Red Hill Mining Town

[@RaAyAp]

After being a die-hard U2 fan since september 1980, knowing every song U2 ever performed or played and being a musician myself, I can finally say that this is the best U2 song ever. This one will make it to my funeral!

[@Skyviking]

I can remember this song when it first came out. I had left home, quit high school and was sitting depressed in my dinky rathole apartment bedroom. I was blown away and immediately felt alive again. Thank God for U2! I don't care how many albums and super rock starred out they get I will love them 'til the day I die.

[@CicloVida]

This is a wonderful, underappreciated masterpiece. The voice of Bono was at his best moment and this is the best song to show it.

[@unionmade82]

I remember buying The Joshua Tree. I had never been a U2 fan before. I listened to it over and over, clearly mesmerized. No matter how many times I listened to it I seemed to get more out of it than the previous time I listened. I talked to my mother about how the music spoke to me. My mother told me about "divine intervention". It stuck. The Joshua Tree was divine intervention. My mother lost her battle with brain cancer December 18,2013. I buried her today. After returning home from the cemetery, I played The Joshua Tree. Red Hill Mining Town reminded me of the lesson my mother had tried to teach me about God's undying love and purpose for loving each other. I needed that today.

[@AguileraMusic]

Thanks for sharing

[@DarthSiGi]

Although I feel this way about "Joshua Tree", I get these feelings, even more, when I revisit "Unforgettable Fire".

[@vitahenao]

unionmade82 in Joshua tree there are many songs with great and deep meaning. I realize the meaning of Exit a day before of their concert here in my.country

[@thankyou2532]

exit is about a murderer could be in any country mothers of the disappeared is about people in chile

[@rollmops3113]

@@DarthSiGi I agree... Goosebumps in the best way 💖

[@abalancedact]

God, the passion in Bono's voice on this track sends shivers down my spine. What an amazing talent! One of my very favorite U2 songs.

[@doyleperkins4916]

YES...

[@christymyers3536]

Amazing talent and voice, makes me happy

[@andytucker6783]

U need headphones to do his voice justice. For example "into the heart" "unforgettable fire" or my new favorite "in a lifetime" by Clannad (bono sang with enya's sis)

[@Rossi29901]

The chorus is full of passion,what a high tone! I've got always shivers. Thanks U2 for this song! and for all.

[@williamcrowe203]

To hell with U2's cynics and detractors because the band's sincerity is always spot on and their best music is heartfelt and emotionally potent.

[@jasonbarbush4991]

i agree and can say that the new stuff is just as good. God bless and may love and peace be to you.

[@markzappasodi]

I love this song. The emotion in Bono's voice is other worldly.

[@welshlad6427]

One if not U2’s best song.

[@PPPerdona]

One of the most underrated songs EVER! This should have been easily a single.

[@rogerm1343]

If you ever saw them live then you know this was anything but underrated, there whole show was structured around this song

[@jpwartist]

Brilliant song from an amazing album. The Joshua Tree completely changed my music taste. An album you can put on and enjoy without skipping a track.

[@Stratman389]

no filler

[@pigstrotters7010]

I always think of that bitch Thatcher when I hear this

[@gerardlawlor7872]

now the brits have another bitch MAY

[@harrystege4721]

they certainly have.....

[@ewie9347]

jpwoody76 same here! I guess we're the same age too ;-)

[@vincentmacdonnell706]

This U2 best song. Hands down!!!

[@pandubrewijaya]

I'm an Indonesian Muslim, I loved U2 since elementary school, now I'm getting old over 40, I still love them....

[@progtoeternity]

Pandu Brewijaya true music transcends any religion. You are the proof of it. All united in soul music.

[@1251wire]

I want to hug you man! I was a war child at 10...somewhere in the world....politics and religion divide us....ain't fair ...all I want to do is live in peace and have respect and for people to do the same...why can't we ?? If a song can makes us feel humble then why can't we plant that in our hearts? ..... don't mind me... I've been drinking and smoking I'm rambling...excuse me. Peace and love be in your heart dude.

