Top 12 Bono Studio Vocal Performances

[starvinmarvin]

Top 10 Bono Vocal Performances, in no particular order:

1) New Years Day
2) Pride
3) Bad
4)I Still Haven't Found
5) Red Hill mining Town
6) Hawkmoon 269
7) One
8) Ultraviolet
9) Stay
10) In a Little While
11) Stuck In A Moment
12) Sometimes You Can't Make It

Honorable mentions to Where The Streets, God Part II, Zooropa, Kite, and Miracle Drug

What do you think?

 

[Meghan]

1.With Or Without You
2.Alll I Want Is You
3.One
4.Walk On
5.Love Is Blindness
6.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
7.Pride
8.A Sort Of Homecoming
9.Running To Stand Still
10.Stay
11.Please -- Single Version (Album Version = )
12.Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

HM's: Love Rescue Me *
A Sort Of Homecoming

*-- Yes, I do like this song, and I'm almost certain I'm not the only one ROCK ON BOB DYLAN


Bare in mind that I haven't heard all of Boy, October or Zooropa

 

[MsMofoGone]

1. Gloria
2. New Year's Day
3. Drowning Man
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
5. Red Hill Mining Town
6. Until The End Of The World
7. Acrobat
8. Lemon
9. Stay (Faraway So Close)
10 Mofo
11 New York
12 The Ground Beneath Her Feet


Honorable Mentions ::

Where The Streets Have No Name
Gone
Miracle Drug

 

[bedouin fire]

one
with or without you
lemon
the unforgettable fire
in a little while
heartland
i still haven't find what i'm looking for
stay
who's gonna ride your wild horses
electrical storm
a man and a woman
if you wear that velvet dress

 

[D'oh!]

Sometimes you can't make it on your own
In a little while
Kite
Beautiful Day
Stay
Lemon
One
Until the end of the world
Heartland
I still haven't found what im lookin for
Red Hill Mining Town
Bad

 

[VintagePunk]

In no particular order (A couple with comments):

1) Velvet Dress (Jools Holland version) - he does the equivalent of vocal gymnastics on this track
2) Lemon
3) I Will Follow - not because of any technical vocal prowess, but because of the passion and the vibe he instills into the song
4) Bad - Duh. Obvious choice.
5) One Tree Hill
6) Red Hill Mining Town
7) Zooropa
8) Stay
9) Ultraviolet
10) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
11) Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
12) Kite

Honourable mentions - With Or Without You/Wild Horses/So Cruel

Okay, so I got tired of making comments. But most of them are due to the passion and yearning he manages to invoke.

That was hard, narrowing it down, and trying to judge solely on vocal performance, as opposed to songs I love.

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

Heartland

 

[typhoon]

"Angel of Harlem"

 

[VintagePunk]

Can you people not count?? It says 12!!

 

[Irishteen]

In no order

The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
Pride
A Sort Of Homecoming
One
Until The End Of The World
The Fly
Walk On
Sometimes You Can't make It On Your Own
With Or Without You
Gloria
All I Want Is You

 

[U2girl]

12? Let's see, chronologically:

Pride
Bad
Running to stand still
I still haven't found...
Angel of Harlem
One
Until the end of the world
Stay
Stuck in a moment
Kite
Original of the species
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

[ZeroDude]

Lemon for sheer technicality

 

[MacPhistoPT]

No order:

Pride
Bad
Still Haven't Found
Red Hill Mining Town
One Tree Hill
The Fly
Stay
Lemon (i don't like but it's an excellent vocal job)
Gone
Walk On
Kite
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

[Lancemc]

I can't believe only one person so far has mentioned One Tree Hill. Bono's vocals on this track blow me away every time I hear them. Actually, most of the Joshua Tree featured Bono in top form. Red Hill Town might just be his single greatest vocal recording to date, and Still Haven't Found is simply perfect.

 

[Layton]

1. Heartland
2. Red Hill Town
3. With or Without You
4. The Fly
5. Kite
6. Pride
7. All I Want Is You
8. Miracle Drug
9. Desire
10. Vertigo
11. Sort of Homecoming
12. One

 

[timothius]

I immediatly thought of Running To Stand Still...Sadly very few others did.

 

[namkcuR]

New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire(Possibly his finest vocal performance ever)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Red Hill Mining Town
Heartland
Ultraviolet(Light My Way)
Love Is Blindness(haunting)
Lemon(the finest outing of the falsetto of his career)
Stay(Faraway, So Close)
If God Will Send His Angels
Please(commanding, mesmerizing)
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

 

[starvinmarvin]

Heartland...come to think of it, Bono sings that one pretty good too...underrated song

 

[Bono's shades]

With or Without You
Bad
Pride
Heartland
Stay
The Unforgettable Fire
Spanish Eyes
In A Lifetime
Tomorrow (simply because of the raw emotion of it)
Red Hill Mining Town
Night and Day
Running to Stand Still

I hope it isn't cheating to count a b-side and a non-U2 collaboration!

Honorable mentions: Hawkmoon 269, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, All I Want Is You

 

[starvinmarvin]

I hope it isn't cheating to count a b-side and a non-U2 collaboration!

We'll let it slide this time

 

[fiesta79]

RED HILL MINING TOWN
BAD
ONE TREE HILL
THE FLY
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
PRIDE
LEMON
ALL I WANT IS YOU
UNFORGETABLE FIRE
ACROBAT
ONE

 

[The_Edge89]

1 One
2 Mercy
3 Sometimes
4 Lemon
5 Stay (Faraway, So close!)
6 If You Wear That Velvet Dress
7 With or without you
8 Red Hill Mining Town
9 Kite
10 Where The Streets Have No Name
11 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
12 A Sort Of Homecoming

HM's:
Levitate, Acrobat, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Pride and of course many others...

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

1. Angel Of Harlem
2. Pride
3. Desire
4. One
5. Bad
6. Where The Streets Have No Name
7. New Year's Day
8. Miracle Drug
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10.Walk On
11. Hawkmoon 269
12. Please

HM: WOWY, Mysterious Ways, God Part II, In A Little While, If God Will Send His Angels, A Sort Of A Homecoming, Beautiful Day, Stuck In A Moment, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Love Rescue Me, Surrender, Sunday Bloody Sunday.....

 

[flangerchorus]

Boomerang I
The Wanderer
Seconds
Alex Descends Into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/ Korva I
Bass Trap
Numb
Van Diemen's Land

That with out a doubt is the best of Bono