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[Andrew Fleming]

Sufjan Stevens has a really nice voice.
But aside from range and versatility, I would never want to change my voice, the timbre or inflection or whatever makes it unique.

[valley_parade]

Brendan Kelly. Or Mike McColgan.

[Thrillho]

Probably Mark Lanegan.

Smoke 500 packs of cigarettes and you'll be most of the way there.

[michaelicious]

Probably Mark Lanegan.

Smoke 500 packs of cigarettes everyday and you'll be most of the way there.

[Dimmukane]

Or catch a cold.

[Captfamous]

Mike Patton. I can do most of what he does, but none of the yelps or screams or growls.

This would be my answer as well, but honestly I don't think I believe you. Mike Patton has sung in an opera. Can you sing in an opera? I'm convinced that he can do just about anything.

[Beren]

Matt Berninger or Neil Young. Even though they don't sound alike. Neil Young's voice is just completely coated in honesty.

[gospel]

Waits or Sheff

[Tom]

Meiburg or Carey Mercer

[Fishboy]

David Tibet of Current 93 fame, or Bowie. But I'm such a terrible singer that I really shouldnt be picky.

[Hljómalind]

Johnny Cash.

If I were a woman, I would want to sing like Laura Veirs.

[LittleKey]

Come to think of it, I'd like to be able to sing like the lead singer of Dragonforce. Dude's voice can be epic.

[Dimmukane]

All you have to do there is cut off your balls so they'll fit into the leather pants.

[BrilliantEraser]

Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls), but if I were a guy, definitely Fran Healy (Travis)

[Clobbersaurus]

cyndi lauper or martina topley bird.

[RedLion]

Anthony Warlow (Watch the whole video and listen to the whole song. It starts off fairly simply/easy, but the notes he hits near the end, and the power with which he sings them, send chills down my spine.)

[Johnny C]

See, this is a tough choice, because I have to decide between someone who has really interesting vocal tics that I would like to be able to emulate but who I may possibly become as talented as, or someone who has a bevy of vocal talent and who I know I will never be as good as. Like, do I want to be able to sing like Yow, or to be able to sing like Bono?

Maybe both? Both is my answer. I would like to sing like Yow and Bono.

[Johnny C]

I mean, I can already sing like Scott Walker.

Ask me next time you see me and I'll break into "CURAREEEEE, CURARE CURAAAAREE"



"SONNY BOYYYY"

[Carlyism]

Zach Condon or Jeff Buckely.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i'd love to be able to sing like Tim McIlrath from Rise Against.  that sorta range, and the ability to scream, sing, AND that sorta gruff singing that's in-between the two.

that or Mike Patton 

[Liz]

Like, do I want to be able to sing like Yow, or to be able to sing like Bono?

Maybe both? Both is my answer. I would like to sing like Yow and Bono.

Personally I find Bono's voice pretty annoying. Maybe that is partly because I find him incredibly annoying, but whatever. Basically what I am saying is that you made a bad choice and should try again.

[KharBevNor]

David Tibet of Current 93 fame

Oh come on, anyone can pretty much sing like Tibet (maybe not the parts where he agonisingly screams for half a minute). I'd trade a limb to be able to write poetry like him though.

[Thrillho]

Mike Patton. I can do most of what he does, but none of the yelps or screams or growls.

This would be my answer as well, but honestly I don't think I believe you. Mike Patton has sung in an opera. Can you sing in an opera? I'm convinced that he can do just about anything.

Okay, none of the yelps, screams, growls or opera. I also don't quite have his range. I have a lot of power, but I'm sure he could outstrip me there too.

The point is, trying to equal Mike Patton is my aim as a vocalist and what helps me get better at it. Something to aim for.

[PassiveTheory]

Jeff Buckley. Good god that man had a voice.

[E. Spaceman]

David Lee Roth

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Mike Patton. I can do most of what he does, but none of the yelps or screams or growls.

This would be my answer as well, but honestly I don't think I believe you. Mike Patton has sung in an opera. Can you sing in an opera? I'm convinced that he can do just about anything.

Okay, none of the yelps, screams, growls or opera. I also don't quite have his range. I have a lot of power, but I'm sure he could outstrip me there too.

The point is, trying to equal Mike Patton is my aim as a vocalist and what helps me get better at it. Something to aim for.

i find it fairly easy to mimic the two melodic styles he used in FNM (the sorta nasal style on The Real Thing, and the thicker, deeper tone he uses on Angel Dust onwards), but his screams and yelps kill my throat almost immediately (although i've never been good at screaming).  i find, in terms of range, his ridiculous lows (like the verses of "Ashes to Ashes") are harder to reach than his highs. 

but hell, how fun is it to throw on "Everything's Ruined" and sing along, eh!?

[Abyssion27]

Matt Barlow

[look out! Ninjas!]

