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Let's not forget another fine example -- Hey You. The section of the song immediately after gilmour finishes singing ("but it was only a fantasy...") featured great sounding lyrics, and some "interesting" high-pitched screaming vocals in the last section.

The "insane" roger waters singing voice is one of my favorites, but only because it sounds cool... It's not exactly "singing", as compared to gilmour.

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I think Rog's voice is scratchy and annoying. If anything his voice reminds me of Hitler's (I'm NOT saying Roger is like Hitler so don't get at me, I'm just saying I don't like his voice. There were aspects of Rog's behaviour I didn't like but he was nowhere near as bad as Hitler.)

Dave, well... He has improved and his voice is easier to listen to than Roger's so I'll have to say I prefer Dave's voice. Roger's main talent was writing damn good songs so they complimented each other: Rog as lyricist and Dave as vocalist.

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I think Rick's voice has gone worse over the years. Anyway, my affirmation is based only on "Time" from DSoT.

DSoT just has icky mixing. REALLY bad. I know it was your favourite album, but the mixing on the vocals is just abysmal.

PULSE sounds pretty good to my ear, and so do TDB and Broken China.

Cat, I am not sure I can agree with you. Compared to earlier Floyd, the lyrics are rather weaker, but compared to non-Floyd stuff, you can still tell which is best (PF!).

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I remember reading somewhere that, indirectly due to the seating collapse at Earls Court, Gilmour's voice was strained. Since PF had to re-schedule that show for an off-night, Gilmour couldn't let his voice rest (he said that he could only sing maybe 3 days in-a-row without a day off) and the result was a pay-per-view performance (P.U.L.S.E.) that showcased his strained vocal cords (notably on CBtL).

I think Gilmour's voice has gained 'wisdom' (?) in its age. Same with Roger, but Gilmour can also hit the notes in CBtL (TDB version).

Oh, and for what it's worth, IMO Rick's voice is still fantastic -- distinct, unique. I was really happy to hear his voice on WtIO and, of course, Broken China.

The only recording I've heard of Nick's voice is on OoTD. I would *hope* that it has improved since then...

DSot wasn't my favorite album.

PuceMole...I think Mr. Gilmour's voice has become a bit gravelly, but not unpleasantly so.

As for Mr. Wright--his voice seems as clear to me as ever...I think he's actually got the best-maintained voice of the bunch.

Da_Floyd_Fan--sorry, I got you mixed up with JokerWild for a second.

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I really miss the close harmonising of pieces like 'Echoes' and 'Time'. It was actually a bit of an unpleasant surprise hearing Dave's voice on WDYWFM? for the first time. Not having heard MLoR or DSoT at that point, I really was expecting the lovelyness to ring true, instead, it was more the Laramie Camel (or whatever it is) off of The Simpsons. I kept on expecting it to get better all the way through, but astoundingly, the only respite on the entire album comes from (deep breath) Rick on... um, whatever song he small mouth croons on. I like the fact that Dave comes in on backing vox in a sort of whispery way that vaguely harks back to The Golden Period. But only slightly.

Then they go back to sounding like Simple Minds.

Mr Slater's parrot etc,

Mark

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"Wearing the Inside Out" is the song where Mr. Wright sings on that album. Since it's the only one, I know that has to be the one you're talking about. If he sang in the higher octaves like he used to, I think you'd most likely find he sounds pretty good. He probably can't get all of the really high notes like he did on "See-Saw", but I think he'd still have a good, clear voice. I suspect some of this has to do with singing style (which did not involve screaming or a lot of really loud, crazy stuff), and also with the fact he doesn't put quite the workload on his voice the others do.

For me, I heard Mr. Gilmour's vocals first on PULSE, so for me it sounded perfectly normal, and the rest was a very nice sound. The place that threw me, actually, was on stuff like "Let There Be More Light"--it took me forever to recognise Mr. Gilmour's voice.

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Dark Side was my introduction, and probably ranks amongst their finest vocal efforts. I actually enjoy the singing on 'Echoes' for the fact that it isn't perfect and on OBC, the slight roughness in the harmonies actually adds something.

But yes, Simple Minds.

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Ha.

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Personally, I agree, but I also think that Rog was at the top of his game on Animals as well. Then again Animals has, in recent times, become one of my faves. And to think, I once called this the worst PF album. Of course that was before I knew about AHM or TDB. But still a great album, that I never appreciated until recently.

Me.

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I reckon that they should have turned off their instruments after Animals, instead of dragging the up-until-then-fine reputation of the band through the c*nting mud. It would have made for quite a contemporary, almost punky outro to their careers, instead of the bloated rock bollocks of The Wall and all the other pap that followed it (one song on TDB excepted). It has grown on me quite a lot since, similarly, giving it a slagging a year or so back. I'm still not really a fan of Pigs on the wings, but whatever, you know? We live in a digital age where stuff can be programmed out, 'Hats off to Harper' style.

Birdsong etc,

Mark

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