[@thankyou2532]

only jesus rose from the dead,mohamed is a pedophile who had sex with aisha when she was 9 years old

[@justincredible7805]

May the TRUE GOD OF ALL ( whom ever that may be to you) bless all who listen to good music and put peace first

[@thankyou2532]

trinity is god www.equip.org trinity believers are saved everyone else dies in their sins and uncovered by the blood of jesus state.

[@ad356]

joshua tree was one of their best albums, no question about it. my stepfather had it on cassette, i would listen to it as much as he would

[@williamrae8024]

Always loved this album, great memories as a teenager in summer 86. Just recently I`ve rediscovered this track in particular. Its really current, very emotional ..... I think of it as my Dad who I live with, he`s 80 and my best mate. I`m preparing to miss him I suppose! Love it!

[@jekku4688]

WOW. I have been a U2 fan nearly my entire adult life (since 1983) but I have NEVER seen this video, even after seeing a gazillion JT "era" photos of the boys. This is a revelation, love it! Bono was at peak JT humina humina! ;-D

[@heironimous]

Came back to my memory two days ago by luck in my job and I felt so uplifted .. Amazing what music does to your soul !

[@Darren66ify]

Brilliant tune,one of if not the best by u2,always think of my old grandad when listening to this,spent 46 years down the pit,passed away april 05 aged 81

[@ceruleanblue7]

One of my favorite U2 songs, such emotion and poetry.

[@Miki21261]

U3 is the best rock band in the World, i listen to the U2 Music every day.

[@iliernavarro7126]

I really love this song. Bono's voice sounds so great!!

[@vertigo864]

Impossible to say what is the best U2 song. There are so many great ones and the harder you look and listen the better they are. From any measure they are the best Rock band ever.

[@MrShocking68]

Hands down one of the best rock albums ever of my generation that includes the 80's and 90's and the first five years of the 2000's.

[@stefanmaderbacher4504]

Ich bin mit dieser wunderbaren Musik aufgewachsen und vor allem dieses Lied ist der Hammer

[@randlee3996]

Simple chords, complex feelings... a desolation in words and melody. Brilliant!

[@BigTez40]

Bought this when it came out, was waiting at the record shop. When I got it home I asked Nan and Grandad who I lived with to leave me alone for a while. I shut the curtains and was entertained. They still entertain me. U2 one of the best rock bands EVER. (In my opinion)

[@Kimberlyhh2511]

I finally was able to hear one of my favorite U2 songs on Joshua Tree Tour and I was hysterical 😩. It was like listening to god himself! No one has a better falsetto voice than Bono! It was fucking breath taking and I’ll never forget it!!!!❤️❤️😭😭😭💕💕💕🤗🤗👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@jasonbarbush4991]

God bless and peace and love be with you. I'm a Christian but i still love to rock.

[@markshaw4809]

The live rendition is gobsmackingly beautiful.

[@charlesware5767]

Joshua Tree is a true masterpiece. What a monumental album. All the transcendent things you hope an album can be. 80's U2 was just untouchable.

[@davidstidd5797]

what an album...most of the radio hits are on side A, but side B makes the album. I was lucky enough to see the Joshua Tree tour in a packed old Cleveland Municipal stadium in a steady mist of rain. what I wouldn't give to re-live that night.

[@itsmejohnson0891]

When was that year?

[@xtinabd]

"Most of the radio hits are on side A, but side B makes the album." This. EXACTLY ALL OF FUCKING THIS.

[@gregorytyska6871]

Couldn't agree more. Side B makes the album -- incredible stuff. That album is an absolute treasure!!

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

I feel the same of The Unforgettable Fire tour in Arizona 1985. Amazing doesn't do it justice.

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Watch the news for tomorrow, 9 January, 2017, as they're expected to announce details for a Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour!

[@jezfrommirfied64]

My son Joshua was born on January 29th 1989. Gu were his name came from? So proud and still going because they've changed their music with the times. Who else as ever done that? I guess u could say Madonna but come on.

