Best vocal performance of all time?
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Topic: Best vocal performance of all time?
Posted By: moonlitbay
Subject: Best vocal performance of all time?
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 14:20
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All vocalists, good or bad, have their ups and downs. Therefore let's find the best single vocal performance in prog rock of all time... I'm not interested in comments like "everything Russel Allen has put his mind to", or "Peter Gabriel's voice make everybody else's singing sound like caughing", and so on... The thing I want is a single song, or even better, a verse or refrain where your vocalist is awesome. My personal favourites must include: Jorn Lande (Ark) - Missing you... specially the last two refrains. Mariusz Duda (Riverside) - Dance with the shadow (he shows a tremendous aspect of different types of vocal. Steve Hogarth (Marillion) - Final on the song "King". Beautiful! ------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
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Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 14:34
| Greg Lake - Epitaph |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 14:38
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Peter Hammill on the vinyl version of Robert Fripp's album "Exposure" in the song "Disengage". Wow, that really blows me away. Unfortunately the CD-version uses a different take of the vocals, which still is good, but is just no match for the vinyl version. According to the biography of Robert Fripp, he didn't give Hammill any idea which melody he had to sing, he just stuck a sheet of paper with the lyrics in front of him and said "Sing!" And Hammill is definitely a person that likes challenges, so he delivered. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Marwin
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 14:49
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Opeth - Ghost of Perdition. Ĺkerfeldt is a master at both agressive and
clean this song shows that. A real highlight for me is the vocal melody
round 3:00 which is allso repeated at the end. Pink Floyd - A Great Gig in the Sky. ive allways had a weakspot for this song. May not be for everyone but to me its a masterpiece. Pink Floyd - Echoes. Gilmour and Wright make a good combination my favourite is the first vocal part. Dream Theater - Another Hand - The Killing Hand (live at the Marquee) this is one of those songs that hit me in the face and became an instant classic. Vocaly i think its LaBries best live performance and the ending allways gives me goose bumps. The Gathering - Leaves. Pure beauty in my opinion the albums Mandylion and Nighttime Birds are filled with some of the best female vocals ever. ------------- http://myspace.com/toxicmindfin http://myspace.com/porcelainprog |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 14:51
------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: RobRocks
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:06
| I still get chills everytime I hear the "Watch the sparrow falling ..." passage in Dream Theater's "Pull Me Under" on "Images and Words". |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:35
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Well obviously -
"Pan American nightmare, ten thousand feet funfair, convinced that I don't care it's safe as houses I swear!I was just sitting musing the virtues of cruising, when altitude dropping my ears started popping, ONE MORE RED NIGHTMARE!!!!" "Westside skyline crying Fallen Angel dying,risk a life to make a dime" - Two of my favourite Wetton performances with Crimson ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: AceBad
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:53
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Maynard James Keenan from Tool, on the song "Push*t"...especially the end...so much power. Also, I've recently developed an appreciation for the crazy things Mike Patton can do with his voice. His singing voice is great, but in addition he can create some of the wackiest and most interesting sounds I've heard come out of a person. An example song that highlights the range of things this guy can do with his voice is "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things", from his collaboration with The Dillinger Escape Plan. I love that vocal performance, although (or maybe because?) it's quite terrifying. ------------- http://barddog.org/acebad - http://barddog.org/acebad |
Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:54
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Jon Anderson - Yes - Close to the Edge Mikael Ĺkerfeldt - Opeth - Isolation Years Greg Lake - King Crimson - Moonchild David Gilmour - Pink Floyd - Mother |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:58
Jon Anderson - CTTE - fantastic 
------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 16:21
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DEEP PURPLE - CHILD IN TIME Great vocals by Ian Gillan!!!!!! |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 16:25
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All of Suppers Ready is special and Ill add Fish's spoken passages on Forgotten Sons, so much passion its hard to believe. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 16:58
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"Of all time" -- snicker! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Some opera singer, I imagine -- though the concept is highly subjective!
