Warning: The following video contains footage of Bono singing along with (and annotating) himself; it may not be suitable for certain sensitive indie-rock viewers. But if you count yourself among those of us who are highly U2-tolerant, click here and check out this sort-of-almost-a-music-video for the band’s sort-of-almost-new song, "Wave of Sorrow." The rough track was laid down during the Joshua Tree sessions circa ’87, but the vocal wasn’t completed until "a few days ago," Bono explains in the clip, whenever it was filmed… and, as of his pep talk here, the rest of the group hadn’t even heard the finished tune yet. The 1987-meets-2007 studio version, which boasts but one Bono vocal, is due next week on a two-CD deluxe reissue of The Joshua Tree. Here, on videotape, he discusses the trip he and wife Ali took to Ethiopia that inspired the lyric, asks whoever is filming him to start playback, and then sings along with himself… adding little interjections about the meaning of various lines, and references to what sounds like "the sowlms" (which I believe is Dublin-ese for the Psalms). It’s fun to know that occasionally, even two decades later, a band that still couldn’t find what it was looking for on a particular track can finally find some resolution.
Nov 15
2007
06:55 PM ET
Bono does Bono karaoke on a 'new' track
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We have a re-issue of The Joshua Tree. We had Bono singing in Across The Universe. I saw nothing about any new U2 music.
I am a big U2 fan. I used to be a bigger fan, but then came all of their money-grubbing reissues and greatest hits albums and poor ticketing for their tours. For such a socially conscious band, they really don’t mind making a few extra dollars off of their fans.
p.s. omg Chris are you on facebook, bc we should totally be bffs.
Weird seeing him duet with himself, but actually pretty good song!