U2 – The Joshua Tree
Label: |
Island Records – 208 219-7 |
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Country: |
Europe |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Pop Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | Where The Streets Have No Name | 5:35 | |
| A2 | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | 4:38 | |
| A3 | With Or Without You | 4:57 | |
| A4 | Bullet The Blue Sky | 4:32 | |
| A5 | Running To Stand Still | 4:20 | |
| B1 | Red Hill Mining Town | 4:51 | |
| B2 | In God's Country | 2:57 | |
| B3 | Trip Through Your Wires | 3:32 | |
| B4 | One Tree Hill | 5:24 | |
| B5 | Exit | 4:14 | |
| B6 | Mothers Of The Disappeared | 5:14 |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – RCA/Ariola-Ariola/RCA
- Distributed By – Ariola/RCA-RCA/Ariola
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
- Copyright © – Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
- Copyright © – Chappell Music
- Published By – Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
- Recorded At – Windmill Lane Studios
- Mixed At – Windmill Lane Studios
- Pressed By – Sonopress
Credits
- Artwork – The Creative Dept. Ltd. Dublin*
- Backing Vocals – The Edge
- Crew [Studio Crew] – Tom Mullally
- Design, Layout – Steve Averill
- Engineer [Additional Engineering By] – Dave Meegan
- Engineer [Additional Engineering With] – Pat McCarthy
- Engineer [Mix Engineer Assistant] – Mary Kettle (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B1)
- Engineer [Mix Engineered By] – Mark Wallace* (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B1)
- Harmonica – Bono
- Management [Manager] – Paul McGuinness (2)
- Management [Principle Management, Dublin] – Anne-Louise Kelly
- Management [Principle Management, New York] – Ellen Darst
- Mixed By – Steve Lillywhite (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B1)
- Performer – The Edge
- Photography By – Anton Corbijn
- Producer [Produced By] – Daniel Lanois
- Programmed By [DX7 Programmes], Keyboards – Eno*
- Recorded By – Flood
- Songwriter [Songs Written By] – U 2*
- Tambourine, Omnichord, Guitar [Additional] – Lanois*
- Words By – Bono
Notes
Released in a gatefold sleeve.
4-page insert with lyrics, credits and pictures.
Some copies have a black inner sleeve
Some French copies have a golden sticker on Front Cover
Unique identifiers: Back Cover: Price Code F: RC340, no CD cat.no
[Back Cover]
℗ 1987 Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
Distributed in Europe by RCA/Ariola-Ariola/RCA. Distribué en Europe par RCA/Ariola-Ariola RCA. Vertrieb in Europa durch Ariola/RCA-RCA/Ariola. Printed in
Part of this album was recorded on Edge's Amek Mixing Console. Recorded and mixed at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin.
To the memory of Greg Carroll 1960-1986.
[Labels]
Incorrect timing printed for B2 (3:57), correct timing is 2:57.
All tracks Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
℗ 1987 Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
[Insert]
All lyrics © 1987 Blue Mountain Music Ltd. for the United Kingdom
Chappell Music for the rest of the World.
Cat# on sleeve and label: 208 219
Cat# on insert: 208 219-7
Similar releases (same cat.no, barcode on back cover):
16131103 - Same French Price Code (RC340), including CD cat.no
Different French Price Code RC270:
14316146 - Released 1989, 88 / 89 in runouts
The runouts are stamped, except for the trailing Roman numerals which are etched.
4-page insert with lyrics, credits and pictures.
Some copies have a black inner sleeve
Some French copies have a golden sticker on Front Cover
Unique identifiers: Back Cover: Price Code F: RC340, no CD cat.no
[Back Cover]
℗ 1987 Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
Distributed in Europe by RCA/Ariola-Ariola/RCA. Distribué en Europe par RCA/Ariola-Ariola RCA. Vertrieb in Europa durch Ariola/RCA-RCA/Ariola. Printed in
Part of this album was recorded on Edge's Amek Mixing Console. Recorded and mixed at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin.
To the memory of Greg Carroll 1960-1986.
