with Shins fading out and this starting I thought it was Down In The Park by Numan

marvelous...
 

U2 fan WAY back in the day — I remember clearly when this LP came out — it's absolutely genius then and it still is now.  U2 fell out of favor for me after this one — I was at the filming of the Rattle n Hum stadium shows (they weren't playing huge shows, yet, BTW - they sold those tickets for $5 to fill it :-) and for me that was it, and I haven't listened to them in almost 30 years.  HOWEVER when I now hear songs from The Joshua Tree, I remember what an absolutely amazing LP — and band — they were.

I have listened to this album hundreds of times, and never get tired of it. After visiting the Joshua Tree National Park with this CD on the car ... This album is just WOW! I just would like to hear some of the other brilliant songs here, "Red Hill Mining Town" maybe?

How about limiting U2 to only every other day? Or start by havng just 1 day off a month and progressing from there?

 Cynaera wrote: 
Well said, friend...  miss you...

 

The song is great, but that guitar solo... WOW! Masterful work by "the" Edge. It deserves a place as one of the best 50 guitar solos of all time.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
I came of musical age with the Beatles and the Stones and my high school was definitely a stronghold of the Zeppelin, Who, Floyd fanatics.

Really love Zep and the Who - Floyd not so much, but as I moved on to first Bowie and then punk and on the Elvis Costello, U2s arrival on the rock radio scene were welcome breaths of fresh air - that I inhaled in massive quantities - so my affection for them still exceeds mine for Zeppelin.

And really its for one main reason - and if you see who my mainstay's were you can tell - its the songs.  The tunes.  The well crafted musical stories.  Zep was a mind blowing Blues/Rock/Hardass kicking quartet with fantastic players and an incredibly charismatic front man. Floyd was a mind blowing Blues/Prog/Atmospheric/ neo-Classical  bunch of amazing players.

But in my humble opinion, U2, like the Beatles and Stones, the Who, Bowie, and Elvis - just wrote - and occasionally sitll write - better songs than Plant, Page, Waters, Gilmour et al.

 lemmoth wrote: 

I agreee !!!!!!!!!

 MiracleDrug wrote: 
Absolutely —- a show stopper live.....

An understanding of bullets. Eloquently executed explanation.,

Terrific song but there's been an awful lot of U2 lately, no? I have the albums, y'know.

 MiracleDrug wrote: 

Didn`t kill me, I liked it.

6 months of Radio Paradise and first time Ive had to listen to that nob,please RP leave U2 to the crap commercial 
stations to play. Bono,you sold out years ago. 

So when did RP become the U2 channel? Not necessarily complaining, but there have been as many U2 songs in the past week as my local "Dave" FM station plays—and that's a lot.

this song KILLS live...

 sirdroseph wrote:
In general I'd agree, but this particular song sounds very much like Zep, particularly the bass/drums. (Try playing it back to back with "When The Levee Breaks".) Not saying that's good or bad, it just is.

 coloradojohn wrote: 
That's what rock and roll is about.   I had a similar experience the first time I heard Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit.  Was working at a Best Buy in the computer section.  Somebody in the stereo section next to us cranked up Nirvana so half the store could hear it.  I was working two ailes down and should have went over there and turned it down, but instead, I was like, "Wow"...  that freakin' rocks...  and let it play LOUD. 

YEAH! 

 On_The_Beach wrote: 

U2 is a good band, this song is really good. No one in their right mind has ever compared them musically to Led Zepplin though they may end up selling more records than Zep. Selling records and good music only occasionally hang out together though and are not really good friends.

I NEVER get tired of Joshua Tree — U2's finest. This track, as an earlier poster so aptly said, is FIERCE!

 Jahgal wrote: 


I know what you mean...  this is a GREAT song, and this album is a classic...  you are welcome anytime!

 

I remember well the first time I heard this; I was talking to my room-mate Mary at 745 Arapaho, and this thing came over KBCO and we both fell silent as I reached for the volume knob and gave it a crank.  We freaked!  Sure, I had a good green buzz on, but...this was something else...It felt like the room was moving, the floor was heaving, as the sky was being ripped open by fighter planes and bullets were strafing down and Bono's voice breathed into the microphone and that bass wailed and Edge played and jagged shards came right out of my speakers and the neighbors pounded on the walls but we made them wait till it was over...YEAH!

 romeotuma wrote: 
I think I need to join your party! Third Album I ever bought. Still makes my heart skip a beat hearing it. 
 

 mandolin wrote: 

I agree!

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song, and this whole album...


 

Someone called this a screaming guitar, and that's wonderfully descriptive.  Powerful music, and "outside it's America" with screaming, jangly guitar noises.

 romeotuma wrote: 

...oh, this is just perfect rolling out of puscifer's green valley...