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| Joshua Tree (Remastered / Expanded) (Deluxe Edition) (2CD) | 
 enlarge | Artist: U2
Label: Island
Category: Music
List Price: $29.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 3221
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Extra Tracks, Deluxe Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.7
MPN: 001028602
UPC: 602517509474
EAN: 0602517509474
ASIN: B000WZB944
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Factory Sealed Ships The Same Day
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Where The Streets Have No Name | | • | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | | • | With Or Without You | | • | Bullet The Blue Sky | | • | Running To Stand Still | | • | Red Hill Mining Town | | • | In God's Country | | • | Trip Through Your Wires | | • | One Tree Hill | | • | Exit | | • | Mothers Of The Disappeared |
Disc 2
| • | Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) | | • | Walk To The Water | | • | Spanish Eyes | | • | Deep In The Heart | | • | Silver And Gold | | • | Sweetest Thing | | • | Race Against Time | | • | Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Edit) | | • | Silver And Gold (Sun City) | | • | Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience | | • | Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland) | | • | Desert Of Our Love | | • | Rise Up | | • | Drunk Chicken/America |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Having nearly exhausted their capacity for pop-song politics on War and The Unforgettable Fire, U2 turned toward themes of personal identity and complex relationships on The Joshua Tree. Not that the group was willing to come down off the barricades entirely: "Mothers of the Disappeared" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" turned a jaundiced eye toward Central America and the United States' role there. But the predominant mood here is one of self-discovery and the hunger for something more on tracks like the pulsating "Where the Streets Have No Name" and the gospel-ish "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." The album's masterstroke, however, is "With or Without You," a nasty love song dressed up as an ode of devotion and care. It ranks with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" as the most misread smash hit of the '80s. --Daniel Durchholz
Amazon.com
U2 have made a lot of grand music, but 1987's graceful, powerful Joshua Tree stands as their masterwork. It is by turns moving, inspiring, and exhilarating. Each member contributes his best work, and each song shines. Would that all rock records were made with the same care, the same passion and invention. The ubiquitous opening salvo of "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and the tense "With or Without You" may define this album to many, but its real strengths lie in the brilliant second half: "Red Hill Mining Town," "Trip Through Your Wires," and the surging "One Tree Hill" (the latter being one of rock's--hell, all music's--truly finest moments). --Michael Ruby
Album Description
The deluxe package comprises The Joshua Tree CD, and a Bonus Audio CD. The bonus audio CD features b-sides and rarities from the Joshua Tree sessions. The 2-CD format also includes a 36 page bound book, featuring liner notes by Bill Flanagan with a special essay by The Edge, previously unseen photos by Anton Corbijn and handwritten lyrics by Bono.
Album Details
Same as USA Version.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 The Best of The Best November 21, 2007
41 out of 46 found this review helpful
The Joshua Tree is one of those rare albums that came at the perfect time in a band's career, when everything that made them an excellent band converged to make them rank among the best of all time. They had certainly had fine albums before: The excellent debut, Boy; the underappreciated October; the brilliant War; and the more experimental album, The Unforgettable Fire (plus a couple decent live albums along the way). But this is the one that launched them to the stratosphere, both artistically and commercially.
The opening suite is about as good as it gets in music: Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, and With or Without You. All of these are more than just great rock hits: they're part of the fabric of our time. Outside of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, I can't think of a more amazing beginning to an album. The instant those echoed notes of Where the Streets Have No Name start to fade in, you know - whether it's the first time you've heard it or the thousandth - that you're in for a transcendent musical experience. There aren't many songs or albums that deserve this kind of excessive praise (Sgt. Pepper, Blood on the Tracks, Automatic for the People, Exile on Main St., Songs in the Key of Life, to name a few) and this is one of them.
Not only are the opening tracks incredible, and well-known to all, but the album continues with series of songs both hard-hitting, stunningly beautiful, totally heart-felt, and wonderfully pure, sometimes all at once. The production by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno is textured, nuanced, and completely appropriate for every song. This new, remastered version only enhances the production.
The second disc gives an even fuller picture of the band's sound from this peak era, expanding what was hinted at on the b-sides disc of their 1980-1990 greatest hits collection.
