Your Favorite Pink Floyd Vocalist
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Topic: Your Favorite Pink Floyd Vocalist
Posted By: Xanthous
Subject: Your Favorite Pink Floyd Vocalist
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 12:34
| Title self explanatory. |
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 12:45
Could you explain it to me please? What do you mean? 
Tough one. Enjoy all of their vocals to one degree or another. It also seems that some songs were perfectly suited to one or two of their voices. For example, I couldn't picture Waters singing Echoes, or Wright singing One of My Turns. Gilmour probably had the most flexible voice, he could go from the mellow to the heavy, so for sheer versatility I'd have to go with him. Waters could do some softer stuff, but not as well as Gilmour. Of course Mason did put in some amazing work with Corporal Clegg and Scream Thy Last Scream. But...Gilmour.
I have to say too that overall, I think that Waters, Gilmour and Wright worked well together vocally, as well as compositionally, and the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts IMO. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: m2thek
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:41
| What did Nick sing? |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:44
One of These Days. I agree with the Doctor on this. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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m2thek wrote:Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:52
Nick didn't really sing on One of These Days, but it is his voice you hear.
Nick did however sing with Gilmour on Corporal Clegg. It's Nick's voice which sings "He won it in the war in 1944" and the rest of the response lines. He also sang the rare "Scream Thy Last Scream" in its entirety. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 14:05
| Wright for me. He could sing with such a great feeling, it seems so shy just like him. Listen to Stay on Obscured By Clouds you'll get what I mean.Without him, Echoes wouldn't sound like that. Such a great man he was.. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 15:49
| I'm between Gilmour and Waters, and it's very difficult to choose for me. I think Gilmour was a better singer, but Waters feeling and voice is utterly unmistakable. I guess I'll have to postpone my vote. However, I must say that the best singer from Pink Floyd is just the one who's singing it a particular song: really, their voices work better on the parts each one's got to sing. Imagine if Waters and Gilmour's singing parts were reversed on Comfortably Numb; it would have been a dissaster. |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 16:36
Seamus/Madamoiselle Nobs (Otherwise Gilmour, followed by Wright) |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 16:41
I like Madamoiselle Nobs a lot actually, a nice fun song, not to mention a cute doggy. |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 16:44
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Yeah, it's a fun little tune, and dear I say, ever so prog. I mean, it is a dog on vocals, all it needed was a cape and an extended keyboard solo with extensive meter changes. |
Posted By: horla
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 18:38
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not because he's passed away, but rick definetely gets my vote. particularly echoes sang along with david, and summer 68'... just lovely
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Posted By: weetabix
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 18:46
| I'll have to go w/ Barrett and Wright |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 18:58
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Gilmour = vocals Waters = Lyrics ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 20:31
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I love Waters for the drama, Gilmour for the smoothness, and Wright for the voice. I really couldn't choose, but boy do I love hearing the late Rick Wright open his mouth on the occasions he got to. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 03:18
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I like them all, but I find it a hard choice between Gilmour and Waters: David Gilmour has the best voice of them all and even in his sixties he is a good singer. Roger Waters can lay a unique venom in his singing, which fits well in some of his songs. I vote for David Gilmour, especially because Roger Waters has lost the major part of his voice and his singing comes close to whispering on his later albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 04:21
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Very tough one between Waters and Gilmour. Waters in the end gets my vote for his emotional vocals on albums like The Final Cut and The Wall. ------------- 
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 04:56
| I voted for mister Wright. Just listen to Paintbox and you'll know it to be true. |
Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 12:33
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Nick Mason? I think I haven't even heard him talk. I enjoy all their voices, but David Gilmour is definitely the best singer so I voted for him. I used to find Roger Water's voice annoying, but now I love it. Rick Wright might be my least favourite, I like his voice for backup vocals but it's too soft for me when he sings lead. ------------- 
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 17:25
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Gilmour still has a lovely voice - angelic, even......while Waters' voice is far from lover-ly, it's much more emotive - and that's his strength. The messages that guy puts across demands eerie whispers and pointed shouts (and an array of signature sound effects). Animals is my favorite Floyd album - Gilmour never got more out of his guitar and the lyrics just need those snide Waters vocals. But Animals is it for me.....Roger's voice took over the Wall and it's the reason I rarely put it on. I love the "story" behind the Final Cut, but Roger's voice was almost too much.....grating at times. Killed the feel of the final two records. But remember Waters' voice on "If" and "Cymbaline"....then listen to Amused to Death. But listen to Gilmour on "Lucky Old Sun" or "Wot's...Uh the Deal"....then listen to On an Island. Gilmour still has it. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 17:29
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Oh, man, listen to Roger sing, "You radiate cold shards of broken glass".....maybe I voted too soon. Man, that album may be the scariest - chock full of naked reality - rock record ever written. Good topic for a poll, that. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: December 21 2009 at 17:37
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I went for Rog ------------- Matt |
Posted By: Dominic
Date Posted: December 22 2009 at 15:39
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Rogers, suckas!
