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“Trip Through Your Wires” by U2
From the album The Joshua Tree (1987)
“Trip Through Your Wires” by U2 appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1987 and 2024. It was first released in 1987 on the album The Joshua Tree. Its best result is #64 on the WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #166 alternative song of 1987 and #3,549 alternative song of all time.
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"Trip Through Your Wires" sits eighth on The Joshua Tree, U2's 1987 album, and it's a loose, bluesy detour, with Bono blowing harmonica over a rolling rhythm. An early take with different words had already surfaced in 1986 on the RTÉ programme TV GAGA. For the album version Daniel Lanois, producing with Brian Eno, plugged an Omnichord, an electronic autoharp, into the Edge's delay units and amp, and got what he called a jangling organ sound tucked in the back of the mix.
Flood recorded it and Mark Wallis mixed it. In Australia it went out as a promotional single in just 500 hand-numbered copies, backed with "Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)", "Spanish Eyes" and "Silver and Gold". After the Joshua Tree Tour it disappeared from the set until The Joshua Tree Tour 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 81 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1987 | 91 |
| 1987 | 64 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 408 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) | 500 |
| 1991 | 420 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) | 500 |
| 2001 | 1100 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2002 | 1323 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 427 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2023 | 587 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 285 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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