The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree by the group U2 was released March 9th, 1987. It went on to sell more than 25 million copies world wide and received critical acclaim.(That's why we make records so people can judge them) The album had many hit singles "with or with out you", Where the streets have no name" and the song Bono wrote about his missing keys "I still haven't found what I am looking for".

The album was steeped in angelic reference and life without strings tied to your metaphorical fingers. Bono sang "I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside" and "I want to take shelter from the poison rain where the streets have no name". This is obviously about heaven no question or could there be? What if Bono was watching TOP GUN and the acid rain he talks of is Mavericks, played by Tommy Cruise, bombs from his fighter jet? And maybe the streets with no name are from Ferris Buellers Day Off when they drive home backwards? (both films were released the year U2 recorded the record.. so its possible) Due to the backward driving they can't read the signs effectively unnaming them, some how? The statement about The Joshua Tree being about pop culture is ambiguous but all I'm saying that its definitely possible that it's not about religion, or is it?


The record went on to win the boys a couple Grammy's and I am sure caused a smile or two. I heard around the water cooler at the office recently that U2 has collected approximately 50 million pounds as a group, not to bad?! I will always be a fan of a group that ALWAYS works to prove they are better then we all think they are. You raise that bar U2!

Hit THE slide,

DC