[Labels]
Incorrect timing printed for B2 (3:57), correct timing is 2:57.
All tracks Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
℗ 1987 Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
[Insert]
All lyrics © 1987 Blue Mountain Music Ltd. for the United Kingdom
Chappell Music for the rest of the World.
Cat# on sleeve and label: 208 219
Cat# on insert: 208 219-7
Similar releases (same cat.no, barcode on back cover):
16131103 - Same French Price Code (RC340), including CD cat.no
Different French Price Code RC270:
14316146 - Released 1989, 88 / 89 in runouts
The runouts are stamped, except for the trailing Roman numerals which are etched.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 4 007192 082193
- Barcode (EAN): 4007192082193
- Label Code: LC 0407
- Price Code (D:): 630
- Price Code (F:): RC340
- Rights Society (Boxed): GEMA STEMRA BIEM
- Pressing Plant ID (Side B label, embossed): Bass clef
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): S 208 219 A
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): S 208 219 B
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87 III
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 II
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: runout side A): DM 208219 A-2/4-87 C II
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 VII
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: runout side A): DM 208219 A-3/7-87 C
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 IV
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87 V
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 III
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 6: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87 II
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 6: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 7: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87 V
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 7: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 IV
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 8: runout side A): DM 208219 A-2/4-87 G
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 8: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 VI
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 9: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87 II
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 9: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 IV
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 10: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 10: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 III
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 11: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87 III
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 11: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 III
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 12: runout side A): DM 208219 A-1/2-87
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 12: runout side B): DM 208219 B-1/2-87 II
Other Versions (5 of 611)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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The Joshua Tree (LP, Album, Stereo, Blue Labels) | Island Records | U2 6, U26 | Hong Kong | 1987 | ||
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The Joshua Tree (CD, Album, Specialty Pressing) | Island Records | 7 90581-2, 90581-2 | US | 1987 | ||
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The Joshua Tree (CD, Album) | Island Records | 258 219, CID U26 | Europe | 1987 | ||
| The Joshua Tree (LP, Album, Gatefold) | Island Records | ISX 1127 | Canada | 1987 | |||
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The Joshua Tree (LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo, RCA) | Island Records | 90581-1 | US | 1987 |
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Any comments on the pressing quality on this one? Luckily I already like the music, so that’s not a concern…
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Edited 6 years agoI bought the album in April '87 but have never really been able to get into it, I have tried and struggled over the years, the sound is just too "grown up"/overly serious in a middle of the road kind of way [pun intended].
A problem is that there is too much material included, over 50 minutes. "Bullet the blue sky" is just a track that needs to be binned as far as I'm concerned (..outside is america... [cringe] ) and "Trip through your wires" is hardly worth being put on a b-side of a single. Plus "One Tree Hill" is just too sweet, in the wrong way.
My preferred track listing, where tracks flow better together, a sort of upbeat A-side, and a chill-out B-side:
A: Where The Streets Have No Name/In God's Country/Red Hill Mining Town/Exit
B: I Still Haven't Found.../With Or Without You/Running To Stand Still/Mothers Of The Disappeared
"Where The Streets Have No Name" and "In God's Country" were made to be sequenced together, IGC takes the momentum built by WTSHNN to the next level.
"Running To Stand Still" and "Mothers Of The Disappeared" are also particularly well suited to be sequenced together as they are almost a two part track from the get go IMO.
By the way, I hadn't noticed before but the arrangement of Exit is almost a carbon copy of Echo & The Bunnymen's Over The Wall... -
Sure, the album cemented U2 as the biggest band in the world featuring the massively played 'With Or Without You', 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' and 'Where the Streets Have No Name' but the rest of the album is worth uncovering. The Zeppelin-esque 'Bullet The Blue Sky' and the wickedly haunting 'Red Hill Mining Town' and the Joshua tree inspired 'In God's Country' make this album the most celebrated album of the eighties. Haters be a hating, there's no denying Daniel Lanois took the band into the stratosphere and all it took was a trip to California.
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