Massive double doors were removed and replaced with a glass screen looking into the elegant drawing room, which would serve as the live room. By January 1986 the dining room had been converted into a control room, complete with tape machines and mixing desk. Believing Danesmoate to be much more inspiring than a sterile professional facility, the group decided to construct a fully functional studio inside the old walls. ![]() U2 had recorded much of their previous album, 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire, in County Meath’s Slane Castle. The plan was not completely without precedent. It was like an ecstatic music.” The spirit caught on – The Joshua Tree went on to top of the charts in more than 20 countries, spawning hit singles with “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Where the Streets Have No Name” and “With Or Without You.” Technologically innovative, politically charged, spiritually conscious and radio-friendly in the extreme, the album built on U2’s reputation as unparalleled live performers and vaulted them to the top of the modern-rock pile. “It was so out of step with everything around,” Bono agreed. … When we were making this album we didn’t really feel like we were a part of what was going on in the music business at that stage. It’s coming from somewhere completely different. “It’s not coming from an Eighties mentality. “It doesn’t really sound like anything else from its time at all,” the Edge recalled in a 1999 Classic Albums documentary. were strangers in a strange land, and this sense of otherness is prevalent throughout the album. Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. ![]() While the lyrics to U2‘s 1987 opus give voice to their ever-expanding social conscience, the roots of The Joshua Tree are planted firmly in blues, gospel and folk – with an outsider’s edge. The plot of The Joshua Tree is essentially an immigrant’s tale: Four guys from Ireland set off to find America, and what they discovered left them both invigorated and outraged.
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