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Vocalists that annoy you...
Garcin:
--- Quote from: Valrus ---I think that was kind of the point. I mean, the lyric to the song is kind of... heavy-breathing sort of subject matter. If you know what I mean.
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I never really thought about it. Just sounded to me like she was out of breath from all that vibrato :P
sp2:
--- Quote from: oceansaway ---The singer for ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead had a really annoying voice on their latest album.
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Umm...
--- Quote from: sp2 ---Also, Conrad Keely can grate on the nerves after about 20 listenings. This is why the most recent Trail of Dead album was less good....they didn't drown out his vocals with noise as much.
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This is why their best song ever is Richter Scale Madness.
JLM:
--- Quote from: Valrus ---Ok, so in the defense of some of these singers (or perhaps "vocalists" would be a better word)...
Isaac Brock, ok, the Modest Mouse guy for those who don't know. Granted that the man is not a talented singer. If you're expecting him to be so, you might want to reconsider your expectations about Modest Mouse. Brock can certainly shout, which is appropriate for many Mouse songs, and his voice has a certain rough, folky appeal when he's called upon to sing.
The man can be gotten used to, is all I'm saying.
It's probably heresy to even make this comparison, but can I ask what people think of Isaac Brock compared to Pixies-era Frank Black?
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Frank had (has) Kim Deal backing him up...Isaac's got nothing but his shout and his speech impediment, the latter of which is 90% of the reason I don't like him. When he sings, it sounds like he just got a really bad tongue piercing...and he kinda slurs his "s" and "th" sounds together. Some people find things like that interesting or "cute" or endearing (thus the inexplicable popularity of Jimmy Fallon). I don't.
Merkava:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---All you Dylan haters can go suck a chuff.
'Hey Mr. Tambourine Man' is one of my favourite songs ever. Fucking poetry! Just because it's not about spatulas or something. I love his vocals as well, especially on his early stuff. Raw and genuine. He conveys real feeling and emotion that the long fringed pretty-boys of today would give their right arm to be able to convey that much genuine feeling. 'Masters of War', for example, is angrier than every punk song ever, just subtle range and sustained, poetic invective. It doesn't matter that he doesn't sound 'pretty' (what a grotesque category to judge music by) because he simply sounds beautiful.
GO! SUCK CHUFF NOW!
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GOD YES
He is the reason I love the type of voices I love. He is the epitome.
Bob Dylan owns you and your mom's favorite bands rolled into one on fire.
Valrus:
--- Quote from: Se7en ---So he sucks, but its okay because its indie?
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Um, no. He's not a very good singer, but it's okay because he is good at other kinds of... let's say vocal expression, and his singing is tolerable, and usually suits the music fairly well, when he actually does sing. It's also okay because the music and lyrics are good.
Is that clear enough that you won't feel compelled to post a one-sentence and completely inaccurate condensation of it? I mean, where the fuck did I say anything about "indie" in my original post?
--- Quote from: JLM ---Frank had (has) Kim Deal backing him up...Isaac's got nothing but his shout and his speech impediment, the latter of which is 90% of the reason I don't like him. When he sings, it sounds like he just got a really bad tongue piercing...and he kinda slurs his "s" and "th" sounds together.
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Good point on the Kim Deal thing. I have to say, I'm not really a fan of her voice either, but it is a good match for Frank's in some weird way.
Also, I don't know what speech impediment you're referring to. Maybe the fact that I haven't noticed it is why I can tolerate the man's voice. Maybe it means I have that speech impediment too, so I think it's normal! Oh no!
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