[@RandyR]

Been a U2 fan since 84 an they have become my second favorite band of all time.. Joshua Tree album is still one of my favorite albums ever..

[@dencyleadbetter2494]

You, my friend, would possibly remember just a few years earlier, when MTV started up and they played a lot of U2 from the very beginning of both, U2 and MTV. Hooked from then on. Damn college was fun!

[@davidlogat9338]

Well, I was a 13 old french boy when I got the record and it became a refugee for me. Now, I'm watching this with a beer and my cat purring next to me. So, thanks to you.

[@SteelHorseRiders]

Bono's voice at it's peak here...... awesome!! U2 Rocks it!!

[@laurentiustefan21]

This is one of their underrated songs. Great, great music and musicians.

[@dilligaf700]

gets my hairs standing up,my body tingles I love this song,memories come flooding back good and bad.

[@pinger5000]

My favorite song on my favorite album, so powerful it almost brings tears every time i hear it. Every song on a the album was amazing. Never gonna see music be so good again. I'm opened minded , but find myself retreating back to music from the 80s and 90s because it was simply good music. Not disposable like today's music.

[@tonyahall8455]

I haven't heard this song in a long time...U2 gets me everytime.. heart and soul...luv them since I was a child

[@bafireman101]

This song is Amazeballs!!!!! And to think it was about a mining town???? Awesome lyrics

[@marlenesullivan3113]

BEST DAYS OF MUSIC

[@MadForBonoGirl]

"I'm hanging on .. Ur all that's left to hold on to..." God I love this band!... God I love this man!!!

[@angelacassatella7339]

E sempre bella sentirla questa canzone, unici u2

[@lizzylo1972]

I loved this band all through HIGHSCHOOL. Even went to see them on Halloween at Dodger Stadium ( Larry Mullen's Birthday) the other bands were the Sugar Cubes, and Public Enemy. I have so much respect for them and their lyrics!

[@alexscott3651]

One of the their best songs with milk unforgettable fire one tree hill. Celtic classics, tear me up every time

[@marcoalla4931]

This album, this song are legend. The Joshua tree A masterpiece of music. Exciting, fantastic 🌳🌳🌳🌵🌳🌳

[@lemonon7149]

This song is classic U2, thanks for posting!

[@sb313]

One of my all time favourites

[@eppeywonder]

WOW. 1st U2 album I ever bought. Never seen the clip before but its a gem . That guitar could cut a hole through a tornado!! Rock on . This is magic. " We Scorch the earth , set fire to the sky we wait all day for the night to come and it does. " Classic structure.

[@mrlardster]

Bono's voice is absolutely amazing in this song as his voice always was back in the 80s not that he's a bad singer still, he still sounds very good for someone of his age and you can still instantly recognise his voice when he sings. With regards to what this song was about I believe it was about the English mining towns of the midlands and northern England and how they suffered when that cold hearted witch Maggie Thatcher closed them down and how the communities were ripped apart by it, even today a lot of these towns have still not recovered from it and people are still feeling the effects of what that nasty woman did to their towns and communities!

[@janineharrington9837]

Indeed we stoop so low to reach the sky... Truer words were never spoken...

[@ultraviolet1975]

This is one of my all time fave U2 songs. But this video is hilarious. Go sweaty Bono go!

[@afork2600]

Cursed

[@alexandrereis1393]

😅😅😅

[@redsonyaJ]

i have been a fan since the Joshua Tree and i have had favs - but over the past few years this has won my heart and really must be my all time fav. The depth and feeling is just fantastic and must be played loud

[@solon366]

From father to son The blood runs thin Ooh, see the faces frozen (still) Against the wind. The seam is split The coal-face cracked The lines are long There's no going back. Through hands of steel And heart of stone Our labour day Has come and gone. They leave me holdin' on In Red Hill Town. See the lights go down on ... Hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. The glass is cut The bottle run dry. Our love runs cold In the caverns of the night. We're wounded by fear Injured in doubt. I can lose myself You I can't live without. Yeah, you keep me holdin' on In Red Hill Town. See the lights go down on… Hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to On to. We scorch the earth Set fire to the sky And we stooped so low To reach so high. A link is lost The chain undone. We wait all day For night to come And it comes like a hunter (child). I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. We see love, slowly stripped away Our love has seen its better day. Hangin' on Lights go down on Red Hill The lights go down on Red Hill. The lights go down on Red Hill. The lights go down on Red Hill Town

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

Oh fuck off.

