U2 THE JOSHUA TREE ORIG ISLAND LP POSTER/LYRICS INSERT GF EXCELLENT 1987

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Here is an EXCELLENT! LP by U2 titled THE JOSHUA TREE. It is an ORIGINAL! US pressing on the ISLAND label, catalog #7 90581 in STEREO sound and released in 1987. The vinyl is in EXCELLENT! condition, shiny and black, with some non-sounding marks and should have excellent playback. It has ITS’ UNIQUE POSTER/LYRICS INSERT! The GATEFOLD cover is in EXCELLENT! condition with light surface/ring wear, light wear to edges and corners. It is your opportunity to purchase this LP by U2 in this condition. It’s a true gem for the BONO / ALBUM ROCK / ALTERNATIVE/INDIE ROCK / POST-PUNK ROCK / ROCK collector!! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pics. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. SHIPPING IN THE US IS $4.00 for MEDIA MAIL. I COMBINE SHIPPING SO US BUYERS PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE! Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!

Music Review from AllMusic.com by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as a basis, U2 expanded those innovations by scaling back the songs to a personal setting and adding a grittier attack for its follow-up, The Joshua Tree. It's a move that returns them to the sweeping, anthemic rock of War, but if War was an exploding political bomb, The Joshua Tree is a journey through its aftermath, trying to find sense and hope in the desperation. That means that even the anthems -- the epic opener "Where the Streets Have No Name," the yearning "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" -- have seeds of doubt within their soaring choruses, and those fears take root throughout the album, whether it's in the mournful sliding acoustic guitars of "Running to Stand Still," the surging "One Tree Hill," or the hypnotic elegy "Mothers of the Disappeared." So it might seem a little ironic that U2 became superstars on the back of such a dark record, but their focus has never been clearer, nor has their music been catchier, than on The Joshua Tree. Unexpectedly, U2 have also tempered their textural post-punk with American influences. Not only are Bono's lyrics obsessed with America, but country and blues influences are heard throughout the record, and instead of using these as roots, they're used as ways to add texture to the music. With the uniformly excellent songs -- only the clumsy, heavy rock and portentous lyrics of "Bullet the Blue Sky" fall flat -- the result is a powerful, uncompromising record that became a hit due to its vision and its melody. Never before have U2's big messages sounded so direct and personal.