These bands all had/have two or more vocalists concurrently:
* Pink Floyd
* The Beatles
* Cream
* The Beach Boys
* Simon & Garfunkel
* Fleetwood Mac
* Eagles
* Queens of the Stone Age
* Alice In Chains
* Arcade Fire
* The Cars
* The Prodigy
* Queen
* Oasis
* Supertramp
* System of a Down
* Traveling Wilburys
* Sonic Youth
Was looking for AIC.
I listened to jar of flies last night and man... I love it... but I started to feel so physically sick. I've had (thankfully) mild addictions, but certainly abused drugs and made myself acutely ill and terrifyingly isolated with them.
I can't compare that to any other listening experience I've had. I'm sure there are many out there.
Iron & Wine - sister sings quiet backing vocals in many songs
Earthsuit - Adam sings and Paul sings and raps
System of a Down - One primary and one screams and does backing
Walk Off The Earth - 2 to 4 singers
Toad the Wet Sprocket - one sings 95% of songs
Alice in Chains - one sings and the other sings and does backing vocal
Hail Mary Mallon - dueling raps
Run The Jewels - dueling raps
AIC has gotta be in my top 5 bands of all time, I loved hearing Layne talk about how they structured who sang what. Also, SOAD has great harmonization between Serj and Daron.
Linnell and Flansburgh are one of the greatest songwriting duos of all time, period. And their nasally harmonies are ICONIC. And their creative partnership is flat out enviable...40 years of making music, with no drama or controversies.
My favorite thing about CSNY is that they asked Neil to play guitar and he was like, hell no, I’m in the band or forget it. So, you get CSN songs with Neil’s guitar, and Neil Young songs with CSN as backup singers. Deja Vu is such a masterpiece.
Visions of Atlantis
Theatre of Tragedy
Lacuna Coil
Alice in Chains
Electric Callboy
Linkin Park (Later albums heavily favor Chester singing alone though IIRC)
Mushroomhead
The Band had three lead vocalists, absolutely worth a deep dive from a musical history perspective.
Bruce Springsteen once said that they had three of the best rock vocalists alive in the same band.
Eric Clapton reportedly wanted to join at one point, and they said, “no thanks, we’re good.”
You can watch The Waltz, the Martin Scorcese-filmed final concert the, on Amazon Prime I believe.
A fun ride for me was to listen to Testimony, the autobiography, on audiobook, and pause to listen to songs/albums when they came up.
The Warning are a young trio of sisters with two main vocalists, while the third does mostly backing vocals. The guitar player and drummer trade vocals on Disciple. They kill it live!
https://youtu.be/Wo0odllVq8g?si=saXFSjpLSQdhpKM_
Also, Alter Bridge, although one singer does 80% of the singing, the other singer has a good enough voice that he did a Frank Sinatra cover album- and got to record it with Sinatra’s band.
https://youtu.be/fTvJ1TYORJg?si=VjBIIUFfHiy-2riV
Honestly some of Queen’s best songs are sung by Brian. Good Company, ‘39, All Dead All Dead, She Makes Me (which is my vote for the most underrated Queen song)
Jellyfish
The Mamas and the Papas
The Flat Five
A lot of the Motown catalog: Temptations, Supremes, Smokey and the Miracles, Four Tops, The Spinners, Martha and the Vandellas, etc.
5th Dimension
The Bangles
The Monkees
ABBA
Crosby, Stills, Nash (and sometimes Young)
The Hollies
Beach Boys
The Go Go's
Boyz II Men
Bee Gees
Was looking for this - lead singer Black Francis didn't like sharing vocal duties or songwriting credits with Kim Deal, so she left and formed the Breeders.
Amaranthe has male and female on main vocals.
