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    Posted: May 14 2012 at 18:23
Not necessarily the best, but your favorites. (Must be listed on Progarchives) Mine are:
The usual suspects:
Jon Anderson
Peter Gabriel
Phil Collins
Peter Hammil
Annie Haslem
Fish
Robert Plant
Bruce Dickinson
Others:
Rikard Sjoblom (Beardfish, Gungfly)
Christian Decamps (Ange, Solo)
Neal Morse (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Solo)
NIck D'Virgillo (He grew on me) (Spock's Beard)
Jacqui McShee (The Pentangle
John Martyn (Solo)
Enrique Morente (Gualberto)
Roy Harper (Solo)
Chris Squire (Love his voice, underused in my opinion)
Richard Sinclair (Caravan)
Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine, Solo)


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Not that much into singers, really, but my favorite one, prog or otherwise, is the late Helmut Koellen of Triumvirat and Jail, and then solo.
         Not listed in PA as a solo artist, but with Triumvirat, so i hope that counts.
         His voice is so deep and emotive and his tone is beautiful.
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Richard Sinclair - Caravan
Cedric Bixler-Zavala - The Mars Volta
Thom Yorke - Radiohead
Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam
Mariusz Duda - Riverside
Colin Melloy - The Decemberists
Ian Gillian - Deep Purple
David Longdon - Big Big Train

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Peter Hammill - Van Der Graaf generator
Jon Anderson - Yes
Peter Gabriel - Genesis
Jon "Jonsi" Birgisson - Sigur Ros
Jim Morrison - The Doors
Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson - Supertramp
Geddy Lee - Rush
Paul McCartney - The Beatles
Cedric Bixler Zavala - The Mars Volta
Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
Francesco Di Giacomo - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
Annie Haslam - Renaissance
Donald Fagen - Steely Dan
Layne Staley - Alice In Chains
Richard Manuel and Levon Helm -The Band
Rody Walker - Protest The Hero
Tommy Rogers - Between The Buried And Me
 
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Lino Vairetti  - Osanna
 
an obvious one
 
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Some are listed here, some are not:
 
Greg Lake
Jeff Buckley
Mikael Akerfeldt
Layne Staley/Jerry Cantrell
Chris Cornell
Luis Alberto Spinetta
Freddie Mercury
Peter Hammill
 
And many more that I must be forgetting.
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Daniel Gildenlow is without a doubt my favorite singer. For me. he is the most expressive singer I have ever heard.   Mikael Akerfeldt, Mariusz Duda, Roine Stolt and all of the singers from Moon Safari are among my favorites as well. 
Just give it all an hour by the concrete lake.
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Chris Thompson
Matt Bellamy
Kate Bush
Steve Hogarth
Greg Lake
Christina Booth
Peter Nicholls
Phil Collins
John Wetton
Bryan Ferry
Steven Wilson
Jon Anderson
Peter Gabriel
Geddy Lee
Thom Yorke
 


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Hi,
 
Fudge me ... unreal!
 
A list that includes Roy Harper and Peter Hammill?
 
And really, we should add Bob Dylan ... because these 3 people are the purest wordsmiths and poets right now and have been for sometime. No one can match their integrity, wit and work in their time, and we're past 40 years with them already!
 
I really feel that too many of the other lyricists are stricktly about the rock music and not the poetry or the wording itself, and as such ... they are rock/pop lyricists, but not writers or poets! ... I realize that there is an intelectual/definition gulf here, but in the end, the work of these three will be remembered far more than most people. Rarely do true writers not, eventually, get recognized in some way.
 
Rock music, for the most part, has too many roots in pop music, where the lyrics are not important and usually are not considered literature, even if they have allusions to it and such, which is easy to do, if I just mention that these writers are Moby Dick compared to Flipper! Yes, it is a slight judgement value but seriously ... not many of you are taking a whole lot of rap seriously!


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Annie Haslam
David Gilmour
Roger Daltrey
Ronnie James Dio
Daniel Gildenlow
Fish
Kate Bush
Freddie Mercury
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
Fudge me ... unreal!
 
A list that includes Roy Harper and Peter Hammill?
 
And really, we should add Bob Dylan ... because these 3 people are the purest wordsmiths and poets right now and have been for sometime. No one can match their integrity, wit and work in their time, and we're past 40 years with them already!
 
I really feel that too many of the other lyricists are stricktly about the rock music and not the poetry or the wording itself, and as such ... they are rock/pop lyricists, but not writers or poets!


Singers.  This topic is not about lyricists.
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
Fudge me ... unreal!
 
A list that includes Roy Harper and Peter Hammill?
 
And really, we should add Bob Dylan ... because these 3 people are the purest wordsmiths and poets right now and have been for sometime. No one can match their integrity, wit and work in their time, and we're past 40 years with them already!
 
I really feel that too many of the other lyricists are stricktly about the rock music and not the poetry or the wording itself, and as such ... they are rock/pop lyricists, but not writers or poets!


Singers.  This topic is not about lyricists.
 
Oh darn ... I guess that those 3 mentioned above don't sing!
 
And yes, they would be considered my favorites if I had such a thing. I don't think there are many word poets any better than Peter Hammill out there.
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There are two lovely voices that are rarely mentioned, David Gilmour and Justin Hayward.
In Gilmour's case, he can be pretty harsh, like in The Nile Song, spewing venom in Dogs, or tenderly soothing like in Mother.
Justin's voice is lovely all the time.

And then there's Greg Lake of course, often mentioned but not fully appreciated as I see it. Some people disregard his voice in his latter years, but I think it's rather sexy. Listen to Paper Blood, Black Moon or Touch and Go, and you'll see what I mean.Wink  
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Originally posted by silverpot silverpot wrote:


In Gilmour's case, he can be pretty harsh, like in The Nile Song, spewing venom in Dogs, or tenderly soothing like in Mother.



Agree completely with this. I think Gilmour's vocals get a bit underrated because he is better known for his guitarwork.  It's pretty amazing the way he can rock out without inhibition on Young Lust and soar beautifully through Comfortably Numb.  He has a lovely tone.
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Gary Brooker
Dave Cousins
Peter Gabriel
Robert Wyatt
John Wetton
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Daniel Gildenlow
Peter Gabriel
Fish
Peter Hammil
Simone Simmons
Agnete Kirkvaarg
Julie Kiss
Mikael Akerfeldt
Tommy Rogers
Steve Hogarth
Toby Driver
Eve Spence
Peter Nichols


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I would also like to add David Longdon of Big Big Train and Jeff Martin of The Tea Party. 

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Colin Meloy - the Decemberists
Chris Thompson - Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Alan Parsons Project, et.al.
Sandy Denny - Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay
Bumble B - Smell of Incense
Dawn McCarthy - Faun Fables
Ronnie James Dio - Black Sabbath, Rainbow, et.al.
Roger Hodgson - Supertramp
Beate Krause - Carol of Harvest
Czesław Niemen
Fish - Marillion, solo
Justin Hayward - Moody Blues
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Cedric Bixler-Zavala - The Mars Volta
 
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More; the obvious ones:
 
Peter Hammil
Geddy Lee
Peter Gabriel
Jon Anderson
 
Non-obvious:
 
Toby Driver (he can do so many things with his voice)
Joanne Hogg (I could listen to her sing all day)
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