GameTrailers is your destination to see official trailers first. Powered by IGN, you can expect to see worldfirst exclusive gameplay and the hottest new tra. U2 brings Joshua Tree back to Minnesota with new relevance for 2. The first time I heard the song in concert was from the 1. St. Paul Civic Center. My brother and I knuckleheads then only acclimated to heavy metal concerts started jumping over chairs and rushing the stage in excitement, only to be politely shooed away by confused looking U2 fans. The last time I heard it performed live was two months ago from the umpteenth row of Soldier Field in Chicago. My heart did the only jumping in that case, but it was quite a leap since I knew exactly which 1. I dont care how cool a music listener you fancy yourself or how much you think Bono is a self righteous poseur, if you too dont feel at least a minor spark when you hear the misty synthesizer and then the Edges deluge like guitar part at the start of U2s Where the Streets Have No Name, you should go see a doctor while you still have health insurance. U2 fans love Streets even more for the fact that its the opening salvo of The Joshua Tree. Not only was that 1. U2s 3. 7 year recording career, its also now the centerpiece of the biggest concert tour of 2. Friday at U. S. Bank Stadium. As they did in Chicago and every other city this summer, the Irish quartet will perform The Joshua Tree in full at the new Vikings stadium where fans will be praying like the biblical Joshua for decent acoustics. Its all accompanied with imagery from filmmakerphotographer Anton Corbijn on a stunning, 2. Yes, even better than the lemon ball. Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials. Get links to your favorite show pages. Latest breaking news articles, photos, video, blogs, reviews, analysis, opinion and reader comment from New Zealand and around the World NZ Herald. Bravo, Bono. For more reasons than pure nostalgia which U2 has generally avoided in concert, though perhaps it cant afford to any longer The Joshua Tree is one record that deserves to be revisited in full on stage. Sonically, the 1. MTV videos. Its famed producers, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, knew a thing or two about making LPs sound timeless, having also worked with Bob Dylan and David Bowie, respectively. Commercially, The Joshua Trees giant success is also worth revisiting. It gave the band two No. With or Without You and I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For. It brought them from punk clubs like First Avenue where they played to 5. April 9, 1. 98. 1 to stadiums in just seven years. It topped the album charts for many weeks in 2. It sold 2. 5 million copies. When U2 came to St. Paul for back to back nights in 1. SunsetBoulevard_WilliamHolden.jpg' alt='Hi-Def Quality Fear(S) Of The Dark ' title='Hi-Def Quality Fear(S) Of The Dark ' />Bono himself marveled at the bands still growing popularity. Coming into this city in a car today, I heard this song on the radio and it made me feel very good indeed, he told the sold out crowd the quote comes verbatim off the cassette bootleg I made that night. I think back to the times when it was very hard to find a U2 song on the radio, and Im glad times have changed. Music fans not alive in 1. Kmart and Montgomery Ward retail stores look em up. The Joshua Tree was one of the last albums to do so. The universality of it alone is something to celebrate in These Disparate Cultural Times. Thematically, The Joshua Tree not only holds up in 2. It thrives. After celebrating the Rev. Hi-Def Quality Fear(S) Of The Dark ' title='Hi-Def Quality Fear(S) Of The Dark ' />Martin Luther King Jr. American dream on its prior album, 1. The Unforgettable Fire, the band examined the more nightmarish aspects of U. S. life on its 1. Reagan administration. Where the Streets Have No Name was inspired by the growing gap between the rich and the poor, and the neighborhoods where they reside. Bullet the Blue Sky took shots at the military industrial complex. Running to Stand Still addressed the rising plight of drug addiction. Exit explored the dark depths of a religion drunk mass killer. In Gods Country revisited the idea of Lady Liberty lighting the way for immigrants. Any of this sound familiar At the Chicago concerts in June, Bono was cunningly careful some might say wimpy about not turning his between song banter into a contest of Americas current us vs. He never once mentioned President Donald Trump or any political party. The one hot button issue he addressed was immigration, and that was to say thank you for the safety and refuge for Irish people for 1. The singer did mention George W. Bush on stage in Chicago, and that was to praise him for his work with the U2 affiliated One Campaign in alleviating the AIDS crisis in Africa Eighteen million people are alive now thanks to U. S. taxpayers, the singer raved. More so than in 1. The Joshua Tree for U. S. audiences in 2. America great again. Now that certainly sounds familiar. And maybe U2 needs a reminder of its greatness, as well. The bands only two albums of the 2. Its deal with Apple to make the lesser of those two records, 2. Songs of Innocence, an automatic download for i. Tunes users was met with a backlash big enough to even make Kanye West say, What were you thinking And lets face it, the lads arent virile young men anymore. A reminder of their glory days must feel good. Red Vs. Blue: Season 13 Video Download. Then again, I probably couldnt jump over concert chairs like I did in 1. We might find out Friday.