U2 in the 80s - From Boy to the Joshua Tree | POP FIX | Professor of Rock

A celebration of U2: I remember buying U2 the Joshua Tree with my own money as a kid. This album didn't get tired after a month. It was an album with layers upon layers of fire, intensity and veracity. Three chords and the Truth indeed, except that the Edge added a lot more to those three chords and played them unlike any other guitarist i'd ever heard, you combine that with the conviction and emotion of Bono's voice and you have something magical that simply can't be conveyed in a YouTube video, but we do it here! Anyone who has heard this album more than a few times and grew up with it, know's exactly what i'm talking about. It's transformative and utterly compelling. Included are my top 5 U2 80s songs.

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#5- "I Will Follow" from Boy, their debut album in 1980. We have to bow down to The Edge on "I Will Follow". The tune grips you from the opening lick of The Edge's two string guitar riff that permeates throughout the song. "I Will Follow" was also a revealing preview to discovering the depth of Bono as a lyricist. Bono wrote "I Will Follow" about his mother, who passed away when he was only 14. The prose is from the perspective of a mother, and is about the unconditional love a mother has for her child.

#4- "Pride (In the Name of Love)". The lead single from U2's 4th studio album Unforgettable Fire. It is U2's tribute to the great Martin Luther King, along with reverence to other non-violent leaders throughout history that crusaded for the equality of man. When elaborating on the song's meaning, Bono stated that the song speaks to how those leaders lived their life with an inner pride in all of humanity. The bridge of "Pride (In the Name Of Love) was turned into a touching remembrance of the fateful day when MLK was assassinated:

#3- From the 1983 album WAR.."This song is not a rebel song- this song is "Sunday Bloody Sunday". One of the greatest drum grooves of all time by Larry Mullen Jr. Larry's Double-handed hi hat pattern being played between the hi-hat and the snare drum creates a warlike marching effect that sets the tone for one of U2's most political tunes. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" recounts the gruesome massacre in 1972, where British paratroopers killed 13 Irish citizens at a civil rights protest in Derry, Northern Ireland.

#2- "Where the Streets Have No Name"- the 3rd single from Joshua Tree in 1987, the game-changing album we've previously discussed that by the way has sold over 25 million copies around the globe. Bono wrote the lyrics about the class structure of Belfast- a city where you can predict a person's religion, political affiliation, or income status, by the street they live on.
The song was extremely challenging to produce.

#1- "From 1987- "With or Without You". The lead single from the Joshua Tree, and the first of two songs that hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America for U2.
Bono delivers his finest, most versatile vocal performance in this song about the conflicting lives of a famous musician and a married man. It was another complex song that could've easily been relegated to a stack of forgotten demos, but a good producer can turn a diamond in the rough, into a blazing sparkler, especially when you have not one, but two superstar producers in Lanois and Eno.

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