Topic: Vocalists that annoy you... (Read 34598 times)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #50 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 00:21 »

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!

oceansaway · « **Reply #51 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 01:27 »

The singer for ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead had a really annoying voice on their latest album.

kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #52 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 02:49 »

Quote from: shrimp

What's-her-face from Arch Enemy just cause ITS WRONG for a lady to sing like that!

*hands you the 'Sexist Claptrap of the Day' award*

Mr Putter · « **Reply #53 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 02:55 »

Quote from: sp2

Also, that dude from Coheed and Cambria needs an asskicking, too.

Hell yes. My hatred of that band is based entirely on hearing him sing for 30 seconds. I had to get an old priest and a young priest to fix my headphones after that...

This thread reminds me of a NN2S strip, which I wholeheartedly agree with.

soak · « **Reply #54 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 04:09 »

I got over Life Without Buildings vocals very quickly. I brought Any Other City because I thought Tuesday Exclusive was quirky and interesting. I didn't think she would sing every track like that. Its just too much.

Leonidas · « **Reply #55 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 14:33 »

I've also got to mention people like James Blunt and Damien Rice. I can't stand all those whiney generic singer/songwriter guys with pianos and/or acoustic guitars.

It's been done before guys, and your ex-girlfriend still wont take you back.

Valrus · « **Reply #56 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 14:41 »

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?

Quote from: Moiche

Also . . . "Cocoon" dude. . . breath away from the fucking mic.

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.

Se7en · « **Reply #57 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 15:12 »

So he sucks, but its okay because its indie?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #58 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 15:22 »

^ isn't that the entire reasoning behind the indie pop genre?

Gryff · « **Reply #59 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 16:37 »

oh snap!

Also, Dylan may not be a pretty singer, but he is a great singer.

Garcin · « **Reply #60 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 16:51 »

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.

I never really thought about it. Just sounded to me like she was out of breath from all that vibrato

sp2 · « **Reply #61 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 17:39 »

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.

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.

This is why their best song ever is Richter Scale Madness.

JLM · « **Reply #62 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 18:04 »

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?

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 · « **Reply #63 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 20:16 »

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!

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 · « **Reply #64 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 20:23 »

Quote from: Se7en

So he sucks, but its okay because its indie?

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.

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!

sjbrot · « **Reply #65 on:** 10 Oct 2005, 23:56 »

I gotta say that I like alot of the singers on this thread. At times, I think that singing ability should take a backseat to the ability to sing with conviction and purpose.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that one of my favorite artists is Paul Westerberg.

EDIT: "Failures always sounded better." Oberst

Also, I would like to add Mariah Carrey into here. It's just so much pointless theatrics and in a couple of her songs it sounds like she's an evil villain from a horror movie who has come to use her evil voice to kill off hapless men.

oceansaway · « **Reply #66 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 02:16 »

Quote from: 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.

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.

This is why their best song ever is Richter Scale Madness.

Our brain waves are like THIS. ||

sp2 · « **Reply #67 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 09:15 »

Obviously we were meant to be together. That is, it would be obvious if I wasn't 7 years older than you.

Saturday · « **Reply #68 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 09:27 »

axl rose. i can´t stand him.

i like nasal and fuxored vocals, like the guys from blonde redhead..

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #69 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 12:06 »

I like Isaac Brock's voice. But that's probably because Modest Mouse was my gateway drug into indie and 'different' sounding vocalists. Or more accurately, Questionable Content was my gateway drug into indie and Modest Mouse was the first band I decided to check out.

But really, the man's singing is an integral part of Modest Mouse's music, in my opinion. It adds to their sound a lot. Maybe it's because I was all into nu-metal in my angsty teenager stage and crappy vocalists reigned supreme there. I mean, Jonathan Davis? Sore throat from hell! At least grunt, don't try to sing.

Merkava · « **Reply #70 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 12:16 »

Isaac Brock is great. He has a great folk voice, I think, like in the song "It's Alright On Ice" (or whatever it was called) on Lonesome Crowded West. In a way, Modest Mouse is kind of an...electric Indie folk emocore? Well, it's rootsy anyway.

I also love Cursive's lead singer for some of the same reasons. He's so coarse and fragile at the same time.

Se7en · « **Reply #71 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 12:26 »

Brock just bawls and shouts, he doesnt sing. Anyone can do that. Okay, perhaps not everybody. Not everbody has that fucking annoying whiny accent.

Its a great pity, because without him and his sorry attempts at singing, id love modest mouse. He just ruins the whole thing. Take him out of lonesome crowded west and it would be a lovely acoustic album.

Valrus · « **Reply #72 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 12:36 »

Ok, first he has a speech impediment, now he has an accent. Are we talking about the same person here? Because I haven't heard either of those things.

Se7en · « **Reply #73 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 12:42 »

Well i think its a silly accent. Perhaps you come from the same part of the world and it sounds normal to you, but to me its as fucking annoying as the noise scousers make.

SpacemanSpiff · « **Reply #74 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 12:50 »

Axl Rose. But that's also partly because I hate Guns'n'Roses.

Also that guy who sings in Interpol. Urgh. I really can't stand the voice.

Apart from that .. hmm ... it took me a while to get used to Dredg, but I apparently have a very high tolerance when it comes to annoying voices. I like Coheed & Cambria, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, The Blood Brothers ...
Must be because I usually don't really pay attention to the vocals in the first place, so unless the vocals are extremely prominent, I just ignore them.

Edit: I would love to comment on Conor Oberst, but I was exposed to Bright Eyes only a few times and everytime I just thought "Jesus H. Christ, no." so I didn't really bother to listen to it some more. So I have no idea what he sounds like.

