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#83
deeptubes said:
Yeah. He needs to realize that he does NOT have a melodic voice.
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He knows. He's very forthright about that in his autobiography "Scar Tissue".

Red_Merkin said:
I do. To me Chris Cornell was the worst of the early 90's Eddie Vedder clones
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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.
 
#85
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...
 
#86
Bob Lo said:
AC-DC.Can't listen to it,it hurts my ears.
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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.
 
#88
Kmonk said:
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.
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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.
 
#95
HaMMerHeD said:
Yeah...because everybody knows that commercial success is the same thing as musical talent.
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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.
 
#96
Floyd Eye said:
Saw Vedder doing the thing with Roger Waters on the hurricane benefit thing. Absolute crap. I imagined David Gilmour crying when he saw it.
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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.
 
#97
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?
 
#98
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.
 

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