Bands with GREAT backing vocals

[tangentmusic]

The Coverdale/Hughes mk III version of Deep Purple

 

[deshi00]

House of Heroes - All of their CD's, The End Is Not The End, is my favorite though.. all 4 members of the band sing.. in almost every song

 

[dougjwray]

The Beatles, obviously. Ever try to cover something like "I Feel Fine"??
No monitors here:
YouTube - The Beatles - I Feel Fine (Live)

 

[kesslari]

If we go all historic,
Eagles
CSNY
Poco
Beatles

Currently - The Subdudes

 

[Murf]

Jellyfish!! Fantastic harmonies and they could reproduce em live as well

 

[gjbassist]

Van Halen.

 

[lunarpollen]

the Pretty Things!!!! Especially from 1967-1970....

 

[olalo]

Beatles, electric light orchestra, beach boys, queen.

 

[Bassman822]

Remember- they could hardly hear themselves because of the fans screaming

 

[tangentmusic]

the Pretty Things!!!! Especially from 1967-1970....

Wow... I thought no one remembered them.

I saw them at the Winterland in late '75 opening for REO with Blue Oyster Cult headlining!

Ah, the good ol days..

 

[blipndub]

Van Halen. MA was as good a singer as bass player, prolly better!

And Pixies, but that was kind of a different thing altogether, more like two leads.

 

[jaywa]

Queen, Journey, Boston, Eagles, Bangles, Toad, XTC, Jellyfish

You want to cover any of these bands without a minimum two killer backing singers, you are dead in the water.

 

[Renaissance]

Beatles
Steve Miller Band

 

[worxforme]

+1 to many of the bands up there^

To add to the list; Shinedown had great harmonies when I saw them live.

I think that bands with lead singers that have well trained and/or naturally great voices have, on average, better harmonies.

 

[I<34080]

Lush
Slowdive

 

[Fendbassfan]

Van Halen.

Really?

 

[MrGotBass]

Jason Newsted's live backing vocals used be to awesome when he was with Metallica

 

[mambo4]

+1 to Beatles and Beachboys
more recently : Sloan

Queen and Alice in Chains, as I understand it, multi tracked the lead singer.
Still, Freddy backing Freddy is awsome.

 

[chuck norriss]

REM - Mike Mills "Fall On Me," "The One I Love"
YouTube - R.E.M. - The One I Love

Radiohead - Ed O'Brien "Weird Fishes"
see 2:35--2:50
YouTube - [DVD] Radiohead - Live From The Basement [Full Show]

I like when The Edge sings this line on "Yahweh" (2:32)
YouTube - U2 Yahweh Live From Chicago

the English Beat - Ranking Roger

Cheap Trick "Surrender" has nice 2nd vocals

 

[winston]

Mike Mills with R.E.M.
Michael Anthony with Van Halen in the DLR years
TV On The Radio

Plus, the backing vox on David Bowie's "Young Americans" is pretty much the best thing ever.