Round 9: Gilad vs BAZanine (549 views)

[Steve]

This is Gilad v BAZanine in Round Nine of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:59 EST Saturday, February 18 to vote. February 19 is the Results Day.

Round Nine is the Grand Finale round, in which clips may be up to five minutes long. There are three categories - for the Free Choice category, you can use any of your singers, regardless of if you've used them in the first two. However, as a bonus twist, if you use all of your singers across all three categories and sweep, you get a bonus +1.0.

The categories for Round Nine are:

1. Best Live Performance: A live vocal take done during a live show, a stage show or live in studio, etc.
2. Best Studio Performance: A studio recording of a vocal performance, which may include backing and/or harmony singing.
3. Free Choice: A clip you thought was interesting in terms of its vocal that you just really want to show off; you can use a song here that you were perhaps saving for a category but didn't get to use.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 4

[BAZanine]

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{Best Live Performance - Elvis Presley}0:32 to 2:12. This performance is obviously impromptu, completely unrehearsed by anyone on stage. Nonetheless, it features Elvis in good spirits and some of the best high singing of his career. This is widely regarded as one of if not his best live performance.

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{Best Studio Performance - Alan Hull}The vocals start at 0:28 and end at 4:45 so if you want you can start/end there but honestly it'd be cool if you listened to the whole thing. Or 0:09 - 5:09/0:00 - 5:00 if you really feel like being a purist. This song has a message and shit, it's dynamic, it's just really good.

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{Free Choice - Dion DiMucci}1:42 - 4:35. Yeah so this is Dion doing a more laid-back blues interpretation of a Chuck Berry number, "Too Much Monkey Business". Very fun stuff. Dion knows how to do his acoustic blues.

[Gilad]

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{Best Live Performance - Chester Bennington}
1:08 - end, LP's "Given Up" is an absolute monster of a vocal performance. The repeated soaring belts in the chorus, the scream-heavy bridge, the iconic 17-second scream, or the fact that immediately after that very scream Chester is required to belt out yet another demanding chorus. Chester nails it all in this live performance. RIP to one of the best to ever do it.

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{Best Studio Performance - Matt Bellamy}
1:51 - 5:04 (skip 3:05 - 3:27 if you're not interested in a tasty guitar solo)
Y'know, I'm more a fan of Bellamy's raw, shrill and angsty vocals from his early days, but that doesn't mean that his more refined approach in the latter half of his career doesn't have its place, or that it can't appeal to me as much at times. "Madness", a seemingly Peter Gabriel-inspired performance, is one such example. Known as one of Bellamy's standout vocal performances, he provides excellent singing all around, whether it be the tasteful and nuanced mid-range singing in the first half of the song, or the epic belts and falsetto in the second.

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{Free Choice - Conor Mason}
Singing starts at 0:10
Attempting a Jeff Buckley classic like "Lover, You Should've Come Over" would be a daunting task for even the most celebrated of vocalists, especially when you keep it as faithful to the original as Conor does here. I can't say he does it as good as Buckley, but he gets damn near close imo, and he should get a ton of props for that on its own.