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Posted: February 08 2012 at 14:35
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 03:19
rogerthat wrote:
npjnpj wrote:
Goes to show that there's a serious shortage of really good vocalists in Prog. One of it's very few failings, I find.
THE failing which restricts its appeal because a lot of people need good vocals to draw them into the music.
I would say that failing only applies to Symphonic Prog/Neo prog/RPI/Eclectic and a lot of the older genres. A lot of Progressive Metal Vocalists are up there with the best in the world, and weak vocalists in modern Crossover are very rare.
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 03:42
JS19 wrote:
rogerthat wrote:
npjnpj wrote:
Goes to show that there's a serious shortage of really good vocalists in Prog. One of it's very few failings, I find.
THE failing which restricts its appeal because a lot of people need good vocals to draw them into the music.
I would say that failing only applies to Symphonic Prog/Neo prog/RPI/Eclectic and a lot of the older genres. A lot of Progressive Metal Vocalists are up there with the best in the world, and weak vocalists in modern Crossover are very rare.
Yes, more to the older genres. I don't really like many prog metal vocalists either because while they are technically very good, they don't really project a distinct personality or emote as well as I'd like for my taste but that's more across-the-board. The last two modern singers I could truly relate to are both long dead - Layne Stanley and Jeff Buckley.
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 07:41
I totally mentioned Mikhael.
But for real are you guys serious? As I burn through the playlists of different genre's on here, I notice that Prog Metal has the most awful sounding singers in general. Anyone that sounds remotely like James LaBrie is just terrible.
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 07:44
^^^ I actually haven't even heard that many who sound like LaBrie. It's very hard, he's in a league of his own (ahem!). Russell Allen for eg doesn't sound anything at all like LaBrie, more like Tony Martin/Dio. Gildenlow doesn't sound like LaBrie at all either.
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 09:32
But when I randomly scroll down through the Prog Metal genre, I'm always skipping tons of bands that sound like their instrumentals are alright, but their vocalist sounds like a bad version of James LaBrie hah
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 10:03
Smurph wrote:
I totally mentioned Mikhael.
But for real are you guys serious? As I burn through the playlists of different genre's on here, I notice that Prog Metal has the most awful sounding singers in general. Anyone that sounds remotely like James LaBrie is just terrible.
Then you're looking at the 'Dream Theater' clones. I'm talking about good quality prog metal. For example
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Posted: February 09 2012 at 19:30
richardh wrote:
Chris Thompson
Justin Hayward
Greg Lake
John Wetton
Peter Nicholls
Heartwarming to see the usually overlooked Chris Thompson on a list, and at the top to boot!
The next four... hmm. I guess I might end up with (alphabetically) Jon Anderson, Greg Lake, Martin Turner and John Wetton, but ranking them internally is just too much work.
Oh, and how about that Cedric Bixler dude... and Bowie... and...
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Posted: February 10 2012 at 01:55
Capt Fongsby wrote:
richardh wrote:
Chris Thompson
Justin Hayward
Greg Lake
John Wetton
Peter Nicholls
Heartwarming to see the usually overlooked Chris Thompson on a list, and at the top to boot!
The next four... hmm. I guess I might end up with (alphabetically) Jon Anderson, Greg Lake, Martin Turner and John Wetton, but ranking them internally is just too much work.
Oh, and how about that Cedric Bixler dude... and Bowie... and...
As I said, - too much work...
Always loved Chris Thompson's voice mainly for MMEB admittedly but his solo work and singing on Jeff Wayne's War Of THe Worlds is brilliant as well.
Hayward is from my home town but I do love his voice and gets my vote just for Question if nothing else
Lake - can make even the most 'daft' lyrics seem vitally important
Wetton - very soulfull
Nicholls - sheer angst and emotion. The Wake is the killer album as far as his vocals go (for me).
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but I do love his voice and gets my vote just for Question if nothing else