“Running To Stand Still”, “Red Mining Town” and “Mothers of the Disappeared”, harkened back to the band’s earlier albums. I then became the guy who appreciated the non-Top 40 songs more than the “hits”. I could feel it.Īll because of this song, I bought the album. He had anger, he had angst, he had emotion.
The guitar evoked emotion with a Jimi Hendrix vibe.īono was singing in the same tone he did on earlier albums. The bass had this “I’m wearing Doc Martins and I am going to kick your ass” feel. The drums hit hard, (Led Zeppelin fans, forgive me) like “When The Levee Breaks”. And I said, “THIS is the U2 I know and enjoy”. “Where The Streets Have No Names” was another one that hit me with lyrics, personally and it had that social topic that I loved on “War” and “Boy” but it was still to slick and I hated that part of it.īut then I heard “Bullet The Blue Sky” on a Rock station I used to listen to ALOT in Dallas, TX. Lyrically, this song resonated with me, but, again, it was moving up the Top 40 chart and I was having none of it. (though I find it funny that The Edge didn’t like it at first, at first and called it something akin to “Eye Of The Tiger”). But it was still lame, compared to their other stuff, though it had that “Unforgettable Fire” and “Bad” vibe.
Something I was struggling with, while going to a parochial high school. OK, this wasn’t about love, it was more about confusion of spirituality. Then came “I Still Haven’t Found What I Am Looking For”. I refused to buy the album…nope, U2 was now not one of the bands I wanted to call cool. You know the one that walked around saying, “they suck now that they went commercial”. Then said to myself, “Well, I guess they do now”. When I first heard the lead single from the album, “With Or Without You”, I looked at my radio and said, “What the fuck is this? Where is the angry protest of ‘New Year’s Day’ and ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’? Where was the shitty production of their earlier work?” It was soft…it was a song about unrequited LOVE? However, it is still a go-to album when I am needing to remind myself of a good time in my life. To this day, it still doesn’t rank as a top 10 album for me. What’s interesting about this album is that it wasn’t one of my favorite albums. I am not one for nostalgia and “The Wayback Machine”, but there are few seminal moments in my life that hit me and U2’s “The Joshua Tree” was one of them.
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