70,000. To support the textual statement, the song uses an aggressive drum rhythm , a dominant bassline and a plaintive guitar sound that is reminiscent of the sound of falling bombs ( ).
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This is also due to the fact that the song consists of two recordings, which - at The Edges' request - merge, which was technically difficult to achieve at the time (without a sampler ) and led to inaccuracies in terms of timing . The band's intentions are also evident in the fact that they began this track on the following tour with a recording of Jimi Hendrix 's version of The Star-Spangled Banner .
The song Mothers of the Disappeared is a lawsuit for the mothers of the tens of thousands of " Desaparecidos " (from Spanish , literally: " The Disappeared ") - mostly completely innocent people who were allegedly enemies of the state by Latin American military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s were secretly kidnapped and then mostly tortured and killed. The best-known example is the Argentine military dictatorship under Videla and Galtieri from 1976, Bono was very impressed by the local mother organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo . - On later concerts in South America were of a protest against the re-election as well as the Argentines loaded - Chilean General Augusto Pinochet brought in the local Senate some of the mothers on the stage, there were holding pictures of their missing relatives and friends. Bono was also inspired to write this song by traveling to El Salvador and Nicaragua , which is closely related to the political theme of Bullet the Blue Sky (see above).
The title Red Hill Mining Town was inspired by the British National Union of Mineworkers 'miners' strike in 1984, which ended in union defeat . The band focused more on portraying the personal and family effects than on political and social analysis or indictment.
In addition to the political issue, there are many personal songs. For example, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For , which is about Bono's inner struggles with regard to belief and temptation , or Where the Streets Have No Name , in which young people attempt to break out of a “anonymous city” " to be discribed.
Water and desert
Many aspects of the album are related to the themes of water and desert . On the cover is the band for example, a white photography Black Death Valley National Park in the desert of California to see that Anton Corbijn produced. The eponymous Joshua Tree itself also refers to the subject of the desert.
In addition, there are a variety of lyrical references to water and desert throughout the album . There are 46 to the words
- rain , raining , rainin ' , rainfall , flood , water , well , sea , ocean and river
and 17 to the terms
- desert , dry , plain , heat , dust , sunlight and sun .
These references are most noticeable in the song In God's Country . Already in the first four verses there are a number of allusions to water and desert :
“Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight
Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose…”
Water and desert that already in the Old Testament used poetic metaphors for life and death, loss and redemption and other diametrically opposite, yet related terms are used to represent verschiedenster content. In addition, they represent a cinematic connection to the American Southwest, which forms a film-like backdrop for the music - "a canvas that is painted on" (Bono). This is intended to awaken associations with terms such as rurality , purity , closeness to the earth , piety in order to reinforce the “blues and country feeling”.
America
When the band started working on the album, the conversation turned to America and, in particular, to the desert in the southwest. Eventually the band members decided to move the location of their album there and spoke to producer Brian Eno about the “cinematic aspect of music, where ... where music can actually create a landscape or place in the mind's eye and ... really get you there can bring. "
In addition, American literature had a great influence on the band members at the time. The Edge said in an interview that they were reading short stories by Raymond Carver , Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song and other American works that encouraged the band to pursue their own literary efforts.
In addition, the band members began to grapple with American musical traditions such as blues , gospel , soul , rhythm and blues and country music - genres with which they had hardly had any contact up until that time.
The following passage from the song Running to Stand Still with its simple accompaniment and the melody-leading harmonica is reminiscent of older models, Woody Guthrie and other tracks that date back to, for example, Bruce Springsteen recorded at the same time. Only the producer Daniel Lanois brought Bono closer to the spirit of gospel music . In an interview he said:
“I've always liked gospel music and ... I encouraged Bono to give it a try, which he then did. It was totally unusual for U2 to get involved in gospel at the time, but I think it opened up some new perspectives for them. "
After these initial "forays" into the diversity of American music, literature, and geography, the band members realized that they harbored conflicting feelings about the country. Liberating as an idea and a place to live, oppressive due to its abundance of power, its influence and its controversial foreign policy . A draft name for the album was “The Two Americas”, influenced by the fascination and strong doubts about America and also by Bono's trip to El Salvador , where he was an eyewitness to an American bombing.
loss
Many of the songs express a “pain” that is subjectively felt to be great. Bono said the following about this:
“I don't think you can call The Joshua Tree Irish in any obvious sense… but in a much less… in a much more mysterious way, it's very Irish. The pain and the melancholy, that is typically Irish. "
According to co-producer Daniel Lanois , Bono sings most of the songs on the album
"[...] at its upper limit. That's something very compelling, you know, about people who push themselves ... It's almost like hearing Aretha Franklin [...]. "
Furthermore, The Edges Guitarspiel supports the feeling of a lack of “something”, since in some songs it leaves out the third of the chords, which is decisive for determining the tone gender (major or minor sound) . This creates a feeling of uncertainty, ambiguity, and lack of it.
