December 14, 200717 yr I've taken my Special Edition box set out its wrapping. That's progress. :lol: I'm playing the 'normal' Joshua Tree CD at the moment.
December 14, 200717 yr Its' on the way............ :funky: :funky: :funky: :funky: :funky: :funky: Delivery estimate: December 19, 2007 - December 21, 2007 Shipping estimate for these items: December 17, 2007 1 "Joshua Tree (Remastered / Expanded) (Super Deluxe Edition) (2CD/DVD)" U2; Audio CD :music: :music: :music: :music: :music: :music: :music:
December 14, 200717 yr It's really well packaged Tessa. Did you know The Joshua Tree is Bill Clinton's favourite album? :lol:
December 14, 200717 yr It's really well packaged Tessa. Did you know The Joshua Tree is Bill Clinton's favourite album? :lol: Jup...Have you got it....what is in it....it looked good when I spotted it on Amazon......what does that DVD contain.......................... :dance: :dance: :dance: O' I cannot wait for it to arrive..... :D :D :D
December 14, 200717 yr It's in a black box. Like a book. You get the Joshua Tree CD, a CD of B-Sides, a Bonus DVD. Not watched the dvd yet. You also get 5 prints of Joshua Tree artwork and a hard backed mini-book (about 60 pages) with photos/facts etc. It all looks really good. Just started listening to the B-sides CD.
December 14, 200717 yr It's in a black box. Like a book. You get the Joshua Tree CD, a CD of B-Sides, a Bonus DVD. Not watched the dvd yet. You also get 5 prints of Joshua Tree artwork and a hard backed mini-book (about 60 pages) with photos/facts etc. It all looks really good. Just started listening to the B-sides CD. O'...it sounds lovely..... B) B) B) That Bill Clinton is a naughty boy............ :naughty: :naughty: :naughty: he always has a 'twinkle' in his eye............................Sorry Twinkle'...... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: he sure has good taste though..................... :P :P :P
December 14, 200717 yr I think they are all songs recorded during the 'Joshua Tree' era. Whether they all saw the light of day as B-Sides I don't know. Some may have been unreleased.
December 15, 200717 yr I've watched the DVD. It's brilliant. :yahoo: Not a 20 minute ' a few clips' type DVD. A full length DVD. On it you get- - A Full U2 French concert (outdoor) from 1987. The whole concert A-Z. A total of 18 songs :o Tracklisting as follows- - I Will Follow - Trip Through Your Wires - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - MLK - The unforgettable Fire - Sunday Bloody Sunday - Exit - In God's Country - Electric Co - Bad - October - New Years Day - Pride - Bullet The Blue Sky - Running To Stand Still - With Or Without You - Party Girl - 40 :o You also get a 50 minute documentary of U2 in America during the Joshua Tree Tour (really interesting :cheer: ) And alternative videos of With or Without You and Red Hill Mining Town I wasn't expecting so much on the dvd. :o
December 15, 200717 yr I've watched the DVD. It's brilliant. :yahoo: Not a 20 minute ' a few clips' type DVD. A full length DVD. On it you get- - A Full U2 French concert (outdoor) from 1987. The whole concert A-Z. A total of 18 songs :o Tracklisting as follows- - I Will Follow - Trip Through Your Wires - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - MLK - The unforgettable Fire - Sunday Bloody Sunday - Exit - In God's Country - Electric Co - Bad - October - New Years Day - Pride - Bullet The Blue Sky - Running To Stand Still - With Or Without You - Party Girl - 40 :o You also get a 50 minute documentary of U2 in America during the Joshua Tree Tour (really interesting :cheer: ) And alternative videos of With or Without You and Red Hill Mining Town I wasn't expecting so much on the dvd. :o OMG' Jup...I am now thrilled that I bought it...cannot wait for it to arrive.. :lol: :lol: ...many thanks for the great description.....
December 19, 200717 yr @Santa... :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: I want it.... :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: I´ve been a good girl, haven´t I .... :unsure:
December 21, 200717 yr http://www.nme.com/news/nme/32994 Celebrate 'Joshua Tree' 20th anniversary with classic U2 interview U2 See what Bono and The Edge said about the album back in 1987 Dec 6, 2007 U2 are set to reissue their landmark 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree' to celebrate its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, NME.COM has uncovered this archive radio interview the band gave at the time, showcasing U2's immediate reaction to the classic record. The Edge on the songwriting process: “Well, we were writing before the Amnesty tour (in 1986). We wrote, I suppose, about three of the songs that were on the record before doing the Amnesty tour. We came off the Amnesty tour, picked ourselves up and got back into songwriting, and at that stage we started bringing in Danny (Lanois) and Brian (Eno) just for brief periods. “Just for them to hear the genesis of the record and become involved as far as they were interested to. And so at that stage just after the Amnesty tour we did a lot of demos, a lot of development of the songs and worked pretty much right up until January of this year (1987) - that was when we finished the record, finally. "So there was a lengthy period of work on the record but I think we’ve come out with probably, not finished, but 30 songs started and we’re using up a lot of those on the double B-side idea which seems to have been accepted very well, I think it’s a great idea, I don’t know why anyone hasn’t done it before." The Edge on the difference between 'The Joshua Tree' and 1984's 'The Unforgettable Fire': “We attempted at the outset to work within the idiom of the song which is something that we haven’t really ever thought too much about in the past. If ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ was an album of experimentation and innovation, this was a record that accepted from the outset the idea that a song was straightforward in arrangement, quite stripped down. Although Brian (Eno) and Danny (Lanois) worked on 'The Unforgettable Fire' they were very much in favour in this new, sort of idea.” Bono on the Beatles influence: "I think in U2, I think that 'The Joshua Tree' in a way is almost old fashioned, in that it’s like an old Beatles album, it’s like a collection of songs, some songs are experimental and almost orchestrated like 'One Tree Hill' and others are just clear cut little gems like 'In God’s Country'.” The Edge on the theme of the album: “'The Joshua Tree' is a record based thematically on America, there are some songs that could be from anywhere – 'Where