Do foreign vocalists ruin your prog experience?

Lionheart wrote: Well, I think that foreign language music can be a bit more work to listen to, but that's simply because I don't understand the language itself (unless it's italian or spanish, which I can understand for the most part). I wouldn't say that foreign vocalists ruin my experience, though.

the OP had a point in another thread though... vocalists CAN ruin though... he got YS on my recommend and was .... let down.. not for the music which was ACE... but the vocal styling of Leone which (like much of Italian prog ) was operatic and overwrought.. it wasn't the language.. but the way they sang it.

I love it.. but it isn't for everyone.

Atkingani wrote: micky wrote: Lionheart wrote: Well, I think that foreign language music can be a bit more work to listen to, but that's simply because I don't understand the language itself (unless it's italian or spanish, which I can understand for the most part). I wouldn't say that foreign vocalists ruin my experience, though. the OP had a point in another thread though... vocalists CAN ruin though... he got YS on my recommend and was .... let down.. not for the music which was ACE... but the vocal styling of Leone which (like much of Italian prog ) was operatic and overwrought.. it wasn't the language.. but the way they sang it. I love it.. but it isn't for everyone.   That's the reason I like enough Henryk Cabanes of REALE ACCADEMIA... he's a Spaniard singing in Italian, much less dramatic and operatic, no?     Anyway, Premoli & Mussida even being Italian are soft singers too.

oh yes...  I do love the overwrought and operatic.. but there are those out there that aren't... PFM being the best example...  and Battiato different as well .  I love the way he sings.

It's really hard for to listen to foreign vocals since here we only speak Spanish or English and not because they're not good it's just because I can't understand them, but still that won't make me think that they aren't any good  just cause it sings in a language not similar to mine. 

avestin wrote: crimson87 wrote: Well I `m from Argentina (guess what language do I speak?)* and the answer to the MAIN question is:     * Argentina is not part of Brazil   Sorry, I have to ask; where did you encounter someone who thinks that?

Yes, almost all of them sing in their own language and I have to find the lyrics because they refuse to learn spanish and they have their own cultures and their own imaginery and music traditions and codes to produce their art...

I'm here just imagining if Mr. Sinatra should have said: "I can't sing bossa nova, it's not fit for the English language."

I still don't get why language matters.  Yes, those of us who are not fluent in other languages can't understand the meaning of the song when dealing with bands who do not write/sing in our own native language (or another in which we are fluent).  But, at least for prog, that may be the least of our problems:

LONG LIVE CENSORSHIP!!!!

I've recently been fortunate enough to discover a bunch of non-english speaking bands - SBB, PFM, O Terco, Bacamarte, Harmonium, just to name a few.  While there are times when I am moved to tears by the poetry of lines sung in english (Spock's Beard - the end of 'The Great Nothing' - whew!), but there is also a great aesthetic pleasure in the sound of the words.  Sometimes it doesn't matter what the words mean, even if they are sung in English.  An example of this for me is one of the lines a the end of Marillion's 'This Strange Engine' when H sings "...for one last time..."  I don't really know what he's talking about, but I LOVE the way it sounds.  It's exactly the same with a lot of the Italian, French, Portuguese and Polish I've been listening to lately.