PookaMacP
War Child
My girlfriend bought me the remastered vinyl copy of The Joshua Tree for my birthday a few weeks ago and I thought I'd give it a spin on this sunny Dublin evening. I hadn't played the album in its entirety for a long time, but from the first organ notes of Streets to that fantastic processed drum loop on Mothers of the Disappeared, I've been struck by one thought: What An Album. No matter what they do for the rest of their career, no matter how much we (or at least me personally) might lament the loss of some creative boldness (regained in the first and last thirds of NLOTH, but they dropped the ball in the middle), I think we should all celebrate the fact that we will always have records like this. Absolutely brilliant.
Now, before you shoot me down for starting a thread about something we might all agree on or clogging up the board, I was interested in seeing the I don't get Zooropa thread and have been dragged down a bit by the talk of how badly they appear to have planned the campaign for the new record and decided we needed to do a bit of celebrating of the band that brought us here in the first place.
Round of applause for records like The Joshua Tree, there ain't enough of them to go around.
Now, before you shoot me down for starting a thread about something we might all agree on or clogging up the board, I was interested in seeing the I don't get Zooropa thread and have been dragged down a bit by the talk of how badly they appear to have planned the campaign for the new record and decided we needed to do a bit of celebrating of the band that brought us here in the first place.
Round of applause for records like The Joshua Tree, there ain't enough of them to go around.