Beautiful Ghost with modern dub-over?

Utoo · 04-21-2006, 02:22 PM

I know that Beautiful Ghost is from the JT sessions, and that it was one of the songs to be on the proposed double album. Listening to the instrumental portion, I don't doubt that at all. Bono's vocal on it, however, has always left me a bit bewildered. To me, it really sounds like modern-day Bono. It sounds like there's a little too much scratch in that voice, and the way he hits the high notes at the end sounds to me more like modern Bono's high notes than the way he hit them at 26. It's led me to wonder---is Bono's vocal part a modern dub over top of what was originally an instrumental track, or perhaps a re-dub of something that had been there before?

Thoughts?

wizard2c · 04-21-2006, 03:40 PM

Agree.

Slapnutz · 04-21-2006, 04:02 PM

It would explain the crap lyrics.

**neutral** · 04-21-2006, 04:24 PM

The lyrics are a poem by William Blake, "Songs of Experience".

gareth brown · 04-21-2006, 07:23 PM

haha, it seems more than possible now you mention it! I thought it sounded a bit different to 'regular' Joshua Tree Bono but it sounds even more like present day Bono now!

gherman · 04-21-2006, 08:27 PM

That is what I thought the first time I heard it.

04-21-2006, 02:22 PM	#1
Utoo Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lovetown Posts: 8,343 Local Time: 02:30 PM	Beautiful Ghost with modern dub-over? I know that Beautiful Ghost is from the JT sessions, and that it was one of the songs to be on the proposed double album. Listening to the instrumental portion, I don't doubt that at all. Bono's vocal on it, however, has always left me a bit bewildered. To me, it really sounds like modern-day Bono. It sounds like there's a little too much scratch in that voice, and the way he hits the high notes at the end sounds to me more like modern Bono's high notes than the way he hit them at 26. It's led me to wonder---is Bono's vocal part a modern dub over top of what was originally an instrumental track, or perhaps a re-dub of something that had been there before? Thoughts? __________________ __________________

04-21-2006, 03:40 PM	#2
wizard2c Refugee Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 1,580 Local Time: 06:30 PM	reply Agree. __________________

04-21-2006, 04:24 PM	#4
neutral genius of compression Forum Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Location: forty miles from atlanta, this is nowhere Posts: 13,030 Local Time: 02:30 PM	The lyrics are a poem by William Blake, "Songs of Experience". __________________ neutral @ interference.com

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gherman New Yorker Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA Posts: 2,525 Local Time: 07:30 PM	That is what I thought the first time I heard it. __________________

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04-21-2006, 04:02 PM	#3
Slapnutz Refugee Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Under Your Bed Posts: 1,121 Local Time: 06:30 PM	It would explain the crap lyrics.

04-21-2006, 07:23 PM	#5
gareth brown Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 6,592 Local Time: 05:30 AM	haha, it seems more than possible now you mention it! I thought it sounded a bit different to 'regular' Joshua Tree Bono but it sounds even more like present day Bono now!