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 17:02
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Steve Hogarth - Memory of Water. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 17:11
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Peter Hammill on VDGG's 'Lost' is a particular stunner for me, as is his 'This Side Of The Looking Glass' and 'Betrayed'. But then most of Hammill's vocals are utterly fantastic; he's perhaps the ultimate prog singer. David Byron delivered a plethora also; 'Come Away Melinda', 'Midnight', 'July Morning' and 'Wonderworld' stand out for me particularly.
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Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 17:23
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I absolutely love the Gilmour/Wright combination on Echoes - it hits me so hard when the vocals first come in, and then again in the same vein toward the end of the song I agree that LaBrie's vocals are best on Live at the Marquee's Another Hand/The Killing Hand... he has so much power and emotion in his voice, definately one of his best (I actually think that whole Live album shows some of his best performances). Another favorite is the sparatic vocals in the first few mintutes of CTTE, where everyone hits one note out of the chaos and then it jumps right back into insanity!
------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
Marwin wrote:Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 18:14
I have some:
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Posted By: erlenst
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 18:38
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Ian Gillan is amazing. I would
especially mention his performance on Child in Time from Made in Japan
as orgasmic. Another winner has to be Jon Anderson. Highlights include Heart of the Sunrise, Close to the Edge and Awaken. |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 18:40
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David Byron "July Morning" Ian Gillan "Child In Time" Robert Plant "Since I've Been Loving You" and, of course, "Stairway To Heaven" Dio "Catch The Rainbow" and "Stargazer" Francesco Di Giacomo "R.I.P" John Wetton "Rendez-vous 6:02" Jim Morrison "Crystal Ship" Mark Knopfler "Brothers In Arms" (can't call him "vocalist", but he's the best singer for DIRE STRAITS) David Coverdale "Soldier Of Fortune" John Lawton "The Dance" Greg Lake "The Sage" Janosh Kobor "Györgyhajú lány" (OMEGA). ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: eloii
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 18:47
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Ian Gillan - Fighting Man Rush - Tom Sawyer (i dont know... i like it ) Yes - Close to the Edge |
Posted By: Rashikal
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 19:03
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anything by mike patton
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listen to Hella |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 20:33
Technically- I would tend to say some trained singer, but none spring to mind- such is the lot of trained singers, they make no lasting impression. (well, maybe M Carey's All I Want For Christmas  or Pavarotti in Passenger)Emotionally, a few spring to mind, such as:
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Posted By: Rashikal
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 20:36
well the true vocal performances are all in opera... but who seriously listens to opera? 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 20:38
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I give it to Roger Daltrey for "Love, Reign O'er Me" off of The Who's concept epic Quadrophenia. ------------- 
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Posted By: Flying Dutchman
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 21:15
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Any part of Thick as a Brick. Seriously. Other than that, all of the vocal parts of the Gates of Delirium are really good. I also think the Great Gates of Kiev has great vocals, and so does the Endless Enigma suite (both ELP) I think these two are Lake's best vocal deliveries (with ELP of course). KC- Epitaph Lots of VdGG stuff. I also love the vocals on Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues, especially when he says 'you' in the line "I love you" |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 21:24
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I forgot to mention the singer in Loccanda delle fate
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Posted By: Harold Dupont
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 21:40
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I was going to write it when I saw that reply |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 22:00
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Opeth- "Harvest" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Rush- "Nobody's Hero" Devin Townsend "Earth Day" Pain of Salvation- The Entire Perfect Element part 1 CD ------------- |
Posted By: moonlitbay
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 02:01
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I'm sorry I forgot "Child In Time"...........shivers ------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 02:44
| Peter Gabrel (& Kate Bush) - Don't Give Up ! its wonderful. also bohemian rhapsody. theres so lot of them.... |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 06:23
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Neal Morse live! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: riversdancing
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:04
| Beyond Twilight - The Devil's Hall of Fame (Jorn Lande is GOD!) |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:17
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Yes/Jon Anderson:Heart of the Sunrise +many more Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hamill:A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers+many more Genesis/Peter Gabriel:Supper's Ready+many more Queensryche/Geoff Tate:Eyes of a Stranger Psychotic Waltz/Buddy Lackey:A Psychotic Waltz+many more Pain of Salvation/Daniel Gildenlöw :King of Loss+many more |
Posted By: matti meikäläin
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:22
| It's got to be Ian curtis ( joy division)- Day of the lords.. i get shivers every time he raises he's voice and almost starts to scream " This is the room, the start of it all, through childhood, through youth, i remember it all, oh i've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain. and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained " |
Posted By: Christian
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:23
| David Byron in July Morning |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:24
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Daniel Gildenlöw on 12:5
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:48
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Van der graaf generator - Lemmings (Including Cog) This song realy show what Hammill can do. ------------- 
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 08:04
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James Labrie in "A Fortune In Lies" and "Another Hand-The Killing Hand" from "Live At The Marquee".
