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Posted: August 26 2011 at 10:09
1) Richie Havens singing Steve Hackett's "How Can I?", especially the bridge part "Money won't help you to win...." Getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
2) Christian Vander jumping around between a baritone and falsetto, singing scat-like melodies that jump all over the scales and sound really hard to pull off, all the while maintaining a breathless intensity. "Zess" from the 1981 Bobino live album is a great example of this. I'm pretty sure that's Vander singing.
3) Several Jerney Kaagman (Earth and Fire) moments qualify, even from their much-despised (based on album ratings here) late period. For my money, the first part of "Andromeda Girl" can stand up proudly next to anything Annie Haslam has ever sung. For a less controversial example though, I offer "Storm and Thunder", a gothic masterpiece of voice and band.
4) Peter Gabriel on "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight". He's unusually expressive in his vocals on that song. You can really feel his sorrow.
5) The distorted voice of Greg Lake singing "21st Century Schizoid Man". That's just kickass in so many ways.
6) Justin Hayward singing with the Moody Blues has too many goosebump moments to count.
That's enough for now.
Edited by HolyMoly - August 26 2011 at 10:15
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Posted: August 26 2011 at 11:56
everything with Elton John, but first and formost Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the title track which is one of the most difficult songs to cover in the world becouse of the almoust perfect falsetto in the chorous
and TIny Dancer, Madman Across the Water, Eldberry Wine, Someone Saved My Life Tonight
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Posted: August 26 2011 at 13:39
idiotPrayer wrote:
vocals are quite an important part in music that features a (or more) vocalist, but often they are not the very main focus point for me, but sometimes they can be inrecibly beautiful or effective. if this has been done earlier then kindly enlighten me. if not then feel free to tell me and the othere pa-members wich your favourite vocal moments (eg lines, choruses or whole songs) are. here's a few to get it going:
anathema: angel walk along us (the ville valo part)
lazuli: lepas de l'ogre (or pretty much anything else)
opus symbiosis: artefacts of the gardener (put a letter in a bottle and throw it in the sea/or whisper the story in someones ear/ etc...), one of the best female vocalists imo
porcupine tree: the joke's on you (strange days/incredible days/bring all the children to me/ etc) and .3 (black the sky, weapons fly / lay them waste for your race
)
I didn't expect to see a Steven Wilson moment here in this thread but for me its quite a few of them. Currently,
Steven Wilson - Untitiled - Insurgentes
When he goes "I threw my life away, And for what? I blew my chances too, I see the bitter truth,
I give up" it shakes me up quite a bit, the way he sings it seems really honest.
And I got into Porcupine Tree because of these three lines from "Arriving somewhere ..."
"All my designs, simplified
And all of my plans, comprimised
And all of my dreams, sacrificed"
I have heard Arriving somewhere a few 1000 times, but still, these lines still bring it all out of me.
Forgive me for forgetting the name of the song, but that bit in a Syd Barrett tune where he says 'Kinda catchy' Arthur Brown's shouted intro to Fire has been sampled and flogged to death but is still sends a delicious shiver up the spine every time. A John Cale scream is always worth sticking around for. Gary Brooker's tagline to In Held Twas In I by Procul Harum - Life's a beanstalk, isn't it?
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Posted: August 26 2011 at 19:37
I'm afraid there are many incredibly beautiful singing moments which I wouldn't be able to remember nor to choose one of them. I would have to choose something from Jon Anderson, Greg Lake (well, from him it would have to be Epitaph), Annie Haslam, Francesco di Giancomo, Jimi Spi... (the singer from Metamorphosi), or perhaps even something from Within Temptation (though that doesn't have any prog in it). But then one that came to my mind when I saw the title of this thread was a moment from a Therion son, in the album "Secret of the Runes", the song "Midgard", after some "choir" vocals, at about 40 seconds, kicks in a soprano singer that sounds just amazing... as a matter of fact that whole album has some really beautiful singing with opera like choirs and soprano.
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Posted: August 26 2011 at 19:43
ExittheLemming wrote:
Forgive me for forgetting the name of the song, but that bit in a Syd Barrett tune where he says 'Kinda catchy' Arthur Brown's shouted intro to Fire has been sampled and flogged to death but is still sends a delicious shiver up the spine every time. A John Cale scream is always worth sticking around for. Gary Brooker's tagline to In Held Twas In I by Procul Harum - Life's a beanstalk, isn't it?
i actually like Mathiew Fishers singing in In Held Twas an I better then Brookers, he have such a heartfelt voice i actualy dig it.
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