Where the Streets Have No Name

"Where the Streets Have No Name"
Single by U2
from the album The Joshua Tree
A-side "Race Against Time"
B-side "Silver and Gold"
"Sweetest Thing"
Released october 1987
Format 7", 12", CD, cassette
Recorded 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland
Genre Rock
Length 4:33 (Single version)
5:38 (Album version)
Label Island
Writer(s) U2
Producer Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois
U2 singles chronology
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
(1987)		 "Where the Streets Have No Name"
(1987)		 "In God's Country"
(1987)
Music video
"Where the Streets Have No Name" at YouTube
Music sample
"Where the Streets Have No Name"

"Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree[1] and was released as the album's third single in June 1987.[2] The song's hook is a repeating guitar arpeggio utilising a delay effect, played during the song's introduction and again at the end. Lead vocalist Bono wrote the lyrics in response to the notion that it is possible to identify a person's religion and income based on the street on which they lived, particularly in Belfast. Amidst the band's difficulties recording the song, producer Brian Eno considered erasing the song's tapes to have them start from scratch.

"Where the Streets Have No Name" was praised by critics and became a commercial success, peaking at number thirteen in the US, number fourteen in Canada, number ten in the Netherlands, and number four in the United Kingdom.[1] The song has become one of the band's most popular songs and has remained a staple of the their live act since the song debuted in 1987 on The Joshua Tree Tour. The song was notably performed on a Los Angeles rooftop for the filming of its music video, which won a Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video.

Contents

Writing and recording

The music for "Where the Streets Have No Name" originated from a demo that guitarist The Edge composed the night before the group resumed the The Joshua Tree sessions. In an upstairs room at Melbeach House—his newly-purchased home—The Edge used a four-track tape machine to record an arrangement of keyboards, bass, guitar, and a drum machine. Realising that the album sessions were approaching the end and that the band were short on exceptional live songs, The Edge wanted to "conjure up the ultimate U2 live-song", so he imagined what he would like to hear at a future U2 show if he were a fan.[3] After finishing the rough mix, he felt he had come up with "the most amazing guitar part and song of [his] life". With no one in the house to share the demo with, The Edge recalls dancing around and punching the air in celebration.[3]

Although the band liked the demo, it was difficult for them to record the song. Bassist Adam Clayton said, "At the time it sounded like a foreign language, whereas now we understand how it works".[3] The arrangement, with two time signature shifts and frequent chord changes, was rehearsed many times, but the group struggled to get a performance they liked.[3] According to co-producer Daniel Lanois, "that was the science project song. I remember having this massive schoolhouse blackboard, as we call them. I was holding a pointer, like a college professor, walking the band through the chord changes like a fucking nerd. It was ridiculous."[4] Co-producer Brian Eno estimates that half of the album sessions were spent trying to record a suitable version of "Where the Streets Have No Name".[5] The band worked on a single take for weeks, but as Eno explained, that particular version had a lot of problems with it and the group continued trying to fix it up.[5] Through all of their work, they had gradually replaced each instrument take until nothing remained from the original performance.[6]

So much time had been spent on "screwdriver work" that Eno thought it would be best to start from scratch. His idea was to "stage an accident" and have the song's tapes erased.[5] He said that this was not to force abandonment of the song, but rather that it would be more effective to start again with a fresh performance.[5] At one point, Eno had the tapes cued up and ready to be recorded over, but this erasure never took place; according to engineer Flood, fellow engineer Pat McCarthy returned to the control room and upon seeing Eno ready to erase the tapes, dropped the tray of tea he was carrying and physically restrained Eno.[5]

The studio version of the song was compiled from several different takes.[3] It was one of several songs mixed by Steve Lillywhite in the final months of recording The Joshua Tree.[5][7] Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. later said of the song, "It took so long to get that song right, it was difficult for us to make any sense of it. It only became a truly great song through playing live. On the record, musically, it's not half the song it is live."[3]

Lead vocalist Bono wrote the lyrics while on a humanitarian visit to Ethiopia with his wife Ali. Bono recalled jotting the lyrics on an Air India sick bag while staying in a village.[8]

