On this day in 1987, U2 released "Where the Streets Have No Name" - the third single from the band’s fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree”
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Just started college. Remember this album so well.
aug 31, 2025, 1:33 pm • 2 0 • view
also one of the worst mullets ever worn by a human being
aug 31, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
One of the best song intros ever.
aug 31, 2025, 2:19 pm • 3 0 • view
One of the best songs by one of my favorite bands
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 3 0 • view
1987??? How? How can that be??? Sigh…
aug 31, 2025, 12:46 pm • 10 0 • view
In a word - yep. I stopped paying attention to class reunion notifications long ago...
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 pm • 7 0 • view
I warped 2 cassettes of the Joshua Tree. 🙌🏾 Bullet the Blue Sky was the gem of the album.
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 pm • 5 0 • view
LOL cassettes.
aug 31, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey! Don't make fun of the aged. 🤣
aug 31, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Hahaha I'm older than dirt and twice as dusty. Got a sansui sc-1100 and a suitcase full of tapes here.
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Love it!
aug 31, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Not all Columbia House too!
aug 31, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Played thousands of times since.
aug 31, 2025, 1:55 pm • 3 0 • view
No band has ever hit it as big as U2 with having produced just three good songs.
aug 31, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Hahahahahahahahaha you have to hate better…that doesn’t even make sense
aug 31, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
The vast majority of bands have 0 good songs (defining a good song as one I wish I had written). Many have just 1. Some have 2. 3 good songs isn’t hate- it’s respect. Only a handful of bands exceed 3, but they’re the big ones. U2 level. U2 is the biggest that doesn’t exceed 3.
aug 31, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Still my favorite album❤️❤️❤️
aug 31, 2025, 12:42 pm • 2 0 • view
The best U2 album.
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤍
aug 31, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Love that entire album
aug 31, 2025, 3:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Nice to see a ref to U2 & have their music come to mind. Reminded me that there's a work by William Butler Yeats I want to score with specific U2 songs. Like Bono's gonna say, "oh surely y'can do that & with the blessings of the tribe on your shining head" (Anyone win last nite's NY Lottery?)
aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember buying the album - vinyl and loving every single song on it 💕
aug 31, 2025, 1:33 pm • 4 0 • view
I was 20 years of age. Went into the Navy.
aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Iconic.
aug 31, 2025, 12:36 pm • 3 0 • view
love it. can't underestimate the impact of that album. I still remember the first time I saw it. 7th grade, standing in the bus line to go home. Someone handed me the cassette. I loved Bono's all one length hair. Became a new trend. Then I saw the video for With or Without you. I'm in!! ✊✌️
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to really like the band, but I stopped listening when Bono started preaching. When he told us we should donate our money to Africa, while they were evading taxes in the Netherlands, I lost them completely.
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Which then gave me more music to like by them besides "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I love the pt shop boys version. But I no longer like them for their support of genocidal regime of Netanyahu. Same with U2 who is disgustingly cosy with IDF
aug 31, 2025, 12:38 pm • 5 0 • view
And one of my all-time U2 favorites.
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Great album. There best for me
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 4 0 • view
If only they'd not bothered.
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Still their best album.
aug 31, 2025, 2:09 pm • 4 0 • view
Loved this album. Love this band
sep 1, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the best songs I’ve ever seen performed live.
aug 31, 2025, 2:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Must be referring to rural areas. Asked someone what road they lived on even that person did not know.
aug 31, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
No its about the areas of Northern Ireland where what they called to "troubles" happened. The reporting of incidents: ( murders and violent assaults by all sides) didn't specify where exactly. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is equally about uk armed forces killing civilians.
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 pm • 6 0 • view
Reminds me of the Faith+1 album cover
aug 31, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Bono heard about a particular practice in Belfast, Northern Ireland in which a person’s religion and income dictated where they lived and on which street. Ever the humanist, Bono wrote the song, imagining a place where such a thing was not in practice. americansongwriter.com/what-do-the-...
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 pm • 4 1 • view
Thank you
sep 1, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
This album is on my short list of 10/10 albums. Joshua Tree Abbey Road Little Girl Blue Graceland Koln Concert
sep 1, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
aug 31, 2025, 2:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Overrated
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
U2 have actually just announced they’re bringing out a board game. It’s called Bonopoly; it’s like Monopoly…except where the Streets have No Name I’ll get me coat
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 pm • 21 0 • view
Good effort 🤣
aug 31, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
A personal top ten album.
aug 31, 2025, 1:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Incredible song. Fantastic intro. Great album opener. An all time favourite for me.
aug 31, 2025, 12:22 pm • 13 0 • view
I love this album too. I am surprised that seems like an unpopular opinion these days
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 pm • 9 0 • view
People are trying to ‘Nickleback’ U2.
aug 31, 2025, 3:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Bono is a POS. Rightfully scorned by the Irish.
aug 31, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Their last descent album
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I think "escaped" rather than "released".
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Couldn’t get my 4-year-old son to quit dancing to it. Came on MTV, had to start swaggering through the apartment. Took to calling him Edge.
aug 31, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
and now my Toyota plays U2 every time i start my car. worse decision ever by U2
aug 31, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Love that liquor store video.
aug 31, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
My high school sweetheart (rip) used to look just like Bono. Class of 89.
aug 31, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
These four are some of the most wealthy people on earth. They are not your friends,
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
👍👍👍👍
aug 31, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
It never left my turntable...
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 3 0 • view
I worked at Tower Records the day this album dropped. We were moving to a new location a couple of blocks away. We stayed open to sell it at the old store while we also transported the product up the street in large wagons. It was a crazy but fun day
aug 31, 2025, 1:02 pm • 13 1 • view
Loved that album
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I see you also enjoy U2. Have you had the chance to watch Bono: Stories of Surrender (AppleTV+)? If not, it is unique and worth the time.
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I started watching it, but the first overly dramatic bit kind of turned me off. I’m really not into beat poetry. Does it get better?
aug 31, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Appreciate your critical honesty. It’s about the same throughout, songs the best part, though seeing all gave me a somewhat deeper understanding of the band. So…better I can’t say for you, it did appeal to me play-wise.
aug 31, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok
aug 31, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the greatest albums in music history!!
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 pm • 7 0 • view
Agree to disagree
aug 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
SAD BUT NOT A FAN ANYMORE.. "BOYCOTT THEM" THEY SUPPORT ZIONISM ISRAELS GENOCIDE 👎🏼
aug 31, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view