Although not a true concept album, it was uniformly inspired by the United States and the geography, literature, and politics and the nation the band so often toured in the early part of their career. (Photo Credit: Pete Still/Redferns) Brian Eno was one of the musical powerhouses brought in to work on The Joshua Tree as a producer. The Joshua Tree was the long-awaited fifth studio album by U2, released in the spring of 1987. On The Edge The Edge and Bono of U2 perform on stage at Wembley Stadium on June 12th, 1987 on ‘The Joshua Tree’ tour in London, England. Of course, you could equally argue ‘The Joshua Tree’ was to blame for the bands who subsequently traded in pointless bombast and vapid bluster, starting the craze for huge, billowing songs about nothing whatsoever, and mobilising a slew of callow young twats who all wanted to be The Biggest Band In The World. U2 30th Anniversary Edition / Deluxe & Super Deluxe / CD 1 / The Joshua Tree Artist Title 1 U2 Where The Streets Have No Name 2 U2 I Still Havent Found. The Joshua Tree album is dedicated to him. You can hear that epic sound flowing through the work of Coldplay, Snow Patrol, late-period Kings Of Leon… even Noel Gallagher has noted that if “I could write a song like ‘Running To Stand Still’, I could die happy”. ‘The Joshua Tree’ duly handed U2 their megastar status – it had shifted 14 million copies by the end of 1988 – but also gave them their legacy, sparking the concept in a million young bands that it was possible to be big without being Phil Collins. Most of all, revisit U2’s ultimate lost gem – ‘Running To Stand Still’ – wherein Bono captured smacked-up poverty in Dublin shortly before he was whisked away to the ivory tower. Take the passive/aggressive ‘Exit’, or the sunny-side-up ‘One Tree Hill’. Take ‘Bullet The Blue Sky’, with Edge’s Hendrix-worthy sonic freakouts and a Bono soliloquy inspired by the El Salvador civil war. You won’t find else anything that could be played over Goal Of The Month montages, ‘Beautiful Day’-style, but rather, a string of eclectic and light-footed classics. Weirdly, though, after those first three songs – each released as a single – ‘The Joshua Tree’ changes tack entirely.
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