What rock group did multiple lead singers best?

[YellowSnow]

Testing out the new poll feature.

 

[DerekJohnson]

Never knew The Cars had multiple singers

 

[RaceBannon]

Actually a 3 way tie

Beatles
Beach Boys
Eagles

Hall and Oates HM

 

[YellowSnow]

Never knew The Cars had multiple singers

Very much so. The first album is pretty much a 50/50 split between Ocasek and Orr.

 

[YellowSnow]

Actually a 3 way tie

Beatles
Beach Boys
Eagles

Hall and Oates HM

My Eagles are kind of like the Beatles here- i.e., Frey and Henley being Lennon/McCartney but with 3rd vocalists like Meisner contributing classics, a la Harrison. Beach Boys have had 4 lead vocalists on 4 number 1 singles.

 

[El_K]

The Beatles. But I prefer The Clash and Pink Floyd

 

[TheHB]

Went with Stevie, Lindsey and Christine mainly because of the variety they brought to the band’s sound.

 

[YellowSnow]

Went with Stevie, Lindsey and Christine mainly because of the variety they brought to the band’s sound.

IFL the Christine vocals. Her songs are my favorite.

 

[PurpleThrobber]

Went with Stevie, Lindsey and Christine mainly because of the variety they brought to the band’s sound.

Tough poll but agree here.

Watched their concert on PBS a couple months back. Fuck the USC band for fucking up a good show. Lindsey and Stevie tore it up.

 

[DerekJohnson]

 

[ukdawg]

You can't include the Beatles on a list like this.

Treat them the way Playboy treated ASU when they did "Best Party School" rankings in the 90s. Like they won forever, time to let everyone else compete.

 

[DerekJohnson]

I thought this would get an angry response from @YellowSnow. I thought wrong

 

[YellowSnow]

I thought this would get an angry response from @YellowSnow. I thought wrong

Nah. I generally think down votes unless something is truly egregious are pretty gay. I prefer to invoke the lord's name in vane.

Also, you know that I love some of the Ace solo songs.

 

[chuck]

I thought I had voted for the Beatles and replied to this thread already. Either my answer was objectionable and got deleted, or I just dreamed it.

Now I vote for Fleetwood Mac. I think they were closer to an even split between 3 songwriters/vocalists. The Beatles, and Eagles too for that matter, were dominated by two guys and nowhere near equal in terms of numbers.

 

[YellowSnow]

I thought I had voted for the Beatles and replied to this thread already. Either my answer was objectionable and got deleted, or I just dreamed it.

Now I vote for Fleetwood Mac. I think they were closer to an even split between 3 songwriters/vocalists. The Beatles, and Eagles too for that matter, were dominated by two guys and nowhere near equal in terms of numbers.

Fleetwood Mac might have had the best 3 way action, although The Beatles by Abbey Road were progressing towards that direction. A 1970 Beatles LP would had to have been George heavy. Could have been arguably their best album.

 

[TheHB]

The Beatles fucked up by treating George as the snot-nosed, know-nothing little brother. Paul and John, while geniuses, were either too dumb or too threatened to give George space to create.

 

[chuck]

The Beatles fucked up by treating George as the snot-nosed, know-nothing little brother. Paul and John, while geniuses, were either too dumb or too threatened to give George space to create.

George didn't write anything in the early years and was just learning to construct songs in 1964. John and Paul wrote songs for him to sing. His first decent compositions were on Rubber Soul. He got better pretty fast after that, but the pecking order had been set. He was getting his 1-3 tracks.

This is why he had one foot out the door before the others. I haven't verified this, but I believe he had more original songs on his first solo effort than his total with the band.

 

[RaceBannon]

And the people ended up loving Ringo the most