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    Posted: November 20 2018 at 15:04
I would like some (preferably) song and album (which are acceptable, but I have less time to devote to them) suggestions with this topic's title as criteria.
Background: I am a singer myself, so I love vocalists who can show their talent off, and blend with/enhance the actual instruments of the song, but I hate when a really good song instrumentally is ruined by bad vocals/unmemorable vocal melodies. Please refrain from mentioning the well-known vocal-talented bands (Yes, Genesis, Kansas, even VDGG who is one of my favs despite varying opinions), and I would like 70s bands' songs, as you might tell from my username. Thank you in advance, as I am 18, and grateful that the people who lived through those glory years, and who have the memory to provide these young ears with the obscure, yet still amazing, music, are willing to be a resource for great recommendations!

A couple I would like to nominate, which I found on my own:
"Beautiful Scarlet" - Rare Bird
"Don't Make Me Cry" - Tonton Macoute
"Sorrow" - Lucifer's Friend"
"Autumn" - Twenty Sixty-Six and Then
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Roine Stolt - Humanizzimo. Phenomenal vocal melodies!!!
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My top three

A Turn of a Friendly Card - Alan Parsons Project.
Many to Many - Genesis
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
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It depends what you like, but have you listened to any of Gentle Giant's multi-part vocal harmonies?
 
If not, then I would recommend:
 
"On Reflection" from the album "Free Hand"
 
"Knots" from the album "Octopus"
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^^ oh I love AgainThumbs Up

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Sorry this doesn't really fit the bill because chances are you know that lady already and it's not 70s, but... in the world of great vocal melodies there is simply no better.
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Finally someone mentioned Moon Safari. Smile
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1970s? Beautifully melodic harmonies? Here's something vaguely proggy from a couple of old farts....




Edited by The Dark Elf - November 20 2018 at 18:38
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I'm a huge fan of Queen's earliest work, check this song from Queen II! 
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I'm sure there are a lot of them I will think about later, but one of my favorite vocal performances is on "Nevermore" by U.K.  This is a well know band in prog circles, and I'm not sure if you have been exposed to them before, but U.K. consisted of Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson), John Wetton (King Crimson, Asia), Alan Holdsworth (soloist), Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music, Jethro Tull and many others).  Definitely a band you should check out if you haven't already. 

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OK, no Yes, nor Renaissance, I guess you already know them too. But how about Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, with Francesco Di Giacomo on vocals.
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[I'm a huge fan of Queen's earliest work, check this song from Queen II!]

Queen? Now, there's a band you don't hear much about these days. 


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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

[I'm a huge fan of Queen's earliest work, check this song from Queen II!]

Queen? Now, there's a band you don't hear much about these days. 


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Well, not much from the first two albums!!  

I'm not a big fan of their later work, i.e. Fat Bottom Girls etc.  Their earliest work rocked very hard and was quite prog-related. 

Oh yeah, there is a movie out or something I guess. LOL
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Hi,

Capability Brown -- their second album with the long cut, specially.

AND, just recently heard "Moon Safari" ... and boyyyyy, was it ever a flash for me ... beautiful stuff.


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If you haven't heard Renaissance, then that. And I know you said 70s but Iamthemorning is well worth a try. All live instruments and not metal either, especially the album Lighthouse.
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Almost anything by Genesis Tongue.
 
I can recommend:
 
"Burning Rope" from "...and Then There Were Three (1978)" or "Blood on the Rooftops" from "Wind and Wuthering (1976)" as two brilliant examples.
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Great vocal melodies? Then you cannot pass Gentle Giant:
  • Wreck
  • Aspirations
  • On Reflection
  • His Last Voyage
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Home by The Sea - Genesis immediately comes to mind.

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