Post by bluecanary on Jul 7, 2010 23:19:42 GMT -5
So here's something I've been pondering on.
At live shows, Dan Miller regularly provides backing vocals on several songs. Most notably The Mesopotamians and Meet the Elements, but there are several other songs (that I of course can't think of right now) that he chimes in on.
As far as I can tell though, fans (or at least those who are noting and discussing these things on the wiki) seem to discount the possibility that he also does backing vocals on the recorded versions of some of those songs. Is that possibility really so unthinkable?
I am thinking primarily of songs on The Else and the more recent children's albums. I would like to make a serious argument for both The Mesopotamians and Meet the Elements but I suspect there may be others.
I am too lazy to go back and find it now, but a little while back there was a discussion going about what Linnell's vocal range was in which someone was using the high note in The Mesopotamians to argue that it was something like an A flat. I really wanted to point out that I don't think that is Linnell singing that note at all, I really think its Dan, but I was afraid that notion would be discounted as absurd.
Am I completely out in left field here? Is this something that has ever occured to anyone else? I can not be the first person to consider this possibility. Or is it just that everyone assumes this but no one has ever noted it down. Please ease my mind and tell me I am not crazy.
If you would like to listen for yourself, track up the chorus of The Mesopotamians and listen to them sing, particularly on the actual word Mesopotamians. I believe Linnell is singing a lower set of notes, Flans is in the middle, with Dan on the high note. Maybe?
And the "Ahhhhh"s in Meet the Elements, I really believe there are two distinct voices singing them.
I should probably find more examples to try to prove my theory but I wanted to put it out there for debate.
At live shows, Dan Miller regularly provides backing vocals on several songs. Most notably The Mesopotamians and Meet the Elements, but there are several other songs (that I of course can't think of right now) that he chimes in on.
As far as I can tell though, fans (or at least those who are noting and discussing these things on the wiki) seem to discount the possibility that he also does backing vocals on the recorded versions of some of those songs. Is that possibility really so unthinkable?
I am thinking primarily of songs on The Else and the more recent children's albums. I would like to make a serious argument for both The Mesopotamians and Meet the Elements but I suspect there may be others.
I am too lazy to go back and find it now, but a little while back there was a discussion going about what Linnell's vocal range was in which someone was using the high note in The Mesopotamians to argue that it was something like an A flat. I really wanted to point out that I don't think that is Linnell singing that note at all, I really think its Dan, but I was afraid that notion would be discounted as absurd.
Am I completely out in left field here? Is this something that has ever occured to anyone else? I can not be the first person to consider this possibility. Or is it just that everyone assumes this but no one has ever noted it down. Please ease my mind and tell me I am not crazy.
If you would like to listen for yourself, track up the chorus of The Mesopotamians and listen to them sing, particularly on the actual word Mesopotamians. I believe Linnell is singing a lower set of notes, Flans is in the middle, with Dan on the high note. Maybe?
And the "Ahhhhh"s in Meet the Elements, I really believe there are two distinct voices singing them.
I should probably find more examples to try to prove my theory but I wanted to put it out there for debate.