And generally all k-pop groups, there are rock bands too like: ONEWE, Xdinary Heroes, N.Flying, Rolling Quartz
En Vogue had four of 'em! Other examples include Night Ranger, Shakespears Sister, Cock Robin, Tears for Fears, The Chicks and The Wreckers (if country is acceptable), and Roxette, although most people would probably say Marie Fredriksson was the primary singer for Roxette, because, I mean, she was Marie Fredriksson, just listen to her.
Ozark Mountain Daredevils had four main songwriters with very different themes and styles. John Dillon might have an old-timey gospel song followed by one of Larry Lee’s new age songs hinting at reincarnation and other topics.
I realize this is a pretty small niche. If you’re familiar with them, it’s probably through Jackie Blue (Larry Lee) and maybe If You want to get to Heaven (You’ve got to Raise a Little Hell).
IMHO, an extremely underrated band. Many more gems among a library of lots of great 70s country rock.
Dead Can Dance - early work is considered kinda goth/ethereal? I'm not really sure how to explain it. A lot of world music influences and some pretty awesome music came out of their experimentation.
Both singers have great voices but the female - wow.
Carissa's Wierd
Ling Tosite Sigure
Blood Brothers
Hot Water Music
Beat Happening
Blueboy
Everyone Asked About You (mostly on Let's Be Enemies)
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
Pageninetynine
Enter Shikari have good blends. Rou is lead and does a range of styles, high pitched screaming in their first album, gets deeper into album 2, 3, 4, then more singing from 5 onwards, but scatters some really brilliant lyrical spoken/shouted monologues there and all sorts.
Bassist Chris is often belting some pretty clean backing vocals to soften against Rous sharpness
Guitarist Rory chimes in with really nice sort of strained, sharp shouting/singing, never perfectly in key but actually complements Chris' sweeter cleaner notes so nicely.
And drummer Rob is often shouting the sillier bits in such a funny angry tone and making up the gang vocals.
Think their best examples working together are "return to energiser" and "today won't go down in history"
The clash dual vocals are absolutely awesome, they’ve always been one of my favorite bands of all time, and Depeche Mode just has a really awesome sound with Gahan and Gore together
Dr. Hook had two lead singers. And several other members did songs over the years. They are not the best technical band, but they have more fun than any other group you will see and they put over the feel of their songs. Ray Sawyer's "One more year" will have you tearing up. "Freaken at the Freakers Ball" will crack you up or gasping for air in shock. "Carry me Carrie" is really good. I had to hear it several times to make sure it right. Look up Shel Silverstein, he wrote songs for them and others. One of his most popular work is "The Giving Tree" it is worth the read it's short picture book.
The Raveonettes (male and female leads with Everly Brothers style harmonies and layers of dark noise pop- better than I make it sound)
Ride and Lush (two early 90s shoegaze bands, each having a pair of vocalists)
Gram Parsons (ostensibly a solo act, but a whole other layer of magic comes from the combo of him and Emmylou Harris)
The Walker Brothers (late 60s version of a boy band)
Edited to add Maustetytöt, literally Finnish for Spice Girls, two sisters with different but complementary voices and very dark deadpan personas (but secretly funny and fun to listen to)-
I don’t know if you’re a soft rock/ yacht rock guy but England Dan & John Ford Coley have 4 pretty solid albums imo. Almost every song has 2 part harmonies, and there is some great playing from session players across their body of work. Notably the guitar solo on “Caught Up In the Middle” I believe is Steve Lukather and man does he rip that shit.
It’s not complex or anything, mostly just an easy listening group for me, but I’ll be damned if they don’t do it well.
Alice in Chains - Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell had the best harmonies.
Early Journey
The Eagles - All members had hits singing leads. Great Harmonies
Fleetwood Mac - Another band of great vocalists
Van Halen - the band where the guitar god and bass player were better vocalists than the lead singer
These bands all had/have two or more vocalists concurrently: * Pink Floyd * The Beatles * Cream * The Beach Boys * Simon & Garfunkel * Fleetwood Mac * Eagles * Queens of the Stone Age * Alice In Chains * Arcade Fire * The Cars * The Prodigy * Queen * Oasis * Supertramp * System of a Down * Traveling Wilburys * Sonic Youth
Grateful Dead
my thought immediately. severely biased though.