Tom Waits on Kentucky Avenue. That shit could make me cry sometimes.
Freddie Mercury. There's such a huge range there, and he can get them all perfect every time.
Oh, and Colonel Klink, when he does the opening bit of Ride of the Valkyries on that episode of Hogan's Heroes. Undiluted awesome.

[LucyStag]

Same gender: Maxine Sullivan, Peggy Lee, Neko Case.
Different gende: Jeff Buckley, Willie Watson from Old Crow Medicine Show, Joe Strummer.

[Thrillho]

i find it fairly easy to mimic the two melodic styles he used in FNM (the sorta nasal style on The Real Thing, and the thicker, deeper tone he uses on Angel Dust onwards), but his screams and yelps kill my throat almost immediately (although i've never been good at screaming).  i find, in terms of range, his ridiculous lows (like the verses of "Ashes to Ashes") are harder to reach than his highs. 

but hell, how fun is it to throw on "Everything's Ruined" and sing along, eh!?

I think 'Land Of Sunshine' has one of his wider ranges. I use that song as my vocal warm-up because it's so all over the place.

I can hit the low notes on 'Ashes To Ashes,' it's 'Stripsearch' that freaks me the fuck out.

[Fishboy]

David Tibet of Current 93 fame

Oh come on, anyone can pretty much sing like Tibet (maybe not the parts where he agonisingly screams for half a minute). I'd trade a limb to be able to write poetry like him though.

You underestimate how much I can't sing, I really am quite terrible, as in completely tone deaf terrible. But it's all about the screaming. Thats just brilliant.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i find it fairly easy to mimic the two melodic styles he used in FNM (the sorta nasal style on The Real Thing, and the thicker, deeper tone he uses on Angel Dust onwards), but his screams and yelps kill my throat almost immediately (although i've never been good at screaming).  i find, in terms of range, his ridiculous lows (like the verses of "Ashes to Ashes") are harder to reach than his highs. 

but hell, how fun is it to throw on "Everything's Ruined" and sing along, eh!?

I think 'Land Of Sunshine' has one of his wider ranges. I use that song as my vocal warm-up because it's so all over the place.

I can hit the low notes on 'Ashes To Ashes,' it's 'Stripsearch' that freaks me the fuck out.

yeah, LoS is definitely a fun one - although the only real hard bit is to get those last three words ("varicose.... comatose.... SEE-EEE-NIIIIIILLLLLE!!!!") to sound right.  i'm not too bad at it.  i havn't tried singing stripsearch for the longest time, but i'll have a go... 

you tried "the cowboy song"?  that chorus is huge fun to sing!  in fact, pretty much all of it is!  how that didn't make it onto The Real Thing is a total mystery to me.

[Caspain]

Wayne Static or Manard James Keenan.

Or Michael Jackson because it'd be funny as hell.

[Barmymoo]

Joni Mitchell. Oh God. I would give almost anything to actually be Joni Mitchell.

[Light Engine]

Cedric Bixler-Zavala probably

[BankHoldUp]

Freddie Mercury. Choosing anyone but him seems very odd to me.

I'd trade a kidney to have a falsetto that's as half as good as his.

[Patrick]

One day I will battle Ted Leo to the death in a bid for his vocal chords. In the meantime I guess I can settle for what I've got. I've grown to find it tolerable as my agonizingly slow adolescent development progresses.

[Thrillho]

yeah, LoS is definitely a fun one - although the only real hard bit is to get those last three words ("varicose.... comatose.... SEE-EEE-NIIIIIILLLLLE!!!!") to sound right.  i'm not too bad at it.  i havn't tried singing stripsearch for the longest time, but i'll have a go... 

I can nail those, but I can't quite hit the 'senile' yet. I can do the voice, but not hit the higher note. And the chorus of 'Stripsearch' is crazy low.

you tried "the cowboy song"?  that chorus is huge fun to sing!  in fact, pretty much all of it is!  how that didn't make it onto The Real Thing is a total mystery to me.

They decided to fill it with a cover of Black Sabbath for no reason instead?

[MadassAlex]

I'd love to sing like Hansi Kursch. Not only does he have a lovely voice for melodic power metal as well as thrashy power metal, but his softer voice is like silver spun into vocals.

[mourningnite]

Harriet Wheeler

[philharmonic]

See, this is a tough choice, because I have to decide between someone who has really interesting vocal tics that I would like to be able to emulate but who I may possibly become as talented as, or someone who has a bevy of vocal talent and who I know I will never be as good as. Like, do I want to be able to sing like Yow, or to be able to sing like Bono?

Maybe both? Both is my answer. I would like to sing like Yow and Bono.

