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Here's a helpful guide from their website, an example of a song where all three sing lead in different parts:

The Advent of Panurge
Lead vocals: Kerry, overdubbed (or perhaps with Phil); Derek ("Then said he fair Pantagruel..."); Phil ("Look at my friend...")

Gentle Giant was one of my dad's favorite bands and I only remember bits and pieces of their records from my childhood. I've never actively listened to them despite my love of many of their contemporaries like Camel, Yes, and even Yezda Urfa, who I am told is basically a GG clone band. I guess I should revisit at some point, I bet I'd love them now.

My controversial music opinion is that it's cool to read Rabelais and then name your rock song "The Advent of Panurge".

who sings "Think of Me with Kindness"? that song really gets to me, love it in the course of the album, this pretty overwrought Colin Blunstone song pops up out of nowhere 😢

"An Inmate's Lullaby" is actually Derek Shulman singing, the Gentle Giant site confirms it.

Oops. Kerry has the high choirboy voice and sounds like Peter Hammill before his balls dropped.

Ha.. "His Last Voyage" is Kerry, then.

Yes, and "Think of Me with Kindness" too.

Betty Davis was important without actually being especially good. More of a catalyst/influencer than an actual talent.

No snark: is that controversial?

She was good within her range, but a lot of people talked her records up as being more consequential than they were.

That happens on social media anytime someone dies now, though. Everyone gets to retrospectively be the GOAT for a few days. I don't mind it if the hyperbole encourages people to check out good work they wouldn't have heard otherwise.

That didn't happen to Michael Chapman :(

yeah RIP to a real one, was a privilege to see him play

here to say i also hate the gentle giant singer's voice !

GG singers are endurable for me without being enjoyable, unlike say Ian Anderson who I can't abide after about 1972.

Robert Wyatt is a musical genius and one of the finest songwriters that's ever lived, but his twee whimsical Englishman voice can sometimes grate on me over the duration of an album.

Had to admit to myself in the end that this is my opinion too, sorry St Robert.

getting pretty annoyed at the existence of steely dan lately. sometimes because you can doesn't mean you should. i go through phases with them. sometimes their records are okay, sometimes i hate them because ugh yuck what am i listening to. i've never thought of them as anything more than tolerable and even their best songs as second or third tier competitors to their peers.

I don’t think being ambivalent to Steely Dan is particularly controversial?

who are Steely Dan's peers? not peerless in the sense they are greater than every other 70s band but they are pretty unique in the classic rock canon. maybe Boz Skaggs?

i'm using peers in a very general way here: anybody who released a record that made any chart in the 70s is a peer of anyone else who released a record that made any chart in the 70s.

So even their best songs are second or third tier competitors to… any song that made any chart? I take it back, that is controversial

"When Austin posts in circles it's a mad thread" - Tiers for Peers

sometimes because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Steely Dan’s appeal eludes me but let’s please give Austin credit for making this a must read thread again.

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Through these suburban threads

Steely Dan’s appeal eludes me but let’s please give Austin credit for making this a must read thread again.

― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, February 22, 2022 6:13 AM

thank you, but my next controp is that no discussion thread on any forum —especially not one that i've posted in— has ever been a "must read." all the same, you are too kind.

happy 22222 everybody!

dumb luck, my friend, won't suck me in this time

brb gotta start a new topic: "communicate only with steely dan lyrics"

definitely not a must read, either.

I am definitely sensing a lot of must when I read this thread

you and me both, friend.

bodhi saba, would you take me by the hand

that one may have been a stretch but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_(condiment)

bodacious newbies--such as your friend--will never be welcome here

for all steely dan ever broke through here i couldn't call them in any way unique, notably they just sound like a mix of other bands on an off day (thin lizzy playing a toto album track but without any real interest)

I bet you could approximate any band with a linear combination of all other bands. I bet glenn is doing it...right now.

That description could actually work if all you've heard is "Reeling in the Years".

thin lizzy playing a toto track....from the future

Axl Rose was never as impressive a singer as some people may want you to believe.

Cool, so he can sing five octaves... his tone for half of it still sounds like shit to me.

I liked Guns N Roses better when they were called Aerosmith.

Didja ever hear the Axl parody on the first Bloodhound Gang album? The track is called "Shitty Record Offer"… it’s pretty funny

LOL. When the Village Voice temporarily showed scans of the original newspaper pages for every Pazz & Jop poll, Glenn Kenny submitted this joke for the 1988 poll's comments section: "How many members of Guns N' Roses does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "F*** you! Suck my ****!"

imo axl has a good voice but also one that starts to grate very quickly

good thing he didn't make many albums

just like i'm sure that the sky is blue and water is wet, i'm very sure that axl rose is a muppet. please reference the miss piggy-esque yowls heard on "knockin on heaven's door." remember some years back when somebody posted the isolated vocals of a van halen song? i need the axl rose ones for that song in my life.

Most vocal coaches actually shit on Axl's technique. He's a baritone who came up with a screechy falsetto that fit the sleazy nature of their music. I love his vocals, but he's a good bad singer IMO

Lana Del Rey makes laughably bad music.