By 1986 Repulsion's trademark style had matured ; characterised by raspy shouted vocals, extremely distorted down-tuned guitars, overdriven punkish riffs, absurd rambling solos interjected as if only as an afterthought, rumbling bass lines, and machine-gun drumming.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

First coming together in 1972, the core duo of Andy Partridge ( guitars & vocals ) and Colin Moulding ( bass & vocals ) went through many band names ( including The Helium Kidz and Star Park ) over the next five years.

The instrumental backing was effectively recorded live in the studio, while Van Vliet overdubbed most of the vocals in only partial synch with the music by hearing the slight sound leakage through the studio window.

The music journalist Pierre Perrone said that Hansen's " playful nature and mischievous sense of humour came through in the way she approached the backing vocals she contributed to Stereolab and the distinctive harmonies she created with Sadier.

Lennon's vocals were automatically double-tracked from the words " Strawberry Fields Forever " through the end of the last verse.

Some musicians also use pre-recorded backing tracks with additional parts such as synthesizers, strings or layered background vocals to recreate parts that would be impractical to play live, in which case a click track synchronized with the backing track is played through headphones or in-ear monitors to keep the musicians in synchrony with the backing track.

As Townshend developed into one of rock's most accomplished composers, Daltrey's vocals became the vehicle through which Townshend's visions were expressed, and he gained an equally vaunted reputation as a powerful vocalist and riveting frontman.

By the time they signed with MCA Records, the lineup of John Paul Camp ( saxophone / vocals ), Sean Dolan ( guitar ), Jimmy Flame ( trumpet / vocals ), Chaz Linde ( keyboard / vocal ), Dave Lund ( bass / vocals ), Billy Spunke ( vocals / megaphone ), and Bob Trondson ( drums ) stuck together as a total of 22 musicians passed through the band since their formation.

But the show was marred by sound problems and the vocals were barely audible through much of the show.

Canibus had never planned for it to be compiled as a separate record, but agreed to release it through the independent Gladiator Music label as part of a contractual agreement ; most of the vocals for Mind Control had been recorded prior to the release of C True Hollywood Stories.

According to Allmusic, James Brown was critical, through " the gospel-impassioned fury of his vocals and the complex polyrhythms of his beats ", in " two revolutions in black American music.

The latter is a more experimental, edgier and generally less mainstream combination of ' 60s and ' 70s-style soul vocals with some hip hop influence, and has earned some mainstream recognition through the work of D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill.

Hip hop music for the most part is itself composed of two parts: rapping, the delivery of swift, highly rhythmic and lyrical vocals ; and DJing and / or producing, the production of instrumentation either through sampling, instrumentation, turntablism or through beatboxing, the production of musical sounds through vocalized tones.

Using existing multitrack master tapes — his small studio in fact had no capacity to record session musicians — Tubby would re-tape or ' dub ' the original after passing it through his 12 channel custom built MCI mixing desk, twisting the songs into unexpected configurations which highlighted the heavy rhythms of their bass and drum parts with minute snatches of vocals, horns and Piano / Organ.

" The Raven " features actor Leonard Whiting on lead vocals, with Alan Parsons performing vocals through an EMI vocoder.

Geddy Lee's high-register vocal style has always been a signature of the band – and sometimes a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with a strong likeness to other singers like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Shara Nelson, an R & B singer, featured on the orchestral " Unfinished ," and Jamaican dance hall star Horace Andy provided vocals on several other tracks, as he would throughout Massive Attack's career.

The tour marked a turning point in Nicks ' career: although she had achieved significant critical acclaim, drugs were taking a toll on her performing, affecting her vocals and changing her on-stage persona.

The band released their debut and best known single " 100, 000 Fireflies " in 1991, which was typical of the band's earlier career characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway ( and then by Stephin Merritt himself from The House of Tomorrow EP onwards ).

Kirkpatrick has spent most of his career in the background, often providing background vocals, playing guitar, playing keyboards or writing songs for other artists.

Now continuing their career as a trio, with Ihsahn handling keyboards, vocals, guitars and bass, the band recorded their third album IX Equilibrium and toured Europe and the United States.

She began her musical career in the early 1980s, singing background vocals for Christian artists Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill.

Towards the end of 1983, the band ( under their BEF guise and assisted by Greg Walsh ) helped relaunch Tina Turner's career, producing and providing backing vocals on her hit " Let's Stay Together ", a cover of the Al Green song.

It was their first album to include Dave Quackenbush on vocals, who would remain the band's singer for the rest of their career.

At this stage of his career most of Mayall's music was rather different from electric blues played by rock musicians, incorporating jazz, funk or pop elements and adding even female vocals.

The original members were Elizabeth Fraser ( vocals ), Robin Guthrie ( guitar, drum machine ) and Will Heggie ( bass guitar ), who was replaced by Simon Raymonde ( also bass guitar ) early in the band's career.