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Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: December 22 2009 at 19:24
| Well, I've finally decided. I'll say Syd Barrett is the best. I've always loved early Floyd but I think all of the vocalists in the band were great. |
Posted By: poslednijat_colobar
Date Posted: December 23 2009 at 03:35
| I think Syd Barrett has the best voice. The most artistic and solid. |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 23 2009 at 17:19
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Roger's falsettos are excellent! ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: December 23 2009 at 23:24
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I've always enjoyed Syd's vocals the most. His voice worked very well with that psychedelic sound on their first album. Rick is just as good mostly due to the fact that his voice could convey emotion perfectly.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 23 2009 at 23:29
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David + Roger together But if I have to stay with one of them would be David. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: January 13 2010 at 20:33
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Roger Waters. He's not the greatest singer, but his voice has a certain honest, and at times, contemptuous tone to it. |
Posted By: idoownu
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 20:12
| Wright has an emotional feel that makes all of the songs he sings in the greatest on their corresponding albums, such as Echoes, Summer 68', and/or Wearing the Inside Out. They make a kind of hollow, reclusive feel that trademarks said songs. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 20:25
| Syd hands down. One of the most memorable and happy voices ever |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 01:09
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces! I voted Gilmour, but hearing Mason say that sends shivers down my spine 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 11:50
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Cant really vote. I like Gilmour and Waters in equal measure, and Wright was good at creating the contrasts with his relatively softer voice.
Technically speaking, Waters was not a great singer, but I just cant imagine some of Floyds greatest songs without the tension, and mania that he brought to the music. His contribution to 'Dogs' was one of his finest performances for me. His personality used to come through very powerfully when he sang. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Silverbeard McStarr
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 11:57
| Richard. I've grown tiered of Dave's voice. And Roger's voice is perfect for some songs, like The Final Cut or Vera or A Gunner's Dream, but not quite as good as Rick's. Richard's voice is unique and just slightly bad. And it's good to have a slightly bad voice as a singer. At least I think so. Paintbox is an obvious example. Summer '68 and Time also have great vocals. And Echoes, although both Rick and Dave, it's probably has some of the better vocals in any song. |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 14:52
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Syd, closely followed by a Gilmour/Waters combo (Gilmour or Waters on their own doesn't do it for me but put them together and they're superb). ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 17:03
| Gilmour. Easy choice. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 20:23
| Let's not forget Roy Harper. Although my vote goes to Roger for the bitter edge. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 22:22
| It's been hard to choose between Gilmour and Waters, they both have their unique strong points, but I think Waters has a more unique voice/stile that will make me choose him (though he can also be more annoying). Still love Gilmour's voice, and Rick's too. |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 17:58
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I much prefer DG - but am surprised that so many others agree. I expected Waters to have a stronger showing... ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 19:57
| Gilmour. |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 15:14
| Waters by a bit. What did Mason sing on? |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: May 27 2010 at 17:10
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Syd easily for both voice and lyrics.
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Posted By: kawkaw123
Date Posted: June 29 2010 at 22:47
| DAVID |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 03:44
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Of course it's David. Check any live bootleg and you'll find out that Waters can't sing at all (if Live8 wasn't proof enough). ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 04:23
Mr. Barrett 
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Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 07:05
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There is only one vocalist from Pink Floyd that has ever actually amazed me with his vocals, and that would be Roger Waters. ------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |
Posted By: TheClosing
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 08:03
This, although Dave has a nice soothing voice which is probably why he tends to get the votes for polls like these. I personally find Roger's vocals to be more appealing because he's a lot more interesting imo.
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 11:59
| Definitely Waters. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 14:35
| Gilmour. |
Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 18:20
| Roger, but it's a close run. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 30 2010 at 18:23
| Syd Barrett, and I'm rather surprised he's not doing better in the poll, but shouldn't be as most people listen to later Floyd. |
Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: July 01 2010 at 04:58
At the moment he's right between Waters and Wright, which means he gets the respect he deserves IMO. ------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |