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  1. So good to hear them again...
  3. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    To my ears its a nicer sounding voice than Bomb but not a major difference. What will that voice sound like singing Vertigo though?

    nice to hear some new stuff though


    I believe it'll sound like the last few concerts of the vertigo tour. Those nov,dec ones. Sydney, Tokyo.
  4. Ps. Hasn't Bonos voice been recovering from smoking and/ or operation these last 10 yrs
  5. ''I Believe In Father Christmas''

    They said there'll be snow at Christmas
    They said there'll be peace on Earth
    But instead it just kept on raining
    A veil of tears for the Virgin's birth
    I remember one Christmas morning
    A winters light and a distant choir
    And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell
    And their eyes full of tinsel and fire

    They sold me a dream of Christmas
    They sold me a Silent Night
    And they told me a fairy story
    'Till I believed in the Israelite
    And I believed in Father Christmas
    And I looked at the sky with excited eyes
    'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
    And I saw him and through his disguise

    I wish you a hopeful Christmas
    I wish you a brave New Year
    All anguish pain and sadness
    Leave your heart and let your road be clear
    They said there'll be snow at Christmas
    They said there'll be peace on Earth
    Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
    The Christmas you get you deserve
  6. im gonna have to disagree with the concenus (sp?), I think his voice sounds great! He's getting up to a B in that song. A note we havent heard much of not including Bad of course. Just listen to when he and Edge played with BB King. I think the man is back!
  7. Originally posted by thebonodrums:im gonna have to disagree with the concenus (sp?), I think his voice sounds great! He's getting up to a B in that song. A note we havent heard much of not including Bad of course. Just listen to when he and Edge played with BB King. I think the man is back!


    Did anyone really expect his voice to be as strong as it was in Rattle and Hum? I certainly didn't, but the notes he has reached lately are amazing. Think Miss Sarajevo from the fifth leg of the tour, the 'touch me...' part in one of the Melbourne shows in Beautiful Day, the vocals of Wave of Sorrow from the Imeem video and the little show in London, the Rostock performance - it's getting there.

    I watched the Elevation Irving Plaza DVD again just yesterday and his voice is way better than that. I think this tour, some songs are going to make a re-appearance, just based on the vocals alone. Of course, what we've seen in this latest video, a mixing desk can easily manipulate and improve.

    And god help us all if they experiment with Auto-Tune.

  8. I don't think it's necessarily what notes he's hitting (I'll take your word for it that he's hitting a high B), it's more the fact that he's hitting them with clarity and power. At least, that's what I reckons
  9. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    I don't think it's necessarily what notes he's hitting (I'll take your word for it that he's hitting a high B), it's more the fact that he's hitting them with clarity and power. At least, that's what I reckons


    The wise one has spoken. I agree with the power - especially towards the third verse, and when I first saw that video, it blew me away. It's like he's worked up enough vocal power, then just lets it all go, which to me seems like something he did with Miss Sarajevo and Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses on the last Vertigo show. Amazing.

    What's a high B?
  10. Originally posted by drewhiggins:The wise one has spoken. I agree with the power - especially towards the third verse, and when I first saw that video, it blew me away. It's like he's worked up enough vocal power, then just lets it all go, which to me seems like something he did with Miss Sarajevo and Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses on the last Vertigo show. Amazing.

    What's a high B?

    A pretty damn high note lol and yeah, it was the bit in the 20 second clip that really knocked me back, it's just pure and true, awesome stuff...
  11. Still cant agree with the massive levels of praise and optomism flying about. He hits those high note for like a secosd in this song and to me it sounds almost like hes strained getting there. Wave Of Sorrow is a better pointer as to where his voice is at. Decent point raised by drew regarding the mixing
  12. I bought it up because of the vocals on All That You Can't Leave Behind (and even HTDAAB). No way was his voice that strong of what you hear on the album. That is some fine mixing on that, and U23D could be another great example of good sound engineering. There are a lot of crap vocalists around nowadays and since the late 90's; auto-tune helps them a lot.

    I'm not a fan of it for this very reason. If you can't put your true vocals on a record, then you may as well get a machine to produce it for you. Certain people such as T-Pain like to use this effect, and that's why the vocals sound like machinery and grating. Possibly they do have crap vocals, but auto-tune just worsens the situation. Wave of Sorrow, I reckon has gone through some top-notch mixing, and the bit that annoys me about that is the vocals are from 2007. The rest of the demos are not, therefore that's why they have good vocals on them. Wave of Sorrow does not, as do the demos from the Boy re-release.

    It makes me wonder when artists are going to put actual vocals on a record, and not have assistance of Robbie The Robot or a Dalek. There is only one decent mixing studio in the entire world - Bernie Grundman Studios. Now they know how to mix the music without making it industrial.
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