AndrewCowley
Refugee
So we have the 3 phases of Bono -
Yelling
Kermit
Talking
Cool.
Yelling
Kermit
Talking
Cool.
So we have the 3 phases of Bono -
Yelling
Kermit
Talking
Cool.
So we have the 3 phases of Bono -
Yelling
Kermit
Talking
I do too..... can't stand when he talks. That's also why I don't like Cedars of Lebanon.
I said the band killed it and not Sarajevo, maybe you didn't read it right. Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cities don't kill vocals.
He sings in a number of Achtung Baby songs in a lower register. It doesn't qualify as talking and this style of singing has absolutely nothing to do with the examples that the OP was talking about.
As for live performances, maybe a part of the 'talking' has to deal with not being able to sing 20+ songs outright on an 100+ show tour? I wouldn't say that's necessarily a bad thing, as people get older, their voice changes, etc.
Is it my imagination or did the shows toward the end of the 360 tour have less of this "talking the song" stuff? I remember very little of that going on at the East Rutherford show. (Which happened to jump into my top 3 or 4 shows out of the roughly 30 times I've seen them because they simply blew our fucking faces off). The shows in 2009 I remember a more plodding pace along with talking the songs.
Quite possible. I'm not a big fan of talk singing. I can see how it can get annoying. However, it really has to be difficult to sing and move for 2 hours straight. Maybe as someone else pointed out the back problem really had a negative impact on his technique. Has the band ever changed any of the keys to suit Bono's voice?
And just a very side note--in opera, talk-singing is known as recitative.
Just sayin...
Has the band ever changed any of the keys to suit Bono's voice?
All the time! Quite a few examples of this!
You might wanna pass of geography lessions to someone outside ex-YU.
Not really, some are approaching a whisper, ie The Fly or Zoo Station. Nothing near the mumbling approach he uses on UTEOTW.
Examples, please. Just curious.
On 360, and even some Vertigo shows, they returned to album tuning for a few songs and this was a refreshing change.
Here's two examples:
Streets - back *up to album tuning
Even Better - back *down to album tuning (imagine Bono trying to sing 'take me higher' on Popmart in full chest voice? No. Whereas on 360 he did. There's a reason...the tuning. On ZOO-Pop the tuning is much higher than the album, and it pretty much forces a falsetto on that line...on 360 it's back down to album and allows a full voice. And people think falsetto is harder than full out?? )
One of many reasons why 360 is by far my least favourite tour.