awful singers

Get Smart · Dec 19, 2006

Originally Posted by Bandwagonesque

I'm going to say Springsteen...

Axl Rose probably is the worst though.

after posting, I was thinking I should have added Springsteen

and Axl Rose...that's a given, ugh!

dkzzzz · Dec 19, 2006

Originally Posted by Stu

I'm suprised on your thoughts re Sinatra. He was considered quite an innovator in his time. He modeled his vocal techniques after Tommy Dorsey and his clarinet playing. Sinatra used to swim underwater for lengths at a time to build up his lung capacity to allow him to hold those long sustained phrases. He was acclaimed for using his voice like an instrument.

Some of his later stuff really sucks, but his '50s Capitol albums with Nelson Riddle are just amazing IMHO.

Perhaps I am not as well versed as you on fine points of his singing carrier. However he is universally praised for his moody/romantic standards. The best way I can describe his singing is : He sang the way any guy sings in a shower, but he did it in front of the audience and with unapologetic aplomb of someone who knows he was not born a singer ,but he is made a singer.
Tony Bennet is a giant compare to Sinatra, yet he was just a naturally born singer without pompous bravado, nor connections.

ghostdeini · Dec 19, 2006

robert plant of led zeppelin fame isn't exactly freddy mercury... but I still think their music is great

Quirk · Dec 20, 2006

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

Perhaps I am not as well versed as you on fine points of his singing carrier. However he is universally praised for his moody/romantic standards. The best way I can describe his singing is : He sang the way any guy sings in a shower, but he did it in front of the audience and with unapologetic aplomb of someone who knows he was not born a singer ,but he is made a singer.

Huh?

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

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Tony Bennet is a giant compare to Sinatra, yet he was just a naturally born singer without pompous bravado, nor connections.

Now you're just talking crazy. A giant compared to Sinatra? How so? You seem to be simply jumping on the 'MTV Unplugged' bandwagon.

JBZ · Dec 20, 2006

Originally Posted by Get Smart

Axl Rose...that's a given, ugh!

I still can't get over the Guns 'N Roses cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" ("hey, hey, hey hey ya!"). It has to be the worst interpretation of a song ever.

denimdestroyedmylife · Dec 20, 2006

joe meek doesn't carry a tune well----like a perverted uncle humming to you in the dark, drunkish.

tiny tim-----yeah.
jandek is not the most tuneful singer in the world...

Saucemaster · Dec 20, 2006

The guy right at the front of my Celebrity Bus (the unfortunately-imaginary bus that you fill with celebrities, then push off a cliff) is the lead singer from Five for Fighting. If I found a genie in a bottle in the desert, I would think seriously about wasting one of my three wishes on that guy, and it would not be pleasant (for him).

dkzzzz · Dec 21, 2006

Originally Posted by Quirk

Huh?

Now you're just talking crazy. A giant compared to Sinatra? How so? You seem to be simply jumping on the 'MTV Unplugged' bandwagon.

"MTV Unplugged' bandwagon" I don't know what it means. Does it mean Bennet did Unplugged? No, I never saw it . I don't watch TV. But I am sure he was better singer at 70 years of age than Sinatra ever was. Sinatra is not a singer he is an entertainer and a celebrity. Dean Martin had a better voice than Sinatra and did it better half-drunk.

P.S. You don't really think that Sinatra is a great singer yourself, you think that you do because that is what majority's consensus is.

coachvu · Dec 21, 2006

Originally Posted by dan87

These guys dont have what many people would call a "good voice", but I still love them!

Bob Dylan
Tom Waits

Both of them had much nicer voices on their earliest recordings.

lawyerdad · Dec 21, 2006

Of course, there's always me. My daughter does not allow me to sing around her. True story, lol.

denimdestroyedmylife · Dec 21, 2006

marianne faithful's voice is... not typical.

her voice, i think, improved a couple decades into her career, and then became a rattling sound like dylan's. her album "broken english" displays her voice at its best----great album, her voice is raspy and sexy, like tina turner's at about the same time; the album is very sleazy in a cold war-era central-european porno kind of way.

dkzzzz · Dec 21, 2006

Well if we get personal about the whole thing then the worst singer is my dad. He will sing to Bach and Berlioz symphonies.
I remember when I was a kid I wanted to kill myself when riding in a car with him listening to all those: "Nna-na nira-naaaa, tirim-param-ram." accompaneing "The Flight of the Valkyrie".

gamelan · Dec 21, 2006

wow, a lot of Axl Rose hate. i grew up listening to Guns 'n' Roses so natually i think Axl Rose rules. but agreed he doesn't have a great singing voice. i think you could probably say the same for most heavy metal singers.

and I totally agree with what Stu said about Frank Sinatra. yeah, dkzzzz, in his later years he was more of an entertainer but if you haven't listened to his big band material from the 40s, you should check it out. it honestly doesn't not sound like the voice we usually think of when we think of Sinatra.

-Jeff

Oldboy · Dec 25, 2006

Macy Gray, her voice is extremely annoying.

ArtisticShowcase · Dec 25, 2006

Originally Posted by Oldboy

Macy Gray, her voice is extremely annoying.
Ditto. I have a problem with Christina Aguilera's voice just because she oversings very single song that she has released. Switching to a more theatrical setting, I find Zero Mostel's singing voice extremely annoying and frankly, lifeless. Listening to the original Broadway soundtrack of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" was like audible punishment (I got the role of Pseudolus in my school's production of the show this year. Thank goodness everyone says that I sing a lot better than Mostel).

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