Composition

"Where the Streets Have No Name" is played at a tempo of 126 beats per minute.[9] The introduction and outro are played in a 3/4 time signature,[9] while the remainder of the song is in a common 4/4 signature.[10] The songs opens with an instrumental section, starting with chorale-like synthesizer notes; the guitar, followed by the bass and drums, fade in near the one-minute mark. This part, following a I–IV–I–IV–vi–V–I chord progression, creates a "wall of sound", as described by Mark Butler, against which the vocals emerge after nearly two minutes.[11] The bass and drums continue in regular eighth and sixteenth notes, respectively, while Bono's vocal performance, in contrast, varies greatly in its timbre, ("he sighs; he moans; he grunts; he exhales audibly; he allows his voice to crack")[11] as well as timing by his usage of rubato to slightly offset the notes he sings from the beat.[11]

This development reaches a climax during the first chorus at the line "burning down love" (A–G–F♯–D); the melody progresses through a series of scale degrees that lead to the highest note in the song, the D♭5 at "burning". In later choruses, Bono sings "blown by the wind" with the same melody, stretching the same note even longer. The song's signature sound is a guitar part featuring a repeating arpeggio that is played at the beginning and end of the song. This arpeggio is notable for its use of "dotted eighth" delay, as each note in the arpeggio "plays" twice, creating a rich sound.[12] The guitar part played for the remainder of the song features the Edge strumming sixteenth notes.

"'[Where] the Streets Have No Name' was the perfect introduction. It is one of the most extraordinary ideas, only matched by The Doors' 'Break On Through (To the Other Side)' as a throw-down to an audience. Do you want to go there? Because if you do, I'm ready to go there with you, to that other place. Call it what you like, a place of imagination, where there are no limitations."

—Bono[3]

The lyrics were inspired by a story that Bono heard about the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, where a person's religion and income are evident by the street they live on. He recalls, "That said something to me, and so I started writing about a place where the streets have no name."[13] According to him, the song is ostensibly about "Transcendence, elevation, whatever you want to call it."[14] Bono, who compared many of his lyrics prior to The Joshua Tree to "sketches", said that "'Where the Streets Have No Name' is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it's a sketch - I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location. I was trying to sketch a feeling."[13]

The open-ended nature of the lyrics has led to many interpretations. Journalist Michael Campbell believed the lyrics send "a message of hope" and wish for a "world that is not divided by class, wealth, race, or any other arbitrary criterion".[15] With regard to the place Bono was referring to in the song, he said "I'm not sure, really, about that. I used to think it was Belfast (...)."[14] Journalist Niall Stokes believes the title was influenced by Bono's and his wife Ali's visit to Ethiopia as volunteer aid-workers. Bono has expressed mixed opinions about the open-ended lyrics: "I can look at it now and recognize that [the song] has one of the most banal couplets in the history of pop music. But it also contains some of the biggest ideas. In a curious way, that seems to work. If you get any way heavy about these things, you don't communicate. But if you're flip or throwaway about it, then you do. That's one of the paradoxes I've come to terms with."[16]

Release

Originally, the third single from The Joshua Tree was meant to be the song "Red Hill Mining Town", but "Where the Streets Have No Name" was released instead, in August 1987.[13] The single was released on four different formats, including 7-inch, 12-inch, cassette and CD.[17] The single included the B-sides "Race Against Time", "Silver and Gold", and "Sweetest Thing", except for the 7-inch release, which only featured the latter two tracks.[17] The 12-inch single featured "Race Against Time" on Side A of the record (despite being a "B-side"),[18] and the cassette single featured all four tracks on both sides of the tape.[19] Although not as successful as the album's first two singles, the song did chart well. In the U.S., the song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 11 on the Album Rock Tracks charts.[20] The song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart,[21] and it topped the Irish Singles Chart.[22]

Music video

"What you see [in the video] is exactly what happened that morning. Almost in real time. (...) Getting busted was an integral part of the plan."

—Meiert Avis, director[23]
The Grammy Award-winning music video, featuring the band's performance on a Los Angeles rooftop.

The video for "Where the Streets Have No Name" was directed by Meiert Avis and produced by Michael Hamlyn and Ben Dossett. The band attracted over 1,000 people during the video's filming, which took place on the rooftop of the Republic Liquor Store (now Margarita's Place, a Mexican restaurant), at West 7th Street and South Main Street in Los Angeles on 27 March 1987.[24] The band's performance on a rooftop in a public place was a reference to The Beatles' final concert, as depicted in the film Let It Be.[25]

During the shoot U2 played an eight-song set. The band began with a performance of "Where the Streets Have No Name" with a backing track, followed by a cover of "People Get Ready". "In God's Country", a second performance of "Streets", and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" were played next. The set ended with two more performances of "Streets" and a rendition of "Pride (In the Name of Love)".[25] Prior to filming, a week was spent re-enforcing the roof of the liquor store to ensure it would not collapse if a group of fans were to stand on it. A backup generator was put on the roof so the shooting could continue in the event that the authorities shut off the power on the primary generator, which did happen during filming.

