U2 - The Joshua Tree

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

This week, Bill and Brian go sans guest to talk about U2's super-massive-megadon hit The Joshua Tree (1987, Island). Recorded after the band had spent years touring the US, alternately falling in love with its ideals and becoming outspoken critics of its international policies, and wanting to create something bigger and better than anything they had done before, U2 released this album to massive sales and critical praise. Brian and Bill talk about their personal connections with the music, how the album got made, and a track by track analysis of each song. Along the way, we discuss religion and secularism, Euler's number, how addiction has touched our lives, the legality of immigration, how music can spur community in the face of tragedy, and more!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The The
0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
1:21.3	And tonight, we are going to be talking about U-2's The Joshua Tree.
1:26.7	Welcome to it.
1:28.0	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here is we take a different album each episode and we just talk about what makes it great.
1:36.3	We try to talk a little bit about the band, a little bit about the production of the album.
1:41.4	And then we start going into track-by-track, breakdown, analysis, review of the album. And then we start going into a track-by-track, breakdown, analysis, review of the album.
1:48.9	So let's get right to it.
1:51.3	Brian, why don't we talk a little bit about how, how you two came to you?
1:57.2	Oh, for those that don't know, we have talked about you too before on another episode.
2:01.7	Yeah, we did war a few months back. So I don't imagine we'll spend that much time on the
2:08.0	background of the band as we did on the war episode. We'll probably just a little bit about
2:15.1	our relationship in you two and more quickly than normal
2:20.2	probably get into the music.
2:22.8	Yeah.
2:23.8	Right?
2:24.0	So I don't remember whether we talked about
2:26.4	our own stories with you two on the war episode.
2:29.1	I don't think we did.
2:30.1	No, no.
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