In the first era of Download's career, the band's sound was an Experimental Industrial style which featured vocals by Mark Spybey and guest vocals by Genesis P. Orridge.

Leeb began his musical career with industrial band Skinny Puppy under the pseudonym of Wilhelm Schroeder in 1985, contributing bass synth and occasional backing vocals to a few of their recordings and concerts from this period.

Throughout the group's career, Sara Carter sang lead vocals ; Maybelle sang harmony and accompanied the group instrumentally ; on some songs A. P.

For the majority of their career, the lineup featured Martin Smith on vocals and guitar, Stu G ( full name Stuart Garrard ) on guitar and backing vocals, Jon Thatcher on bass guitar, Tim Jupp on keys and piano, and Stew Smith on drums and percussion.

After Harris left for a solo career, Millinder followed up with another hit, “ Shorty ’ s Got to Go ” on which he took lead vocals.

In April 1974, Kevin McGinlay left to pursue a solo career, so Ure assumed vocals in addition to his guitar duties.

He was vocals in a band called Pėdsakai ( Footprints ) from 1998 until 2001, when he decided to start a solo career.

But despite a hit R & B ballad, " There Is Something on Your Mind ," ( 1959 ) featuring Little Sonny Warner on vocals, and a 1963 album for Warner Bros. Records, McNeely's music career began to cool off.

Wedren has pursued a solo career, including an appearance on the Down to You soundtrack with Didn't Mean to Do You Harm, and contributed backing vocals to Verve Pipe's 1999 eponymous album.

Prater, who had performed the lead vocals on " Lean on Me ", eventually left as well to pursue a solo career.

Manson's musical career began in her teens when she was approached to perform backing vocals and keyboards for Scottish band Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

Some of the cassettes for the Sing Along machines were recorded by Filipino cover bands for popular songs so that the vocals and accompaniment could be played independently.

The band persevered for another six months, but in performances at Benicassim Festival and the Reading Festival Brown's vocals were described as " so off-key it was excruciating to have to listen ".

The song built to a climax in which Nicks ' vocals were so impassioned that drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood declared, " her < i > Rhiannon </ i > in those days was like an exorcism.

When they started working on the album and were trying to re-record the vocals, Williams felt unsatisfied with it, so he decided to include the demo version and then release it as the first single.

The song, and Aguilera's vocals, were so well received that it landed her a recording contract with RCA records.

The producers of the album did not like her vocals and so the song was re-recorded by Sara Hickman for the film.

She joined a " loop group ", and recorded vocals for characters in the background of films, although in most cases the sound was turned down so that very little of her voice was heard.

RCA had always insisted their performers stay still as they sang so the microphone would pick up the vocals ; even the slightest tilt of the head would result in missing sound.

" Nilsson was so impressed with Newman's talent that he devoted his entire next album to Newman compositions, with Newman himself playing piano behind Nilsson's multi-tracked vocals.

The recording of their fourth studio album, 1986's From Luxury to Heartache ( UK No. 10, US No. 32 ) dragged on for so long that producer Arif Mardin had to abandon the sessions due to prior commitments and leave it to engineer Lew Hahn to record the final vocals.

Motown was so impressed by the group's vocals – and Martha's lead vocals in the song – that the label CEO Berry Gordy offered to give the group a contract.

I was a big Vanilla Fudge fan, with their Hammond organ and searing guitar on top, and we had David's high vibrato vocals anyway so that's how we decided to shape it ", Box recalled.

' Blue ' is melodic rock with Americana vocals that repeat ‘ I ’ m so blue, without you ’ over pop chords and a cute use of scratching to cover swearing.

Critics have written that " neither John Cale nor Alfred Hitchcock was ever this scary ," and that Cave " doesn't so much sing his vocals as expel them from his gut ".

During multitracking, multiple musical instruments ( and vocals ) can be recorded, either one at a time or simultaneously, onto individual tracks, so that the sounds thus recorded can be accessed, processed and manipulated individually to produce the desired results.

If one then wanted to listen to the vocals in isolation, one would do so by muting all the tracks apart from the vocals track.

For example, if an artist wanted to apply one effect to a synthesizer part, a different effect to a guitar part, a ' chorused reverb ' effect to the lead vocals, and different effects to all the drums and percussion instruments, they could not do so if they had all been originally recorded together onto the same track.

Their vocals were so different it was like having two bands in one.

The Haunted's fifth studio album, The Dead Eye, was released on October 30, 2006 in Europe and so far has been a huge success, showing a more sinister side to Dolving's vocals and a more technical, haunting musical display.

Albini also emphasized that the songs ' lyrics were not the focal point of Big Black, and that the vocals were only there out of necessity: " It seemed like, as instrumental music, it didn't have enough emotional intensity at times, so there would be vocals.