The video depicts police forces attempting to shut down the video shoot due to safety concerns, which actually happened during filming, as seen in the video.[23] Hamlyn was almost arrested following a confrontation with the police.[26] In 2010, Clayton said that "The object was to close down the streets. If there's one thing people in LA hate, it's streets closing down, and we've always felt bands should shake things up. We achieved it because the police stopped us filming. Were we worried about being arrested? Not at the time [...]."[27] In the background of the video is a sign for The Million Dollar Hotel, which was rebuilt for the shoot "to create some interest, in case no one showed".[23]

Critical reception

Upon the release of The Joshua Tree, critics praised "Where the Streets Have No Name". Steve Morse of The Boston Globe noted the "bell-like tones from the Edge fram[e] a search for heaven" and along with the subsequent track on the album, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", these songs showed how the group were "pilgrims still on a quest; not preachers who claim to have found answers".[28] The Bergen Record echoed these sentiments, saying the tracks demonstrated how the band was on a personal and spiritual quest.[29] Rolling Stone called it "assertive rock" in their review of The Joshua Tree.[30] The San Diego Union-Tribune said of "Where the Streets Have No Name", "the music charges, like someone fleeing for life".[31]

NME lauded the song as the opening track by saying the album "starts by spitting furiously". The publication praised Bono's impassioned singing and the guitar playing, which transformed the instrument into "something more than an endlessly abused piece of wood". The review commented that the "last ten seconds are breathtakingly beautiful".[32] The Rocket wrote that the song builds a "wall of sound" that Bono's vocals cut through with a "wail of desperation, as the lyrics agonize the need for personal spirituality." The reviewer compared the opening riff to Simple Minds' "Ghostdancing".[33] Reviewing The Joshua Tree, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called the song an "epic opener".[34] The service's Steve Huey, in a review of the song, praised its "insistent, propulsive rhythmic drive and anthemic chorus", qualities he singled out for making it a fan favorite. He called the song the "perfect album-opener", crediting the "slow build of its arrangement toward a climactic peak". Huey also called Bono's delivery "passionate and grandiose" and "his commitment to the material unshakable". He believed the combination of his vocals and the band's "sonic power" is what gave U2 its "tremendous force".[35]

At the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989, the music video won a Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video.[36]

Live performances

The red lighting, which has become synonymous with live performances of the song, featured during a 2009 performance on the U2 360° Tour

"Where the Streets Have No Name" made its live debut on 2 April 1987 in Tempe, Arizona on the opening night of The Joshua Tree Tour, and it has since been played at nearly every full-length concert that U2 has headlined, totaling over 680 performances.[37] The song is widely regarded as one of the group's most popular live songs.[35] Bono said of it, "We can be in the middle of the worst gig in our lives, but when we go into that song, everything changes. The audience is on its feet, singing along with every word. It's like God suddenly walks through the room."[38]

On The Joshua Tree Tour, "Where the Streets Have No Name" was most often used to open concerts.[39][40][41] Fans and critics responded favourably to the song in a live setting. The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote that, "From the lofty sonic opening strains of [the song], this audience was up, ecstatic and inflamed."[42] NME wrote that the song is one such occasion where "the power afforded their songs is scary", noting that during the song's opening, "the arena ERUPTS".[43] Other critics called the song "uplifting",[44] "exhilarating",[45] and "powerful".[46] Out of the 109 shows during The Joshua Tree Tour, "Streets" was played at all except 12 of the concerts.[47] During the Lovetown Tour which took place in 1989 and the beginning of 1990, "Streets" was only left out of the set list at one of the 47 concerts.[48]

The song was performed at every show on the 1992–1993 Zoo TV Tour.[49] Concerts from this tour were elaborate multimedia spectacles that Bono performed as a variety of characters, but for the end of the main set, the group reverted to playing classics, including "Where the Streets Have No Name", straight. Some of these performances of the song were accompanied by footage of the group in the desert from The Joshua Tree's photo shoot.[50] The video was sped-up for humourous effect—NME described the effect as giving it a "silly, Charlie Chaplin quality"—and Bono often acknowledged his younger self on the video screens.[51][52] Some of the Zoo TV performances of the song had a more electronic dance music arrangement that bore a resemblance to the Pet Shop Boys' synthpop cover of the song (titled "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)").[53][54][55] Bono parodied this by occasionally adopting the deadpan vocal style used in the Pet Shop Boys' cover.[56] Critics welcomed the song in the group's setlist: The Independent said the song "induces instant euphoria, as U2 do what they're best at, slipping into epic rock mode, playing music made for the arena".[57] Other critics[58][59] praised the song's inclusion in a sequence of greatest hits.

