Which singer was hardest to get into?

Then you should try with the beautiful song "Refugee".

Edited by Andrea Cortese - April 24 2014 at 07:10

Mirror Image wrote: I just can't get into Peter Hammill at all. I've tried and tried and tried....

You could include Beefheart, Lionel Ledissez (Ergo Sum) and Roger Chapman (Family) among the 'difficult' voices.....

^ I thought Shulman had the most accessible voice from this list......

Derek Shulman. Never really liked GG that much.

I don't like VDGG simply because I can't stand Hamill's voice, so he gets my vote.

VDGG took me a while to appreciate and like, though it wasn't because of the vocals.
I've loved Rush for a long time, so no problem there.
The other three I don't listen to enough to recall what the singers sound like.

I'll go with Hammill

I would have to say Geddy but as already stated his voice just matured from Permanent Waves onwards.  I well remember upsetting a Rush fan who had loaned me All The Worlds A Stage in 1977 by saying 'its quite unusual to have a woman fronting a heavy rock band' I wasn't being ironic at all as seriously I had not the slightest clue Geddy was a bloke!

From the list, I don't know the guy from Can, and Robert Wyatt I've only heard because of a Gilmour's live DVD in which he guested... and actually I found him really bad (singing Waters parts on Comfortably Numb)... but I though it might have been because of his age. I would expect him to have been better on his 70's albums. As for Hamill, Lee, and Shulman, I don't really have a problem with them at all. OK, Hamill may get a bit too excentric at times, but he has the chops to do it. Lee may get just a bit tiresome after listening to a lot of Rush... but it's not really a problem for me. And Shulman, well, I guess he really has a wonderful voice; I would rather have a bit of a problem with with the band's vocal melodies, specially in their later albums. I really love their first two albums, and I hardly have any complaint about their vocals their... from their third album onwards they started getting more annoying, though I still enjoy that one and Octopus. From there on I didn't even get their albums, except for "Playing the Fool", which I rather disliked most of it, specially because of those vocal melodies, but not because the singer was bad or anything.
Now, if there are some singers which have been rather difficult to get into for me they have been Peter Gabriel, John Wetton, and James LaBrie. Actually, I still don't enjoy them very much at all, but I bear them because of the wonderful music they have been involved with. Though there are times where Wetton hasn't been so annoying, such as Asia in the studio (too bad the music isn't so good there), or some concerts and covers he's done. And LaBrie, as long as he keeps from going too high is just fine enough.

Hammill is a shoo-in! Not my cup of tea but....