I'm with you on this. Well not Bono but perhaps Gordon Downie (the tragically hip) for his interesting vocal tics. For female voice i'd pick Alison Krause because she's talented both with a pleasant voice and with her use of other instuments. But really i'd like Robert Plant because I hate the sound of my own voice when played back to me.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

yeah, LoS is definitely a fun one - although the only real hard bit is to get those last three words ("varicose.... comatose.... SEE-EEE-NIIIIIILLLLLE!!!!") to sound right.  i'm not too bad at it.  i havn't tried singing stripsearch for the longest time, but i'll have a go... 

I can nail those, but I can't quite hit the 'senile' yet. I can do the voice, but not hit the higher note. And the chorus of 'Stripsearch' is crazy low.

you tried "the cowboy song"?  that chorus is huge fun to sing!  in fact, pretty much all of it is!  how that didn't make it onto The Real Thing is a total mystery to me.

They decided to fill it with a cover of Black Sabbath for no reason instead?

i dunno, the "Stripsearch" chorus sounds like he's just talking deeply rather than actually singing, in which case it isn't too hard, but that's actually singing at a ridiculously low pitch, then yeah, that's pretty insane!

and "for no reason" is pretty harsh on the "War Pigs" cover - to me, that's the definitive version!  i listen to it way more than the original!  there's also the added bonus that if you do "War Pigs" at karaoke and sing it like Patton does, people who haven't heard the FNM version think you're putting your own spin on it, and buy you drinks afterwards!  i did that, and actually ran off the little stage thing to go buy a drink during the instrumental parts in the middle of the song 

[Patrick]

Alison Krause

Listen to her stuff from before she worked with Robert Plant. You will change your mind. Did such a shitty cover of Keith Whitley that he re-animated just so he could drink himself to death again.

[Harun]

Michael Akerfeldt

[ViolentDove]

Superb Lyrebird!

[Thrillho]

i dunno, the "Stripsearch" chorus sounds like he's just talking deeply rather than actually singing, in which case it isn't too hard, but that's actually singing at a ridiculously low pitch, then yeah, that's pretty insane!

and "for no reason" is pretty harsh on the "War Pigs" cover - to me, that's the definitive version!  i listen to it way more than the original!  there's also the added bonus that if you do "War Pigs" at karaoke and sing it like Patton does, people who haven't heard the FNM version think you're putting your own spin on it, and buy you drinks afterwards!  i did that, and actually ran off the little stage thing to go buy a drink during the instrumental parts in the middle of the song 

I dunno if I could even talk that low, man.

It just seemed a bit pointless to have a cover like that on an the album when FNM were so much about being weird and let their individuality fly, then they just cover Sabbath? But then covers weren't really their forte. I like their cover of 'Easy,' but that's pointless too.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

It just seemed a bit pointless to have a cover like that on an the album when FNM were so much about being weird and let their individuality fly, then they just cover Sabbath? But then covers weren't really their forte. I like their cover of 'Easy,' but that's pointless too.

i think the whole point of "war pigs" was that it was something you wouldn't expect.  you'd think they'd be against idea of covering such a well known classic, so they went ahead and did it to fuck with people.  i've heard somewhere that the cover of "easy" was done to piss off people who shouted "play that cover song you guys do!" (reffering to war pigs, of course).

one of their best songs came from covering themselves though - you heard the re-recorded version of "as the worm turns" with patton on vocals?  (the studio version, not the live one on that best of disc).  kicks the original's ass, owing mainly to the fact that chuck mosely was a terrible vocalist, and patton is some sort of voice-god.

damn, we need us a FNM thread!

[suitupletsgo]

It just seemed a bit pointless to have a cover like that on an the album when FNM were so much about being weird and let their individuality fly, then they just cover Sabbath? But then covers weren't really their forte. I like their cover of 'Easy,' but that's pointless too.

i think the whole point of "war pigs" was that it was something you wouldn't expect.  you'd think they'd be against idea of covering such a well known classic, so they went ahead and did it to fuck with people.  i've heard somewhere that the cover of "easy" was done to piss off people who shouted "play that cover song you guys do!" (reffering to war pigs, of course).

one of their best songs came from covering themselves though - you heard the re-recorded version of "as the worm turns" with patton on vocals?  (the studio version, not the live one on that best of disc).  kicks the original's ass, owing mainly to the fact that chuck mosely was a terrible vocalist, and patton is some sort of voice-god.

damn, we need us a FNM thread!

my mother saw FNM in upstate NY a loooooooooong time ago, and they did a cover of the Nestles theme song. it's still great.

[Inlander]

Superb Lyrebird!

Pfft, everyone knows the Albert's Lyrebird has way more indie cred.

[Overkordbaever]

Kurt Cobain, Mark Lanegan or Steve Brooks (Floor, Torche). That would be kickass!

Kinda funny remark: Kurt Cobain's voice got better when he got into Heroin and Mark Lanegan was abusing various chemicals at the age of 17 or something == drug abusal makes you good at singing (more like gives the abuser a whiskey voice)