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![]() ![]() My favorite Queen's song from the 80's: Under Pressure Who wants to live forever when love must die... ![]() One Vision I Want It All Scandal The Miracle... Innuendo album is also the miracle (especially "The Show Must Go On" that makes me cry every time ![]() |
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While trying to decide whose male AOR voice I like best, I refreshed my memory by listening of the vocals of Bobby Kimball, Jimi Jamison, Steve Perry, and Brad Delp of Toto, Survivor, Journey, and Boston, respectively. I also listened again to some Robert Plant. I feel Steve Perry's and Brad Delp's voices sound sweeter, more refined (more vibrato), and less edgy, and so I definitely prefer Lou Gramm's rougher voice to theirs. Quote:
![]() I looked again more carefully at that 1981 "Urgent" video by Foreigner... Foreigner - Urgent (1981) - Original Video - YouTube ...and now I'm wondering, were they even playing the music we hear? It just doesn't seem like the sound of the drums line up with the hits, and the vocals sound too clean and even, given Lou Gramm's motions wrt the mic. About the saxophonist, I looked at Wikipedia and was shocked to see how many different musicians have composed Foreigner over the years (Foreigner (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). I'm not used to a band where it keeps the same name but almost all the members change. The saxophonist on the recording was Junior Walker, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgent_(song). And he definitely isn't the sax player in that 1981 video! Junior Walker - played sax for "Urgent" ![]() Quote:
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![]() I can't think of any famous cover songs where a man sings to another man the way Joan Jett sang a song dedicated to a woman. It would be fun, for example, to hear some male band singing "Warrior" by Patty Smyth. "Shooting at the walls of heartache" takes on a different meaning coming from a man than from a woman. ![]() Patty Smyth and Scandal - The Warrior (HiQuality) - YouTube (^This reminds me: I dislike any song that has the words "bang bang" in it.)
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Steve Perry was probably the most diverse of the vocalists I've mentioned, his voice excelled at both the powerful stuff and the slower more sensitive stuff equally. Brad Delp as you say is refined and Jimi Jameson has real power and clarity but Bobby Kimball will always be my favourite of the bunch (just) his voice had a unique funky feel that lent itself perfectly to the Toto sound. BTW are you sure you actually listened to Bobby Kimball, as the band 4 vocalists in total ![]()
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I have to say that, on further review, I agree that Lou Gramm's voice probably is the best of those 80's rock singers. At least in the sense of doing both rock and softer songs. Strangely I'd never thought of him as one of the great singers before. Jimi Jamison, by the way, is an odd candidate and in my opinion too operatic.
The list is coming along. I'll probably try to limit it to 5 songs. |
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I'd say he was a prime example of an AOR vocalist of that time.
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Foreigner - Urgent (no need to repost the link)
Bryan Adams - One Night Love Affair (Live) - YouTube (another bad video, about as bad as can be using actual good-quality performance footage and also kept off modern music television) Robert Plant - Little By Little - YouTube Def Leppard - Hysteria - YouTube Great White - The Angel Song (music video HQ) - YouTube As you can see, I like story-telling relating to love backed by musical complexity. And anyone who isn't impressed by the piano playing in #5 has some kind of problem. |
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![]() I think Bobby Kimball is the shorter, higher-pitched man singing at 0:33 in this old video for "Rosanna." Am I right? He sings well, but I think if his range doesn't go down lower then he'd be somewhat limited as a vocalist. He's still singing, though, which is great! Toto - "Rosanna" I had never seen this video before today and, I must say, it gives me a really creepy vibe, like I'm watching the start of a gang rape in a car shop/junk yard. ![]() toto--rosanna--video clip - YouTube Quote:
(Robert Plant's voice in Led Zeppelin's music vs. his solo work: I think I prefer the sound of his voice in his solo work, but I feel the songs have less lyrical complexity to them, so I am usually a little disappointed in them. <-- This is based mostly on my memories of listening to Zeppelin and Robert Plant during a "phase" I had 15 years ago, so I'd need to listen again to be sure of my impressions.) Quote:
![]() "Hysteria" -- I've always liked that song because it has a disturbed, tortured, yet beautiful sound. I should have listed some Def Leppard songs among my favorites from the '80s. I like the feeling of wild abandon of their songs, which sound sunny and dark at the same time. They have such rich, deep notes, which I love, plus great rhythm guitar and satisfying drum hits. I like how their songs often sound euphoric with crescendos of energy leading to brilliant-sounding plateaus. I'm realizing I should include Def Leppard as one of my favorite bands. There. Fixed. "One Night Love Affair" is my 3rd favorite Bryan Adams song. "Run to You" is my 2nd favorite. My favorite of all is "Summer of '69." It makes me feel like I got my first real six string at the 5 'n dime and played it 'til my fingers bled, back when me and some guys from school had a band. I become nostalgic for a life I never led. ![]()
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