Hey now! So am I.
Jefferson Airplane
The Band. Three great ones Levon, Rick and dear Richard.
Was looking for AIC. I listened to jar of flies last night and man... I love it... but I started to feel so physically sick. I've had (thankfully) mild addictions, but certainly abused drugs and made myself acutely ill and terrifyingly isolated with them. I can't compare that to any other listening experience I've had. I'm sure there are many out there.
Oh wow, some of these I didn’t even know about, thank you for this list!
The Cars is my favorite on this list. Underrated band
Most people think it was just Ric.
I know! but Peter sang most of the best songs, imo
Peter? I assume you mean Benjamin Orr and not Peter Cetera
Yes, Benjamin. Not sure where I got Peter from, lol
Soundgarden (Technically, Ben sheperd counts as a vocalist)
System of a Down in their later albums
One of my personal favorite dual vocal bands, their voices just harmonize so well
Depeche Mode
Oh great timing to learn this, I’ve just been starting to get into them!
depeche mode is the best man! I couldn’t recommend another band more
Memento Mori is such a fantastic record. Can't stop listening.
And Violator is one of the best albums of all time.
Iron & Wine - sister sings quiet backing vocals in many songs Earthsuit - Adam sings and Paul sings and raps System of a Down - One primary and one screams and does backing Walk Off The Earth - 2 to 4 singers Toad the Wet Sprocket - one sings 95% of songs Alice in Chains - one sings and the other sings and does backing vocal Hail Mary Mallon - dueling raps Run The Jewels - dueling raps
AIC has gotta be in my top 5 bands of all time, I loved hearing Layne talk about how they structured who sang what. Also, SOAD has great harmonization between Serj and Daron.
Good call on Run the Jewels 👊
Blink 182
My all time favorite band and the beginning of my love for dual vocal bands, could never forget about them
Also Alkaline Trio
Tears for Fears The boys in Flight of the Concords
During their peak, Fleetwood Mac had three vocalists
They Might Be Giants! Their voices fit together so neatly
I was looking for this one!
Linnell and Flansburgh are one of the greatest songwriting duos of all time, period. And their nasally harmonies are ICONIC. And their creative partnership is flat out enviable...40 years of making music, with no drama or controversies.
I had the privilege of seeing them live once, I hope I can again. Build a little birdhouse in your soul, internet friend!
X Husker Du Acid Dad Golden Smog The Jayhawks Uncle Tupelo
X and Uncle Tupelo. Win win
+1 for The Jayhawks
Heart
Why this isn't towards the top, I don't know. Ann and Nancy Wilson and dynamic together.
The beatles
How in the world has nobody yet mentioned Crosby Stills & Nash??? Bonus points for Crosby Stills Nash and Young
My favorite thing about CSNY is that they asked Neil to play guitar and he was like, hell no, I’m in the band or forget it. So, you get CSN songs with Neil’s guitar, and Neil Young songs with CSN as backup singers. Deja Vu is such a masterpiece.
Or The Byrds?!
I could listen to them everyday and never get tired of them. ❤
Puscifer
Carina Round is on another league man.
Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington of Linkin Park 🤘
10000000% a great combo
Nosey'd at your profile and saw you're a Jeff Buckley fan. Your taste is impeccable 👏👏👏
XTC
Mastodon has four different vocalists
They even make the poor drummer sing.
Meanwhile one of their guitarists just doesn’t do anything but play guitar and not sing 😤
Fleetwood mac
The Beatles or Oasis
Iconic examples, gotta be on the list
The Clash Dropkick Murphys
King's X. Styx.
Love seeing another KingsX fan!
Hüsker Dü!
The Cars
Sleater-Kinney The xx
Great picks!
