Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2025, 03:04:04 PM »

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Some of you must be hearing a different recording to what I have in mind. What I have in mind was on the 90s bsides CD back in the day, pretty sure Bono's vocals dated to that early 90s period.

Actually - on reflection - no, maybe it wasn't on that CD. I found it on youtube anyhow. It does not sound like 'old Bono' to me. The vocals have the richness and timbre of his early nineties singing voice.

It was on the Achtung Deluxe Anniversary edition or whatever. And I am pretty sure it's similar to Disappearing Act in that it's old music with new vocals. If you listen to his scat singing at the end of DATD it definitely sounds like current Bono and not Nineties Bono.

Which specific recording are referencing, Exile?

This (Q'd up to 3:35). This is NOT Nineties Bono.

I listened to it back to back with the First Time and concluded it was not nineties Bono.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2025, 03:04:52 PM »

Quote from: Rupert Pupkin on September 10, 2025, 08:54:21 PM

So if I take that last note in the post above at face value, those are in fact vocals of Bono's from around the time of the Achtung Baby sessions. Track released as-is. It might as well have been a b-side from back in the day, and it just wasn't.

No, what I am saying is that DATD is taking old music from the AB sessions and combining it with a new (at the time of release) vocal performance by Bono. Again, if you listen to the scat singing starting around the 3:35 mark you can tell that this is NOT Nineties Bono's voice.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2025, 03:26:57 PM »

Quote from: The Exile on September 11, 2025, 03:00:27 PM

Quote from: MPare1966 on September 10, 2025, 02:36:39 PM
Quote from: The Exile on September 10, 2025, 02:26:20 PM
Quote from: Rupert Pupkin on September 09, 2025, 07:01:51 PM
Some of you must be hearing a different recording to what I have in mind. What I have in mind was on the 90s bsides CD back in the day, pretty sure Bono's vocals dated to that early 90s period.

Actually - on reflection - no, maybe it wasn't on that CD. I found it on youtube anyhow. It does not sound like 'old Bono' to me. The vocals have the richness and timbre of his early nineties singing voice.

It was on the Achtung Deluxe Anniversary edition or whatever. And I am pretty sure it's similar to Disappearing Act in that it's old music with new vocals. If you listen to his scat singing at the end of DATD it definitely sounds like current Bono and not Nineties Bono.

Which specific recording are referencing, Exile?

This (Q'd up to 3:35). This is NOT Nineties Bono.

30th Anniversary edition. I know that was remastered in 2021. Did they add new vocals? Maybe.

Will have to investigate.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2025, 04:20:51 PM »

Same track with what sounds like same vocal is on Youtube from 2011 from "Uber Deluxe Box de Achtung Baby 20 aniversario"

Which doesn't prove it was a nineties vocal but I think it probably was.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2025, 07:35:26 PM »

I think it is '90s Bono. Compare Down All The Days with So Cruel, and then with Blow Your House Down. To me the difference is clear, and at some point in the 2000s Bono developed some sort of slight nasal twang in his voice that isn't present on DATD.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2025, 10:34:48 PM »

I’m unclear if there are multiple versions. The one I just played off Spotify did not sound at all like 90s Bono to me.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2025, 12:30:50 AM »

Most of this thread only makes sense if there are in fact multiple versions circulating. Cause I know what nineties Bono singing sounds like.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2025, 08:22:27 AM »

I’ve never been a fan of DATD. I think Numb is way more… edgy. Pun intended.

I went back and listened to it because Exile made me doubt but I’m 100% convinced this recording is 1990/1991 Bono. All of it. Plus, I don’t see him go through the hassle of re-recording and re-mixing just for that last bit which isn’t great to begin with.
Honestly, there’s a lot of that kind of ad lib stuff in the Salome tapes.

U2songs say this is the unaltered original recording :

https://www.u2songs.com/demos/down_all_the_days

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2025, 10:12:33 AM »

Quote from: Soloyan on September 12, 2025, 08:22:27 AM

I’ve never been a fan of DATD. I think Numb is way more… edgy. Pun intended.

I went back and listened to it because Exile made me doubt but I’m 100% convinced this recording is 1990/1991 Bono. All of it. Plus, I don’t see him go through the hassle of re-recording and re-mixing just for that last bit which isn’t great to begin with.
Honestly, there’s a lot of that kind of ad lib stuff in the Salome tapes.

U2songs say this is the unaltered original recording :

https://www.u2songs.com/demos/down_all_the_days

Yes, I agree.

All the evidence we have is that it’s the original recording from the AB sessions. And as you point out, why would they go through the hassle of re-recording and remixing an obscure demo.

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Re: Fun bit of triva for you all: Down All The Days is my favourite U2 song

« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2025, 10:37:01 AM »

Well. Go figure.

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