An example of this is the verse of the song I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For , in which the guitar accompaniment is mainly based on fifths and avoids the third. The chorus, reinforced with additional keyboard sounds, is felt to be all the more “liberating” afterwards with the clear tonality ( tonic D flat major , dominant A flat major , subdominant G flat major and tonic D flat major) . ( )
All of these aspects - Bono's ambiguous lyrics and his music-holding vocals, The Edges thin and ethereal guitar playing, and Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Junior's rhythmic basis - create a sense of the "mysterious, ambiguous and insecure".
Dark sides
"Dark human abysses" that have seldom been discussed in the band's previous work are also taken up. This is how Exit describes a man who becomes violent because of religious delusion or psychosis . The text leaves open whether this ultimately leads to murder or suicide. Musically, this is achieved through extreme changes and increases in dynamics and instrumentation , monotonous, almost purely rhythmic figures and unusual keyboard sounds. In the following excerpt ( ), a uniform rhythm pattern made up of minor and major thirds changes with a sparsely instrumented part made up of only two keyboard sounds. Characteristically, this is formed by the interval of the tritone, which is often perceived as devilish in the history of music , in order to then merge into harmonically "relaxing", primarily rhythmically built structures.
Another song that shows a dark side is Running to Stand Still . The song is based on the true story of a couple who have neither money nor a roof over their heads because of their drug addiction. The man ultimately puts it all on one card by smuggling a large amount of heroin into Dublin , risking a life sentence. The story takes place in a place called Ballymun the 7 Towers . Bono says the following in an interview:
“There's a place called Ballymun the 7 towers … and it was kind of in our back yard and we played there a lot as kids. That was where the biggest drug problems were. "
The title Running to Stand Still goes back to Bono's brother, who worked in the computer business, who said that it seemed to him as if he was “running to stand still”, because the high bills left nothing of his wages.
Greg Carroll
Greg Carroll, a Māori from New Zealand , was Bono's personal assistant and close friend and can be seen in many videos of concerts on the Unforgettable Fire Tour in Europe, in the music video for the song Bad, and at the introduction of the band at the Live Aid event in 1985. Greg Carroll died on July 3, 1986 in a motorcycle accident in Dublin. The fatal accident happened while Greg Carroll was traveling on behalf of Bono to run various errands. The band met him in 1984 at the beginning of the tour in Auckland, New Zealand, where there are a number of hills of volcanic origin. On the first evening Greg Carroll led Bono up one of the most famous of the volcanic hills, One Tree Hill . One Tree Hill has a characteristic, widely visible silhouette, characterized by a stone monument and a tree that was still there at the time. The song of the same name is intended to commemorate this meeting. Eventually the band decided to invite him to join their tour. Bono later said the following in an interview:
- “And on my first night in New Zealand, Greg took me to One Tree Hill . He worked in the music and media scene and Paul McGuinness thought this kid was too smart, we can't leave him here, let's take him to Australia. "
Carroll's death is another collective experience that influenced the band in making the album. In addition to the song One Tree Hill , the entire album is dedicated to the memory of Greg Carroll. The tree that stood on One Tree Hill was felled in 2000 for safety reasons. In the same year the Joshua Tree, which is shown on the album cover, also died and fell over.
Religious
The Hebrew name Joshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ), the name for Joshua, the son of Nun , Moses' successor and leader of the Israelites, mentioned in the Old Testament , means Jesus (Ιησους) in the Greek translation of the Bible .
The Joshua Tree got its name from passing members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ), who compared the thin, outstretched branches of the tree to the arms of the Old Testament popular leader Joshua, stretched up to the sky.