This edition exists for those who are unable or unwilling to shell out the money they're asking for the super-deluxe edition, which includes a concert dvd. For some of the more visually-oriented fans, that's definitely the edition to get. Others, who tend to watch a concert dvd only once or twice, but listen to cds (or ripped music on their computer or mp3 player) may find this the better deal. I, for one, think it's fantastic that the option exists. Rather than force people who want the second disc of Joshua Tree-era songs to pay a rather high price for the full cd/dvd package, fans can opt to buy only the remastered album and second disc.
The bottom line for me is that this is one of the greatest albums of all time, and this new edition has found a way to improve its presentation. With any luck, this deluxe edition will become the new standard for how artists release anniversary editions of their classic albums.
 Audiophiles Need Not Apply January 5, 2008
32 out of 39 found this review helpful
The compression/over-processing scourge has struck once more! This new remaster is intended for the mp3 crowd. If you fall into that category - you'll like it just fine. If you're an audiophile looking to upgrade your old copy - forget it. The old version is better. The record companies are selling fewer CD's, and they're alienating the few good customers they have left. I buy hundreds of CD's every year, but that will change if I keep getting screwed. Are you listening record companies? Sell your compressed/over-processed audio to the ipod crowd through downloads. If you want to keep selling CD's, you'd better get your act together.
Remastered and more grandiose than ever! November 29, 2007
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
FINALLY a remastering of the FULL version of (check and laugh at my review of U2's last compilation U218 Singles) "Where the Streets Have No Name"!!!!! This is what I have been waiting for for a looooooong time!
This anniversary edition was WAAAAAAY overdue but it's finally here and worth buying right away! It's a specially great gift for those people who are not complete die hards of U2 but definitely like this album; and the b-sides make a perfect collateral to show that you didn't just buy the 'cheapskate' single-cd version.
As for the reviews here lambasting this cd. What did this album EVER do to you?? If you know even a little BIT of Bono you will know how he reveres those groups that you say are better. He will be the FIRST to admit that you are absolutely right, and I'm sure that he will call Joshua Tree an awful record compared to those!!
Still, his humility and your hate aside. This IS a landmark album. This is the only album I can recommend to anyone, independently of their music tastes, heritage, cultural or national background. This is an honest to God CLASSIC album that marked not only an epoch but also retains its universality across time. Just like those other awesome groups and albums you mentioned!
So don't get mad! Thank the heavens we live in a world where we have the liberty to have and hear so many awesome records that can be and are in fact loved by some many people across the world!
ROCK ON!!!
 "Remasterd"?...I don't get it February 5, 2008
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This review only addresses the remastered release and not the content of the album.
The original CD of this album was not the best example of mastering analog to digital in the earlier days of CDs. With that in mind, this "remaster" is even worse. I don't agrree with the assessment that the engineering of the original recordings is to blame because I have an original vinyl of the album and it is far better than ANY digital incarnation. Sure CD tech has come a long way in 25+ years and most new albums and remasters sound far better than they ever used to, but what the heck happened here? The instrumentation may be slightly more articulate in some tonal ranges (particularly the Edge's multiple guitar parts and overdubs) but that is about the only improvement over previous incarnations. The vocals and the percussion are completely flat, two dimensional and lifeless far more so than previous CDs rendering this remaster almost unlistenable. I had to check my equipment to make sure something had not gone wrong because it sounded so poor. Perhaps this remaster was intended to be carved up into mp3 or worse but I feel totally deceived by this release and very disapointed.
My rating is for the poor remaster, not the content of the record April 2, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
First off, I should say that I consider "The Joshua Tree" a 4 1/2-5 star album, but this remaster is very poor. Like many modern recordings, everything sounds compressed as hell. In short, far too often, it sounds like I am listening with blankets thrown over my speakers; too many little nuances are either muffled or lost in the compressed mix. The original sounded fabulous, but I guess the idea of a big money grab by remastering a classic was way too much to resist, and I guessed it work with me since I bought it, but to others who have not bought it yet and are thinking about it:
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!! Stick with your copy of the original. Since I still own my original copy, I know I will.
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