№ 44 of 100
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree by U2 (1987), № 44 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno turn U2 into a band that sounds like the desert it's named after. Recorded in a Co. Wicklow mansion with a pipe organ they couldn't tune.
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