[@dickmaki3472]

So many times I wanted to let go and just go away but this song and others just reminding me to keep hanging on...I just kept holding...and I didn't let go. It was a hard time. Thank you

[@martinmiura]

Didn't know my favorite U2 song had a video ; It never fails to make me sing

[@jms3691]

I never paid much attention to this song, until this year. I heard it play on Sirius radio and it's become my favorite U2 song. I play it on repeat and can listen to it for hours. Just saw "Hollywood U2" perform this song last weekend and they did an amazing rendition.

[@AlvinSeville1]

Red Hill Town is my favorite U2 song!

[@joseluismontoya5350]

No importa si eres musulmán,cristiano,católico, evangélico o protestante...este grupo no conoce ni distingue religión alguna...el mensaje de su música nos llega a todos de una u otra forma... deseó y anheló larga vida a U2.!!!

[@assfacerz]

it is an album you can sing the words to all day long

[@poshnosh1143]

Love U2 proud to be Irish

[@marlenesullivan3113]

YOU HAVE AMAZING SINGERS

[@diego47m]

It's difficult as a U2 fan not to love this video. It's an amazing song. Cheesey? Can't say that. But it is funny how Larry keeps beating away the entire video. The look on his face! Funny! I love these guys. The "Tree" is such an amazing album even 20 years later!

[@mariopaulo9182]

Uma das melhores músicas e ,ainda por cima , é da altura em que a pessoa mais importante estava presente na minha vida. Um beijo ao meu pai.

[@Dancesbetweenstars]

a special class of music....one of the best

[@Archcoop]

My first girlfriend introduced me to U2. It was Bad wide awake in America. I just remember how incredible that song sounded. She blew my mind and so did U2. Then seeing them December 5th 1987 in Tampa, FL. I don't know if I have ever felt so alive as that night again.

[@MrFeisca]

amazing voice... amazing song... going back in time with this song....

[@michaelluke5878]

Fan since ‘83. I have everything including a ton of bootlegs.....I’ve never seen this video until today Sept ‘19! Never ceases to amaze.

[@patking9072]

Watching this in Detroit during the 30th anniversary tour of the Joshua Tree tour was a highlight of my life

[@joaoypsilon]

I took the afternoon of the first day of the year to listen to U2, the songs will appear as if there were angel DJ to accompany us

[@jezza10181]

Bit of an overlooked song this, it's always been one of my favourites on the JT though

[@Studio2770]

The B-side in general is overlooked. Side-A had the singles and one of the few albums in history to have that many anthem tracks in a row. I do love the whole album though. Exit is another overlooked song.

[@jasonbarbush4991]

I still have this on cassette.

[@joethepope3]

My single favourite song from my single favourite album. I love this that much my sarcasm is cast aside. Like a clarty wee cat’lick cat.

[@FernandaU24EVER]

I love this song but I cannot avoid to comment about the sweaty and passionate Bono. It's hard on us ladies! So gourgeous.

[@dlite6999]

That's so true lol its almost funny no wait it is kinda hilarious but damn 😈💪🔥🔥sexy too ill admit!!✌💖👏

[@susannelips2395]

never went for bono, im in love with larry until 1981 or so lol

[@caramelspice7244]

Yasss. Bono is killing us softly in this one.💘

[@speccolo]

I am straight, but Bono is really sexy here...no way.

[@justinw1765]

I'm a completely straight guy, and Bono was sexy as heck back then. His eyes and energy screams passion, ardor, intensity, mixed with some spirituality and depth.

