The American music magazine "Rolling Stone" selects U2 1985 "Band of the 80s". With their fifth album The Joshua Tree, the Irish four and a half years later, prove that they are worthy of this title. On their fifth plate ver-working U2 impressions and experiences that they have made on their tours through the USA, and moves torn between fascination ("In God's Country") and repelled-His ("Bullet the Blue Sky"). The emptiness of endless Wastes that Rastlosig-ness and confusion, all of this sounds through in the 12 songs. U 2 worked in the production The Joshua Tree again with the production team Brian Eno / Daniel Lanois together, which was the band already in the recordings to its predecessor The Unforgettable Fire to the side. You owe the plate atmospärische their density and the complex arrangements. Depressing topics come to language. In "Running to stand still" is about drugs; Miners' strike and the US presence in El Salvador will be discussed. But the power of music, the unusual sound of the band and the lush melodies have The Joshua Tree never sink into melancholy and making this record one of the most important rock albums of the 80s. (This is an Amazon.com at the university-student review.)
