![]() The promised land, both brutal and beautiful.” Imbued with their own distinctly Irish viewpoint (captured most notably in “Red Hill Mining Town,” written a few years after the U.K.’s mining strike, and “Running to Stand Still,” about a heroin-addicted couple in Dublin), it’s a note they never struck quite the same way again. “This mythical America or ‘Amerika’ – described for us in the movies of Scorsese, Coppola, Wim Wenders, in the music of the blues, and by the authors we were reading at the time … was a place of fascination for us. ![]() It’s notable that the band chose a recording from New York for this set, as Joshua Tree plays like a bittersweet love letter to the U.S., from the angsty “Bullet the Blue Sky” to the uneasy “In God’s Country.” “As the album was being recorded, we consciously tried to evoke the landscapes of America with our music,” the Edge wrote in an essay accompanying his photos.
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