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ebil0505 
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 Topic: Which singer was hardest to get into?
Posted: April 23 2014 at 22:53 |
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We've all had singers that make us cringe, until enough time has passed for them to rise through the ranks of our musical interests. Which one was the most difficult for you to finally get around to appreciating?
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 22:59 |
There's still 2 on that list that can bring a tear to my eye...and not in a good way.
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:03 |
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I loved them all immediately except GG's singer. Who is simply annoying to me.
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:04 |
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I just can't get into Damo Suzuki.
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:10 |
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I just can't get into Peter Hammill at all. I've tried and tried and tried....
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:26 |
That gentle giant singer isn't so gentle on my ears. Vote Shulman. 
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:29 |
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I've never had a problem with any of these except Robert Wyatt.
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:43 |
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I don't think Geddy Lee is "hard" to get into, I just don't like his voice and that's not going to change.
Of the others, Wyatt is the only one who took any time
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:54 |
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I still find Schulman annoying.
Robert Wyatt was next most difficult for me to get into, but at least I was able to.
I don't like Van Der Graaf Generator, but not because of Peter Hammil. I find the compositions boring.
No problem with Geddy Lee. Rush was a simply really big deal where I grew up.
The only one I don't know about is Damo Suzuki. I never listened to Can.
I was just thinking what a contrast there was between Schulman and Hammil. Schulman acted like there was never enough time to stuff all his ideas into a song. Hammil would just drone on and on.
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:56 |
I have never had a problem with Shulman's voice, so he is out of consideration for me. Of the remaining, the only who I didn't care for at first but came to appreciate is Geddy Lee but a lot of that is due to his voice improving over the years. Perhaps the owl on the cover of Fly by Night represents his voice at the time.  I still don't care for Hammill, although I can see that possibility, or for Suzuki, which is impossible, or Wyatt because his music simply does not interest me in any way.
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 23:59 |
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I still don't really like Shulman at all, just that the music forgives much so I ignore his vocals. I at least do like Hammill on quite a few songs though he is strictly an acquired taste for me. Suzuki/Wyatt are quirky and fun. Geddy Lee from Permanent Waves onwards is quite tolerable.
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 00:35 |
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From this list, I'd say Geddy.
The moment I listened to SM's debut (my very first SM album in1989), I loved Wyatt.
VDGG took some getting used to, but I got into it fairly quickly.
I didn't find Shulman to have a 'difficult' voice as such. Here, their brand of instrumental arrangement took the longest to wrap my head around.
Ege Bamyasi was my first Can LP in the mid-90's, and Damo suited the Kraut weirdness perfectly.
Geddy was always the shrieky, high-pitch that still irks me to this day, though I do love Rush between '74-'88, the voice being the hardest for me to dig, but his bass-chops are top-notch.
Once upon a time, we had a Rush cover band doing the local circuit, they called themselves 'Hemispheres'. The bassist/vocalist was a chick. She sounded like Geddy, spot-on.....
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 02:49 |
Robert Wyatt took me the longest, but Peter Hammill took a couple of listens to get to. Derek Shulman was pretty quick and Geddy was instantly. Never properly got into Can though 
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 02:52 |
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I really like all of them, always have, but I'll go with Damo because of his recent work
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 02:55 |
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David Surkamp (Pavlov's Dog) not on this list? Never mind. There is one vocalist on this list whose true talents I have not noticed for many a year: Peter Hammill.
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 04:51 |
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Took me 20-ish years to like Peter Hammill. The trick was to listen to his solo albums instead of VdGG. Appreciating them suddenly made liking VdGG a lot easier.
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 05:33 |
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Geddy Lee, and I did give up eventually (after five spins..)
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 06:15 |
Peter Hammill took me long time to get into, especially his Godbluff and Still Life period.
Yep, David Surkamp of Pavlov's Dog was also a tough one!!
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 06:56 |
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Peter Hammill.
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 06:57 |
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. . . and Steve Howe ;-)
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Which singer was hardest to get into?
