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The Joshua Tree

U2 · 1987

A record made in two Irish houses. Guitar, bass, and drums played live through monitors. Open, ambient sound tied to the room. Antipathy toward US foreign policy held beside fascination with American space and ideals. Sequenced the night before delivery. Not ambient. Not experimental. Not American-made — but deeply, tensely, about America.