Bands that singers ruin...

[Bob Lo]

Originally Posted by Roscoe East

67 posts and no one's mentioned AC/DC yet?

AC-DC.Can't listen to it,it hurts my ears.

[Beersurgeon]

Originally Posted by Chromer

Bob Dylan has a really good excuse for why he sounds the way he does... (not the drugs, either)

I heard it's so you listen to the lyrics, not just the song.

[WJGreer]

Originally Posted by deeptubes

Yeah. He needs to realize that he does NOT have a melodic voice.

He knows. He's very forthright about that in his autobiography "Scar Tissue".

Originally Posted by Red_Merkin

I do. To me Chris Cornell was the worst of the early 90's Eddie Vedder clones

It's absolutely not necessary for anyone to like Chris Cornell - but understand that he is not an Eddie Vedder clone. Cornell was all over the Seattle scene before Vedder moved to town; all those guys had played together up, down, and sideways for years, and Cornell was already who he was going to become as a vocalist before anyone met Vedder.

If you have any interest, check out the PJ20 documentary; you really get a sense of how Pearl Jam emerged from a scene that was completely rich with talent.

Now...I am going to say that Scott Weiland was mimicking Vedder on the "Core" album, and it's all the more evident because of the way he sounds on every other STP album. And, of course, there are about 950 other vocalists in the 90s who were trying to sound like Vedder. Just not Cornell.

[kentiki]

Originally Posted by Personatech

While I personally consider him an acquired taste, lots of folks can't get into Television because of Tom Verlaine's singing. This is a shame, as Television was a superb, innovative band.

+1. Huge fan, but I've had several friends tell me they just can't stand the vocals.

[Chromer]

Fields of the Nephilim. Great tunes, genre-defining sound, but I just can't get past the vocal delivery.

Been tempted many times to cover those songs to "do them properly." Which is totally presumptuous, but...

[Kmonk]

Originally Posted by Bob Lo

AC-DC.Can't listen to it,it hurts my ears.

I agree to a point. Bon Scott wasn't a great singer but Brian Johnson has spent his entire career trying to sound like him. If Bon Scott had not died at such a young age we might have a different opinion about AC/DC.

[HaMMerHeD]

Originally Posted by 6jase5

Sure, Eddy, Geddy, Anthony and Zach don't have "amazing" voices in a classical sense...but as frontmen with unique voices they can and have enchanted and entertained audiences that number in the millions.

Yeah...because everybody knows that commercial success is the same thing as musical talent.

[mellowinman]

Originally Posted by Kmonk

I agree to a point. Bon Scott wasn't a great singer but Brian Johnson has spent his entire career trying to sound like him. If Bon Scott had not died at such a young age we might have a different opinion about AC/DC.

How can anyone say Brian Johnson has tried to sound like Bon Scott? If that's true, then he has failed miserably.

Of course, it isn't true at all. Brian Johnson has a completely different approach and style to Bon Scott. If anything, Brian has tried to sound like Dan McCafferty.

[254 stringer]

Originally Posted by drews.anderson

Tool is an extraordinary band, but the NewMetalish vocals...
Muse also. Why sing every song as if it was a hymn?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I have to ask which Tool songs sound like nu metal vocals. I love Tool but can't stand nu metal so just wondering.

[Session1969]

Freddie Mercury.

[Session1969]

Just Kidding.

[Ric5]

Mick Jagger

Rolling Stones

[Ric5]

Originally Posted by Session1969

Freddie Mercury.

He always creeped me out ...

[Ric5]

Originally Posted by Bob Lo

AC-DC.Can't listen to it,it hurts my ears.

+1000 ... the songs are great until the sceaming vocals come in ...

[notverygood]

Originally Posted by HaMMerHeD

Yeah...because everybody knows that commercial success is the same thing as musical talent.

Commercial success means people enjoy your music. Doesn't really matter if you can hit all the notes, if millions like to hear you sing.

Of course, to the talented bass player sitting in mom's basement this seems terribly unfair.

Staying in the spirit of the thread, I say Robert Plant.

[HolmeBass]

Originally Posted by Floyd Eye

Saw Vedder doing the thing with Roger Waters on the hurricane benefit thing. Absolute crap. I imagined David Gilmour crying when he saw it.

If you can believe it that was much better than his turn on SNL with P Jam. I thought that overall performance was ok, passable, certainly perfunctory, and its success was based entirely on the strength of the material rather than the execution.

[HolmeBass]

Bob Dylan- saw him live just a year ago, and it was rough. He wasn't even trying. But on some of his recorded work I like his voice ok. He knows he doesn't have a strong voice.

Robert Plant, good one, definitely took me a while to acquire that taste, but now I am a completely devoted fan, it all sounds pretty good. Still, the first time I saw "The Song Remains The Same" I was like, really?

[VinKreepo]

Singers for Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand irritate me sometimes. Their voices work for some songs, but sometimes they push them too hard for a particular part (usually the verse).

I cannot stand Jack White's voice. He is a brilliant musician, but his voice... no.

[perfektspace6]

Originally Posted by Kmonk

Guns 'N' Roses
Metallica
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day

Interesting list. GnR and Smashing Pumpkins can be polarizing but the others seem more benign.

I would expect Rush would be at the top of many lists. Also, happens to be my favorite band.

[JPaulGeddy]

Huh. I figured Creed would top the lists.