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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: dessa on 09 Oct 2005, 04:53
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what band vocalists annoy you.
for me it has to be the vocalist from "Clap your hands say yeah" and the vocals on dreamtheatre albums since falling into infinity have been annoying too.
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im going to get hurt for this one but billy corgan .... jeez he's such a whiny little bitch
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There are two in particular.
The first is Liam Gallacher. Never has there been such an arrogant and obnoxious waste of space as this man. What's more, his arrogance and all his money is based on having no talent whatsoever!
The second is Ricky Wilson, lead singer with the Kaiser Chiefs. I read him described in Arena magazine as like that of an annoying public-school turd, compensating for a life of sexual bullying at the hands of "the bigger boys" by projecting a desperate mix of theatrically and forced self-confidence.
I concur.
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Oh good god yes does Billy Corgan drive me mad.
Also, Morissey. And Kasey Chambers - perhaps she is a great songwriter as everybody says, but her voice is so girly and annoying! Finally, one for the Aussies: the bloke from Died Pretty. It's not so much that his voice was bad, per se, it's just that it was kind of toneless. There was nothing interesting about it.
For the record, I like the guy from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's voice, although I know it's not for everybody. Instead of trying to make out what he's singing, try treating the vocals as just another one of the band's instruments. I find it works pretty well that way.
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I like the singer from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah also.
Hm. Singers that annoy me. Voice wise, Axl Rose is number one. That guy from AC/DC is pretty annoying too.
Just being an annoying prick wise... yeah, Axl Rose.
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The guy from the Decemberists. They make SUCH good music, but he's got such an annoying whine (or whatever you call it).
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Axl Rose. Arrogant fuckhead. Made some great records though.
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actually the guy from hot hot heat has an annoying voice sometimes (dont get me wrong tho i still adore hot hot heat) i think im just against whiny bitches dammit :P
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Thom Yorke
Chris Barnes
Ville Valo
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awww poor ville valo ..... sure you may be totally conceited but your voice is ok (if slightly over rated) and you have a hot tattoo *sigh* i still love you ville
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/Sigs/who_am_I_kidding.jpg)
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yeah he's a real charmer the way he smokes and has his hand down his crotch and all :-P marry me ville (no not really)
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Jimmy Buffet.
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Here's what I did to Carl(Fabio)'s HIM (Ville Valo) poster:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Teh_Captain/HIMDEFACE.jpg)
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Oh, and lets not get Varg Vikernes. Nazi bastard.
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I would forgive Varg if he'd never cut his beard.
(http://gallery.beardcommunity.com/albums/gallery28/Varg_Vikernes5.jpg)
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I cant stand whoever does the vocals in modest mouses lonesome crowded west album. Whoever the hell it is, they cant sing, and have the most godawful screeching drawl that makes them sound like a cat being slowly torn to peices. Hopelessly overrated band.
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Geddy Lee
Also, that dude from Coheed and Cambria needs an asskicking, too.
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Conor Oberst.
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I am surprised, he doesn't look much like a psycho, many norwegians look that way...wait... NORWAY IS A COUNTRY INHABITED ENTIRELY BY PSYCHOS!!!
I might be overreacting though
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Vocalists that really bother me:
Pete Steele
Régine Chassagne
Isaac Brock
Perry Farrell
Shawn Christensen when he purposely goes off key.
More than anyone else, though, the most annoying vocalist I've heard has to be Idiot Pilot's Michael Harris.
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The singer(s) from Blonde Redhead. I always start off liking their music until they start singing.
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The singer(s) from Blonde Redhead. I always start off liking their music until they start singing.
This is actually wrong. But, thanks for playing, anyways.
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@ephemere: YES! Conor Oberst needs to be gutted.
Also, definately the guy from Hot Hot Heat.
And even though Radiohead are pretty damn decent, Thom Yorke, shut up.
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billy talent's singer.... whiny no good .... anyways you get the point
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Oh shit yeah. The guy from Hot Hot Heat needs a kick to the trachea.
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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ephemere beat me to it.
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Adam whats'his'face from Counting Crows. I just DONT like his damn voice.
What's-her-face from Arch Enemy just cause ITS WRONG for a lady to sing like that!
Luckily for me, i can avoid both of those by handing *him* his earphones and motioning at the telly. :)
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hey just cause varg hates a jew here and there doesn't make him a bad vocalist.
I think his vocals set the bar for the inhuman-torture-screams style stuff.
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the guys from:
The Mars Volta
New Found Glory
My Chemical Romance
Coheed & Cambria
it's a good thing i don't actually listen to those bands.
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hey just cause varg hates a jew here and there doesn't make him a bad vocalist.
Vargs vocals are actually pretty damn good. It's easy to see why people criticise him though, although I did think this was about vocals.
Oh, and you want a correlation between reputation and physical appearance?
HITLER YOUTH VARG, GO!
(http://gfx.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2003/10/31/gre.jpg)
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Dave Matthew(s) (is there an s there? Or is that just because of Dave Matthew's Band) He sounds so utterly whiny all the time. And the falsetto is deadly.
Also: Clean male vocals and the female singer on Sirenia's "An Elixir for Existence". Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
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I'd like to second dislike for Dave Matthews' voice. I think it might be set at the resonance frequency of my molars or something.
I like Eric Ounsworth's voice (the vocalist for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). Sounds like a really sincere drawl; equal parts intense and stoned. Excellent.
I probably dislike Bjork the most, voice-wise. There were parts of Vespertine where I started to hit myself in the arm for a distraction. I wanted to get through the entire CD so that I could bash Bjork in an informed manner, should the need arise, but I don't think I ever made it. I know that to some people her voice is nectar and ambrosia, but to me it makes nails on chalkboard sound like Sufjan Stevens.