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Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 21:55
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Devin Townsend - Canada. The part where he sings "The road, it's home, the mountain high, river low" just sends chills down my spine every single time. Devin Townsend - Loser (On Ayreon's "The Human Equation" album) Just.. wow. Maynard James Keenan - Push*t Pink Floyd - Great Gig In The Sky Genesis - Entangled Spock's Beard - All Of The Above Rush - The Necromancer. Dunno why really, this song just twitches some nerve with me. Also Jon Anderson, Cedric Bixler, Peter Gabriel etc. Non-prog: Blind Melon - Soul One. Fantastic performance by Shannon Hoon. ------------- With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with. |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 22:09
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w00t! do you have general patton vs. the x-ecutioners? i dont generally like that type of music, but it's very experimental for hip hop and the sound clips on amazon are really interesting.
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Posted By: walrus
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 22:27
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bjork and thom yorke in 'I've seen it all' ------------- you and whose army? |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 22:43
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Non-prog: Definitely Cathy Berberian's "Stripsody" performance. Highly recommended listening.
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: bertburt
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 22:54
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Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto (Plays Live version) Michael Sadler (Saga) - Don't Be Late Non-Prog: Andy Partridge (XTC) - Another Satellite
And of course, the ensemble masterpiece: GG - On Reflection |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 23:09
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Say what you want about the guy, but if you ever saw Dennis De Young sing Suite Madame Blue live back in the 70s...WOW all time fave - Jon Anderson - Heart of the Sunrise(yessongs) ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 23:42
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Daniel Gildenbow (pain of salvation) - Iter Impius or The Big Machine (What... if we loose control) or Beyond the Mirror. Hammill - Curtains (from live performance "Typical") Arcturus - The Chaos Path (with his circus man voice!) Evergrey - When the walls go down (awesome emotional vocal) Harmonium - Le premier ciel "live" (while singing with his guitar) ------------- [IMG]http://www.painofsalvation.com/news/images/a-collage-change.jpg"> |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: January 31 2006 at 23:59
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Im gonna say all of Supper's Ready from Gabriel.
I also LOVE the singing of Hammil on "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" especially on "Presence of the Night." ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 00:23
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I simply adore the vocal harmonies thoughout L'Heptade from Harmonium. It is divine!!
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Posted By: ::CerpinTaxt::
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 00:33
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L'via L'viaquez ( The Mars Volta ) Inertiatic ESP ( The Mars Volta ) Since I've Been Loving You ( Led Zeppelin) Mushroom ( CAN) War Pigs/ Luke's Wall ( Black Sabbath) |
Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 01:37
Good from "Comme un Fou" to "Comme un Sage". A must have for vocal harmonies yeah! ^^ ------------- [IMG]http://www.painofsalvation.com/news/images/a-collage-change.jpg"> |
Posted By: moonlitbay
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 01:47
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Whaaaaaat if we loose control? Whaaat if we loose controooooooool!!! Gildenloev is exceptional!! ------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
Posted By: moonlitbay
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 01:49
What about Britney Spears - Live ------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 01:53
hahahah, yeah, I forgot to mention about her sexy and synthetized voice!  ------------- [IMG]http://www.painofsalvation.com/news/images/a-collage-change.jpg"> |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 06:11
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Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding / At Last I Am Free Peter Hammill - (In The)Black Room / La Rossa / Arrow / House w/ No Door.... John Wetton - Night Watch / Book of Saturday / Fallen Angel Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood (Robert Fripp-Exposure Version) / Carpet Crawlers Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans from Venus / Diddy Wah Diddy Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning Sonja Kristina - Piece of Mind Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 06:30
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One that just came to my mind: There is one track on the first "Offering album", in which Christian Vander shrieks in a high falsetto for about 5 minutes. That track truely is amazing; he must have had a sore throat afterwards. It is hard to believe someone is doing that with his voice; it sounds really out of this world.