Merkava · « **Reply #75 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 17:53 »

I love Paul Banks (Interpol). His voice is very, very emotive and fits the mood of the music pretty much all of the time. He doesn't have a range, but he knows how to use his voice effectively.

Anyway, whoever said Colin Meloy, I SO agree with you. The Decemberists are to me what Coldplay is to sp2.

tania · « **Reply #76 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 19:29 »

Conor sounds like an old man.

Actually he sounds okay. I don't even have problem with his music, but man, LOOK AT HIM

Signum_Tenebrae · « **Reply #77 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 01:53 »

I'm going to say the vocalist on the Fleurety EP "A Darker Shade Of Evil"

He sounds like a pissed off bat frantically trying to navigate his way through a dark cave with sonar waves.

oceansaway · « **Reply #78 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 02:03 »

Conor can't sing and it really annoys me when he tries to sing-speak-yell.

sp2 · « **Reply #79 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 08:23 »

Quote from: oceansaway

Conor really annoys me.

You need an editor.

Seriously, though, someone needs to kick the shit out of that dude.

Maybe it's just 'cause I hate Bright Eyes....I dunno.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #80 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 08:49 »

Quote from: Valrus

Ok, first he has a speech impediment, now he has an accent. Are we talking about the same person here? Because I haven't heard either of those things.

He has a lisp I think.

Eh, not gonna argue with your opinion but I think Brock's a pretty cool vocalist.

Valrus · « **Reply #81 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 13:53 »

Quote from: Se7en

Well i think its a silly accent. Perhaps you come from the same part of the world and it sounds normal to you, but to me its as fucking annoying as the noise scousers make.

Ok, "scousers" indicates to me that we are not from the same part of the world, since I have no idea what it means. Fair enough!

subcultcha · « **Reply #82 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 16:27 »

Conor's voice gives me shivers; James LaBrie (Dream Theater vocalist) gives me full-blown seizures.

I love all the other shitty singers that are mentioned above, however.

Music doesn't necessarily have to be sang well to be good.

badbadbad · « **Reply #83 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 17:53 »

The singer from Bloc Party. The singer from the Casualties. The singer from almost any nu-metal band ever.

Signum_Tenebrae · « **Reply #84 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 19:09 »

Quote from: subcultcha

James LaBrie (Dream Theater vocalist) gives me full-blown seizures.

hahaha. finally someone else who thinks he sucks.

Micolithe · « **Reply #85 on:** 12 Oct 2005, 19:13 »

The guy from Coheed and Cambria.
Dave Matthews (I know, the instrumentals are great, but I can't stand his voice)
Billy Corgan (Again, I still like the Smashing Pumpkins)
Kurt Cobain (Okay, fine, even I'll admit that Nirvana hating is overplayed. But I can't stand his voice)

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #86 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 09:39 »

Every time I listen to Nirvana, I think the band has talent, but Kurt Cobain does not. His music is toddler-like simple, and his vocals, quite frankly, are an amazing bore. It always disturbed me that he's always being singled out as the best of the band(or of that time, even. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were way better).

Thrillho · « **Reply #87 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 10:00 »

Quote from: TrueNeutral

Every time I listen to Nirvana, I think the band has talent, but Kurt Cobain does not. His music is toddler-like simple, and his vocals, quite frankly, are an amazing bore. It always disturbed me that he's always being singled out as the best of the band(or of that time, even. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were way better).

I disagree. I think he made some pretty great melodies out of some fairly uncommon notes and chords.

Kai · « **Reply #88 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 15:12 »

Quote from: Inlander

Bob Dylan can't sing, can't play guitar, can't play harmonica, and his songwriting is wildly over-rated. If I ever have to listen to "Mr. Tambourine Man" and its awful, convoluted metaphors again then I won't be responsible for my actions.

No. You lose the contest. Now go live the rest of your life in Shame.

I <3 Dylan.

gutyreader · « **Reply #89 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 15:39 »

Dani Filth

god... too many reasons to name..

Axl Rose is also annoying as hell.
I hate what Osbourne has become, too (corporate MTV whore... where's the madman from the sabbath?

)

I generally much much prefer bands who do not have signers.... so I basicly dislike most of them

Pelican and Apocalyptica are 2 of my favorites

Johnny C · « **Reply #90 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 16:19 »

I can't stand the sounds that come from Jello Biafra's mouth.

Also, Thom Yorke can pull off singing sometimes. It's the consonant-free wails that get me irritated.

IronOxide · « **Reply #91 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 18:15 »

When I first listened to Iron and Wine, I couldn't stand Sam Beam.

The second time I listened to them, I thought he was alright.

The third time, I loved his voice, and do to this day.

Luke · « **Reply #92 on:** 14 Oct 2005, 21:55 »

Nycole Moore.

iamtheaznman · « **Reply #93 on:** 16 Oct 2005, 10:21 »

Hmm. I'm going to start with who I do like.

Bloc Party's singer (Kele something)
Kaiser Chief's lead
Kurt Cobain
And Isaac Brock
Edit: I also love Colin Meloy's voice.
So umm, I like most of the stuff that you guys don't?

I hate the guy from Xiu Xiu. He just cannot sing. Period. I'm sure the songs would sound good, if his voice didn't completely ruin them.

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oceansaway

kikanjuuneko

Mr Putter

soak

Se7en

Garcin

sp2

Merkava

sjbrot

oceansaway

sp2

Saturday

TrueNeutral

Merkava

Se7en

Se7en

SpacemanSpiff

Merkava

Signum_Tenebrae

oceansaway

sp2

TrueNeutral

subcultcha

badbadbad

Signum_Tenebrae

Micolithe

TrueNeutral

gutyreader

Luke

iamtheaznman