(Obviously since I'm ok with both Sufjan, and with singer/pixies like Feist, I'm anticipating a tad of disagreement with other forumers, but hey, that's cool -- everyone's right!)
EDIT: Grammar.
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I'm go isolate myself here but I HATE Bob Dylan. He can't bloody sing...
Give up and die already Bob.
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Dylan can't sing, but he's such a great songwriter it doesn't matter.
I second the guy from Hot Hot Heat, Thom Yorke, Axl Rose, and Brandon Flowers (if he's the guy from the Killers, which I think he is). James LaBrie is marginal.
And I like Geddy Lee, though I will admit it took a long time for me to adjust to his style. Plus, he's a great bassist.
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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.
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Bob Dylan
Ricky Martin
Jordan Pundik (the new found glory guy)
The lead singer of Trapt... I don't know his name, but he can't controll his voice in concert and it's HORRIBLE.
The Hoobastank guy
Axl Rose
The guy from Staind
The guy from Modest Mouse
Amy Lee
I can't think of anymore that I hate right now but I KNOW there's more.
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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.
Making Mr. Tambourine Man the example of his songwriting is like making I Want to Hold Your Hand the example for the Beatles. It isn't in any way indicative of the rest of their work.
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There are songs of his I don't mind (such as "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - that lyric "I ain't saying you treated me unkind/You coulda done better but I don't mind/You just kinda wasted my precious time" is one of the best kiss-offs in popular music), but I find the vast majority of them to be very over-written. "Mr. Tambourine Man" is merely the worst example of this.
Also, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is highly indicative of the period during the Beatles' career from which it comes; namely, the early-sixties pop-band period.
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I probably dislike Bjork the most, voice-wise. There were parts of Vespertine where I started to hit myself in the arm for a distraction. I wanted to get through the entire CD so that I could bash Bjork in an informed manner, should the need arise, but I don't think I ever made it. I know that to some people her voice is nectar and ambrosia, but to me it makes nails on chalkboard sound like Sufjan Stevens.
clearly, you know nothing about singing.
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rive gauche, perhaps you've never heard the saying "there's no such thing as an incorrect opinion"?
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There are songs of his I don't mind (such as "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - that lyric "I ain't saying you treated me unkind/You coulda done better but I don't mind/You just kinda wasted my precious time" is one of the best kiss-offs in popular music), but I find the vast majority of them to be very over-written. "Mr. Tambourine Man" is merely the worst example of this.
Also, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is highly indicative of the period during the Beatles' career from which it comes; namely, the early-sixties pop-band period.
Sure, but that was before Lennon and McCartney matured into two of the best songwriters in the era.
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To be fair, I do listen to some Bright Eyes, and I don't actually *hate* Conor Oberst per se.. but like the title said, we're supposed to list vocalists that annoy us, not vocalists we'd be happy to see tortured and killed (although I guess they aren't really ruled out either.)
I do think Conor is musically talented.. it's just the fact that he sounds like an old man and looks like myspace that bothers me to no end.
(http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4475/78p8u93b7om.jpg)
Need I say more?
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another one i nearly forgot, the vocalist from the vines...
@ ephemere, your photo doesn't work...
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billy talent's singer.... whiny no good .... anyways you get the point
Oh man, yeah! I forgot about Billy Talent. His voice alone makes me think of a crazy homeless man banging on garbage can lids.
@ dessa: Sorry about that, the photo should be fixed now.
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clearly, you know nothing about singing.
The throbbing quality Bjork imparts to many of the tracks in Vespertine is called "vibrato". Classical vocalists tend to use it as a crutch, and it's incredibly controversial. Importing into pop is bound to turn off some people who are looking for something more spontaneous and less pretentious.
Also . . . "Cocoon" dude. . . breath away from the fucking mic.
But hey, they're plenty of things to love there too, so I forgive your ad hominem.
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The singer(s) from Blonde Redhead. I always start off liking their music until they start singing.
My thoughts EXACTLY! Get out of my head!
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We Rachels think alike.
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Is your name Rachel?! OOhhhh nifty!
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The guy that does the higher vocals for Blink 182 needs to join the Non-Annoying Singing 101 class that we're going to send Jordan Pundik to as well. ...throw in about 80% of the people from the Warped Tour, while we're at it.
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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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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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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*
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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 (http://www.nothingnice.com/index.php?pageNum_Recordset2=199&totalRows_Recordset2=301), which I wholeheartedly agree with.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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.
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So he sucks, but its okay because its indie?
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^ isn't that the entire reasoning behind the indie pop genre?
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oh snap!
Also, Dylan may not be a pretty singer, but he is a great singer.
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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 :P
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The singer for ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead had a really annoying voice on their latest album.
Umm...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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!
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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.
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The singer for ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead had a really annoying voice on their latest album.
Umm...
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. ||
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Obviously we were meant to be together. That is, it would be obvious if I wasn't 7 years older than you.
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axl rose. i can´t stand him.
i like nasal and fuxored vocals, like the guys from blonde redhead..
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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.
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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. :P
I also love Cursive's lead singer for some of the same reasons. He's so coarse and fragile at the same time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :P
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Conor sounds like an old man.
Actually he sounds okay. I don't even have problem with his music, but man, LOOK AT HIM
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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.
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Conor can't sing and it really annoys me when he tries to sing-speak-yell.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The singer from Bloc Party. The singer from the Casualties. The singer from almost any nu-metal band ever.
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James LaBrie (Dream Theater vocalist) gives me full-blown seizures.
hahaha. finally someone else who thinks he sucks.
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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)
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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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.
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Nycole Moore.
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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.