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Classic Albums - The Joshua Tree

By Sam

U2 in technicolor...Yippee.
1. Program Start/A Very Irish Album [4:26]
2. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" [5:59]
3. "With or Withour You" [2:28]
4. The Edge and the Guitar [6:15]
5. Flood the Engineer [2:38]
6. "Mothers of the Disappeared" [7:09]
7. "Bullet the Blue Sky" [4:06]
8. "Where the Streets Have No Name" [6:48]
9. "Exit" [5:09]
10. "Running to Stand Still" [9:51]
11. "The Sweetest Thing" [3:39]
12. Credits [1:07]

This DVD features the band and the producers behind the scenes, over a decade after the album's release. I would recommend this one for those of you who were able to sit through The Unforgettable Fire video and didn't curl up and snore. That's not to say anything bad about The Unforgettable Fire, but watching all of that work being done in the studio is often as tiring as actually doing the work all by yourself. Cool stuff about this video - it goes behind the scenes and behind the song on half the album, showing clips from the music videos, tape demos, and a few things that were taken out of some of the tracks. You are also told for probably the first time that the album hardly qualifies as eighties music.

The few things on the video that is slightly irritating are the video clips from the official Zoo-TV and Popmart videos that have not officially found their way onto DVD format. I guess it's understandable that the band would rather have you live in the now rather than the past, especially since they are spending ten million bucks to promote the upcoming album. And one more minor problem, the DVD is only 60 minutes long and in stereo. I will say this much - if you aren't a serious fan of U2, you might not enjoy this DVD very much. However, people who love the album and are interested in what's behind it will enjoy viewing it at least a few times. Although documentaries tend to be at the bottom of the list, this is a great official collector's item. Simply put, the bigger of a fan you are, the more you will like it. Just don't pay anything over $15 for it.

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