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marktheshark 
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 18:43 |
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There've been many lead vocalists in prog, But these 4 guys have stood the test of time more than anybody else. Who do you think tops who?
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JMCecil
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 18:44 |
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wtf, put about 400 more names on that list.
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Arsillus
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 18:51 |
Jon Anderson of those four listed...
Gabriel, Lake and then Collins.
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King of Loss
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 18:52 |
 JMCecil wrote:
wtf, put about 400 more names on that list. |
Precisely, because I'm not going to vote with such a short list.
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marktheshark
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 18:56 |
JMCecil wrote:
wtf, put about 400 more names on that list. |
You're missing the whole point. As I have thought I made clear, it's a poll between the 4 most famous lead vocalists in prog that have stood the test of time. Get with the program, please, and read the question!! If you're too young to know about these guys, oh well!
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King of Loss
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 18:57 |
marktheshark wrote:
JMCecil wrote:
wtf, put about 400 more names on that list. |
You're missing the whole point. As I have thought I made clear, it's a poll between the 4 most famous lead lead vocalists in prog that have stood the test of time. Get with the program, please, and read the question!! |
Phil Collins is just not as famous as Geddy Lee??????
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alchemist
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:00 |
Their couldn't be the top '4' vocaliats list, maybe the 'top 10' at
least. A lot of great singers are missing, but since my favorite is
listed I'll vote for him.....................Peter Gabriel!!!!!!!!! 
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Progger
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:02 |
Depends what you mean by best 'prog' vocalist! In a concert/live setting it is Peter Gabriel due to all the theatrics. If you ever saw Genesis in concert with Gabriel you just couldn't take your eyes off him. The other four [boring] members seemed to be just a backing band. Three of them were actually sat down for the whole show!
Now if we are talking about 'singing' I can't vote cos' Lake & Anderson are my all time faves. Although if I was forced to vote it would be Anderson because his voice is just as 'angelic' as ever. Whereas Lake's voice ain't what it used to be!
Oh alright, I'll go & vote for Anderson
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JMCecil
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:03 |
marktheshark wrote:
If you're too young to know about these guys, oh well! |
oh lordy how I wish I was too young. I'm not sure any of them would make my top 10 though. I'll have to think on it.
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marktheshark
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:03 |
King of Loss wrote:
marktheshark wrote:
JMCecil wrote:
wtf, put about 400 more names on that list. |
You're missing the whole point. As I have thought I made clear, it's a poll between the 4 most famous lead lead vocalists in prog that have stood the test of time. Get with the program, please, and read the question!! |
Phil Collins is just not as famous as Geddy Lee?????? |
I've come across a lot of Rush fans (me included) and most of them always say that Rush's weakest point is Geddy's voice. Sounds like he's full of helium! He did get better later on.
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King of Loss
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:10 |
marktheshark wrote:
King of Loss wrote:
marktheshark wrote:
JMCecil wrote:
wtf, put about 400 more names on that list. |
You're missing the whole point. As I have thought I made clear, it's a poll between the 4 most famous lead lead vocalists in prog that have stood the test of time. Get with the program, please, and read the question!! |
Phil Collins is just not as famous as Geddy Lee??????
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I've come across a lot of Rush fans (me included) and most of them always say that Rush's weakest point is Geddy's voice. Sounds like he's full of helium! He did get better later on. |
I would agree with you, his voice is really f**ked up, but still its good.
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Miaugion
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:26 |
Peter Gabriel.
Err ... nah, that's too obvious. I'd rather vote for anyone more obscure ... like a genius of emotional prog rock vocals: Steve Walsh. 
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You house proud town mouse
ha ha, charade you are
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King of Loss
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:31 |
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chessman
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 19:53 |
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Gabriel gets my vote, as he is my favourite, no matter how many are in the poll! Nevertheless, there should be more than 4. Anderson would come second. Could never take to Lake's voice, it was so overrated. The weakest part of ELP without a doubt. Collins is good, just a pity he uses it on the wrong type of song.
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marktheshark
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 20:10 |
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It seems that most people these days need 100 choices to make a decision on anything. Most of the time life itself only requires only 2 choices. I just simply gave a choice of the 4 most famous vocalists in prog and instead of making a choice on who their favorite is or who has the better vocal range or diversity, they have to say "Oh, I need more choices. This is just not enough for me to make up my mind!" Maybe this is my fault, I should've re-worded the poll as the best "classic" prog vocalist. EXCUUUUSE ME!! Gimmee a break! I didn't realize we some weak minded people here.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 20:13 |
marktheshark wrote:
It seems that most people these days need 100 choices to make a decision on anything. Most of the time life itself only requires only 2 choices. I just simply gave a choice of the 4 most famous vocalists in prog and instead of making a choice on who their favorite is or who has the better vocal range or diversity, they have to say "Oh, I need more choices. This is just not enough for me to make up my mind!" Maybe this is my fault, I should've re-worded the poll as the best "classic" prog vocalist. EXCUUUUSE ME!! Gimmee a break! |
No you should have worded it:
"the best classic prog vocalist from these four"
Or "the best vocalist in my highly subjective list"
or even better,placed the poll in the trivia section
Edited by Reed Lover
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Valarius
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 20:28 |
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Jon Anderson.
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marktheshark
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 20:39 |
Reed Lover wrote:
marktheshark wrote:
It seems that most people these days need 100 choices to make a decision on anything. Most of the time life itself only requires only 2 choices. I just simply gave a choice of the 4 most famous vocalists in prog and instead of making a choice on who their favorite is or who has the better vocal range or diversity, they have to say "Oh, I need more choices. This is just not enough for me to make up my mind!" Maybe this is my fault, I should've re-worded the poll as the best "classic" prog vocalist. EXCUUUUSE ME!! Gimmee a break! |
No you should have worded it:
"the best classic prog vocalist from these four"
Or "the best vocalist in my highly subjective list"
or even better,placed the poll in the trivia section |
I appreciate what your saying Reed. And you maybe right. But the idea of narrowing these polls is help induce thought, individual thinking and the formation of an opinion. You give too many choices, and you make it too easy for people. It's called a challenge. HELLO! That's why I get sick of these polls with all these choices (10 or more)and then evrybody starts in with the "you left out this and that". All I did was keep it down to the basic 4 vocalists. Make a choice! It's not that hard. If you need 100 choices to make a decision on something, then you got issues.
Edited by marktheshark
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 20:46 |
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Jon Anderson
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gleam
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Posted: May 06 2005 at 21:07 |
I chose Jon Anderson with Peter Gabriel a very close second. Anderson simply because his voice is as they say "angelic". Peter's voice has an interesting "menace" to it, however it's really his theatrics that rate him so high on people's list...not his voice.
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