Album dossier / 1987
The Joshua Tree
U2 · Rock
Recorded across three home-studio-style locations -- guitarist The Edge's house, bassist Adam Clayton's home, and Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios -- with returning producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and, for the first time, engineer Flood (fresh off Nick Cave sessions). 'Where the Streets Have No Name' proved so difficult to record, thanks to its shifting time signatures, that Eno estimated it consumed roughly 40% of the album's total studio time and, in frustration, allegedly tried to 'accidentally' erase the master tapes before engineer Pat McCarthy stopped him. The finished album topped both the US and UK charts and is often cited as the moment U2 graduated from arena act to global institution.
Record facts
- Label
- Island Records
- Producer
- Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
- Chart peak
- #1 US/UK
- Notable tracks
- ★ With or Without You
- ★ Where the Streets Have No Name
Artist & discography
Complete 1980s Studio Discography
6 studio albums released from 1980–1989 by U2. Archived records link directly to full dossiers; remaining releases are queued for harvesting. MusicBrainz source.
Complete track listing · 11 tracks
- 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
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musicbrainz.org, webuyrecordsusa.com, en.wikipedia.org, faroutmagazine.co.uk · track listing: https://www.discogs.com/release/204238 · cover art: coverartarchive.org
Last enriched: 2026-08-22