The religious reference is tangible in several titles. In God's Country is the story of Cain and Abel made ( "I stand with the sons of Cain"). With or Without You alludes to Jesus' crown of thorns . I honorary knighthood What I'm Looking For is the linguistic style of the Psalms modeled as a juxtaposition of lyrics shows with Psalm 69.2:
- "I have kissed honey lips - Felt the healing fingertips - It burned like fire - This burning desire - I have spoken with the tongue of angels - I have held the hand of the devil - It was warm in the night" (I Still Haven 't Found What I'm Looking For)
- "I sink in deep mire - where there is no foothold - I have come into deep waters - and the flood sweeps over me - I am weary with my crying - ..." (Psalm 69,2)
Cover
The long-time photographer from the band Anton Corbijn was hired to design the cover . In December 1986, the band traveled with the Dutch photographer to the Mojave Desert of California for three days to find a suitable motif for the cover. On the evening of the first day, Corbijn told Bono about his idea of showing a Joshua Tree on the cover in the foreground and the band in the background.
“[The next morning] [Bono] came down with a Bible […] and looked for the passage [about Joshua] in the Bible and it meant a lot to him. He thought it should possibly be the title of an album [...] "
Then the band and the photographer went looking for a Joshua Tree. Eventually they found a solitary tree, which was amazing in that these types of trees usually only grow in groups and not alone. Probably in order to preserve a certain numinosum , neither the band nor the photographer revealed until today where the said tree can be found. Nevertheless, some fans of the band went looking and finally discovered the tree, which has since died and fallen over in 2000 due to its size and old age. Various fans have visited the tree again in the following years. They left quite a few mementos behind. There is a log book in which fans can make entries, and there is also a plaque embedded in the floor with a picture of the tree and the words “Have you found what you are looking for?”. The tree is located approximately at the location of the following coordinates: 36 ° 19 '51.04 " N , 117 ° 44' 43.08" W . A fan saw a part of the remains of the tree found there in order to take a small part home as a souvenir. After this was discovered and published by a fan in February 2015, another fan traveled to the remains of the tree on the evening of May 3rd and screwed the sawed off part back on.
In addition to the picture on the back of the LP showing the Joshua tree, there is a cover photo showing a black and white photograph of the band in Death Valley National Park in the California desert. The photo of the band was taken below the Zabriskie Point lookout . The coordinates of the recording are: 36 ° 25 '12.18 " N , 116 ° 48' 49.62" W .
Additional photos for the LP, for promotional material and for the covers of the singles were taken at various locations within Death Valley, in front of the Harmony Hotel in Twentynine Palms , near Death Valley National Park in Bridgeport , California and in the ghost town Bodie made in California.
Publications
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On March 9, 1987, U2 released the album The Joshua Tree . In the following months, the singles With or Without You , I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Where the Streets Have No Name were released internationally . Additionally, In God's Country was released as the fourth single in North America and One Tree Hill as the fourth single in New Zealand.
The song Red Hill Mining Town was originally planned as a single, until it became apparent during rehearsals for the Joshua Tree Tour that Bono could not hit the high notes of the song. This resulted in this being the only song on the album that wasn't played during the tour.
The album's original CD pressing incorrectly indicated the end of One Tree Hill at 4'43 "and the beginning of Exit at 4'53". The cause was a final, calmer verse from One Tree Hill ("Oh, great ocean ..."), which is attached to the silent and apparently ending song. Therefore, this verse has long been attributed to the song Exit , although this is in strong contradiction with the sound and the message of this song. The error has been corrected in newer editions.
In 1996 the remaster label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released a 24-carat gold CD of the album. This edition has slightly different running times. In 1999 the DVD The Joshua Tree from the Classic Albums series was released , which deals with the creation of the album and contains many interviews.
On October 16, 2007, Billboard confirmed the US release of a 20-year anniversary edition of the record on November 20, 2007. The album was released on December 7, 2007 in Germany and Austria. In the rest of the world the record was released on December 3, 2007. The album was re-mastered and provided with bonus material, in various formats. In Germany as a single CD, double CD with B-sides of the singles and unpublished songs on the additional CD, as a limited edition double CD in a box with additional DVD, book and art prints and as a double vinyl LP.
For the first time in this publication, the original photo of Anton Corbijn is also used for the cover of the CD, as it was taken at Zabriskie Point in 1986 and used for the vinyl LP cover. Corbjin had always spoken out against the distorted CD cover photo and also in his book U2 & i. Die Photographien 1982 - 2004 wrote that he would continue to campaign for the original photo of the photo shoot on the cover.