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: moonlitbay
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 13:46
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The great gig in the sky - vocals on PULSE. Nice female vocals.
------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 14:04
Nah, the original version of Claire Torry on "The Dark Side of the Moon" is much better; in the live version three women have to take her part. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: calgary669
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 14:06
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Annie Haslam -- Ashes are Burning ------------- What happened to this song we once knew so well??? |
Posted By: Erik
Date Posted: February 01 2006 at 14:27
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Posted By: jonali
Date Posted: February 02 2006 at 05:22
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Some great ones: Peter Hammill: A Louse Is Not A Home & first three minutes of Flight Gilmour/Wright: Echoes & Time Peter Gabriel: Dancing with the Moonlit Knight & Anyway & Apocalypse 9/8 Julie Driscoll: Season of the Witch & The Road to Cairo (best female prog vocalist ever?) Greg Lake: Lucky Man & C'est la vie (I love those cheesy ballads) Waters: The Gunner's Dream McCartney: Fool on the Hill Lennon: Strawberry Fields Forever & A Day in the Life Stevie Winwood: John Barleycorn Must Die Ian Anderson: Heavy Horses Gary Brooker: A Salty Dog Richard Sinclair: Tell Me Pye Hastings: A Place of My Own John Wetton: The Night Watch Annie Haslam: Cold Is Being Dave Cousins: New World
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Posted By: ambriz
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 22:44
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Well, of course not the best vocal performance of all time, but it's a favorite one. I imagine telling this to a close person, our relationship just ended so bad... From Porcupine Tree, "The Start Of Something Beautiful": "You thought it was the start of something beautiful? Well, think again..." 
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Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 23:07
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Daniel Gildenlow is the best actual singer to my mind. Anybody get so higher and lower, all in the same person. Entire 12:5 it's an example, also are Reconciliation or Iter Impius. (or beyond the pale, or a trace of blood, or used, or winning a war, or nauticus, or dea pecuniae, or oblivion ocean, or ! (foreword), or... etc.... He is the best, sobrenatural voice. ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 23:41
Melanie Safka's voice gives me shivers of pleasure...  |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 23:59
| Peter Hammill-Every song he ever did. |
Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: February 04 2006 at 00:25
Agreed and I would also add 'If I Had The Time' and 'Stealin' |
Posted By: Thufir Hawat
Date Posted: February 04 2006 at 00:37
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A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers and Turn of The Centaury are my favorite vocal performances. ------------- "I can't see through my eye lids" |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 04 2006 at 01:19
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: February 04 2006 at 01:22
| non prog tim buckley get on top greetings from l. a. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 04 2006 at 03:22
Hammill indeed is a marvel for always finding the right tone of voice for his songs, from soft to aggressive, from "crooning" to shouting and shrieking. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: February 05 2006 at 10:21
| I always thought Steve Hogarth's vocals on the studio version of "Afraid Of Sunlight" (the song) were great and fit the amosphere perfectly. |
Posted By: V0lcaN0
Date Posted: February 05 2006 at 10:41
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The opening post does not clearly state if that has to be a prog related song or not, so I will talk in general. Most amazing vocal performance for me must be Michael Kiske's one on Hellloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys(from album Keeper of the Seven Keys pt2). I mean the whole song, but especially the end. I just stand amazed every time I hear it, though I must have heard a thousand times or so. Simply perfect. As for others I would go with Rob Halford's inhuman voice on Judas Priest's "Dreamer Deceiver", Midnight's creepiest performance ever on Crimson Glory's "Lost Reflection", Geoff Tate's amazing performance on Queensryche's "Take Hold of the Flame". Apart from the metal genre, I would go with van Leer's performance on "Hocus Pocus" and Greg Lake's vocals on "In the wake of Poseidon". ------------- waiting for the showers to stop... |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: February 05 2006 at 10:45
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I'm sorry guys but you seem to have all missed the boat here. The best vocalist ever has to be Banco's Francesco Di Giacomo. I can't believe nobody has mentioned him. This makes me believe that too many people are missing out on this great band. My favorite performance from him would be the song "750,000 Anni Fa L' Amore." What passion and what a voice!!!!
