Dream Beneath a Desert Sky: The Joshua Tree 24 Years Later
I can still remember that night shortly after Christmas of 2001. I wasn't feeling well due to eating too much chocolate (that's another story for another time) and decided to lie down and find something to do. I had received a bunch of new records for Christmas and was in the process of going through all of them. However, U2's The Joshua Tree was one of the few I hadn't gotten around to hearing yet and now seemed like a perfectly good time to delve into it. I had no way of knowing that that night would be a defining musical moment in my life that would drastically change everything I believed and knew about music. I was only a little over a year old when The Joshua Tree was released on March 9, 1987. U2's popularity had been growing and previous albums like War and The Unforgettable Fire had turned the band into international successes. The Joshua Tree turned them into the biggest band on the planet and ever since they've managed to retain that title throug...