![]() ![]() And it should be pointed out that the best b-sides are the ones that Eno and Daniel Lanois hand in. The Edge admits in the liner notes that this track is all Brian Eno, but it could be credited as what got the ball rolling in what made this album what it ended up to be, namely one of the best rock albums of all time. The spoken word / ambient “Beautiful Ghost” has Bono reciting William Blake, while “Drunk Chicken / America” features Allen Ginsberg’s reading of his second most famous poem. They all originated in the sessions for The Joshua Tree, but were finalized in 2007. The last few songs are strange ones, to be sure, but interesting artifacts in the making of one of the best `American’ albums by a foreign band. This is the version from the Sun City album, put together by Little Steven, that pretty much stole the show (though I love the song “Sun City” as well). “Silver and Gold” makes yet another appearance, this time in a stripped down version featuring Keith Richards and Ron Wood. The nearly instrumental “Race Against Time,” also included on the 12-inch of “Streets” I bought, is like a lost soundtrack cut from a great ’80s heist film, like To Live and Die in L.A. There’s just something more raw and heartfelt about Bono’s delivery of this bittersweet love song to his wife in this version. “Sweetest Thing,” in this incarnation, I always found better than the subsequent single release that came with their initial greatest hits package. But this version has a smoldering anger not quite found in that other version. Then we have the two I mentioned earlier, “Silver and Gold” and “Sweetest Thing.” Most will know the former from the live version included on their follow-up film and album, Rattle and Hum. I’d take one of U2’s b-sides any day over Big Country or the Alarm, and I like those bands! “Spanish Eyes” is like a dream combination of the Velvet Underground and Van Morrison in the way that only U2 can manage it. All of them are as good or better than their own album material, and certainly better than most regular material by their peers. That’s the truly remarkable thing about these b-sides. The opener, “Luminous Times (Hold On To Love),” is breathtaking and, were it not for the strength of the original eleven tracks on the album proper, should have made the cut. But let’s take a look at those magnificent b-sides on the second disc, shall we? For those reasons alone you should own this album. The Joshua Tree came in at #26 in Rolling Stone‘s top 500 albums of all time (and I take issue with about five of the choices preceding it), and was our choice here at Treble as THE best album of 1987. Phew! Are you nuts? Okay, I’m over it now. But first, let me catch my breath and get over the fact that you didn’t have it in the first place. It’s perverse enough for anyone to be without The Joshua Tree, but if your collection is absent this gem, why not go out and get this deluxe treatment. The second, for die-hard fans only, has a collectible photo book and concert DVD with a few music videos. The first is a two-disc affair, remastered and with a horde of my beloved b-sides. As such, Island has released, with the Edge’s supervision, a “Deluxe” treatment of it in two different forms. For one, it’s the record’s 20th anniversary. The reasons that I’m revisiting this album are numerous. There was no doubt in my mind that “Streets” was a miraculous song, and The Joshua Tree an equally miraculous album, but there was something about “Silver and Gold” and “Sweetest Thing” that threw me, as Bono would say, like a rubber ball. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – Lillywhite Alternative Mix ’87īook: Photographs by The Edge – collection of never seen before personal photographs from the original Mojave Desert sessions in 1986 in a hardback book, with foreword written by The Edge.A little over twenty years ago, in the fall of 1987, I purchased a 12-inch single of “Where the Streets Have No Name.” Along with the single of the Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man / Into the White,” it marked one of the first times I had been romanced by the power of the b-side. ![]() Where The Streets Have No Name 2017 Remix (Flood)ĬD 4 – The Joshua Tree B-sides / Outtakes With or Without You 2017 Remix (Daniel Lanois) Red Hill Mining Town 2017 Mix (Steve Lillywhite) Running To Stand Still 2017 Remix (Daniel Lanois) One Tree Hill 2017 Remix (St Francis Hotel)īullet the Blue Sky 2017 Remix (Jacknife Lee) CD SUPER DELUXE BOXSET (with digital download card)ĬD2 – The Joshua Tree Live at Madison Square Garden 1987 Plus: Folio of 8 Anton Corbijn Color Prints from 1986Ģ. One Tree Hill Reprise (Brian Eno 2017 Mix)īeautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experienceīook: Photographs by The Edge, a hardback collection of previously unpublished personal photographs from the original Mojave Desert sessions in 1986. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Lillywhite Alternative Mix ’87) ![]()
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