No, I'm not joking.

Two categories, since he sings lead on such a small percentage of songs - lead and back-up/duet/harmony. And solo stuff counts, too!

Lead: Slipping Away

Back-up: Can't You Hear Me Knockin'

Before they make me run....Memory Motel..salt...Silver..Ap no 9...

If You Need Me

Lead: Comin' Down Again
Back: Silver Train

Thief In the Night/Slipping Away
Make No Mistake

Live? i'd go with "happy" from brussels '73 (halycon)...ferocious...just ferocious.

studio? i would like to think about this a bit before i venture an opinion. ty.
tho the harmony on studio bs would be hard to beat...indelible...
actually so much of his studio harmony work is spectacular...band lost a lot of thrust when keith stopped doing main harmony lines with mj imo...there are literally a dozen examples, if not more, where keith's harmony made huge huge huge impact on the best and brightest of the most golden stuff those first 15 years...huge.



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Coming Down Again by a mile

Not sure if it's the best, but I was listening to Hate It When You Leave about 10 minutes ago, and was enraptured.

The last verse of "Slipping Away" - especially the way he sings the word 'soon'. Shivers me timbers every time.

The bit on "Thru & Thru" where the drums kick in and he growls that "we're OHHHH-pen 24 hours baby" is pretty blood curdling too.

This one is simple. Quite simply the highlight of BTB

Thief in the Night / How Can I Stop, in combination, are quite simply one of the greatest vocal performances by anyone ever. Maybe not a classic great voice but the emotion coming through is just the greatest ever.

Coming Down Again comes a close second though.

Hey third verse of Austin...Learnin' The Game where he sneers it
thru clenched teeth like a true wounded buccaneer of the love game....



ROCKMAN

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> Hey third verse of Austin...Learnin' The Game
> where he sneers it
> thru clenched teeth like a true wounded buccaneer
> of the love game....


Good call, Rockman. Thats an absolutely amazing performance. The bit you refer to is terrific.

Best thing on the whole DVD by a country mile, IMO.

Sing me back home.

All About You:

"Oh, tell me those lieeeeeeeeees
Let me thiiiiiiiiiiink they're truuuuuueeeee"

[www.lyricsspot.com]


Will return later with that choir category.

Nobody mentioned The Worst.
Concerning live, Happy on Live at Max video is far the best overall RnR performance ever happened.

You Got The Silver/Memory Motel

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

I'll add His back up singing on Sweet Virginia to the best of list.

Not officially recorded, but his version of You Got the Silver in Barcelona will take some beating.

Lead - We Had It All
Back-Up - Casino Boogie

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> Hate It When You Leave about 10 minutes ago, and
> was enraptured.


that song is the dog's bollocks. The best thing Keith has done in the last 25 years IMO.

I was very impressed with keiths singing on learning the game from the bang dvd , just a great performance, as for the studio i would go with silver and coming down again

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That's a good thing?

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Lead -- Eileen
Backup -- Casino Boogie

Hey wait, when did he sing "Give Me A BreaK" ?

on DVD I love the Thru & Thru from the NYC Four Flicks. He nails it vocally

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Yep.

It's "THRU & THRU" as I saw it live at Madison Square Garden in NYC USA 9/02 Licks,I guess there is a bootleg of that actually; how 'bout the Voodoo album version?

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> It's "THRU & THRU" as I saw it live at Madison
> Square Garden in NYC USA 9/02 Licks,I guess there
> is a bootleg of that actually;

There is indeed. That was also the song's live debut. He absolutely nailed it, too. I was there that night as well.

Ya Got the Silver

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OK,thanks for enlightening this yank.....................As a couple others have mentioned,I also want to say the dual vocals on Casino Boogie are great.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"



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