The Beatles Bible - Topic: Best screaming vocalist of all time

kedame on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:19:04 +0000

Add "Beware My Love," from Wings at the Speed of Sound.

The first part has an awesome screaming vocal.

Also, for those of you with good ears, I have always argued with myself over the screams at the end of Don't Let Me Down. Does Paul do both of the screams, or does John do one and Paul does the other? One of them clearly sounds like Paul, but the other sounds like it could be either.

Funny Paper on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:08:15 +0000

gotagoodreason said
I agree with Funny Paper but you guys seem to have forgotten one major example of screaming, which is the one right before the solo in 'Can't Buy Me Love'. This one is funny because of the double-tracked vocals : in his first vocal Paul delivers a tiny 'woo !' that he KNEW he had to surpass - and how - while overdubbing himself !

Yes, that's a nice little scream, prefigures more and better to come over the years.

gotagoodreason on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 12:23:16 +0000

I agree with Funny Paper but you guys seem to have forgotten one major example of screaming, which is the one right before the solo in 'Can't Buy Me Love'. This one is funny because of the double-tracked vocals : in his first vocal Paul delivers a tiny 'woo !' that he KNEW he had to surpass - and how - while overdubbing himself !

Funny Paper on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:46:30 +0000

Ben Ramon said

Funny Paper said

frankdialogue said
Don't forget 'I'm Down', 'Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey' or the the under rated 'Big Barn Bed'.

I like "Big Barn Bed" a lot, but I wouldn't say his voice rises to the level quite to screaming, proper. He sings at a range close to screaming, and it's very forceful and a pleasure to listen to -- but never quite crosses over to screaming.

McCartney Trivia question: on what album and where on that album can a precursor to "Big Barn Bed" be found?

At the end of the Ram On reprise.

I knew ...

Ben Ramon on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:16:51 +0000

Funny Paper said

frankdialogue said
Don't forget 'I'm Down', 'Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey' or the the under rated 'Big Barn Bed'.

I like "Big Barn Bed" a lot, but I wouldn't say his voice rises to the level quite to screaming, proper. He sings at a range close to screaming, and it's very forceful and a pleasure to listen to -- but never quite crosses over to screaming.

McCartney Trivia question: on what album and where on that album can a precursor to "Big Barn Bed" be found?

At the end of the Ram On reprise.

Funny Paper on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:46:36 +0000

I forgot to mention a major example of Paul's screaming forte:

Get On the Right Thing (from Red Rose Speedway)

That one song by itself blows Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey out of the water, IMHO.

Funny Paper on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:38:49 +0000

frankdialogue said
Don't forget 'I'm Down', 'Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey' or the the under rated 'Big Barn Bed'.

I like "Big Barn Bed" a lot, but I wouldn't say his voice rises to the level quite to screaming, proper. He sings at a range close to screaming, and it's very forceful and a pleasure to listen to -- but never quite crosses over to screaming.

McCartney Trivia question: on what album and where on that album can a precursor to "Big Barn Bed" be found?

BluemeanAl on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:17:09 +0000

I think that I'll disagree just a bit on the side of Robert Plant. While he's certainly no longer at the "Immigrant Song" level of 1970, I'd argue that he's become a better overall singer as a result. I've seen him a couple of times in the past 3 years -- he more than held his own with Alison Krauss when performing "The Battle of Evermore" (a song that, I believe, Zeppelin never did live due to the lack of a female singer to do the Sandy Denny part from the album) when I saw that performed on the Raising Sand tour...goosebump time ...

Von Bontee on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:11:25 +0000

Another good one: "Drive All Night", from the expanded "Ram".

Agreed with Ben that Robert Plant, much as I love him, really damaged his voice within the first coupla years of his recording career. (Janis Joplin probably woulda done the same; ironically/sadly, she never lived long enough to do so.)

Yoko certainly deserves a mention here for her stamina/sustainability, and for that wacky vibrato or tremelo or whatever you call that effect she often achieved. (But I guess she's really more of a "shrieker" than a screamer, after all.)

frankdialogue on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:06:18 +0000

Don't forget 'I'm Down', 'Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey' or the the under rated 'Big Barn Bed'.

Ben Ramon on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:14:27 +0000

Very, very true. I'd also like to nominate Oh Woman Oh Why, I'm Down, Wild Life, A Love For You, So Glad to See You Here and Call Me Back Again as particularly impressive gritty vocal performances in high registers. His final "oh yeah" scream at the end of Soily live 1976 in Seattle is one of the most incredible things I've ever heard, the E above tenor high C and extremely powerful, well sustained and full sounding.

Some might argue that in their prime Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey were more formidable rock singers but their vocal ranges diminished very ...

Funny Paper on Best screaming vocalist of all time

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:24:18 +0000

Among Paul's many talents (bass, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, drums, songwriting), one particular one is not often singled out for praise: his ability to scream well. His screaming is effortlessly powerful even when rising into high registers, it punctuates the songs perfectly, it has high quality.

Examples:

Long Tall Sally

I Saw Her Standing There

Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

Helter Skelter

I've Got a Feeling

Oh Darling

Maybe I'm Amazed

Back Seat of My Car (near the end)

Mumbo (!!!!!!!!!!!)

1985 (again, especially near the ...