U2 The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Vinyl Box 180gram 2017 7 LPs 84Page Book NEW

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Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as its 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. 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. 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. Unexpectedly, U2 have also tempered their textural post-punk with American influences. 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. 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. Never before have U2's big messages sounded so direct and personal. [The 20th Anniversary reissue of The Joshua Tree cleared the vaults of the B-sides, outtakes, and stray songs U2 released in the wake of the album's 1987 release, so the 30th Anniversary Edition doesn't pack the same kind of revelation as its predecessor. The big addition is the entirety of a concert the band gave at Madison Square Garden in 1987, one where they played almost all of the record. That's the bonus material on the simple two-disc Deluxe Edition, while the hefty Super Deluxe Edition retains almost all the extras from the 20th Anniversary (a single edit of "Where the Streets Have No Name" is absent but not missed), while an alternate mix of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" from 1987 has been added, and there's a host of brand new remixes from Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite, St. Francis Hotel, Flood, and Jacknife Lee. For completists, the hardcover book is more enticing than this handful of new tracks, and for those who are less dedicated -- or on a tighter budget -- picking up the basic Deluxe Edition for the fine live show might not be a bad idea.]
Cover features a textured embossed gold foiled Joshua Tree icon. Includes: • 7 pieces of original, live and unreleased recordings on 12" 180gsm vinyl including: • The Joshua Tree double album (Remastered edition of the original album.) • The Joshua Tree Live at Madison Square Garden 28th September 1987 (Features selected tracks from the concert with no overdubs or corrections.) • The Joshua Tree Remixes, Outtakes & B-Sides • The Joshua Tree – Photographs by The Edge. An 84-page hardback book of personal never-before seen photography by The Edge, taken during the original Mojave Desert Joshua Tree shoot, 1986 • A folio of 8 rare 12” Anton Corbijn colour prints • 3.5hrs of audio content / 49 tracks (25x unreleased tracks: 17x live, 7x new mixes, 1x archive track)
LPs 1 & 2: The Joshua Tree LPs 3 & 4: The Joshua Tree Live at Madison Square Garden 28th September 1987 LPs 5, 6 & 7: The Joshua Tree Remixes, Outtakes & B-Sides
CONDITION: NEW. Very minor shipping crease left edge middle.
TRACK LISTING:
The Joshua Tree Remastered A1 –U2 Where The Streets Have No Name 5:37 A2 –U2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 4:37 A3 –U2 With Or Without You 4:55 B1 –U2 Bullet The Blue Sky 4:31 B2 –U2 Running To Stand Still 4:17 C1 –U2 Red Hill Mining Town Arranged By [Brass], Conductor [Brass] – Paul Barrett Featuring – The Arklow Silver Band 4:52 C2 –U2 In God's Country 2:56 C3 –U2 Trip Through Your Wires 3:31 D1 –U2 One Tree Hill Recorded By [Strings] – Bob Doidge Strings – The Armin Family 5:22 D2 –U2 Exit 4:13 D3 –U2 Mothers Of The Disappeared 5:14 U2 Live At Madison Square Garden 28th September 1987 E1 –U2 Where The Streets Have No Name 6:30 E2 –U2 I Will Follow 3:58 E3 –U2 Trip Through Your Wires 3:45 E4 –U2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 5:51 F1 –U2 MLK 2:02 F2 –U2 Bullet The Blue Sky 5:47 F3 –U2 Running To Stand Still 4:45 F4 –U2 In God’s Country 2:49 F5 –U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday 4:13 G1 –U2 Exit 4:39 G2 –U2 October 2:05 G3 –U2 New Year’s Day 4:44 G4 –U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 4:53 H1 –U2 With Or Without You 5:28 H2 –U2 Party Girl 3:23 H3 –U2 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Choir – New Voices Of Freedom 5:53 H4 –U2 “40” 5:51 The Joshua Tree Remixes, Outtakes & B-Sides I1 –U2 One Tree Hill (St Francis Hotel Remix) 4:17 I2 –U2 Bullet The Blue Sky (Jacknife Lee Remix) 6:03 I3 –U2 Running To Stand Still (Daniel Lanois Remix) 440 J1 –U2 Red Hill Mining Town (Steve Lillywhite 2017 Mix) 4:53 J2 –U2 With Or Without You (Daniel Lanois Remix) 5:04 J3 –U2 Where The Streets Have No Name (Flood Remix) 6:45 K1 –U2 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Lillywhite Alternative Mix ’87) 4:15 K2 –U2 One Tree Hill Reprise (Brian Eno 2017 Mix) 2:10 K3 –Bono Silver And Gold (Sun City) Featuring – Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Steve Jordan Producer – Arthur Baker, Little Steven 4:42 K4 –U2 Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience Arranged By – U2 Lyrics By [Poem: Songs Of Experience] – William Blake Mixed By, Recorded By – Paul Barrett 3:56 L1 –U2 Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland) Mixed By [Additional Mix], Recorded By [Additional Recording] – Carl Glanville 4:06 L2 –U2 Desert Of Our Love 4:58 L3 –U2 Rise Up 4:08 L4 –U2 Drunk Chicken/America Lyrics By, Voice [Sample From The Recording: America] – Allen Ginsberg Mixed By [Additional Mix], Recorded By [Additional Recording] – Carl Glanville 1:31 M1 –U2 Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) 4:34 M2 –U2 Walk To The Water Recorded By – Joe O'Herlihy 4:49 M3 –U2 Spanish Eyes 3:16 N1 –U2 Deep In The Heart Recorded By – Marc Coleman Recorded By [Assistant] – Pat McCarthy 4:31 N2 –U2 Silver And Gold Arranged By – U2 Mixed By, Recorded By – Paul Barrett 4:37 N3 –U2 Sweetest Thing Mixed By – Mark Wallace* Recorded By – Joe O'Herlihy 3:04 N4 –U2 Race Against Time 4:03

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