U2 - the Joshua Tree, Album of the Year 1987

Released in 1987, The Joshua Tree is considered by many to be the best U2 album.
Produced by Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite, the Joshua Tree was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland.
The album featured three best selling singles, 'With Or Without You', 'Where The Streets Have No Name', and 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'.
Also, the album won the band a few Grammy awards and catapulted them with international success and critical acclaim. The album won Grammy album of the year in 1988.
The Joshua Tree album cover was shot in the desert of California and much of the album alludes to America, the blues, and U.S. involvement in Central America.
Since its release, The album has sold over twenty five million copies and, it was recently re-mastered with bonus tracks recorded during the Joshua Tree sessions. The album was the number one album in the United Staes for two months in 1987.

Here is a song list from the album and sample lyrics.

Where The Streets Have No Name
lyric - '...I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls, that hold me inside...'

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
lyric - '...I have spoke with the tongue of angels, I have held the hand of a devil, it was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone...'

With Or Without You
lyric - '...through the night we reach the shore, you give it all but I want more, and I'm waiting for you...'

Bullet The Blue Sky
lyric - '...and I can see the fighter planes, across the mud huts as the children sleep...'

Running To Stand Still
lyric - '...you got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice...'

Red Hill Mining Town
lyric - '...I'm hanging on, you're all that's left to hold on to, I'm hanging on...'

In God's Country
lyric - '...sleep comes like a drug, in God's country...'

Trip Through Your Wires
lyric - '...angel or devil, I was thirsty, and you wet my lips...'

One Tree Hill
lyric - '...I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts,while bullets rape the night of the merciful...'

Exit
lyric - '...he felt the healing, healing healing, healing hands of love...'

Mothers Of The Disappeared
lyric - '...our daughters cry, see their tears in the rainfall...'

U2 is Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.

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