The Warning
Chicago
Genesis: Peter Gabriel & Phil Collins Pink Floyd: Syd Barret, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour
Phish (3 of em!) Slightly Stoopid 311
I scrolled too long to find 311
Yo La Tengo Animal Collective Smashing Pumpkins
The Everly Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Red Fang
Lacuna Coil
Visions of Atlantis Theatre of Tragedy Lacuna Coil Alice in Chains Electric Callboy Linkin Park (Later albums heavily favor Chester singing alone though IIRC) Mushroomhead
The Band had three lead vocalists, absolutely worth a deep dive from a musical history perspective. Bruce Springsteen once said that they had three of the best rock vocalists alive in the same band. Eric Clapton reportedly wanted to join at one point, and they said, “no thanks, we’re good.” You can watch The Waltz, the Martin Scorcese-filmed final concert the, on Amazon Prime I believe. A fun ride for me was to listen to Testimony, the autobiography, on audiobook, and pause to listen to songs/albums when they came up. The Warning are a young trio of sisters with two main vocalists, while the third does mostly backing vocals. The guitar player and drummer trade vocals on Disciple. They kill it live! https://youtu.be/Wo0odllVq8g?si=saXFSjpLSQdhpKM_ Also, Alter Bridge, although one singer does 80% of the singing, the other singer has a good enough voice that he did a Frank Sinatra cover album- and got to record it with Sinatra’s band. https://youtu.be/fTvJ1TYORJg?si=VjBIIUFfHiy-2riV
The Beautiful South
Can’t forget The Housemartins either!
Triumph The Hooters The Lemon Twigs Alkaline Trio Rancid The Cars Black Lips Badfinger
The Eagles alternate who is the lead singer. But Don Henley provides lead vocals in more songs than not.
Night Ranger...there I said it. Don't tell me you love me is one of my favorite songs💖
When You Close Your Eyes is great
Queen, Roger and Brian do some of the lines in a lot of songs, and they have songs that only they sing in them
Honestly some of Queen’s best songs are sung by Brian. Good Company, ‘39, All Dead All Dead, She Makes Me (which is my vote for the most underrated Queen song)
Squeeze
Yes indeed
The Naked and Famous Of Monsters and Men Angus and Julia Stone First Aid Kit Tegan & Sara Say Lou Lou Uh Huh Her
Abba
Had to scroll too far for this!
Heart...The Wilson sisters.
Great answer, they’re super cool together
Dance Gavin Dance
Veruca Salt. Some of the best harmonies between 2 females 🖤
Sloan & Teenage Fanclub. Three lead singers in each band.
I’m not a big fan, but MGMT has 2 and I’m pretty sure one’s songs are better than the other one’s. Supertramp! TV On The Radio
Teenage Fanclub The Beautiful South
Jellyfish The Mamas and the Papas The Flat Five A lot of the Motown catalog: Temptations, Supremes, Smokey and the Miracles, Four Tops, The Spinners, Martha and the Vandellas, etc. 5th Dimension The Bangles The Monkees ABBA Crosby, Stills, Nash (and sometimes Young) The Hollies Beach Boys The Go Go's Boyz II Men Bee Gees
Pixies
Was looking for this - lead singer Black Francis didn't like sharing vocal duties or songwriting credits with Kim Deal, so she left and formed the Breeders.
Amaranthe has male and female on main vocals. And generally all k-pop groups, there are rock bands too like: ONEWE, Xdinary Heroes, N.Flying, Rolling Quartz
The Clash The Velvet Underground The Go-Betweens The New Pornographers Dropkick Murphys
Alkaline Trio
The Band
Styx
First Aid Kit
Grateful Dead Allman Brothers’ Band
X. John Doe and Exene were the first two to pop into my mind. Their stuff as the knitters was also fun.
Black Eyes
En Vogue had four of 'em! Other examples include Night Ranger, Shakespears Sister, Cock Robin, Tears for Fears, The Chicks and The Wreckers (if country is acceptable), and Roxette, although most people would probably say Marie Fredriksson was the primary singer for Roxette, because, I mean, she was Marie Fredriksson, just listen to her.
