What do you think of Peter Gabriel's voice? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

HackettFan wrote:

I love Gabriel's voice. It's the tone and soulfulness that cut through. He has a sensitive inner emotional quality mixed with enough darkness for it to remain cool.

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Regarding the similar vocals of Gabriel and Collins: if you look at most bands folks that sing tend to end up sounding quite alike so as not to mess with the vocal harmonies..or merely because we’re evolved monkeys and well monkey hears monkey does.
Both Trick and W&W sound like Gabriel on vocal duty to these ears.

As for Peter’s voice? It works for him and when he was in Genesis. I’m not sure it’d suit King Crimson or Funkadelic for that matter

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Mad Man Moon is nothing to do with Gabriel as he was already out of the picture.

To be honest I wouldn't worry about not 'getting' Peter Gabriel and concentrate on the post Gabriel albums. So many great tracks even if all the albums are not great. Gabriel era Genesis is also way overrated imo.

I love Gabriel's voice. It's the tone and soulfulness that cut through. He has a sensitive inner emotional quality mixed with enough darkness for it to remain cool.

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AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of people who don't like Yes because of Jon Anderson's voice too. The same goes for Geddy Lee and Rush.

I can understand that, some songs from Rush I'm not a fan of because of his voice, but I think that has more to do with melody. For example, Tom Sawyer "what you say about his company is WHAT you say about society" That bit goes way way high up there. Although I look past those small sections, and I generally like Tom Sawyer, but IDK there's something about Peter Gabriel's voice in particular that I just don't understand.

I love his voice, it's been immitated plenty, but no one sings quite like him. He has a great unique style and I don't have much to add that hasn't already been said time and time again. I don't understand what is so bad about that particular line but I'm not a picky listener.

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Hi, I'll admit I don't listen to a ton of Genesis, and it's mostly for one reason:

I don't like Peter Gabriel's voice.

There are some of his songs that sound quite good (Carpet Crawlers), but take for example Firth of Fifth, the line "the sheep remain inside their pen" it makes me cringe. That's how I hear most of his songs, but am I simply missing something? From what I understand of the Prog community, Peter Gabriel is regarded as the best or the 2nd best Prog singer. For me, I'd give that spot to Jon Anderson, and it really baffles me to compare the two and even have it close.

For the record, I'm not saying this to slander Peter Gabriel, I am genuinely curious to know if I'm just missing something, or maybe I haven't heard his best vocal performance.

Oh, also on the subject on Peter Gabriel, did Phil Collins steal the melody from the middle bit of Mad Man Moon: "Hey man, I'm the Sandman, and boy I've got trouble for you..."? From what I recognize Phil Collins doing the Tarzan soundtrack for Disney did a song: "Strangers like Me" and the Chorus sounds nearly identical to that. I was wondering if my suspicions were well founded.

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