Bonus DVD U2 Live From Paris
- I will follow
- Trip Through Your Wires
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- MLK
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Exit
- In God's Country
- The Electric Co.
- bath
- October
- New Year's Day
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Bullet the Blue Sky
- Running to Stand Still
- With or without you
- Trash, trampoline and the party girl
- 40
- Outside, It's America - Documentation
- With Or Without You (Alternative Video)
- Red Hill Mining Town (Video Unreleased)
Reviews
The Rolling Stone critic Steve Pond praises The Joshua Tree as diverse camper, differentiated and yet accessible on leichtesten album of the band and recognizes a strong spirituality . In With or Without You the cautious increase is up to the climax in terms of Ravel's Bolero praised. Metaphors like “fire”, “rain” and “desert”, however, lose their urgency if they are used too often. The band avoided the risk of plagiarism of Springsteen's Born in the USA and a development into martial stadium rock.
Jay Cocks, a critic of Time magazine , describes The Joshua Tree as U2's best album to date and particularly praises the innovative sound, as well as the political and social commitment shown in songs like Bullet the Blue Sky or Mothers of the Disappeared . As in Rolling Stone , the spirituality that runs through the entire album is emphasized, which is reflected in many song lines. The British musician Elvis Costello said the following: “U2 is what church should be.” At I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For , he particularly praises the catchy melody. In conclusion, Jay Cocks praises U2's music as a “lifeline”, the melodies of which cross the audience's threshold of consciousness and nestle in the dreams of the audience.
The Boston Globe critic Steve Morse highlights the new musical directions and stylistic devices, such as the integration of orchestral music / instruments or country sounds. Bono's vocals and The Edge's eclectic guitar solos are also highlighted positively. The only point of criticism is the too obvious Christian symbolism, which is partially excused by the good interplay between music and text. The ending of the track One Tree Hill reminds the critic of soul music by Otis Redding and the fervor of religious hymns like Amazing Grace .
The album receives a negative rating in Eric Waggoner's parodistic book Hall of Shame , in which Bono's singing is compared to the howling of a cat that has just been kicked on the tail.
Cover versions
The great success of the album meant that many cover versions of individual songs were released in the following years . In 1991 , the Pet Shop Boys released Where the Streets Have No Name in a more danceable version than Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) . A live version of the title by U2 and Bruce Springsteen was recorded in 1987. Vanessa Carlton recorded it in 2004 for her second album Harmonium , which was only released in Japan . The second single I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For was also covered by many artists. The group Chimes had the greatest success, and their version in 1990 took sixth place in the British charts. In 2003, Cher and Bonnie Tyler re-released it as a cover version. In addition, the song was set to music by Gregorian , a vocal group that edited modern pop and rock songs in medieval music style . In the German-speaking area, the song was recorded in a "folk" version by the comedy duo Badesalz .
With or Without You , U2's second most-covered song ever, has been re-edited by bands like Keane and Gregorian. Also worth mentioning is the live version of the song, on which U2, Sting and Peter Gabriel also contributed.
But the album also found recognition in the classical music scene, as can be seen in the settings of some songs by the London Symphony Orchestra , the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Savitri String Quartet . In addition, the thrash metal band Sepultura covered the song Bullet the Blue Sky on their album Roorback (2003).
Hit parade placements
album
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 Germany (GfK)
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1 (81 weeks) | 81 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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1 (61 weeks) | 61 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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1 (44 weeks) | 44 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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1 (201 weeks) | 201 |
 United States (Billboard)
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1 (121 weeks) | 121 |
 Ireland (IRMA)
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2 (121 weeks) | 121 |
Singles
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With or Without You The Joshua Tree |
DE7 (19 weeks) DE |
AT15 (4 months) AT |
CH10 (14 weeks) CH |
UK4 (19 weeks) UK |
US1 (18 weeks) US |
IE1 (7 weeks) IE |
First published: March 1987 back
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| I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For The Joshua Tree |
DE13 (15 weeks) DE |
AT10 (2½ months) AT |
CH18 (9 weeks) CH |
UK6 (11 weeks) UK |
US1 (17 weeks) US |
IE1 (7 weeks) IE |
First published: May 1987
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| Where the Streets Have No Name The Joshua Tree |
DE44 (6 weeks) DE |
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UK4 (6 weeks) UK |
US13 (14 weeks) US |
IE1 (7 weeks) IE |
First published: August 1987
Re-entry in 2017 (1 week) |
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| In God's Country The Joshua Tree |
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UK48 (4 weeks) UK |
US44 (12 weeks) US |
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First published: November 1987
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One Tree Hill The Joshua Tree |
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First published:
Published in New Zealand and Australia only in 1988 |
Both the album and the singles later released soon hit the top of various charts around the world . The Joshua Tree reached number 1 in many different countries and stayed in the charts for an unusually long time. In Switzerland, The Joshua Tree took first place in the album charts for 33 weeks. In the UK, the album stayed in the charts for 129 weeks and returned twice more after dropping out of the UK Top 40 . In 1992 the album was again at number 19. In 1993, it was still at number 27.