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Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 05 2006 at 11:34
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Haha well I have some from all sorts of genres. Prog: Anekdoten - From Within (I love the vocals on most tracks, just as long as Anna's voice isn't mixing with Jan Erik's and Nicklas's. She can really do wonders with the cello, mellotron and so forth, but her voice annoys me) King Crimson - Wetton: Starless, One More Red Nightmare &nbs p; - Greg Lake: In the Wake of Poseidon (ahhh ahh ahhh), 21st Century Schizoid Man Gentle Giant - Advent of Panurge, Wreck Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin Pink Floyd - Clare Torry - The Great Gig in the Sky, &nbs p; - David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright - Echoes &nbs p; - Roger Waters, David Gilmour - Careful With That Axe Eugene Opeth - Akerfeldt - Death Whispered a Lullaby, Isolation Years, Godheads Lament, Night and the Silent Water - Akerfeldt/Wilson - Bleak Non Prog Slayer - Tom Araya - Angel of Death...weird, but that track is amazing compared to most everything Slayer did before and after. Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Achille's Last Stand Many others, but those are the ones i'm able to conjure up at the moment. ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 08:40
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Read 5 posts above your's, Paulieg, I also believe he's amazing and already mentioned him, but your choice of song is incredible also, extremely beautiful track and a lot of passion. Iván -------------
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 08:52
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It may be an obvious choice but I really do rate Jon Anderson, especially Close to the Edge and Relayer. For an unusual perfomance, one full of raw emotion, how about Robert Wyatt on Rock Bottom, in particular the dream like "Alifib/Alifie". |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 09:06
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David Surkamp in "Pampered Menial" by PAVLOV'S DOG (1974). His voice is really incredible!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 11:28
David Surkamp is a strange case, you love or hate him. I'm a Pavlov's Dog fan and consider him a great vocalist but to be honest his vocal range is less than good, almost like Geddy Lee with extra helium. The important aspect of his singing is the work he does. If you notice his voice trembles at the end of each phrase, this is not casual or particular of him only, his style is very similar to Edith Piaff's, it's a very hard technique that gives an incredible amount of emotion and strength to his songs. A good singer needs only a beautiful range (You can find a lot of great voices in American Idol, but very few -if any- vocalist) and you can find millions of good singers, a great vocalist is the artist that knows his weak points and manages to make an advantage of them, David knows his voice is not beautiful, but he sure knows how to exploit his limited range taking the listener almost to tears with a very well elaborate technique. When he sings Julia for example, his vocal work makes the change, he's so unique that you can feel his suffering, if you change David for a guy with a great strong voice, you would loose the effect and Julia would only be a top 40 ballad, but with him it's a progressive song. Being able to transmit what you feel and share strong emotions with the audience, is probably as important as a beautiful voice, and Mr. Surkamp can do that as almost nobody. Iván -------------
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Posted By: Anguiad
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 01:57
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James LaBrie in the very last part of A Change Of Seasons "Seize the DAy, DOnt you cry, NOw it's TIme to SAY goodBYE, evenThough Ill be GONe IIII WIIILL LIVE OOOOOOOOOOON!" LaBrie in Innocence Faded . What a song! Non-prog: Chris Cornell in his Euphoria Morning during Flutter Girl : "And your heart so young and so naive to ever feel for a moment that I might dare to believe",and himself again on Temple Of The Dog in the final part of Your Saviour. ------------- "Tis your birth and faith that wrong you...not I." |
Posted By: AngleofRepose
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 02:08
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Gotta be Supper's Ready. The finale. Damn. Other great prog vocals
performances include 'A Plague of the Lighthouse Keepers', 'Metropolis Part 1', CttE, and 'Heart of Lothian'. But prog doesn't have the best vocals normally (Supper's Ready is a clear exception). It'd have to be Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come' or Joplin's 'Take Another Piece of My Heart', Ray Charles 'Georgia On My Mind', or a Fitzgerald or a Franklin tune. Plant's got some fine one's too. |