Topic: Singers who don't look like their voice. (Read 41111 times)

imapiratearg · « **Reply #50 on:** 14 Jun 2009, 20:14 »

Eric Bachman?

He looks more like Doug Martsch than he does the gravelly-voiced frontman of Crooked Fingers.

Speaking of Doug Martsch, I never knew a dude with such a majestic beard could sing so high.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #51 on:** 14 Jun 2009, 21:21 »

So... big beardy dudes singin' real high and skinny nerdy lookin' dudes singing real low. I totally agree with Micah P. Hinson and Kimya Dawson.

I was gonna say Stephin Merritt and oh dear that 3 inches of blood guy looks waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much like an ex of mine. I pick em real good.

Alex C · « **Reply #52 on:** 18 Jun 2009, 09:24 »

If I was going to lambast you it'd be for assuming I have a scenester bias. We get a new guy assuming we do that at least once a month.

Also, I don't know much about Hadouken!, but I'm not sure what you expected the guy to look like. It's not exactly weird for grime influenced outfits to be headed up by young white Brits wearing hoodies and baseball caps.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #53 on:** 18 Jun 2009, 09:58 »

Quote from: JimmyJazz on 31 May 2009, 12:25

H.R. REALLY doesn't sound like his voice to me, but that might have more to do with the fact that Jamaicans aren't usually frontmen of hardcore groups than anything.

Yeah, first time I saw a video of them playing live, I was really surprised.

Alex, there is probably more than that. I thought there would be a hipster bias at first, but I kept my mouth shut about that expectation, and I realized it wasn't true.

chowburger · « **Reply #54 on:** 18 Jun 2009, 14:44 »

Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 14 Jun 2009, 21:21

I was gonna say Stephin Merritt

Yesss, I was going to say the same thing. And then I was surprised when Jens Lekman didn't look like Stephin Merritt.

Llewellian · « **Reply #55 on:** 19 Jun 2009, 14:53 »

That Greg Pritchard from Britains Got Talent Show was really surprising...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6BlH-ZC5P0

With a little aplifier i bet he could break a glass ;o).

MrBlu · « **Reply #56 on:** 20 Jun 2009, 00:02 »

This bad-ass vixen is from CocoRosie?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #57 on:** 20 Jun 2009, 00:18 »

Susan Boyle mirite

MrBlu · « **Reply #58 on:** 20 Jun 2009, 00:51 »

Indeed.

Commodore · « **Reply #59 on:** 20 Jun 2009, 08:23 »

The chick who sings the voice of the Queen on The Hazards of Love. Shara Worden, that's her name, Of My Brightest Diamond. By her voice it sounds like some gigantic Ursula-from-the-Little-Mermaid opera belter, but the first thing she reminded me of seeing her was Uma Thurman as Mz. Mia Wallace.

she's in the 'The Wanting Comes in Waves' video on the left here.
clicky

glyphic · « **Reply #60 on:** 20 Jun 2009, 13:00 »

Andrew Thiboldeaux from Pattern is Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNoDLiBTJrM&feature=fvw

lmposter · « **Reply #61 on:** 20 Jun 2009, 14:52 »

When I heard this:

,
I thought I heard this:

Patrick · « **Reply #62 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 12:06 »

People who use vocoders do not count, I do not think.

Peter Frampton doesn't count either, him with his talkbox and all that.

glyphic · « **Reply #63 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 13:27 »

But couldn't you thusly disclaim every entry based on the widespread use of autotune and its similarity to a vocoder?

Alex C · « **Reply #64 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 15:05 »

glyphic · « **Reply #65 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 15:29 »

You win this round...

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #66 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 17:16 »

i saw pictures of cursive long before i heard them. kinda expected kasher to have a pretty deep voice, not sure why. and much less whiny than he is.

glyphic · « **Reply #67 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 17:20 »

I expected Cursive to look less like a new episode of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

billiumbean · « **Reply #68 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 21:56 »

Quote from: Commodore on 20 Jun 2009, 08:23

The chick who sings the voice of the Queen on The Hazards of Love.

I think what fascinates me more about her is the fact that her voice isn't the product of a good studio take. I've seen two Decemberists' television appearances (both times singing Repaid), and she fucking nailed every note with the same amount of power as on the album. Maybe the voice itself is kind of believable, but I did not expect the cannon.

mattgcn · « **Reply #69 on:** 25 Jun 2009, 18:59 »

Came for Antony and Joanna Newsom, leaving satisfied after adding in Rob Crow. Dude looks like Fred Durst in some pictures.

Harun · « **Reply #70 on:** 25 Jun 2009, 19:08 »

Mel Mongeon, frontlady for Fuck the Facts

i win

Patrick · « **Reply #71 on:** 26 Jun 2009, 04:30 »

The singer from Heart

Jed · « **Reply #72 on:** 26 Jun 2009, 06:39 »

This chick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5ssgDlNpU

billiumbean · « **Reply #73 on:** 26 Jun 2009, 06:44 »

AHAHAHAHA

Llewellian · « **Reply #74 on:** 26 Jun 2009, 14:01 »

Quote from: Jed on 26 Jun 2009, 06:39

This chick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5ssgDlNpU

A lot like the female singer of Arch Enemy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZM-d2qD15E

By the way: A singer who does not look like his voice? What about Michael Jackson?

edwinalink · « **Reply #75 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 13:42 »

all this talk... and NO ONE mentions anthony green?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZlAunMb8o

billiumbean · « **Reply #76 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 16:54 »

Quote from: Llewellian on 26 Jun 2009, 14:01

What about Michael Jackson?