This "re-entry" in the hit lists did not only occur in the UK Top 40. In the Irish charts, it reached the top 5 again after two concerts by U2 at Slane Castle .
Awards for music sales
The Joshua Tree received a large number of gold and platinum records after just a few months . In total, over 20 million copies of the album were sold worldwide. 10 million of these are in the United States . It was also the fastest-selling album in UK history , earning its first platinum record just 28 hours after it was released. The Joshua Tree is the band's best-selling album.
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 Argentina (CAPIF)
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 platinum
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60,000 |
 Australia (ARIA)
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5 × platinum
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350,000 |
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Germany (BVMI)
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2 × platinum
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1,000,000 |
 Finland (IFPI)
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 gold
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27,965 |
 France (SNEP)
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2 × platinum
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600,000 |
 Italy (FIMI)
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platinum
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100,000 |
 Canada (MC)
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 diamond
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1,000,000 |
 Mexico (AMPROFON)
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gold
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100,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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14 × platinum
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210,000 |
 Netherlands (NVPI)
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platinum
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100,000 |
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Austria (IFPI)
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3 × gold
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75,000 |
 Spain (Promusicae)
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3 × platinum (1987) + platinum (2001)
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400,000 |
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United States (RIAA)
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diamond
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10,000,000 |
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United Kingdom (BPI)
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9 × platinum (standard) + gold (deluxe edition)
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2,980,000 |
| All in all |
4 × gold 40 × platinum 2 × diamond |
16,902,965 |
Main article: U2 (band) / Music Sales Awards
Artist awards
MTV Awards 1987
- With or Without You (Single): Viewer's Choice Award
Rolling Stone Magazine 1987
- The Joshua Tree (Album): Best Album, Best Album Cover, Best Producer (Daniel Lanois / Brian Eno), Best Songwriter (Bono)
- With or Without You (Single): Best Single, 2nd Best Video
- Where The Streets Have No Name (Single): 2nd Best Single, Best Video
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Single): 3rd Best Single
Grammy Awards 1987
- The Joshua Tree (Album): Best Album
- The Joshua Tree (Album): Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
1988 Grammy Awards
- Where The Streets Have No Name (Single): Best Performance Music Video
literature
- Mark Chatterton: U2 - The Ultimate Encyclopedia. (If You Still Haven't Found What You're Looking For ...). Heel, Königswinter 2005. ISBN 3-89880-404-6 .
- Colm O'Hare: U2 and the Making of The Joshua Tree . Unanimous Ltd, 2006. ISBN 1-903318-81-5 .
- Steve Stockman: Walk on. The spiritual journey of U2. ASAPH, 2002. ISBN 3-935703-07-4 .
- Niall Stokes: U2 - Into the Heart. The story for every song . Rock book Buhmann & Haeseler, Schlüchtern 2003. ISBN 3-927638-12-9 .
- Dave Thompson: The Making of U2's The Joshua Tree . CG Publishing Inc., 1996. ISBN 1-896522-30-0 .
- U2 - Joshua Tree. Music Sales Ltd. ISBN 0-7119-1315-3 ( sheet music: guitar, tablature).
- Mark Wrathall: U2 and Philosophy . Open Court Publishing, Chicago Ill 2007. ISBN 0-8126-9599-2 .
Web links
- Discography entry on U2 Wanderer - details on various editions, covers, lyrics and more.
- In God's Country: The Music That Inspired The Joshua Tree - a special compilation of artists who the band said had an impact on the sound of the album.
