Geddy Lee vs. James Labrie
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Topic: Geddy Lee vs. James Labrie
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Subject: Geddy Lee vs. James Labrie
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 11:16
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Two "love 'em or hate 'em" Canadian prog singers. Who do you think is the best? Please only consider their voices (not that James Labrie plays any instruments anyway, to my knowledge at least). Take into account all eras of their careers and both studio and live performance. |
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 11:21
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Geddy for sure. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 11:22
| OMG it must be the easiest poll I've seen here in a while haha!! Geddy Lee anytime, anywhere, I really don't like Labrie. DT would have been better if Dominci had stayed IMO |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 11:24
Where's another famous Canadian singer, Paul Anka?
Seriously: LaBrie for me. But I must to admit I'm not keen to both singers. As we used to tell in my country: The one is for eighteen, the second is for twenty minus two. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 11:30
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For sure Geddy Lee.
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 12:22
| I have a short history with LaBrie, but few decades with Lee - so Geddy for sure. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 12:56
OR six of one and half a dozen of the other.  I voted Geddy. His early vocals take some getting used to, but by the mid 80s his voice got pretty good. I have nothing in particular against La Brie and regard him as just fine; meaning he'll do but I am not real excited with his work. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Gandalff wrote:Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 14:19
| If only Labrie did not get food poisoned. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 14:38
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I have never hated either one, before or now. I don't think I have ever voted a poll so fast as this one. -------------   
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 15:06
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I'll go with the minority here; Labrie. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 16:43
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I love them both. Labrie, at his peak, was better than Geddy Lee ever was, IMO. His vocals are the part of the music that stand out the most to me in DT's early recordings. But Labrie's voice hasn't aged as well; he's great in the studio but has some problems with pitch live, while Geddy's voice is better than it has ever been. I'll go with Geddy, because I think he's been better throughout his career than Labrie has. |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 17:05
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There was this one time when I didn't feel like tearing my ears out when listening to Rush. Can't say the same about Dream Theater though ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 21:07
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hmm.......well not really too big a fan of either, though Geddy is not as bad. But early LaBrie was pretty decent. Early LaBrie gets my vote :P |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 22:50
| La Brie has his moments, but Geddy Lee has more... |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: January 21 2012 at 22:56
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I actually like LaBrie more. Both are pretty bad.
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Posted By: kawkaw123
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 17:46
| I like LaBrie. But Geddy Lee is like listening to a high pitched death melon. what ever that may be. |
Posted By: Redug
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 21:55
| Geddy Lee. James Labrie is probably the single biggest thing that keeps me from enjoying 90% of DT's discography. |
Posted By: Gooner
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 23:11
| Geddy...especially his voice in the '80s from "Moving Pictures" all the way to "Hold Your Fire". |
Posted By: spknoevl
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 07:24
Agreed. ------------- http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 07:34
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Geddy Lee easily ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 07:38
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Geddy Lee. Easy choice. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 08:33
| Geddy. LaBrie has more range but his high notes generally sound awful to me because of his poor, kind of muffled diction. LaBrie is also better at Geddy at gritty production but his grit, for what it is, is not very appealing. As such, Geddy plays to his strengths and sings within his limitations, which I cannot say for LaBrie and that seals my vote. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 08:34
Joni Mitchell, comfortably better than either. Overall as a musician too, I like her more than either. |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 19:37
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Both great singer for my ears. But James is one of the reasons I love DT... Wider range, higher pitch, more powerful... the rest is just matter of taste... Labrie for me please... ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 23 2012 at 19:40
| Geddy Lee easlily for me. La Brie has some moments I like, but many other's I just don't like. Geddy has never annoyed me as much as La Brie has. |
Posted By: CryoftheCarrots
Date Posted: January 24 2012 at 00:33
Jeff Martin slays them all ! For this poll though LaBrie by a gnats whisker. ------------- "There is a lot in this world to be tense and intense about" MJK |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 07 2017 at 15:57
| Geddy, I'd rather listen to Geddy at his worst than Mr Labrie... seriously, OMG. And I love DT, oh well with minor exceptions. :) guess who - LOL |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 07 2017 at 16:33
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f**k you too Captcha... pfffff... Brooding in the tower Watching o'er his land Holding ev'ry creature Helplessly they stand Gaze into his prisms Knowing they are near Lead them to the dungeons Spectres numb with fear They bow defeated   ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: September 07 2017 at 19:32
| I like both singers. Don't understand why others don't like either. In this poll I voted for Labrie. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 04:43
Given that Geddy can't hit those high notes anymore and therefore can't do those early songs proper justice, I can't disagree more with what I bolded above. ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 07:40
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James ------------- |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 08:58
| Geddy Easily... |
Posted By: TexasKing
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 09:45
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Geddy and it's not close. And I don't mind Labrie's voice.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 10:47
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Lee ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Chula Vista
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 12:00
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Geddy all the way. ------------- I'd much rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 08 2017 at 13:08
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Gary! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 17:59
| GEEDY LEE |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 03:08
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Geddy Lee ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 08:41
| Geddy. |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 11:09
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Geddy Lee all the way. Labrie is a sh*tty singer who should have retired after 1994. He ruins every single live album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 16:44
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Geddy! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 18:18
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Labrie is the reason I can’t get into DT. I have Metropolis 2 and Octavarium LP’s and love them, but that whiney voice grates on me. Geddy’s voice is pure Hard Rock like Burke Shelley (Budgie). |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: May 07 2018 at 08:04
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Dream Theater never did it for me. Geddy Lee by a mile.
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