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The 3 disc box-set format contains The Joshua Tree CD, the bonus audio CD, and a Bonus DVD. This package also includes a 56 page hardback embossed book, featuring previously unseen Anton Corbijn photos, handwritten lyrics by Bono and liner notes by Bill Flanagan, Bono, Adam Clayton, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Anton Corbijn, Steve Averill, David Batstone, René Castro and a special essay by The Edge.

Content for the Bonus DVD: U2 Live from Paris - filmed at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris, on July 4 1987, on the European leg of The Joshua Tree tour.

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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' 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 '80s. --Daniel Durchholz

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U2 have made a lot of grand music, but 1987's graceful, powerful Joshua Tree stands as their masterwork. It is by turns moving, inspiring, and exhilarating. Each member contributes his best work, and each song shines. Would that all rock records were made with the same care, the same passion and invention. The ubiquitous opening salvo of "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and the tense "With or Without You" may define this album to many, but its real strengths lie in the brilliant second half: "Red Hill Mining Town," "Trip Through Your Wires," and the surging "One Tree Hill" (the latter being one of rock's--hell, all music's--truly finest moments). --Michael Ruby

Tracks - Disc 1

• Where The Streets Have No Name
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
• With Or Without You
• Bullet The Blue Sky
• Running To Stand Still
• Red Hill Mining Town
• In God's Country
• Trip Through Your Wires
• One Tree Hill
• Exit
• Mothers Of The Disappeared

Tracks - Disc 2

• Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
• Walk To The Water
• Spanish Eyes
• Deep In The Heart
• Silver And Gold
• Sweetest Thing
• Race Against Time
• Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Edit)
• Silver And Gold (Sun City)
• Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience
• Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
• Desert Of Our Love
• Rise Up
• Drunk Chicken/America

Tracks - Disc 3

• I Will Follow [DVD]
• Trip Through Your Wires [DVD]
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [DVD]
• MLK [DVD]
• The Unforgettable Fire [DVD]
• Sunday Bloody Sunday [DVD]
• Exit [DVD]
• In God's Country [DVD]
• Electric Co. [DVD]
• Bad [DVD]
• October [DVD]
• New Year's Day [DVD]
• Pride [DVD]

More Information

• Studio - Interscope
• Publisher - Interscope
• Label - Interscope
• Binding - Audio CD

Format Information

• Box set
• Original recording remastered
• Extra tracks

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