For the PopMart Tour of 1997–1998, U2 returned to the electronic dance arrangement they occasionally played on the Zoo TV Tour.[60] The set's massive video screen displayed a video that Hot Press described as an "astonishing, 2001-style trip into the heart of a swirling, psychedelic tunnel that sucks the audience in towards a horizontal monolith". Near the end of the song, peace doves were shown on the screen and bright beams of light flanking the set's golden arch were projected upwards. Hot Press said the effect transformed the stadium into a "UFO landing site".[61]

Shortly before the third leg of the Elevation Tour, the September 11 attacks occurred in New York City and Washington D.C. During the band's first show in New York City following the attacks, the band performed "Where the Streets Have No Name", and when the stage lights illuminated the audience, the band saw tears streaming down the faces of many fans.[62] The experience was one inspiration for the song "City of Blinding Lights".[63][64] The band paid tribute to the 9/11 victims during their performance of the song at the Super Bowl XXXVI halftime show on 3 February 2002. The performance featured the names of the September 11 victims projected onto a large white banner behind the band. U2's appearance was later ranked number 1 on Sports Illustrated's list of "Top 10 Super Bowl Halftime Shows".[65]

For the Vertigo Tour, the group originally considered dropping the song from their setlists, but Mullen and Clayton successfully argued against this.[8] All 131 of the Vertigo Tour concerts featured a performance of the song,[66] which were accompanied by the stage's LED video curtains displaying African flags. On the tour's opening night, this reminded Bono that he had originally written the lyrics in an Ethiopian village. He thought this visual accompaniment made the song come full circle, saying, "And here it was, nearly twenty years later, coming back to Africa, all the stuff about parched lands and deserts making sense for the first time."[8] The song was also played at the preview screening of the band's concert film U2 3D at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[67] At the Glastonbury Festival 2010, The Edge accompanied rock band Muse for a live cover version of the track.[68]

Live performances of "Where the Streets Have No Name" appear in the concert video releases Rattle and Hum,[69] Zoo TV: Live from Sydney,[70] and PopMart: Live from Mexico City,[71] as well as the respective audio releases of the latter two concerts, Zoo TV Live[72] and Hasta la Vista Baby! U2 Live from Mexico City.[73] A second version from the PopMart Tour was featured on Please: PopHeart Live EP,[74] and later on the U.S. "Please" single.[75] A live recording from Boston during the Elevation Tour was featured in the concert film Elevation 2001: Live from Boston,[76] and on the "Walk On"[77] and "Electrical Storm"[78] singles. The concert video and album U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland featured another performance from the Elevation Tour,[79] and later performances were featured in the concert films Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago[80] and U2 3D[81] (Vertigo Tour), and U2 360° at the Rose Bowl[82] (U2 360° Tour). The 2004 digital album, Live from the Point Depot, contains a performance from the Lovetown Tour, only available as part of The Complete U2 digital box set.

Legacy

In 2003, a special edition issue of Q, titled "1001 Best Songs Ever", ranked "Where the Streets Have No Name" at number 459.[83] Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 28 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time."[84] In 2010, American sports network ESPN used the track, among other U2 songs, in commercials for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with the South African Soweto Gospel Choir adding vocals to the song.[85] The advertisement, titled "Robben Island", portrays South African political prisoners during the apartheid era forming a soccer team.[86] There are plans to bring a recording of the Soweto-supported performance to retail.[85]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer Length
1. "Where the Streets Have No Name"   U2 Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno 4:33
2. "Race Against Time"   U2 U2, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno 4:04
3. "Silver and Gold"   Bono U2 4:36
4. "Sweetest Thing"   U2 U2, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno 3:03