[@salty2667]

Great Album ! Beautiful Songs!

[@anthony_ugent007]

I can't believe I've never seen this video after I thought I saw them all lol!! Thanks for sharing!

[@shanehardy5676]

I know how you feel I lost my mother in 2010 and just lost my brother 2020 I am the last one left of my family my heart goes out to you love Shane.

[@relaxingnaturemusic2]

Great, emotive song and message.

[@joseluismontoya5350]

No importa si eres musulmán, cristiano, católico, evangélico o protestante.el mensaje de su música nos llega a todos de una u otra forma.deseo y anhelo larga vida para U2...!!!

[@joethepope3]

My favourite U2 track, after Life is d’ Rollercoaster, I love the edges accented slide that typifies a rollercoaster.

[@christopherward9230]

Being a ex coal miner, the beginning of the video shows the absolute camaraderie of the coal miners and when the music and words kick in from the fabulous U2 it explains how we miners felt about the job.

[@silvianatella7800]

... The joshua tree album.. forse tra i più belli del mondo intero! grandi U2

[@amadeus1756]

This one of my all time favorites by U2. Adam's bass on this particular song is absolutely mesmerizing! Play this loud with the subwoofer on high and you can feel the bass just thump your chest! Brilliant!!!

[@gregorypower9385]

This is one of the greatest f****** rock bands that is I can't ever remember them not putting out bad music I mean ever since I was a kid I would listen to you too and I mean just awesome and actually see him in concert is even awesome

[@alessandralandim1076]

essa musica mexe comigo, eu tinha uns 24 anos quando ela foi lançada. Parabenz U2. parabenz pelo vídeo.

[@rosemarymenezes7542]

U2 sensacional!!!

[@meatsheath]

Had the pleasure of working with them and their crew in Toronto this past summer. Dream come true !

[@jwcaldwell217]

my favorite U2 song...

[@Studio2770]

What I love about JT is that it always maintains that sense of place without feeling the same thing over and over. Streets is one of the best openers ever and is the perfect song to take you to that place.

[@richardmbowman]

After more than 25 years...this is still my favorite record. Up there with KIND OF BLUE, SGT. PEPPER, ZOSO (Led Zepp. 4), Pearl Jam's TEN, WHAT'S GOING ON, HOTEL CALIFORNIA, THRILLER, LET IT BLEED, .....

[@largol33t1]

I had this on a tape when it came out. My favorite memories of my teen years was blasting down the highway in my trusty Jeep with The Joshua Tree playing. I still listen to this on CD today. Definitely one of the greatest albums of the 80s.

[@trentrez6643]

Take out Sgt Pepper and you are doing ok

[@richardmbowman]

....JAR OF FLIES, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, INNERVISIONS, SUPERUNKNOWN, SYNCHRONICITY, ABBEY ROAD,.....

[@paulcleaver6677]

interesting you have got kind of blue in there - not knocking it though

[@shannonofner9709]

Disintegration, sabbath bloody sabbath, infinite sadness...

[@beausproperties]

I bought the album on cassette in college and played it in my first car Alpine speakers and a 40 watt power booster made those windows shake, this song brings back great memories of life in the 80s. Best music the band recorded

[@kevincorcoran6493]

"We wait all day, for night to come " the creed of every laborer.

[@grzegorzurbanczyk4343]

Prawdopodobnie najlepszy klasycznie rockowy LP w naszej galaktyce chapea bas

[@jonainsworth1020]

Goosebumps from the first note.

[@SXI96]

This song and The Joshua Tree remind me of my trip to India and Goa in 87', great memories, I had the best vacation there as a young boy, this album will always bring back those memories

[@richaftanas9609]

I've seen them 17 times, never been disappointed. Although Achtung Baby is my personal #1, JT is my solid #2. In 86-91, worked at BASF in Wyandotte, MI. Lived on an Island near Detroit. Grosse Island, on the water. Great times... Not a care in the world!!!

