I’m beginning to think the voices that get on some folks nerves are those that have a unique idiosyncratic quality. Apart from the usual everyday voices.
Viva la Difference…
Agreed. Best to stick to Max Bygraves and Rod Stewart.
Well Rod actually had one of those unique voices.
His early solo albums on Mercury were fabulous. Classic rock vocalist. Nobody sounded like him.
Both singers of ACDC. Donald Duck on steroids. Dreadful noise. The band can play though.
Having been reminded of him on Radio 2 this morning, Guy Garvey.
steve
Early leonard cohen,like his later albums with the deeper voice.
If Geddy Lee kills you,
listen to Pavlov’s Dog:Pampered Menial.
David Surkamp singing.
I love the album.
Florence Foster Jenkins - who never understood - apparently - that people flocked to hear her sing, just to laugh at how bad she was.
anyone mentioned Bjork yet? Oh, and Boris Johnson…
Bjork aka Squawk.
steve
Sade… any song makes me fall aszzzzzzzz. Never heard a whole album. On the flip side, Peter Gabriel. Voice gets better with age.
Ahh Yes! That’s another one for me…Peter Gabriel!
I do like some of her material but she can be a bit too intense for her own good (and my nerves) at times.
Aw, go easy on poor FFJ! Granted, I wouldn’t just sit and listen to her recordings, but I cried the first time I heard them because I was laughing so hard. They were so bad it was impossible to be annoyed at that fact. She has given the world a reason to smile, if not transcendent performances of vocal music!
I don’t know how this thread got so far without anyone mentioning Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins infamy. Along the same lines: Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs.
There are plenty of non-singers who get away with it by virtue of the songs or the attitude – or something. Corgan and Dulli are just wretched.
Nick drake.
Living in Cambridge for a lifetime I am witness to a phenomenon similar to the “Mockney”
Being that of a form of affected imitation, specifically your common chav trying to sound posh like an educated oxbridge.
You hear it everywhere in cambridge, perhaps to fool the tourist punters taking to the river.
But nick just sounds to me like a chav trying to sound posh and including content that could confuse.
Apologies if he really is a posh fart.
Oh dear! Nick Drake was from a well-to-do family, whose father was in the Colonial Service in India. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge.
His (older) sister wears as fairly well regarded TV and film actress in the 1960s and 1970s, and was no chavette.
Yes. But he still sounds like a pillock.