LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 27, 2019… THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO U2 RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR’ FROM THE ALBUM ‘THE JOSHUA TREE.’
IT WAS THE SECOND SINGLE RELEASE FROM THE EPIC ALBUM (THE FIRST SINGLE WAS ‘WITH OR WITHOUT YOU’). IT BECAME THE GROUP’S SECOND CONSECUTIVE NUMBER ONE SINGLE. THE TRACK WAS INFLUENCED BY GOSPEL MUSIC. BONO WANTED THE JOSHUA TREE TO EXPLORE VARIOUS FORMS OF AMERICAN MUSIC THE GROUP EXPERIENCED WHEN IT WAS ON TOUR. I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR RECEIVED TWO NOMINATIONS FOR GRAMMY AWARDS IN 1988, FOR BOTH “RECORD OF THE YEAR” AND “SONG OF THE YEAR”
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE ALSO RANKS IT AT # 93 ON IT’S LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.”
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO
AND HERE’S THE GREATEST VERSION, A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM THE CD ‘RATTLE AND HUM’ (THE VIDEO IS GRAINY, BUT THE GOSPEL CHOIR MAKES UP FOR THE VIDEO)
