U2’s breakthrough The Joshua Tree album turns 30—yes, 30— this year, but it’s not too late to hit the road. The popularity of a large-venue anniversary tour to time-test the album’s U.S. and global social commentary lands the Irish rock band at No. 1 among summer concert ticket sales, according to ticket-resale giant StubHub. “The […]
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I usually make it a habit to write these articles on one specific song or a group of songs that share a common element, but today, I thought that I’d do something different. For the past several months, since the beginning of the year, really, we’ve been building up to the opening night of Joshua […]
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Since nearly the start of 2017, U2 fandom, collectively, has been counting down to the start of the Joshua Tree 2017 Tour. As my part of that countdown, I’ve been focusing each week on tracks that have some connection, however loose, to the album whose thirtieth anniversary is being celebrated this year. Well, the countdown […]
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A wise man once sang, “We thought we had the answers; it was the questions we had wrong.” This prompts me to ask, What are your questions as we enter the final waiting phase before tour liftoff? Mine include: Will Bono’s hair be closer to the color of an eggplant or a pumpkin? (Because the ladies are rooting […]
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This week, we’re back on track after last week’s quick divergence away from our series on Joshua Tree related tracks. Our topic today is one of those songs that didn’t make the cut when The Joshua Tree was initially released, but was included on the twentieth anniversary edition as a bonus track. The song is […]
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This week, I’m temporarily setting aside my ongoing series on Joshua Tree related songs to talk about another recent release, U2’s collaboration with West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar, a song titled “XXX”.
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Some of us plan on visiting our local record store this weekend while others have no local record store to visit. Fortunately, we can all hear U2’s contribution to Record Store Day, the remixed Red Hill Mining Town with new Bono vocals, thanks to the magic of the Internet (and, in a late-breaking twist, Spotify). […]
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I don’t usually write about remixes or alternate versions for these weekly articles, but today is a little bit of a special occasion, so I decided to make an exception. Just hours ago, as I write this, Irish radio personality (and long-time friend of the band) Dave Fanning premiered on his radio program the new […]
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Since the announcement of U2’s Joshua Tree Tour 2017, I’ve been making an attempt to write these articles about songs that are related to The Joshua Tree, even if they didn’t make the final album. One such song is the topic of this week’s article, a B-side from the “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m […]
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One of my favorite things about The Joshua Tree era of U2’s career is the quantity and quality of unique B-sides. There were six songs that were released on that album’s various singles that weren’t available at that time on any other releases. That’s more than half an album’s worth of new music, and what’s […]
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