[@stevenness637]

Rich Aftanas wise words mate ab no1 followed closet by Joshua treee

[@tomdunlap3244]

Brilliant, Rich! I've seen them twice, 1987 Joshua Tree, and a just a few months ago in San Francisco, in a huge parking lot at the Cow Palace. Better than ever! Achtung Baby is also my #1, but I've been listening to a ton of JT since the concert. And even REALLY old stuff like "Gloria" and "I Will Follow."

[@CameronMClark]

Tom Dunlap I'm also in agreement. Achtung Baby was literally my favorite and still is. Not a bad track on the entire album. I was going through some old stuff the other week and discovered that I owned it on both cassette and then CD. Yes, I'm getting old. I also own most of the tracks on my iPhone from that album. It's funny to me how many people idolize Joshua tree over everything else that they did. That one is my third favorite after All that you can't leave Behind. Another brilliant and underrated album.

[@tomdunlap3244]

Excellent, Cameron. I'm listening to this one tonight, "All That You Can't Leave Behind." Looks like I will miss them on this 30-year-anniversary JT tour in the spring. The San Francisco sold out. I checked the LA prices, which are ridiculous.

[@lindseeziegler90]

Hopefully theyll play MORE AB songs in future live OR Just do an anniversary tour for that who knows...they are always busy & always touring.... Cant wait to see em again.

[@nobluefood]

oh paul, you can tug at the gutstrings. I remember driving and wailing along to this song, and thinking "will any of our hopes come to pass, will my kids see a better future". he's done so much. thank you mr. hewson. !!

[@JamesVibe]

U2 touring the whole Joshua tree album in 2017..... can't wait to hear this live

[@cradertrip]

Seeing them in Seattle and Boston

[@toddst.laurent8947]

they sometimes don't play it though

[@Iamwaterfrontcomics]

They have never played this song live. They are playing the whole Joshua Tree album on the upcoming tour and it is the first time old U2 fans have a chance to see this song preformed.

[@fnowat]

I must mention that though they are claiming "all" of the songs, remember the have re-mastered them. Maybe a slight "re-mix" of the songs we have come to know? I have seen them play live over 60 times and have heard/watched "Streets..." played each one of those times. So I am curious of how this will be for this tour. Catching them in YVR and DUB. Vancouver for the opener and making the pilgrimage to Croake Park in Dublin.

[@TroyBoyleAtheistAdvocate]

Is that before or after YOU peaked, Scott?

[@lorrainehuntsman8535]

Hello I Love U2 For along time this song means alot to me.Thank You.. My parokette she sings to this song.

[@thesongtowoody]

4:44 "love ! slowly stripped away.....! Love, has seen its better day.....!" awesome !

[@bronnoonan-hoynes6540]

One of my all time favourites it gives me chills every time I play it

[@farrenh]

I'm perplexed by people hating on the video. It's 100% in sync with what the song is about and I can't see what's wrong with it, asthetically or thematically. In fact I think it fits the song perfectly. The Soviet-era Realist styling, the canary-in-a-coal-mine reference. The song is about Thatcher's assault on the livelihood of Welsh miners. Do people want some completely irrelevant pop video to accompany the song?

[@mrlardster]

It was actually wrote about the mines in the midlands and northern England being closed down and how it ripped the communities apart.

[@robinrottler8098]

farrenh Great video.

[@charlotteegbers6303]

I was just thinking that, people stating they don't get it, or it doesn't work. What? They are perfectly in sync! You said it best, so thank you!

[@molengat1]

Star Wars fans

[@floorticket]

It's dreadful. They should have just strolled around Death Valley at sunset and shot it in b/w.

[@Etriaph]

My favourite has always been "Running To Stand Still". The Joshua Tree, track for track, is the finest rock album ever made. Never have I heard another album where each song feels like there could have been nothing more to do to achieve synergy.

[@salemi771]

Absolutely love this song

[@felipetamariz]

Great Song! U2 is one of the most amazing bands ever. Rock on!