B-sides

"Race Against Time" was released on the 12-inch, cassette, and CD versions of the single.[17] The song developed from the band's interest in urban funk, and was described by The Edge as "a kind of Afro-rhythmic piece" and "a study in rhythm."[87][88] The bass riff in the song, inspired by the bodhrán, was played by The Edge, but stemmed from some of Clayton's unused bass parts. Mullen's drum part was recorded in a single take. The song is primarily an instrumental piece but does contain some lyrics inspired by Bono's trip to Ethiopia after Live Aid and his witnessing firsthand the famine in occurrence; these lyrical references include Bono singing in an Ethiopian language and following it with the phrase "Race against time".[88] Bono said of the song, "It reminds me of the desert. The desert is so empty, but it aches with a strange kind of fullness."[88] John Hutchinson of Musician magazine described the song as having an "African flavour" and as being reminiscent of Peter Gabriel.[88] The track is the only one of the single's B-sides that was never played live.[89] It was used in the Miami Vice episode "Child's Play".[90]

"Silver and Gold" was written in support of the Artists United Against Apartheid project, which protested the South African apartheid. The song was originally featured on the project's 1985 album, Sun City, performed by Bono with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones. It was re-recorded by U2 for the single while the band returned to Dublin during in May 1987 during a break between the first and second legs of The Joshua Tree Tour.[91] The song was described by Musician as "tough and raw, with Bono in husky and confident voice, underpinned by a sinuous bass line, and with The Edge demonstrating his newfound prowess in blues-based guitar."[88] "Silver and Gold" was played live on The Joshua Tree Tour several times, one performance of which was featured on the band's 1988 album and rockumentary, Rattle and Hum. Both the studio recording and the Sun City versions were later featured on the bonus disc of the 20th anniversary edition of The Joshua Tree.[92] The studio version was also included on the limited edition B-sides bonus disk of the band's first compilation album, The Best of 1980–1990.[93]

"Sweetest Thing" was written by Bono as an apology to his wife for forgetting her birthday.[94] The song opens with a short piano piece before the rest of the band begins to play. Some of Bono's lyrics have been described as reminiscent of John Lennon.[88] The Edge described it as "a beautiful song... which is pop as it should be  - not produced out of existence, but pop produced with a real intimacy and purity", also noting that "It's very new for us."[88] It was re-recorded with some lyrical alterations and released in 1998 as a single in its own right for The Best of 1980–1990.

Charts

Chart (1987) Peak
Position
Canada RPM Top 100[95] 11
Dutch MegaCharts[96] 7
Irish Singles Chart[22] 1
New Zealand Singles Chart[96] 1
UK Singles Chart[21] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[20] 13
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks[20] 11

See also

References

Footnotes
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The Joshua Tree track listing

"Where the Streets Have No Name" · "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" · "With or Without You" · "Bullet the Blue Sky" · "Running to Stand Still" · "Red Hill Mining Town" · "In God's Country" · "Trip Through Your Wires" · "One Tree Hill" · "Exit" · "Mothers of the Disappeared"
U2 singles discography
1980s

1980: "Another Day" • "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" • "A Day Without Me" • "I Will Follow" • 1981: "Fire" • "Gloria" • 1982: "A Celebration" • "I Will Follow" (live recorded by Veronica's Countdown) • 1983: "New Year's Day" • "Two Hearts Beat as One" • "Sunday Bloody Sunday" • 1984: "I Will Follow" (live, from Under a Blood Red Sky) • "Pride (In the Name of Love)" • 1985: "The Unforgettable Fire" • 1987: "With or Without You" • "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" • "Where the Streets Have No Name" • "In God's Country" • 1988: "One Tree Hill" • "Desire" • "Angel of Harlem" • 1989: "When Love Comes to Town" (with B.B. King) • "All I Want Is You"
1990s

1991: "The Fly" • "Mysterious Ways" • 1992: "One" • "Even Better Than the Real Thing" • "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" • 1993: "Numb" • "Lemon" • "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" • 1995: "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" • "Miss Sarajevo" (as Passengers) • 1997: "Discothèque" • "Staring at the Sun" • "Last Night on Earth" • "Please" • "If God Will Send His Angels" • "Mofo" • 1998: "Sweetest Thing"
2000s

2000: "Beautiful Day" • 2001: "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" • "Elevation" • "Walk On" • 2002: "Electrical Storm" • 2004: "Take Me to the Clouds Above" (LMC vs. U2) • "Vertigo" • 2005: "All Because of You" • "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" • "City of Blinding Lights" • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (live, with Paul McCartney) • 2006: "One" (with Mary J. Blige) • "The Saints Are Coming" (with Green Day) • 2007: "Window in the Skies" • 2008: "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" (with The Dubliners, Kíla, and A Band of Bowsies) • 2009: "Get on Your Boots" • "Magnificent" • "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"