Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £7.49
  
 
 
 
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Colour:
Image not available

 
See all 5 customer images
Share your own customer images

The Joshua Tree

U2 | Format: Audio CD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (134 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


Buy the MP3 album for £7.49 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Amazon's U2 Store

Music

Image of album by U2

Photos

Image of U2

Biography

U2 formed in 1978 after Larry Mullen pinned a 'musicians wanted' ad to the notice board at Dublin's Temple Mount School. Adam Clayton had discovered rock'n'roll as a thirteen year old, buying his first acoustic guitar and then talking his parents into buying him a bass guitar. 'It just sounded good to me. Deep and fat and satisfying.'
From the beginning, U2 were ... Read more in Amazon's U2 Store

›
Visit Amazon's U2 Store
for 274 albums, 13 photos, discussions, and more.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product details

  • Audio CD (1 Mar 1987)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B000001FS3
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  UMD Mini for PSP
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (134 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,015 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Where The Streets Have No Name (Album Version) 5:38£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 4:37£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. With Or Without You 4:56£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Bullet The Blue Sky 4:28£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Running To Stand Still 4:17£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Red Hill Mining Town 4:53£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. In God's Country 2:57£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Trip Through Your Wires 3:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. One Tree Hill 5:23£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Exit 4:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Mothers Of The Disappeared 5:11£0.89  Buy MP3 

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk

Having nearly exhausted their capacity for pop-song politics on War and The Unforgettable Fire, U2 turned toward themes of personal identity and complex relationships on The Joshua Tree. Not that the group was willing to come down off the barricades entirely: "Mothers of the Disappeared" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" turned a jaundiced eye toward Central America and the United States's role there. But the predominant mood here is one of self-discovery and the hunger for something more on tracks like the pulsating "Where the Streets Have No Name" and the gospel-ish "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". The album's masterstroke, however, is "With or Without You", a nasty love song dressed up as an ode of devotion and care. It ranks with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" as the most misread smash hit of the 1980s. --Daniel Durchholz

BBC Review

The Joshua Tree, first released in March 1987, capitalized perfectly on U2's startling appearance at Live Aid almost two years previously. Aware of the platform that they now had, the band crafted away with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois to make an album that was sonically unified, emotionally intelligent and commercially sound.

It takes an outsider's eye to unpack and commentate on the idiosyncrasies of a country. The America of U2's The Joshua Tree is the one the group surveyed through their tourbus window as they built and cemented their reputation throughout the early 80s. The fact that they were working out of Ireland made it to be a far more balanced account of the failings and successes of the New World.

The third track (and lead single), "With Or Without You", is the unique selling point of the album; it brings together the threads of the album's openers "Where The Streets Have No Name", and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and demonstrates quite how capable as a group they had become. When the 'and you give yourself away' section explodes, it was like a metaphor for what was about to happen to their career. "Red Hill Mining Town" is, for this listener, the most poignant statement, as, in the middle of this American odyssey, they wrote a fairly unambiguous song about the personal cost of the miner's strike that tore British communities apart in 1984/85.

It's always been the scope and scale of U2's visions that dazzle. In its variety of formats (the boxed double CD/DVD hard backed book looks a first edition of something like The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine), this is a sparklingly remastered 20th birthday present to the album the group will never be able to escape. Whatever you think, with all the hat-wearing imitators that followed in its wake, it is a landmark work and the band's view is still remarkable, ambitious, naive, gauche, straight-faced, epic, flawed, and luminous. --Daryl Easlea

Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
40 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic album gets beautifully produced box set treatment 5 Dec 2007
By Dr. D. B. Sillars VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
For many "The Joshua Tree" is one of the finest rock records made. Others see it as overwrought and overly earnest. But this was a band with a conscience and who on the evidence of this record could write damn fine songs. After the bold experimentation of "The Unforgettable Fire", with its sprawling ambience produced by the winning partnership of Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, "The Joshua Tree" was a more focussed affair, with the production more subtle and assured. The remastering on this re-issue, supervised by The Edge, brings out all the details and nuances in the Lanois/Eno soundscape. Just listen to the shimmering sound of The Edge's "infinite guitar" on the intro to "With Or Without You"! Never has it sounded so gorgeous!

The post-Joy Division sound of U2 showed a more classic rock feel on this album, partly due to the American viewpoint the band were aiming at. Though they would make more boundary pushing albums like "Achtung Baby" and "Zooropa", "The Joshua Tree" is a classic album of its type. In some ways it can be seen as part of a trilogy of albums around that time, all produced by Lanois. The others being Peter Gabriel's "So" and Robbie Robertson's self titled album. All shared a certain similar sound, feel and even personnel.

This re-issue is something quite special. The deluxe box edition is a thing of beauty. Containing the original album, another CD containing material recorded at the same sessions and a DVD containing a complete live performance, documentary and videos, each are housed in separate gatefold sleeves. There is also a cardboard folder containing photo prints and a thoroughly informative hardback book with essays by the likes of Brian Eno and The Edge.... Read more ›
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
62 of 71 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "...I Want To Reach Out...And Touch The Flame..." 8 Dec 2007
By Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I remember it vividly. It was the summer of 1987, probably August, and I was standing in the HMV Megastore in Oxford Street in London browsing through their CD racks looking for something else to punish my long-suffering credit card with. Back then the 'video' was king. I mean the buggers were everywhere. MTV had them on rotation on our television sets at home all day and the more elaborate and expensive ones even made the news. 1987 was a year when a pop video was given as much credence as the release of the album it was promoting. And HMV was no different. The flagship shop had loads of black TV monitors hanging out of their Oxford Street ceiling covering every square inch of floor space in their huge new store. So I'm standing there in this busy Megastore browsing like everyone else. And then it happened.

