Songs that have great VOCAL melodies - Progressive Rock Music Forum

cstack3 wrote:

I'm a huge fan of Queen's earliest work, check this song from Queen II!

Great song. I was actually going t suggest the whole "Queen II" album, since the vocals are magnificent in every song.

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Originally posted by ClosetothSupperBrick

ClosetothSupperBrick wrote:

I would like some (preferably) song and album (which are acceptable, but I have less time to devote to them) suggestions with this topic's title as criteria.
Background: I am a singer myself, so I love vocalists who can show their talent off, and blend with/enhance the actual instruments of the song, but I hate when a really good song instrumentally is ruined by bad vocals/unmemorable vocal melodies. Please refrain from mentioning the well-known vocal-talented bands (Yes, Genesis, Kansas, even VDGG who is one of my favs despite varying opinions), and I would like 70s bands' songs, as you might tell from my username. Thank you in advance, as I am 18, and grateful that the people who lived through those glory years, and who have the memory to provide these young ears with the obscure, yet still amazing, music, are willing to be a resource for great recommendations!

A couple I would like to nominate, which I found on my own:
"Beautiful Scarlet" - Rare Bird
"Don't Make Me Cry" - Tonton Macoute
"Sorrow" - Lucifer's Friend"
"Autumn" - Twenty Sixty-Six and Then

I like the songs that you've listed.

Beggars Opera's "Silver Peacock" comes to my mind.

An album that springs to my mind is Khan's Space Shanty. I'll nominate "Hollow Stone" as a representative from it.

And while from the 60s (close enough to 70s) Colosseum. Will go with "Butty's Blues"

I'm no vocalist, but when I think of great vocal vocal melodies, I often think of Prog Folk. So I'll mention Linda Perhacs' "Parallelograms" , and while maybe not a Prog Folk artist, Nick Drakes' "Riverman" (which may be my favourite song of all time, but I suspect that the vocals would not be strong enough for you). For Folk, More akin musically to the bluesiness of what you've listed, I do think that Jan Dukes de Grey's Sun Symphonica is awesome, but vocally may leave something to be desired, and you may think really off-base. :)

Edited by Logan - November 21 2018 at 05:58

Home by The Sea - Genesis immediately comes to mind.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

Almost anything by Genesis

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I can recommend:

"Burning Rope" from "...and Then There Were Three (1978)" or "Blood on the Rooftops" from "Wind and Wuthering (1976)" as two brilliant examples.

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Capability Brown -- their second album with the long cut, specially.

AND, just recently heard "Moon Safari" ... and boyyyyy, was it ever a flash for me ... beautiful stuff.

Edited by moshkito - November 22 2018 at 06:37

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[I'm a huge fan of Queen's earliest work, check this song from Queen II!]

Queen? Now, there's a band you don't hear much about these days.

I'm sure there are a lot of them I will think about later, but one of my favorite vocal performances is on "Nevermore" by U.K. This is a well know band in prog circles, and I'm not sure if you have been exposed to them before, but U.K. consisted of Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson), John Wetton (King Crimson, Asia), Alan Holdsworth (soloist), Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music, Jethro Tull and many others). Definitely a band you should check out if you haven't already.

1970s? Beautifully melodic harmonies? Here's something vaguely proggy from a couple of old farts....

Edited by The Dark Elf - November 20 2018 at 18:38

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