ZOOTVTOURist said:
Well, let an elder fan respond to it. All the fuzz about the double album has to do with statements by the band in '86/'87 about the actual playlist. "Hot Press" quoted in December '87 U2's guitar player:
"... For instance, we disagreed vehemently about what songs should go on the album. If Bono had his way, 'The Joshua Tree' would have been more American and bluesy, and I was trying to pull it back."
I guess, that's why U2 decided to publish that many new B-sides in this phase full of creativity. Bono several times mentioned, that the 1st single "With Or Without You" was incomplete with "Hold On To Love" and/or the beautiful "Walk To The Water". Also other album tunes were linked with (later) B-sides.
In the Internet you find therefore several and hypothetical attempts by fans, to "restore" the Joshua Tree as a double album with up to 18 tunes, e.g.:
Where The Streets Have No Name
Silver And Gold
I Still Haven't Found...
Spanish Eyes
With Or Without You
Luminous Times
Walk To The Water
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Red Hill Mining Town
Race Against Time
In God's Country
Trip Through Your Wires
Sweetest Thing
One Tree Hill
Deep In The Heart
Exit
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Since a couple of years I´ve been listening to the TJT Double Album in this order instead:
Where The Streets Have No Name (Best album opener. Ever.)
In God´s Country (a rocker that fits between Streets and Found like a desert needs rain or a preacher needs pain or a needle needs a vein or...)
I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For
With Or Without You
Spanish Eyes (fades out with an awesome guitar, and then SE fades in. Great!)
Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) (could have been a new Pride, if it had been more finished. But when you listen to Larry´s totally insane drumming, you just love it not beeing more finished, don´t you?)
Deep In The Heart (wonderful, but weak whereever you put it on this album. Here it contrasts to Bullet in a good way though)
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Red Hill Mining Town
Sweetest Thing (fits here like a desert needs rain or a preacher needs pain or a needle needs a vein or...)
Trip Through Your Wires
Walk To The Water (water after the desert)
One Tree Hill (running to the water after walking to it)
Race Against Time (Good tradition from Boy and October to have a sweet little half-instrumental here)
Silver And Gold (Wish they´d recorded Womanfish instead!)
Exit
Mothers Of The Disappeared