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Tsevir Leirbag View Drop Down

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Posted: December 27 2009 at 16:20

1. Roger Waters

2. Peter Hammill

3. Peter Gabriel

4. Greg Lake

5. Serge Fiori

6. Jon Anderson

7. Dagmar Krause

8. Richard Sinclair

9. Kerry Minnear

10. Mikael Arkerfeldt

(11.) Jean Leloup

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 07:30

Tim Ripper Owens

Peter Gabriel

Phil Collins

Russel Allen

Jorn Lande

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 08:21

Helmut Koellen
Kim Merz
Johnny Gustafson
Peter Gabriel
Francesco di Giacomo
Aldo Tagliapietra
Federico d'Andrea
Rudolf Schoen
in no particular order-more than five, but had to mention all of these

TGM: Orb

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 09:35

Pfeh, trying again:

1. Peter Hammill
--- (significant interval)
2. Demetrio Stratos
3. Chris Farlowe
4. Peter Gabriel
5...erm... Greg Lake, maybe... or Francesco Di Giacomo... Richard Sinclair as a possibility

Outside the sphere of 'progressive', Jacques Brel would be unquestionably on there... if anyone's heard how far the original version of Ces Gens-La flattens the perfectly good Christian Descamps version or the sheer speed of his vocal on Vesoul...

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 09:55

TGM: Orb wrote:

Pfeh, trying again:

1. Peter Hammill
--- (significant interval)
2. Demetrio Stratos
3. Chris Farlowe
4. Peter Gabriel
5...erm... Greg Lake, maybe... or Francesco Di Giacomo... Richard Sinclair as a possibility

Outside the sphere of 'progressive', Jacques Brel would be unquestionably on there... if anyone's heard how far the original version of Ces Gens-La flattens the perfectly good Christian Descamps version or the sheer speed of his vocal on Vesoul...

You got three of them right.

Demetrio Stratos, Peter Gabriel, Francesco Di Giacomo.

As for my other two...blargh, no idea.

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 14:56

1. Steve Walsh (Kansas).

2. Peter Gabriel (Genesis, etc.)

3. Thijs van Leer (Focus)

4. Ian Gillan (Deep Purple - he sang "Child in Time," which is progressive enough for me)

5. Geddy Lee (Rush)

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 15:58

1. Peter Hammill (VDGG)

2. Peter Gabriel (Genesis)

3. Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine)

4. Francesco DiGiacomo (Banco)

5. John Wetton (King Crimson)

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 18:05

Really difficult to pick out five...

Greg Lake

Freddy Mercury in his good old times

Annie Haslam

Emila Derkowska from the polish Quidam

Gabriel / Fish in a tie

probably not in sequence, it's too difficult !

J-Man

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Posted: March 23 2010 at 18:08

In no order, here are a few favorites:

Peter Gabriel
Fish
Daniel Gildenlöw
Mikael Åkerfeldt
James LaBrie
Neal Morse (shoot me now, but I love his vocals)
Dan Swanö

-Jeff

Edited by J-Man - March 23 2010 at 18:09

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Posted: March 24 2010 at 07:22

Hammill

Decamps

Byron

Kristina

Lake

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Posted: March 24 2010 at 15:20

May I point that rating singers may be tricky, we use to judge them by the timbre of their voice (this or that guy / lady have a great voice), but singing is more than that.

First of all, usually singers do not only sing, but they decide (compose) the melodic and rythmic phrases which the vocal part performs. A singer may "write" wonderful vocal phrasing but not have a very good voice himself or viceversa.

Secondly we have the technique. Some vocalists may have a natural good timbre but lack technique, or viceversa.

Thirdly we have the timbre, which is the most obvious attribute and as I said, the one we unconciously tend to judge vocalist for. A good sounding voice is probably most important than anything else, but as I want to note by this post, not the only thing a very good singer is supposed to do well.

Finally vocalists frequently write the lyrics, and that can be another point in their "evaluation sheet".

And we might still add the qualities as front-man / front-woman since many vocalist have to carry that role too, when looking for the "total package" best singers.

Do I still miss something?

Just asking for "the best singers" may feel incomplete unless we specify: best timbres? best overall?

richardh

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