On came the new U2 video for "Where The Streets Had No Name". It was filmed in California on top of a building with the band playing live without announcement while American street goers below simply stopped in their tracks and looked up in amazement. And so did we. We all stopped and we all looked up in amazement. It was the only time I've ever seen this. The entire music store stopped and looked up at the TV monitors - hooked instantly by this incredible song and this dog's bollox of a band. The tune creeps in - building, building, building - then it bursts out of the speakers with this stunning chiming trailblazing guitar work and Bono's impassioned growl and lyrics. It was mesmerizing. I remember looking around me and noticing people's smiling faces. No one was browsing anymore. And I remember thinking - my God - they really have hit the Global zeitgeist with this.... Read more ›
9 Comments | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
25 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "...I Want To Reach Out...And Touch The Flame..." 4 Dec 2007
By Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I remember it vividly. It was the summer of 1987, probably August, and I was standing in the HMV Megastore in Oxford Street in London browsing through their CD racks looking for something else to punish my long-suffering credit card with. Back then the 'video' was king. I mean the buggers were everywhere. MTV had them on rotation on our television sets at home all day and the more elaborate and expensive ones even made the news. 1987 was a year when a pop video was given as much credence as the release of the album it was promoting. And HMV was no different. The flagship shop had loads of black TV monitors hanging out of their Oxford Street ceiling covering every square inch of floor space in their huge new store. So I'm standing there in this busy Megastore browsing like everyone else. And then it happened.

On came the new U2 video for "Where The Streets Had No Name". It was filmed in California on top of a building with the band playing live without announcement while American street goers below simply stopped in their tracks and looked up in amazement. And so did we. We all stopped and we all looked up in amazement. It was the only time I've ever seen this. The entire music store stopped and looked up at the TV monitors - hooked instantly by this incredible song and this dog's bollox of a band. The tune creeps in - building, building, building - then it bursts out of the speakers with this stunning chiming trailblazing guitar work and Bono's impassioned growl and lyrics. It was mesmerizing. I remember looking around me and noticing people's smiling faces. No one was browsing anymore. And I remember thinking - my God - they really have hit the Global zeitgeist with this.... Read more ›
1 Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?   Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless
A work of art through different generations and remains the same, the emotions I felt when listening to vinyl as a teenager are the same as I feel when listening to this remastered... Read more
Published 1 day ago by negotiatornoname
5.0 out of 5 stars FIGHT AMAZON UK
The Album itself is great, but the message is clear. BOYCOTT AMAZON. Close your accounts, destabilise its foundations. This corporation pays no tax. Read more
Published 2 days ago by SOCIALISM
5.0 out of 5 stars U2
The Joshua Tree bought this first time around well worn with play so thought I better down load again real classic U2 U2to me their best love it. Read more
Published 15 days ago by MR B H GOOLD-DAVIES and mrs k g goold-davies
5.0 out of 5 stars U2 audio cassette tape
Cassette in very good condition considering how old it must be!!!! 1987 I think was the release date! Very happy, although I think I prefer the ease of CDs !!
Published 19 days ago by Pen Name
5.0 out of 5 stars U2 CD
I bought this as a present for my brother. He as delighted with it. Amazon is an easy way of getting presents people want and at a great price. One stop shop.
Published 23 days ago by Mr. R. Wilden
1.0 out of 5 stars mp3 downloader
I bought the Joshua tree by u2 and when I went to download it I was prompted to download the amazon mp3 downloader when I tried to do this my Norton security removed it as it... Read more
Published 1 month ago by john howe
5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic
this album is an absolute must for any decent U2 fan, collector and of lover of analogue sound
highly recommended
Published 1 month ago by Ms. A. Slater
5.0 out of 5 stars Fan
Being a U2 fan and having this cd as a cassette I decided to update my collection. Good condition and happy with the product. It was great to hear it again on of their best albums.
Published 2 months ago by L J TAYLOR
5.0 out of 5 stars Landmark Record
The Joshua Tree needs no introduction. It is a perfect album, beautifully produced, sung, played... It captures the feeling of open spaces - like the album cover - feelings of joy... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Bubo
5.0 out of 5 stars Top marks for U2
I remember having the cassette years ago but i never bought on cd until now Im glad i did because it is a s good as it was back in 1987 The songs are fantastic especially... Read more
Published 3 months ago by MikeO
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

    Your Shopping Basket is empty.

    Give it purpose -- fill it with books, DVDs, clothes, electronics and more.

    If you already have an account, sign in.

    There's a problem previewing your shopping basket at the moment.

    Check your Internet connection and go to your cart, or try again.

    View Shopping Basket (0 items)

      Customer Discussions

      This product's forum
      Discussion Replies Latest Post
      Favourite U2 Song? 17 27 Sep 2012
      Loudness 1 20 Feb 2009
      Which region is the DVD? 1 20 Jan 2008
      SACD? 1 10 Dec 2007
      NO high rez? 0 29 Nov 2007
      › See all 5 discussions...  
      Start a new discussion
      Topic:
      First post:
      Prompts for sign-in
       


      Active discussions in related forums
      Search Customer Discussions
         
      Related forums

      What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

      › Explore similar items

      Listmania!

      Create a Listmania! list

      Look for similar items by category

      Feedback