The Streets Have No Name' could be a European situation as well as American. But a lot of the material, a lot of the songs, like 'In God’s Country', 'Exit', 'Bullet The Blue Sky', these songs that are based in America are as a result of touring here, meeting musicians that are really tuned in to American folk and R&B music, the original roots music of this country. “And just becoming so fascinated with this culture, the very paradoxes of this place has led us to start investigating the original music, the seminal influences of music here. These are all things that as a result of becoming saturated with America, American culture and American music over the past 12 months.” The Edge on the diversity of the album: “This record is so diverse, you’ve got stuff like ‘Bullet The Blue Sky’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘Running To Stand Still’, ‘Exit’. These songs are almost diametrically opposite in many ways, from the most low-key, soft, intimate piece to like total guitar anarchy, ‘Pulling the wall through the amplifier’ is what Bono used to say. "We really agonised over which single was going to lead, if we were going to release one, and ‘With Or Without You’ became the obvious choice not because it’s probably the most commercial song on the record but because it’s the one that seems to smooth the transition from the last thing to this record, the easiest." Bono on his lyrical influences: “A lot of the poetry that has inspired me over the last few years has been a lot of black poetry, people like Robert Haden, American Indian poetry. America has a rich literary tradition that I have found an inspiration. I’ve got really fed up with the high-brow European writers, they just bore me to death, I think they’re highfaluting. And I much prefer the American writing like Irish writing it has a much more generous spirit at the heart of it. It’s a lot more folk. “And when I read of Woody Guthrie and ‘This Land Is Your Land’, these are good songs, good songs written, and that’s why we’re playing ‘People Get Ready’ in the set now because it is a great American song, it’s so simple. It says ‘People get ready, there’s a train a coming /Picking up passengers from coast to coast/Faith is the key to open the doors and boarders, don’t need no tickets just get on board’. Well that line to me as an Irishman, ‘Faith is the key to open the doors and the boarders’ - I mean, (that) says it all.“ The Edge on working with Brian Eno: “Brian is a real naïve enthusiast as far as music is concerned. He’s not an intellectual listener at all - he listens to something and he’ll either love it or hate it and his reasons are often instinctive not intellectual. He’s a huge fan of people like Hank Williams.” Bono on the role of the album: “We sort of began again really with ‘The Unforgettable Fire’, we broke up the band after ‘Under The Blood Red Sky’ and formed it again with the same members and started off. Everyone wanted us to be the new Who, you know, the new rock 'n' roll group, and we said 'Yeah, sure, we don’t mind', I mean we’ll take that as a compliment. The Who had been a huge influence on U2. “But we didn’t want to be didn’t want to be a straight forward rock 'n' roll group at that time, we wanted something else and we had to find out own way. So we went off the beaten track with ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ and then again with ‘The Joshua Tree’.” Bono on the future of the band: “Maybe one day, I don’t know where this is all going to lead us but it’s a lot of fun. It’s a lot of fun finding your way when it’s kind of unchartered territory and Edge is a very inventive guitar player and as a group we are committed to that and I’m glad we’ve stuck by that over the years. It might mean we sell less records because you’re not doing what people want you to do you’re doing what you want to do but you know, what difference does it make to us really. I mean, we’ve been blessed with success and we have no worries about where the next dollar is going to come from. We’re well looked after so, therefore, we can do what we want to do, what a great position to be in and I think the only commitment we have to make is to continue to do that.” The three-disc box set features a remastered version of the album, a bonus disc of demos and B-sides, plus the DVD ’Live From Paris’, filmed at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris on July 4 1987, during the European leg of 'The Joshua Tree' tour. There is a 56-page book featuring previously unseen Anton Corbijn photos and handwritten lyrics by Bono and liner notes by Brian Eno and others.
December 21, 200717 yr http://www.caller.com/news/2007/dec/21/u2-...lution-of-band/ U2 box set gives look at evolution of band Jesse DeLeon Friday, December 21, 2007 When it was released in 1987, U2's "The Joshua Tree" got its share of attention. Not only were its songs all over the radio, MTV was running videos seemingly nonstop for "With or Without You" and "Where the Streets Have No Name," among others. And because compact discs just were becoming the format of choice for the music-buying public, fans were just as much in awe of the record's sonic detail and sweeping production as they were of the music itself. Now, "The Joshua Tree" (Rhino) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its release with a deluxe box set that contains the re-mastered album and collects rare b-sides, alternate takes and songs that were meant to be on the album but were dropped. Tracks such as "The Sweetest Thing" and "Silver and Gold" are familiar to U2 aficionados, but these hard-to-find performances were available previously only on vinyl, so having them all in one place makes an already landmark recording that much more compelling. The accompanying DVD features U2 performing in Paris in 1987 where the band tears through "I Will Follow" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and progresses to the more mature material featured on "The Joshua Tree" -- such as "Running To Stand Still" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." The DVD is like watching a young, hungry band transform itself from a slightly punky group of misfits into the socially conscious, purpose-driven and fearlessly outspoken icons that they are today. The spiritual lyrics, the musical complexity and the sonic panorama all go to make "The Joshua Tree" the "Citizen Kane" of popular music. With this box set, U2's artistic vision that led to the creation of one of rock's most essential records becomes even more sharply focused. Rating The Joshua Tree (Rhino), U2 ****
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