I know what you mean, I tend to think of JJ as a very good vocalist rather than a great "singer". He's always had several different delivery styles he could call on.toilerinblack wrote:For me JJ the singer was probably at his best in his early raw young energy years for sure... Curfew,Threatened and so on.
The later years Hugh was more superior for me and better singer and the further it went like 10 it was for me only the Hugh sung songs l liked.
JJ's strengths are his ability to be able to talk through great songs like the The Raven and Time to die like no other for me and also his aggressive type vocal approach like like 5 minutes,Threatened and so on are great,for me the ones that don't work so good for me are that requires a singers vocal range for songs like like Down or In the end which are beautiful written songs that does require a certain type of vocal range to sing those type of songs for me that's not easy with his limited vocal range on certain songs.
You can see a difference in the same song but with two different vocalists and a prime example for me is North Winds sung by Paul and again with Norfolk Coast,again one of britian's finest bass players does boast a very unique style of singing that on certain songs is quite incredible and on others not so good..and for me his finest two has to be....Time To Die and The Raven.
But when you say on 10 you only like Hugh's songs, well for me NTLB is the best song on that album by a mile!
Now I don't know whether "vocal range" or something else is the limitation there, as I know little about what it takes to sing.
Hugh was a great singer in his day, a song like Vietnamerica really shows off his ability. He can't do that anymore now though, which is understandable at his age.