Release date : March 1987
Numbers : 11
Time : 51 min.
Hits : With or without you, I still haven't found what I'm looking for, Where the streets have no name.
Highest position :
The Joshua Tree
Release date : March 1987
Numbers : 11
Time : 51 min.
Hits : With or without you, I still haven't found what I'm
looking for, Where the streets have no name.
Highest position :
 US |
: 1 |
| UK |
: 1 |
| NL |
: 1 |
LP \ Island U2 6 \ UK
LP \ Island U2 6 \ Ireland
LP \ Island R280-2066 \ Japan
LP \ Island 5F 208219 \ Spain \ promo with press kit
CD \ Island CID U2 6 \ UK
CD \ Island 90581-2 \ US
CD \ Island 258 219/CID U2 6 \ Germany
CASS \ Island UC2 6 \ UK
CASS \ Island 90581-1 \ US
This album is album is their complete break
though. It was at that time the most sold record.
This album is often called "The American Album", which
is true is some ways. They were attracked by America (In
God's country) and they were repelled by it (Bullet the
blue sky).
On this album not only national and spiritual borders are
crossed, but also politial.
- Bullet the blue sky : Against the American appearance in El
Salvador
- Mothers of the Disappeared : Against kidnapping and tortuoring
in South America
- Red Hil Mining Town : About a Brittish mining family in the
great mining-strike (1984-1985).
- Exit : About a man who have seen so much that he had gone
crazy.