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 Posted: July 15 2010 at 15:45 |
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Magma's discography.
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enigma
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 14:36 |
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I love the impact Geddy Lee has when he sings "Then all at once the chaos ceased...." in Hemispheres.
Roger Waters - The Gunners Dream
Most Hammill VDGG moments.
MJK - Aenema
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 11:24 |
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Steeleye Span - Gaudette |
Good choice, but It's Gaudete. I've got O-level Latin you know. 
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"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"
"He's up the pub"
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 11:21 |
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Some favourite moments off the top of my head.
Jon Anderson's "Farewell, farewell" bit before the church organ kicks in on Awaken by Yes - always sends a shiver down my spine. Great Gig in the Sky has a similar effect.
John Wetton's full throated roar of "Starless and Bible Black" prior to the instrumental section on KC's Starless.
The vocals on the 3rd Impression of ELP's Karn Evil 9 - from where Greg Lake sings "Rejoice! Glory is ours, our young men have not died in vain! Their graves need no flowers, the tapes have recorded their names." through to the shouty argument with the computer. I always was a sucker for a bit of pompous bombast!
Edited by Cactus Choir - July 15 2010 at 11:24
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"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"
"He's up the pub"
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 09:00 |
High F# on Dream Theater's Learning to Live (SEEING THEM LIVE WOOOO) "Trapped inside this Octavarium" Also DT "I get up, I get down" From Close to the Edge "I command the lightning's hand" from Kansas's "Lightning's Hand" "Death is Life" from ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition, (Last movement, The Great Gate at Kiev)
Vocalists are members of the band too :P
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 07:40 |
There are dozens of great vocal moments, here are a few:
The opening section of The Revealing Science of God takes some beating.
The bit in Refugees well into the song where Peter Hammill first sings "We're Refugees" almost in a whisper.
Greg Lake's finale to Pictures at an Exhibition - "Death is Life".
The Latin/French finale to Roxy Music's Song For Europe.
The bit in Evening Over Rooftops where Edgar Broughton sings "Four miles across, Stretched a million miles high" - real goosebump stuff.
The Strawbs' New World - "Were you the coward who fired the last shot, May you rot, May you rot, My you rot....".
"teenage wasteland" from Baba O'Reilly.
The "I'm looking for a miracle in my life" bit of Question by Moody Blues.
The Yodelling in Hocus Pocus.
and "The Light, Light, Light, Light, Light, Dies Down, Down Down, Down, Down - On Broadway".
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 06:40 |
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Another--not prog, but Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage, and/or Barrett's Privateers.
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richardh
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 01:31 |
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Steeleye Span - Gaudette
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rogerthat
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Posted: July 14 2010 at 11:16 |
Is this restricted to prog? Anyway, Jeff Buckley taking falsetto to frontiers his father would have been proud of on the title track of Grace. Annie Haslam on all of Rockalise. Dio going "On and on and on..." on Heaven and Hell, I just want (wanted  ) him to go on and on and on. All of Great Gig in the Sky.
Edited by rogerthat - July 14 2010 at 11:17
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The Truth
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 12:21 |
^ Yeah that's probably truue as well 
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 12:18 |
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The Truth
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 12:15 |
Lots of Quadrophenia has great vocal moments, Keith Moon singing on Bell Boy is another.
Also, DT-PT's sig is one of my favorites.
"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way," is a personal fav of mine.
And practically all of VDGG's Plague of Lighthouse Keepers has the best Hammill vocals ever.
Edited by The Truth - July 13 2010 at 12:17
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 11:49 |
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
....and for all the metalheads, the opening shriek of Slayer's "Angel of Death" |
Ahh yes thats a great one. 
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The Runaway
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 05:37 |
" And the meek shall inherit the earth.."
"I'll remember, the good things how can you forget, all the things that we shared, in our way"
"I could never be a soldier, I could never face the enemy. I could never be a soldier, he looks just like you and me."
"Don't let it break your heart (heart), don't let it break your heart (don't let it break your)"
"I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress"
"Will you catch, these words of mine, will you catch, my words."
List the names of all these songs and get a cookie  EDIT: HOW COULD WE FORGET THE GREATEST OF ALL? "Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside..."
Edited by The Runaway - July 13 2010 at 05:38
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AbrahamSapien
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 04:14 |
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Definitely this:
LOOOOOOOOOVE REIGN O'ER MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And there's the other Quadrophoenic vocal eargasm:
And when your soul tells you to hide,
Your very right to die's denied!!!!
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 02:42 |
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Clare Torry - Great Gig in the Sky, offcourse
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richardh
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 01:57 |
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Another one for me is the slow middle section of Moody Blues Question. Hayward seems to be singing on behalf of a whole generation of people. On a similar theme I would also go for Matthew Southern Comfort's version of Jonie Mitchells Woodstock. Very special.
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 01:48 |
David Bowie on the chorus of "Big Brother"
Devin Townsend on "Supercrush!"
Peter Gabriel on "Back in NYC"
h on "Easter"
Mikael Akerfeldt on "Ghost of Perdition"....all of it
predictably, "I get up, I get down"....
....and for all the metalheads, the opening shriek of Slayer's "Angel of Death"
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
-The Great Gig in the Sky
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Ian Stuart
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 00:19 |
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I must agree, about 90% of everything Annie Haslam did with Renaissance would be my first choice ... and much of Justin Hayward, with a special nod to Blue Jays, close behind (with apologies to Greg Lake!)
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Posted: July 12 2010 at 21:56 |
I'm surprized only one mentioned any Annie Haslam moments in Renaissance.
End of Scheherezade, middle of Things I Don't Understand,,...so many others
They still send chills down my spine. Second place (Jon Anderson) is not even close.
Edited by tobytanzer - July 12 2010 at 21:59
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