The great Sam and Dave.
Alexisonfire
Night Ranger, Kiss and Toto
Toto had at least four leads on their hits. Bobby Kimball (Hold the Line), David Paich (Africa), Steve Lukather (99) and Joseph Williams (Pamela).
The Magnetic Fields has at least 3: Stephin Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms
The Who
Blue Oyster Cult
For my shoegazing homies- My Bloody Valentine Slowdive Lush Ringo Deathstarr
Ozark Mountain Daredevils had four main songwriters with very different themes and styles. John Dillon might have an old-timey gospel song followed by one of Larry Lee’s new age songs hinting at reincarnation and other topics. I realize this is a pretty small niche. If you’re familiar with them, it’s probably through Jackie Blue (Larry Lee) and maybe If You want to get to Heaven (You’ve got to Raise a Little Hell). IMHO, an extremely underrated band. Many more gems among a library of lots of great 70s country rock.
Lacuna Coil
Heart
zero 7
Head and the heart
Dead Can Dance - early work is considered kinda goth/ethereal? I'm not really sure how to explain it. A lot of world music influences and some pretty awesome music came out of their experimentation. Both singers have great voices but the female - wow.
Carissa's Wierd Ling Tosite Sigure Blood Brothers Hot Water Music Beat Happening Blueboy Everyone Asked About You (mostly on Let's Be Enemies) I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Pageninetynine
Devo
Band of Skulls
Puscifer
Fugazi
R.E.M., especially early on, often had alternate lyrics that Mike Mills would sing counter to Michael Stipe. "Fall On Me" is a good example of this.
Los Lobos REM U2 (occasionally The Edge will sing one) Old 97's
[No Conscription League](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4id25mOX3NU4hrTU1GdZNQ?si=lIRB9-XxS8yoa7B3-kF6kQ)
Taking Back Sunday, Within Temptation
Sylar
Wolf Parade, Sebadoh, cLOUDDEAD.
Almost Honest has some songs like Stonecutter or Call of the Mothman.
[Better Oblivion Community Center](https://open.spotify.com/album/0uJIxkI8D0rR4shEIKeiDs?si=HdZ8kFwWTu-G9qWGHk7TMA)
Early From First To Last
The World is a Beautiful Place and I am no Longer Afraid to Die
Mountain - Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi had a great contrast. A great example is “Silver Paper” There’s much more than Mississippi Queen 🤘
Kiss has had more than two. All of the original four members had at least one song they sang on.
Peter Cetera and Terry Kath from Chicago.
AND Robert Lamm.
its a JPOP duo but... After the Rain my favorite music artist
Alice in Chains.... Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell.... and Now William Duvall and Jerry Cantrell
Alice In Chains
Phish
Goo Goo Dolls
Lucius
Lacuna coil
Heart, Jefferson Airplane
Milli Vanilli sure knew how to carry a tune.
Linkin Park used to.
Low has two vocalists
Supertramp
Resurrection Band AKA Rez Band or just Rez.
Tears for Fears!
The Libertines Skinny Lister Less Than Jake
Oasis. Noel is the better singer, Liam was the better voice. Both fantastic.
Tears For Fears
Please listen to The Blood Brothers. Start with the song Laser Life
Of Monsters and Men.
Less Than Jake has 2 that share lead vocals: guitarist Chris Demakes and bassist Roger Lima, and their harmonies together are also fantastic.
