Top 5 vocals - Progressive Rock Music Forum

1. Francesco DiGiacomo - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
2. Susanne Lewis - Thinking Plague
3. Ana Torres Fraile - Universal Totem Orchestra
4. Stella Vander - Magma
5. Daniel Gildenlow - Pain of Salvation

Garm/Kristoffer Rygg

Jan Henrik Ohme

Russel Allen

Jonsi

Jon Anderson

Originally posted by rogerthat

Originally posted by npjnpj

Goes to show that there's a serious shortage of really good vocalists in Prog. One of it's very few failings, I find.

THE failing which restricts its appeal because a lot of people need good vocals to draw them into the music.

I would say that failing only applies to Symphonic Prog/Neo prog/RPI/Eclectic and a lot of the older genres. A lot of Progressive Metal Vocalists are up there with the best in the world, and weak vocalists in modern Crossover are very rare.

Originally posted by JS19

Originally posted by rogerthat

Originally posted by npjnpj

Goes to show that there's a serious shortage of really good vocalists in Prog. One of it's very few failings, I find.

THE failing which restricts its appeal because a lot of people need good vocals to draw them into the music.

I would say that failing only applies to Symphonic Prog/Neo prog/RPI/Eclectic and a lot of the older genres. A lot of Progressive Metal Vocalists are up there with the best in the world, and weak vocalists in modern Crossover are very rare.

Yes, more to the older genres. I don't really like many prog metal vocalists either because while they are technically very good, they don't really project a distinct personality or emote as well as I'd like for my taste but that's more across-the-board. The last two modern singers I could truly relate to are both long dead - Layne Stanley and Jeff Buckley.

I like this thread. Tongue

Mine so far:
1.Peter Hammill

2.Jon Anderson

3.Greg lake

4.Peter Gabriel

5.Aldo Tagliapietra (Le Orme's guy)

Edited by progprogprog - February 09 2012 at 04:43

I totally mentioned Mikhael.

But for real are you guys serious? As I burn through the playlists of different genre's on here, I notice that Prog Metal has the most awful sounding singers in general. Anyone that sounds remotely like James LaBrie is just terrible.

But when I randomly scroll down through the Prog Metal genre, I'm always skipping tons of bands that sound like their instrumentals are alright, but their vocalist sounds like a bad version of James LaBrie hah

Daniel Gildenlow

Cedric Bixler Zavala

Devin Townsend

James Labrie

Mikael Akerfeldt

PROG ON!!!

Originally posted by Capt Fongsby

Originally posted by richardh

Chris Thompson

Justin Hayward

Greg Lake

John Wetton

Peter Nicholls

Heartwarming to see the usually overlooked Chris Thompson on a list, and at the top to boot! Beer

The next four... hmm. I guess I might end up with (alphabetically) Jon Anderson, Greg Lake, Martin Turner and John Wetton, but ranking them internally is just too much work.

Oh, and how about that Cedric Bixler dude... and Bowie... and...

As I said, - too much work...

Always loved Chris Thompson's voice mainly for MMEB admittedly but his solo work and singing on Jeff Wayne's War Of THe Worlds is brilliant as well.

Hayward is from my home town

but I do love his voice and gets my vote just for Question if nothing else

Lake - can make even the most 'daft' lyrics seem vitally important

Wetton - very soulfull

Nicholls - sheer angst and emotion. The Wake is the killer album as far as his vocals go (for me).

Edited by richardh - February 10 2012 at 01:56

(In no particular order)

Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Mike Patton
Boris Grebenshikov
Peter Gabriel
Daniel Gildenlow

My personal favorites, not rating their skills.