With the uniformly excellent songs - only the clumsy, heavy rock and portentous lyrics of "Bullet the Blue Sky" fall flat - the result is a powerful, uncompromising record that became a hit due to its vision and its melody. Not only are Bono's lyrics obsessed with America, but country and blues influences are heard throughout the record, and instead of using these as roots, they're used as ways to add texture to the music. Unexpectedly, U2 have also tempered their textural post-punk with American influences. Awesome The Joshua Tree has always been my favorite U2 album and this super deluxe 4 disc set on MP3 does not disappoint. That means that even the anthems - the epic opener "Where the Streets Have No Name," the yearning "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - have seeds of doubt within their soaring choruses, and those fears take root throughout the album, whether it's in the mournful sliding acoustic guitars of "Running to Stand Still," the surging "One Tree Hill," or the hypnotic elegy "Mothers of the Disappeared." So it might seem a little ironic that U2 became superstars on the back of such a dark record, but their focus has never been clearer, nor has their music been catchier, than on The Joshua Tree. As for people looking for live footage or music videos for U2s The Joshua Tree, I recommend looking into the feature film Rattle & Hum and the Best of 1980-1990 compilation. It is unquestionable the success that he made at the time of launch and brings to this day good references. in 1999, the Joshua Tree was awarded the RIAA's highest certification, Diamond, with 10 million units sold. It was U2's first album to reach 1 in the United States. It's a move that returns them to the sweeping, anthemic rock of War, but if War was an exploding political bomb, The Joshua Tree is a journey through its aftermath, trying to find sense and hope in the desperation. 5.0 out of 5 starsU2 - 'The Joshua Tree - 30th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)' Reviewed in the United Kingdom on. U2's biggest selling album to date, entered the US album charts at 7 and reached 1 three weeks later. Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as a basis, U2 expanded those innovations by scaling back the songs to a personal setting and adding a grittier attack for its follow-up, The Joshua Tree. A documentary examining the production of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album.