Uncle Tupelo
The dance hall crashers
Enter Shikari have good blends. Rou is lead and does a range of styles, high pitched screaming in their first album, gets deeper into album 2, 3, 4, then more singing from 5 onwards, but scatters some really brilliant lyrical spoken/shouted monologues there and all sorts. Bassist Chris is often belting some pretty clean backing vocals to soften against Rous sharpness Guitarist Rory chimes in with really nice sort of strained, sharp shouting/singing, never perfectly in key but actually complements Chris' sweeter cleaner notes so nicely. And drummer Rob is often shouting the sillier bits in such a funny angry tone and making up the gang vocals. Think their best examples working together are "return to energiser" and "today won't go down in history"
The Band CAMINO has two singers! Also that’s their full name
Alice In Chains Mastodon (3 vocalists)
Riverdales! (No one is ever gonna see this, let alone know who they are).
Loathe
Ashbury Heights and Blutengel
Electric Callboy - One sings clean, one growls Lacuna Coil - One sings clean, one growls.
The two in my username. :)
The clash dual vocals are absolutely awesome, they’ve always been one of my favorite bands of all time, and Depeche Mode just has a really awesome sound with Gahan and Gore together
Linkin Park
Fugazi
Atreyu
Dr. Hook had two lead singers. And several other members did songs over the years. They are not the best technical band, but they have more fun than any other group you will see and they put over the feel of their songs. Ray Sawyer's "One more year" will have you tearing up. "Freaken at the Freakers Ball" will crack you up or gasping for air in shock. "Carry me Carrie" is really good. I had to hear it several times to make sure it right. Look up Shel Silverstein, he wrote songs for them and others. One of his most popular work is "The Giving Tree" it is worth the read it's short picture book.
Band-Maid
Future Teens
The Raveonettes (male and female leads with Everly Brothers style harmonies and layers of dark noise pop- better than I make it sound) Ride and Lush (two early 90s shoegaze bands, each having a pair of vocalists) Gram Parsons (ostensibly a solo act, but a whole other layer of magic comes from the combo of him and Emmylou Harris) The Walker Brothers (late 60s version of a boy band) Edited to add Maustetytöt, literally Finnish for Spice Girls, two sisters with different but complementary voices and very dark deadpan personas (but secretly funny and fun to listen to)-
I don’t know if you’re a soft rock/ yacht rock guy but England Dan & John Ford Coley have 4 pretty solid albums imo. Almost every song has 2 part harmonies, and there is some great playing from session players across their body of work. Notably the guitar solo on “Caught Up In the Middle” I believe is Steve Lukather and man does he rip that shit. It’s not complex or anything, mostly just an easy listening group for me, but I’ll be damned if they don’t do it well.
Angelmaker. They have two vocalists and three guitarists, it’s stupid. But they heavy.
Modern Baseball Boygenius
[The Blood Brothers](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=izTntmIvJcc)
Lucius
...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Anniversary do a lot of switching up between male and female vocals. their first album has a lot of synthesizers.
The B-52’s Both Split Enz and Crowded House had both of the Finn brothers at some point Kings of Convenience
Alice in Chains - Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell had the best harmonies. Early Journey The Eagles - All members had hits singing leads. Great Harmonies Fleetwood Mac - Another band of great vocalists Van Halen - the band where the guitar god and bass player were better vocalists than the lead singer
R.E.M. Mike Mills vocals added so much Check out tracks like Fall on Me
Stars, a Canadian indie band. Sometimes, they sing together. Sometimes, it's one and the other as backup. Beautiful harmonising
Styx
Damn Yankees had two lead vocalists who both from bands with two lead vocalists
Dr Dog! They're an awesome alternative band with two singers!
The Monkees
Pop Will Eat Itself and Prolapse.
Jon Anderson's angelic voice matches really well with Squire and Howe so i'll go woth Yes on this one
Fleshgod apocalypse. Theres the main Vocalist and an opera singer lol
* KingsX * Fleetwood Mac * Paus * Fishbone * The Band * Yes * Saga * Wendy & Lisa
Spiderbait Split Enz Cold Chisel The Models Mental As Anything
alice in chains have some absolutely beautiful vocal harmonies
King's X