4. Red Hill Mining Town vs. Is That All

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[stip]

Red Hill Mining Town, despite being one of the weaker songs on Joshua Tree, is still pretty great.


It's easy to forget how dirty and scrappy a band U2 was on their first few albums. I'm not a fan of Boy, but October has always had a warm place in my heart for the 80s political garage pop punk feel of that album. I haven't heard this album in a really long time, and this song (not one of my favorites on it) reminded me of how much I am looking forward to catching up with it.

Vote for Red Hill, but both good songs

[LoathedVermin72]

LMAO that Red Hill Mining Town video is hilarrriiioooussss, I can't even go on voting, it's too funny, I have to stop

[VinylGuy]

kinda hate both, so ill go with ITA

[macphisto]

What I’ve read about Red Hill Mining Town is that it was going to be released as a single, but when you release a song as single, you have to play it every night on tour. That wasn’t going to work since it’s at the top of Bono’s range. So what could have been a song that everyone knows as well as Still Haven’t Found or With or Without You, was instead relegated to life as sort of a deep cut. One of my favorites.

[PHATJ]

What I’ve read about Red Hill Mining Town is that it was going to be released as a single, but when you release a song as single, you have to play it every night on tour. That wasn’t going to work since it’s at the top of Bono’s range. So what could have been a song that everyone knows as well as Still Haven’t Found or With or Without You, was instead relegated to life as sort of a deep cut. One of my favorites.

It was cool to see this song on the last tour.