The New Neal Morse Appreciation Thread

yeah, i just sample stuff quickly, but i'm waiting for the album to really pay attention and get into it.  it does sound great though.

I'm going to do what I always do......wait for the album.  No spoilers for me, I just want to take in the whole thing when I have the CD in my player.

As to the vocals of Roine Stolt, I love them.  I like his vocals more than Neal's, to be honest, though I do like Neal's a lot.   As someone mentioned, he can get very sugary sweet, in a bad way.  Voices are very much a matter of taste though.  I can't stand to listen to Bruce Springsteen "sing", for instance, but obviously much of the world disagrees.  As to the other members of TA, Pete is not bad from what I've heard, and Portnoy seems to have improved greatly in the past several years but should still just play drums and forget about singing.  Pete should probably stick to backing vocals, as he seems pretty good at that (like Steve Howe).

Someone mentioned Hackett, and I'd say he's another one that has improved greatly over the years.  His rare vocals on his early solo albums were dreadful, but on the most recent couple, he actually sounds pretty good.

ahh, yeah that is AWESOME.  incidentally, i see that Momentum has been reviewed here on progarchives.  5 stars!  really looking forward to this :)

Master of Time wrote: They just posted Thoughts Part 5 on Neal's Facebook page, it sounds awesome.

They just posted Thoughts Part 5 on Neal's Facebook page, it sounds awesome.

Morsenator wrote: It's really funny how the taste of enjoying/hating peoples vocals varies so much, I love both Neal and Roine's singing, even Pete's, Mike isn't a particularly good singer but he doesn't usually turn me off (except the growly DT parts, ughh ). Then there's some like Geddy Lee whose voice I really can't stand much.

zumacraig wrote: Mirror Image wrote: darkshade wrote: Even in Transatlantic? I know his voice can be an acquired taste, but Neal's vocals can occasionally sound a little sugary. It's hard for me to explain but there's certain voices I'm attracted to and others that I'm not. Roine's voice just doesn't do too much for me. Perhaps in the harder edged pieces Roine's voice will be fine but the music has to damn good for me not to be distracted. In a work like We All Need Some Light, Roine's voice would just ruin it for me, even though he does sing some backup towards the end, which he sounded fine, but his voice isn't a lead voice IMHO. i see where your coming from. i've learned to love both roine, neal, and even portnoy's voice on those TA discs.  it's a matter of taste.  i love neil young's voice, my wife hates it as far as TA goes, are their live albums any good?  i don't know which one to get first.  seems like all the Whrilwind live releases are bit of over-kill.

Whirld Tour 2010 Live is my absolute favourite live dvd You should get it, it's amazing.

^ I say get the "Whirld Tour 2010" You get The Whirlwind, all the big epics, plus WANSL and BAF . Don't bother with the other release "More Is Never Enough".

darkshade wrote: Even in Transatlantic? I know his voice can be an acquired taste, but Neal's vocals can occasionally sound a little sugary.

Edited by Mirror Image - July 31 2012 at 00:13

darkshade wrote: ^ It's good. It's really good on The Whirld Tour 2010 with Roine singing instead. I like it a lot more than Bridge Across Forever, which is essentially a Neal Morse solo piece.