Of course I’d heard U2 before, but I’d never really listened. “I’m about to change your life,” he said. My confession was met with gasps, like admitting to a fatal hit-and-run. One day at practice, Scott-our band’s frontman-suggested we add “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” to the repertoire, and I confessed I didn’t know it. It was far from glamorous for a 16-year-old, but I loved making music, and I thought it might be a good learning experience. I joined a band in which I was by far the youngest member-a group of weekend warriors in their late 30s and early 40s who played covers by Journey, Queen, and Van Halen. I was listening to the sounds of Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Pearl Jam, and finding my own way with the electric guitar. I discovered this album much later-somewhere in the mid-1990s, during my own formative musical experiences. In the world of pop music, it’s hard to overstate the importance of U2’s The Joshua Tree. The album’s cinematic soundscapes and themes of longing, loss, and hope are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago, when the album first released.
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