release date: Mar. 9, 1987
format: vinyl (208 219) / 2 cd (2007 remaster)
[album rate: 4,5 / 5] [4,38]
producer: Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
label: Island Records - nationality: Ireland
5th studio album by U2 follows 3½ years after The Unforgettable Fire (Oct. '84) is the band's second collaboration work with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois as producers. This is their huge commercial world wide success, which took the band 2½ years to make. It is a great pop / rock album, and a near conceptual one. I really loved it then, and played it over and over but I wasn't too pleased with the American tone of the album. I just find it hard to accept the band's adoption of blues and gospel into their musical universe, a thing that really worsened on the following album. The album is enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine 5 / 5 stars ]
1987 Favourite releases: 1. The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come - 2. U2 The Joshua Tree - 3. Hüsker Dü Warehouse: Songs and Stories
