25 Best Harmony Songs or Bands

I love songs with great harmonies. Always have. I used to harmonize with my twin brother to all the songs we heard on the radio while Mom would schlep us around in the car. My bro took the lows while I took the highs. He and I even won a talent contest back in 2nd grade singing "Edelweiss" in two-part. To this day, when we listen to a song, we'll start singing along and coming up with harmony parts... and then inevitably cut up laughing.

Narrowing down this list was hard. I was going to comprise a list of just 10, but I kept remembering more and more, so I had to expand it to my top 25. Some of these bands have made stacked harmonies their signature sound; you can't describe bands like CSN, the Beach Boys or the Eagles without acknowledging their lush harmonies right off the bat. So for these bands, I listed more than one song.

In today's music, there tends to be less use of harmonies. But, I think, as it always does, the pendulum will swing back the other way, and we'll start hearing new bands making those layered, harmonied sounds their trademark. It's already starting to happen with indie folk bands like Mumford and Sons and Fleet Foxes. Yeah for that!

So, here goes the list: