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U2 - Heartland
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Rattle and Hum (1988)
  1. Originally posted by Pipo:What would it be great if the JT'17 tour after JT played only RH tracks and JT B sides including Heartland.
    Saw Pixies Doolittle anniversary tour and they played the album and all the b-sides and rarities. Now that's a celabration of an album tour.
    Too Brave :-)
  2. This song looks like it was made for enjoy the sunset.

    although the lyrics talks about the sunrise.
  3. +1. It's got a strong "cold sunset" vibe imo.
  4. This song is tremendous
  6. We can only dream.
  7. I'd love to see Bono attempt it
  8. It'd be sad to see Bono attempt it.
  9. What will the acoustic version be like I wonder
  10. Why???He's singing better now than he ever did I've noticed on YouTube people are shocked at how good his voice is in clips from the last 3 years,the Abbey Road special is a perfect example.
  11. Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
    Why???He's singing better now than he ever did I've noticed on YouTube people are shocked at how good his voice is in clips from the last 3 years,the Abbey Road special is a perfect example.
    He can't sing anywhere near that pitch anymore
  12. Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
    Why???He's singing better now than he ever did I've noticed on YouTube people are shocked at how good his voice is in clips from the last 3 years,the Abbey Road special is a perfect example.
    Heartland is full of falsetto and mid range, and Bono just can't do proper falsetto anymore, and he's lost much of his low-mid range. 1988's Bono would laugh if he saw his 2020 self trying to sing Heartland.

    A more detailed answer below (it's from 3 years ago but still applies):
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    Originally posted by LikeASong:360 was his peak after the 1995-2005 abyss. He started recovering in 2006, and 2010-2011 was the best he had sung since the end of Zoo TV tour. I&E was fine but he had already lost some low range, and now he's singing his worst since mid-Vertigo Tour.

    Of course he still has his moments of greatness (A Sort Of Homecoming, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Vertigo, Exit, WOWY, Streets all have been excellent this tour - bar the terrible lyric changes) and he still has the spark sometimes, but overall he's lost a lot of low and mid range, and what's worse, a lot of timing and rhythm. Red Hill Mining Town (although understandable due to the lack of previous performances and the track's own difficulty), sadly One Tree Hill, Bad (particular performances) and particularly Running To Stand Still have suffered a lot from this in the JT30 Tour. RTSS has never sounded worse (and the 2005 performances were pretty bad already!), which makes me wanna cry since it's probably the song I was looking forward to the most

    I think he has been taking classes to adapt his singing style to his loss of throat power. He is getting older just as everyone else, he clearly can't reach these 2009-2011 tones anymore, so he has to adapt his style as he's always done. He did the same in Popmart, changing and adapting a lot of the verses and choruses to his recently-lost range.

    Another point to take into account is his everlasting bad memory for lyrics. Even though it seemed impossible, well, it is indeed getting worse with age (just as everyone's), and it makes the singing issue worse, since he forgets a lot of the verses and he has to make up for it on the go, disrupting the verse's flow and making him lose the plot (and the intonation) too often.


    So, as a singer myself, this issue of course bugs me big big time, but there's nothing to do unless Bono quits smoking and starts listening properly to the band and his own past recordings


    PS. Oh, and there's also that new habit (since 360 Tour) of singing or talking above the guitar solos. SOMEONE WHO MEETS BONO IN THE UPCOMING WEEKS: TELL HIM NOT TO DO THIS ANYMORE, THANKS.