“The Joshua Tree has been U2’s most popular album since about ten minutes after it was released. The 1987 smash was the culmination of their American phase, between their florid, young-European phase and their grizzled, mature-European phase. The album’s huge commercial success whisked the lads from superstardom to megastardom, and they spent the next decade […]”
“Twenty years ago, U2 graduated to superstardom with The Joshua Tree, an album that's survived all those years in the spotlight as a masterpiece. Now the disc gets the requisite set of B-sides and rarities, plus a DVD.”
