Songs with Two Bonos!

[doctorwho]

I'm just curious - how many songs has Bono sang in two octaves?

I can think of "Even Better Than...", "Babyface", "Discotheque" and "Vertigo" off the top of my head. Are there others?

 

[ImOuttaControl]

Crumbs From Your Table, All Because of You

 

[Party Boy]

I know octaves are ranges in voice.. am not up on octaves enough to know where one range finishes and another one starts....!

 

[yolland]

Are you talking about falsetto backing tracks? Where Bono sings both lead and backing vocals, and the backing vocal is him singing falsetto?

 

[cmb737]

Most often (and on most of U2 songs) there are several vocal tracks. It happens to be more apparant on the songs mentioned above where he is singing a doubling track in a different key or octave.

Almost every song of theirs (and everybody's) has this. It is a recording standard.

 

[Pero]

Pride, Streets

 

[doctorwho]

Pride, Streets

I'm not talking about backing vocals or a chorus. Both of these songs do NOT have this "dual vocal" going on, where Bono sings the song in a lower key or octave and then in a higher key (but not falsetto).

"Babyface" is a good example. I wrote "Vertigo" above - my apologies - I meant "All Because of You". ABoY is another good example of the ENTIRE song being sung twice by Bono in two "different voices".

 

[faithingrace]

Don't know if it counts but Yahweh seems like a duet with Bono and Bono.

 

[miss becky]

Much of Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car has two different vocal tracks, in two very different ranges.

 

[BostonAnne]

Does the Fly count?

 

[namkcuR]

Does the Fly count?

No...the falsetto in the chorus isn't Bono. It's Edge.

 

[LMP]

No...the falsetto in the chorus isn't Bono. It's Edge.

are you completely sure, I can swear that the falsetto on the album is Bono's, but the live stuff was most definitely Edge *kind of a no-duh 'live' statement*

 

[ImOuttaControl]

No...the falsetto in the chorus isn't Bono. It's Edge.

Live versions yes it's the Edge, album version it's Bono. I can't remember exactly where I read it, probably "U2 at the End of the World" where was talking he he recorded the falsetto part. I remember being suprised when I read it because I'd always assumed it was Edge.

 

[rjhbonovox]

Yeah definetly Bono singing falsetto in The Fly. That is for sure. I always remember Bono describing this as his fat lady voice, or something like that, at the time of the release of the song.

 

[typhoon]

It's called double-tracking.

And there is no chance in hell that Edge sings on the album version of "The Fly." Just listen to it. Edge's falsetto isn't nearly that strong, studio or not.

 

[stagman]

A Man and A Woman has this also... however it sounds very much like the Edge to me.

 

[The_Edge89]

Achtung baby demo Take You Down.
It really has two Bonos.

 

[lew07]

yahweh

 

[Dragonfave]

IGWSHA

 

[Neenie]

children of the revolution. Though Bono covered it.