There's a difference between not looking like your own voice and not looking like any voice.

If you think about it, Little Foot from Land Before Time didn't look like his voice particularily, but really, what should his voice have sounded like?

Patrick · « **Reply #77 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 16:56 »

Idunno, MJ looked about as anemic as he sounded. Fair match to me.

billiumbean · « **Reply #78 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 17:16 »

I guess if I were to hear his voice and had not known what he'd looked like, I wouldn't have been able to venture a guess, and when you consider the inverse to be true, it's more like "Sure, why not." Weird face, weird voice, perfect match.

bahhhhh · « **Reply #79 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 20:34 »

Isaac Brock. First time I saw a picture of him I was like

Melodic · « **Reply #80 on:** 28 Jun 2009, 02:55 »

Vaughn totally looks like he could belt out Float On like a champ.

Yakob · « **Reply #81 on:** 28 Jun 2009, 09:47 »

Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 14 Jun 2009, 21:21

big beardy dudes singin' real high

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omZ5GsuGrI

Llewellian · « **Reply #82 on:** 28 Jun 2009, 10:24 »

Big bearded Guys singing real high? Hmm..

Brian Wilson. The famous Beach Boy Falsetto....(along with Al Jardine).

Zingoleb · « **Reply #83 on:** 28 Jun 2009, 16:07 »

Quote from: Patrick on 26 Jun 2009, 04:30

The singer from Heart

Ann Wilson.

Also, like, 90% of the pictures I see of her she has her mouth open. Not like singing, but in photo shoots, her mouth is open. Look at the covers of, say, Dreamboat Annie, Love Alive, and Bebe Le Strange. Nancy has her mouth closed, Ann has hers open.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #84 on:** 28 Jun 2009, 21:34 »

See, I dunno Sam. In some pictures, yes, but when I saw him it fit perfectly. Though maybe that's because the voice fits in with how weird a person I think he is more than how he looks.

glyphic · « **Reply #85 on:** 29 Jun 2009, 14:43 »

I just saw a Pinback video last night. When the dude opened his mouth I said "nope."

bahhhhh · « **Reply #86 on:** 29 Jun 2009, 16:59 »

Raekwon

Theriandros · « **Reply #87 on:** 05 Jul 2009, 20:31 »

Quote from: Sox on 29 May 2009, 12:31

Greg Pritchard.

(I still do not think that is his voice)

I keep thinking he's a castrati.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #88 on:** 06 Jul 2009, 18:21 »

So tempted to start a thread about "Singers who look EXACTLY like their voice"

I'm looking at you, Tom Waits

Touch Me Im Sick · « **Reply #89 on:** 07 Jul 2009, 01:10 »

Brian Aubert from Silversun Pickups, and Sebastien Grainger from Death From Above 1979

Patrick · « **Reply #90 on:** 07 Jul 2009, 04:37 »

Fuckin' Vitas, man. Look at that dude and you'll be like "Oh sure yeah the voice fits" but when you hear him sing a note that is higher than Mariah Carey can sing on heroin and 30ccs of adrenaline, you will be like "Oh what in the shits is this guy, a cyborg or some shit" and I mean he dresses like a fucking cyborg so I would not be surprised.

edwinalink · « **Reply #91 on:** 07 Jul 2009, 11:05 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 06 Jul 2009, 18:21

So tempted to start a thread about "Singers who look EXACTLY like their voice"

I'm looking at you, Tom Waits

I think the singers for Horrorpops and The creepshow fall into that catagory... actually, pretty much the whole psychobilly genre... probably does.

Jed · « **Reply #92 on:** 07 Jul 2009, 14:49 »

Here's a good sample of Tom Waits sounding exactly what he looks like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwUtEEjZJ8

edwinalink · « **Reply #93 on:** 09 Jul 2009, 10:59 »

...and I stand by my anthony green, he may not look as fringe as some people mentioned.

but anyone that looks like the guy in our office that fixes our computers... should not be able to sing like a choir boy....

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #94 on:** 09 Jul 2009, 17:10 »

Quote from: edwinalink on 09 Jul 2009, 10:59

...and I stand by my anthony green, he may not loof as fringe as some people mentioned.

but anyone that looks like the guy in our office that fixes our computers... should not be able to sing like a choir boy....

dude can scream pretty well too, check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EMzoAqyXg0

listen right til the end.

billiumbean · « **Reply #95 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 15:24 »

Quote from: Touch Me Im Sick on 07 Jul 2009, 01:10

Brian Aubert from Silversun Pickups

Quite true.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #96 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 21:08 »

Quote from: Jed on 07 Jul 2009, 14:49

Here's a good sample of Tom Waits sounding exactly what he looks like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwUtEEjZJ8

I love that song so much that dial-up be damned I will have to let this load

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