I can give you the three most annoying in Utopia: John Wilcox, Roger Powell and Kasim Sulton, in that order.
Nice harmonies, though.
I can give you the three most annoying in Utopia: John Wilcox, Roger Powell and Kasim Sulton, in that order.
Nice harmonies, though.
There are many offenders:
Jon Anderson
Geddy Lee
John Wetton
Freddie Mercury
Davis Byron
Demetrio Stratos
Alberto Piras
all of the Moody Blues except Mike Pinder
Catherine Ribiero
I'm sure I'll think of a lot more later.
Peter Gabriel I don't dislike, but he doesn't do much for me either. He's just kind of meh. Never understood the big fuss over him. Ditto Phil Collins.
I feel like eventually every singer in prog will be named.
My vote would be for Greg Lake, Ashley Holt, and anyone singing in Yes not named Jon Anderson (I don't mind Jon Davison in Glass Hammer though)
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It would have been just fine, as far as I'm concerned if he'd have laid off the vamping, eg "There must be some, there must be some, there must be some misunderstanding", or the rapid fire "Turn it on/turn it off/turn it on/turn it off/turn it on/turn it/turn it/turn it/turn it ooooon". It was almost like he was doing that deliberately to pad out the length of the shows..."The lads don't want to learn another five minutes, I'll just fool about at the end of each song so that no one will notice we really only played 50 minutes worth of music").
Jeff Berlin and Annette Peacock (Bruford), Damo Suzuki (CAN), Georg Buschmann (Streetmark), Charles Hayward (Quiet Sun), whoever sang for Nova, Whoever sang the vocals on the England tune "3 piece suite" (around the 8:00 minute mark) and finally Roy Estrada (Zappa) because of his annoying falsetto and because he's a sex offender.
My problem with Annette is her performance on Bruford-Rock goes to College. She starts singing, then she wipes something off her lips (after touching the microphone) with shaking fingers. She screws up the lyrics on one of the tunes. I can't tell if she's nervous or not very happy to be there. Overall a strange and awkward moment. Otherwise, great DVD!
I like a LOT of the music by these artists, vocally.............?
Stanley Whitaker HTM
Neil Morse
Rongey or Pohl from The Underground Railroad(not sure which was singing.)
Fish
Gennady Ilyin from Little Tragedies, great keys though
Barry Palmer / lead & background vocals - Triumvirat
Guy LeBlanc - Nathan Mahl
Corrado Rustici - Nova
Again, love a lot of these guys music.
Why on earth would Peter Gabriel be mentioned in this thread? Very odd to read that, I never thought of his voice as being a turnoff to anyone, even if he's got a unique tone. Really, this thread is no more than an excuse to bash singers you don't like. So I might as well do it.
The most annoying vocalist I've heard is Annette Peacock. She nearly ruins One of A Kind for me, an album saved by some wonderful playing.
I'd mention Tony Williams on his Emergency album, but I don't think he's thought of as a singer.
Then there is Peter Nichols. He's not the only reason I'm not an IQ fan, but he's a major reason. I nearly bought the Dark Matter disc, just just couldn't do it as I know I can't get past his voice.
Peter Hammill - not sure why people like his singing, but I find his voice to be one of the most grating possible. His solo set at Nearfest, I somehow withstood a good half hour of his croaking into a microphone. When I saw VDGG at NF, at least they were a loud band, so some of his singing was drowned out. Too bad I didn't care much for the music either, but I did stay for the whole set.
Since this is a prog thread, I'll ignore the obvious annoying voices like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and save the bashing for another day.
James Labrie gets mentioned a lot in this thread. I've always thought he has an excellent voice, though I could do without the mellow, breathy, kind of well, girly parts. But man, his voice can soar too!
all King Crimson singers
The poor man's Jon Anderson, Geddy Lee. Horrid.
Most vocalists that some people seem to hate, I like, or tolerate.
I love:
Peter Hammill
Geddy Lee (the screeching banshee version)
I don't have problems with most others.
I didn't like Peter Wolbrand (Kraan)
I tolerate him now.
Three pages on & no one's even mentioned Wildschwein of Grobschnitt yet ?!?
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Easy one for me...Pete Hammill and Fish. Hearing those two cackle makes me appreciate hair metal.
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