Why Neal Morse?

Biff Tannen wrote: I have to completely disagree with his singing having no character; I think his vocals have TONS of character, which makes up for having fairly limited range.  The fact that he has a great natural singing voice helps a lot, too.

Yeah, forgot to mention the limited range.  I still say his voice is pretty ordinary, but that he does do all he can with it.  What I like most is that he always seems really genuine in his music and vocals, he always has feeling, which can often be lacking in prog rock.

infandous wrote: Yeah, my feeling has always been that he makes the most of a rather ordinary voice.  His voice doesn't have character, like Gabriel or Hammill or Geddy Lee or any other famous vocalist you can think of.  But he has a great ear for melody and pitch, so he's able to really belt it out when he needs to.  I don't consider him a great singer though, because he lacks that 'character" that great vocalists usually have.  Still, I love his music and his vocals fit it very well.

AlexDOM wrote: zumacraig wrote: he also has a good ear for production.  all of his work is warm and immediate.  the bass on those early SB records is incredible..as is the drums.  he's also a great arranger dropping little synth lines between memorable melodies.  i didn't like his voice initially, but i grew to enjoy it.  one thing that i still have a rough time with is the 'praise' aspect of his music as well as the musical theater tendencies.  beginning of the light is a good example.  praise music to me is rarely authentic.  he's hitting the right nerve with me lately though.  been listening to the light so much lately.  love the water and that tack piano on the FU part.  the other three tunes are classics. I love the Water too, the FU section (which I actually love and in the story of the song makes sense musically and lyrically) which it's kinda hard to digest ha ha (although he was a different person when he wrote that- still was a musical master then like today) in light of where he is now.

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Who needs Neal when you have Steve? 

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Edited by Slartibartfast - May 31 2012 at 07:14

he also has a good ear for production.  all of his work is warm and immediate.  the bass on those early SB records is incredible..as is the drums.  he's also a great arranger dropping little synth lines between memorable melodies.  i didn't like his voice initially, but i grew to enjoy it.  one thing that i still have a rough time with is the 'praise' aspect of his music as well as the musical theater tendencies.  beginning of the light is a good example.  praise music to me is rarely authentic.  he's hitting the right nerve with me lately though.  been listening to the light so much lately.  love the water and that tack piano on the FU part.  the other three tunes are classics.

Monadology wrote: I quite enjoy Spock's Beard and some Transatlantic, but sometimes his voices is hard to take. It just sounds whiny to me     (not in terms of mood, obviously his many upbeat songs are the furthest thing from whiny)  That's not a criticism of his singing ability at all. Just how it rings to my ears.

Andy Webb wrote: Mr. Maestro wrote: Personally, I think Morse's best vocals are in "At the End of the Day" from V.  Morse on all of V is just an eargasm.

I will go with this, less the clean up afterwards.

Personally, I think Morse's best vocals are in "At the End of the Day" from V. 

I think he sings amazing in Transatlantic and in his solo song "The Door"