Review: U2 - The Joshua Tree, 30th anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set

4/5

U2 have never been a band to do things by halves and the new deluxe vinyl reissue of their 1987 album The Joshua Tree is as over the top as diehard fans will have hoped. The original 11 track album – on which the Dubliners cemented their claim as the great stadium rockers of their generation – is here expanded to a seven-disk opus, supplemented by a book of photography by The Edge (sadly the images don’t include a peek at whatever he’s hiding under his beanie hat).

Revisiting 30 years on, it’s obvious why The Joshua Tree created such a splash. Its is a masterclass in open-veined bombast — an acquired taste, to be sure, but one to which millions responded either side of the Atlantic.