What Ayreon songs are sung by Fish or Neal Morse?
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Topic: What Ayreon songs are sung by Fish or Neal Morse?
Posted By: TheGrandWazoo123
Subject: What Ayreon songs are sung by Fish or Neal Morse?
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 10:06
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I've never listened to Ayreon, but now I'm interested. ------------- "When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else." - Frank Zappa |
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Posted By: Progatron
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 10:19
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Neal Morse sings "The First Man On Earth" from the first Universal Migrator disc, and Fish appears in the role of "The Highlander" on "Into The Electric Castle". Plenty of other excellent guest vocalists as well throughout Ayreon's catalogue... (Mikael Akerfeldt, James LaBrie, Floor Jansen, Damien Wilson, etc. etc...) Ayreon are excellent! Check them out! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 10:20
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Fish sunged on Into The Electric Castle, playing the part of "The Highlander" he lends his voice to: 'Isis and Osiris', 'The Decision Tree (We're Alive)' and 'Tunnel of Light' ... his journey ends there as he's too scared of the light to go on.
Morse singified on The Universal Migrator Part 1 - The Dream Sequencer, track 10 'The First Man On Earth'
/edit: Ah, bugger. beaten by 1 minute  welcome to the PA Lorne.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 11:22
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The First Man on Earth is fantastic... that's a good album to get acquainted with the band with, despite the critical panning. Disc 1 is awesome if you're in the mood for chilled out neo prog and the second disc is a shred fest including vocalists like Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Andy Deris of Helloween, the dude from Stratovarius, Primal Fear, ect... Universal Migrator... aw hell yeah. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 19:14
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ok buy these
THE HUMAN EQUATION
INTO THE ELECTRIC CASTLE
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ALSO TIMELINE IS GREAT COMPILATION ------------- 
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Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 19:22
Correct ^ ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 01 2010 at 08:58
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Don't forget Heather Findlay on The Human Equation ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Antennas
Date Posted: August 01 2010 at 11:00
Fish's contributions to Ayreon's The Electric Castle are among the BEST vocals he's ever done, imho. 
Absolutely stunning stuff.
Even the more poignant is the fact that he was completely wasted when those tracks were recorded - and it's very audible on the part where his Highlander-character dies. I've read that Fish and Lucassen tried to re-record that bit when he was sober again the next day(s?), but it never turned out as well as the original, drunk performance, so that's the one they used.
 Neil Morse's performance on The First Man on Earth is great too. A very Beatlesque track, it's gorgeous.
But then about everything Arjen has done is just great. Very well worth checking out. ------------- 
Jesus never managed to figure out the theremin either |
Posted By: LiquidEternity
Date Posted: August 01 2010 at 12:53
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I'm not as into Ayreon as I used to be, but it is the ultimate gateway to modern prog and prog metal. Just about every major act is represented somehow--if not by a vocalist, then by an instrumental soloist. It's like they made a compilation of 90s-00s prog and instead of putting old music on it, had Arjen write some fun new music. Give them a shot. The Human Equation is likely the best place to start, at least from my experience.
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Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: August 01 2010 at 23:25
I'm surprised they were able to get a sober performance at all. Is Fish ever sober? That's why we love him though. ------------- 
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