- Guitar chords and tablature
- Audio samples at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Steve Pond: The Joshua Tree Review; Rolling Stone Magazine; April 9, 1987 ( Memento of February 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rolling Stone: The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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^ Adam Clayton on The Joshua Tree DVD , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series .
“I think for us at that time… we felt very disconnected with what was happening musically I mean it was… the time of synthesizer pop and I think… new wave as the Americans refer to it hadn't really hit in America but… I think maybe A Flock of Seagulls were around ... so there'd been a little bit of experimentation sonically. "
- ↑ Tim Darling on Edge's delay technique
- ^ A b Niall Stokes: The World About Us , Hot Press, March 26, 1987
- ↑ Brian Eno on the DVD The Joshua Tree , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
- ↑ a b Benjamin Schwarz: Dirty Hands. The success of US policy in El Salvador - preventing a guerrilla victory - was based on 40,000 political murders. Book review on William M. LeoGrande: Our own Backyard. The United States in Central America 1977-1992. in: The Atlantic, December 1998.
- ^ Anthony Lewis: Abroad at Home; Fear Of the Truth. The New York Times, April 2, 1993
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^ Bono in Cactus World View by Adrian Thrills, New Musical Express, March 14, 1987
“I was interested in the miners' strike politically, but I wanted to write about it on a more personal level. A cold statistic about a pit closure and redundancies that follow is drastic enough on one level, but it never tells the full human story. I wanted to follow the miner home and write about that situation in the song. "
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↑ The Edge on the Joshua Tree DVD , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
"[...] about the cinematic aspect of music where ... where music can actually evoke a landscape and a place and ... can really bring you there."
- ^ DVD The Joshua Tree , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
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^ Daniel Lanois on The Joshua Tree DVD , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
“I've always liked gospel music and… I encouraged Bono to take it to that place which he did. It was very, a very non - U2 thing to do at that time… to go up the street of gospel, but I think it opened a bit of a door for them. ”
- ↑ a b Jay Cocks: Band on the Run . Time Magazine . April 27, 1987
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↑ Bono on DVD The Joshua Tree , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
“I think The Joshua Tree is not Irish in any of the obvious senses… but in a much less… in a much more mysterious way, it's very Irish. The ache and the melancholy is uniquely Irish. "
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^ Daniel Lanois on The Joshua Tree DVD , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
“He's singing at the top of his range and… there's something very compelling, y'know, about somebody pushing themselves… it's like hearing like Aretha Franklin almost. […]”
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↑ Bono on DVD The Joshua Tree , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
“[…] There's a place called Ballymun the 7 Towers… and Ballymun was a… kind of built in our back garden and we used to play there as kid. That's where the biggest drug problem was. "
- ↑ U2faqs.com - Geography FAQ ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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^ Robert Hilburn: I Will Follow To One . Los Angeles Times . September 12, 1993
“Bono: The approach was influenced by the poetry of the Psalms, which I always love. To me, it's a lot like the blues - where man was giving out to God. It's like David giving out to God "Where are you when I need you?" That whole thing. "
- ↑ Psalms - New Revised Standard Version ( Memento of January 4, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
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^ Anton Corbijn on the DVD The Joshua Tree , 1999, TDK Mediaactive in the Classic Albums series
"[...] he came down with the Bible [...] and ... I looked it up in the Bible and he meant a lot to him and ... he thought it should be probably a title for an album [...]"
- ↑ Dave Thompson : The Making of U2s The Joshua Tree, 1996, p. 9, “We stopped off the road”, Bono recalled, “and we went out and we were shooting this landscape with the Tree, and we just got back on the bus and drove off. Then somebody thought, 'God, say you ever want go back to that Tree? Or other people might go looking for the Tree. ' And then we thought, 'no, better that people can't find it, or else some guy will arrive with it at a gig. 'Bono, I've got the Tree!' "
- ↑ Michelle Geslani: U2's Joshua tree has been vandalized. Consequence of Sound, February 25, 2015, accessed May 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Michelle Geslani: A good samaritan repaired U2's Joshua Tree. Consequence of Sound, May 11, 2015, accessed May 14, 2015 .
- ↑ cf. Steve Morse: U2's 'The Joshua Tree': A spiritual progress report; Boston Globe; March 8, 1987
- ↑ a b c d e f g Chart sources: IE DE AT CH UK US
- ^ Rob Copsey: The UK's biggest studio albums of all time. officialcharts.com, October 13, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
