Songs with great vocal harmonies?

gordiji

Spem in Allium by the Tallis Scholars. Sublime

Dominic

Can we have Chas and Dave's ' There aint no pleasin' you ' ?

Lebarque

The Posies: Solar Sister

Philly_Q

Greatape said:

First three Kings X albums. Amazing that they could pull it off live. 

And in a similar vein, Galactic Cowboys.  I love Alice in Chains with Staley and Cantrell, too. 
A rock band with multiple singers is a wondrous thing.

NickL

gordiji said:

Spem in Allium by the Tallis Scholars. Sublime

That Tallis piece is amazing. 40 separate vocal parts with eight sub-choirs of five voices each, and obviously there wasn't any multi-tracking in the mid 1500s. I've seen it done live and it's an impressive thing.

They didn't have auto-correct in the 16th century either, so they would have missed out on 'alium' gaining an extra L to suggest someone might be putting their hope in garlic (sorry, far too many years of Latin at school).

english_bob

gordiji said:

Spem in Allium by the Tallis Scholars. Sublime

I thought Spem In Alium sounded like some sort of deeply unappetizing Medieval food ("Spem In Alium?" "no thanks, I think I ate too many larks tongues in aspic"), but this is lovely.

exocet

Shak - Comedy



Word Party - Is It Like Today

Kittyfrisk

Surprised that there hasn't been mention of Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son

Or Dust in the Wind

Philly_Q

Kittyfrisk said:

Surprised that there hasn't been mention of Kansas 

I love Kansas, and again I love the fact that they've always had (at least) two guys who can sing lead vocals.  Same goes for Styx and Blue Oyster Cult.

koneguitarist

hollywoodrox said:

Seeing as someone has already nicked the Eagles , I’m going to submit Tim Schmidt’s other band. The wonderful Poco ,and the track “rose of Cimarron “
https://youtu.be/ZDKVnVTz8sY

I was going to post this, Randy Meitner was first bassist, replaced by a dog on first album cover ;-)

fob

viz

gordiji said:

Spem in Allium by the Tallis Scholars. Sublime

This is my fave recording of spem in alium - the Tallis scholars are sooo good. 

ewal

If choral songs are allowed, then my vote goes for this little number

Aflf

Most songs from Bryndle (a so-called supergroup with Andrew Gold, Karla Bonoff, Wendy Waldman, Kenny Edwards).
If you've never heard of them and like 70s West Coast, singer/songwriter music, check them out.

Placidcasual79

A band whose ability to harmonise was always vastly underrated - in fact a band who are just vastly underrated.... could have chosen so many of their songs - beautiful Welsh voices 





And of course for some angelic northern magic two voices that fit together perfectly 

boogieman

Longtallronnie said:

Anything by Civil Wars or Larkin Poe

https://youtu.be/A-DB2btV2oQ

https://youtu.be/Y47QTbJqLAs

Was going to post the same two bands, Civil Wars were superb. 

Saw a clip of Larkin Poe doing a cover of Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer the other day, excellent stuff. 

richardhomer

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel