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I'm going to get hurt for this one but....

Janis Joplin

God, her voice makes me want to rip my ears off my head...
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Willie Nelson.

Of course I do agree that Mariah Carey's voice is irritating.  I think all she knows how to do is scream…
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I agree on both.  Mariah Carey cracks my eardrums and Willie Nelson's twang just drives me batty!!!

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I'm going to get hurt for this one but....

Janis Joplin

God, her voice makes me want to rip my ears off my head...
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Janis Joplin's voice is very raspy but it's unique!

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I love Stevie Nicks, but you won't have to duck. :)  



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There you go, mentioning the words Stevie Nicks & Duck in ther same sentence ;)....IMO the similarities are un-canny :o Mariah sings like she got her foot stuck in a bear trap while Stevie sounds like a duck being stepped on :D

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How come no one has mentioned Bob Dylan?
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Bob Dylan & Tom Petty sound freighteningly similar.

I really like "Like A Rollingstone" by Bob Dylan. I like some of his other stuff too and like some Tom Petty as well.

But YES!!! They do have some whiny voices.  :D

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Well, he *did* score a mention in the Good Idea, Bad Song (or whatever) thread  :)

Much as I like many of the songs on which Bjork sings, I can accept that her voice might be much disliked.

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<As I duck for cover> http://www.clicksmilie.de/sammlung/alles_moegliche/allesmoegliche002.gif The lead singer of the band RUSH.
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It's quite scary to think that, in my opinion, Celine Dion used to be (stress that, please), quite a good artist. Songs like Think Twice were my favourite back when and if they were released.


Yes, that's the one, the Whatever thread, that I started... which, thinking about it, probably wasn't a good idea for a thread, seeing the difference between song conceptuality and writing/performing.


I think Dennis Wilson, although a great singer in his early Beach Boys years, (Little Miss America had them flocking) could be much hated as a singer during the 1970 (Got To Know The Woman) period. But we have to take into account that by then it was the smoking and drinking that was killing him.

That's all for now.

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Because we like Bob Dylan!!!   Okay, well at least I do.  ;)

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Another that comes to mind is Michael Bolton.  Talk about putting too much emotion into a song!  Why, oh why did this guy ever become a singer?  Arrrrghhhhh!  ::)


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I have always thought that it must hurt to sing like he does.  I watch that vein in his head and keep waiting for it to explode...it never does, though. >:(

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Bruce Springsteen (am I going to get flamed for that one?)
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Not by me - let's face it, Springsteen can't sing.  I'm not saying I don't like his music - I've even got a BS songbook which uses a total of three chords in about 40 songs, very easy to play and pretty easy to sing (if you gargle with gravel before you start)

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How about the lead singer of AC/DC?  I love their music....great guitar, but that guy (I think his last name is Johnson) sounds like he is in pain.  My oldest daughter and I, when seeing that "Highway To Hell" video often wonder if he may suffer from severe constipation.
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:-)  Yes, he does look a bit like that, doesn't he?  (it's Brian Johnston BTW)... Bon Scott was much better.

Phil

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the lead singer from the Dixie Chicks for example…
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I think that is Natalie Maines.  And she is quite irritating…

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Here's something that'll conjure up bad ear aches: "Chuck Me In The Shallow Water, Before I Get To Deep....What I Am, Is What I Am, Is What You Are Oh Why"    :o  :P Brought to you by maybe the first coming of Alanis....Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians.....yikes!
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Hey, I heard that Edie married Paul Simon...Hmmmm I wonder if he enjoys hearing her sing.  Did you know she got drunk and stood on a table to sing just for fun and was discovered?  That ain't fair I tell ya.  You have to starve and sweat and be exploited first....LOL

Love/Peace,
A'isha

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I have always thought that it must hurt to sing like he does.  I watch that vein in his head and keep waiting for it to explode...it never does, though. >:(
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Good one, dagwood!!!  ;D

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:-)  Yes, he does look a bit like that, doesn't he?  (it's Brian Johnston BTW)... Bon Scott was much better.
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Couldn't agree more Philbo - Jimmy Barnes (ex-Cold Chisel) is another constipated singer....

In line with the original thread :

Mariah Carey (like everyone else)

Cher (Blecchh...)

Bonnie Tyler (post-"Lost in France")

Limahl


Someone else mentioned Bob Dylan, and I suppose on that basis you could add Neil Young for the same reasons....

BUT I WOULDN'T !!!!   ;)


FBVP

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Here's something that'll conjure up bad ear aches: "Chuck Me In The Shallow Water, Before I Get To Deep....What I Am, Is What I Am, Is What You Are Oh Why"    :o  :P Brought to you by maybe the first coming of Alanis....Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians.....yikes!
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Thanks alot, RnRF, now my ears are bleeding. >:(

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Thanks alot, RnRF, now my ears are bleeding. >:(
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No problem Dagwood  ;D ;)

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Willie Nelson.

Of course I do agree that Mariah Carey's voice is irritating.  I think all she knows how to do is scream…
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Agreed!  ;D

My thoughts exactly.

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No problem Dagwood  ;D ;)
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<As I duck for cover> http://www.clicksmilie.de/sammlung/alles_moegliche/allesmoegliche002.gif The lead singer of the band RUSH.
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Aww HS he was great in the Bob and Doug McKenzie song "Take off"...... So Take Off eh?  ;D

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Couldn't think of anyone until tonight when I saw the results of the latest 20 questions.

Rick Wakeman!

Couldn't stand that man or his voice. My best friend and I once threw darts at his picture at 2 am in my basement. (not lawn darts, tho'  ;) )
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You're really into darts in a big way aren't you Zella - what is the scientific name for one who has a dart fetish ?

Did you like the song "Boy from new york city" ?

All together now :

"Oo ah oo ah oo oo Kitty" ....... hey that would go with your previous avatar....


;D  FB

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I'm going to get hurt for this one but....

Janis Joplin

God, her voice makes me want to rip my ears off my head...
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I will second that one tv9....and add Kim Carnes to that list...to listen to "Bette Davis Eyes" EVER again...I may have to sacrifice a chicken!!!!!!!!!!!  Cuz I think her singing sounds like someone choking one!!!!!!!!!!!   http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/contrib/blackeye/Lpuke.gif

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Bjork (I can tolerate her in small doses)
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you mean she can sing? !!!!  I thought she was a person high on crack with the hiccups!!!!!!!!

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I like that, youngcricket.

:) FBVP
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thank you FBVP!!! ;)

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You're really into darts in a big way aren't you Zella - what is the scientific name for one who has a dart fetish ?
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Ah.. prikophilia?  ;D

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No, no. PrickOphobia, of course.  ;)
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Wouldn't that be the fear or darts? Or other pointy objects? (Cones, I'm thinking of cones!)  ;)

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Wouldn't that be the fear or darts? Or other pointy objects? (Cones, I'm thinking of cones!)  ;)
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Oh, yea! Duh. Where's my mind today.... ::)

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Why do you find his voice annoying? I think he sings great!

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Michael Bolton - that's a good one.  I forget about his horrid voice.        :P

I like the guy per se, can't complain about his songs themselves, but he truly has a horrible voice.  Voices like that should stick to heavy metal and its ilk of non-talent.
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I agree that MB is a bit of an acquired taste, and also an excellent songwriter. Overall, I like most of his stuff. He did, in fact, record as a hard rock/heavy metal artist from 1979-85, and I feel those albums (two w/ the band Blackjack + two solo) were his best. However, I disagree that the heavy metal genre consisted of nothing but "non-talent". Bolton's 1985 album, Everybody's Crazy, is excellent all the way through - not a dud on it, IMO... :-)

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However, I disagree that the heavy metal genre consisted of nothing but "non-talent". IMO... :-)
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Well, also JMO, it's just that how can there be a talent requirement when all you do is screech and scream?    ::)

I didn't know about Bolton's involvement in the genre though - interesting.  But if that's the case, I guess I'm pretty perceptive, no?    ;D  

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I was never into speed or thrash metal, which I do consider to be mostly "screeching and screaming". Same goes for most of today's so-called "metal" bands, or those horrible rock/rap hybrids. I was mainly referring to the "classic" metal acts of the early to mid '80s, such as Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Dokken, etc. Heck, just last weekend I attended my first metal concert in quite a while - a triple-bill of Dio/Deep Purple/Scorpions, and they all sounded pretty good to me... :-)

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Based on the way you wrote it, I didn't think so, either (and neither do a lot of other people who rush to judge him, based only on the hits they've heard on the radio/video channels). But yeah, I'd say that was a good call! :-)

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Heck, just last weekend I attended my first metal concert in quite a while - a triple-bill of Dio/Deep Purple/Scorpions, and they all sounded pretty good to me... :-)
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Cool! And if anyone thinks that Ronnie James Dio and Ian Gillan can't sing, they don't know what singing is!  

BTW Rebel, that was not an attack on what you said. A lot of metal singers are really bad -- but not all of them.

Many people find heavy metal difficult to listen to, but I reject the claim that it's talentless. Modern metal music (not the crap they call metal on the radio, but REAL metal (heh heh)) actually takes a lot of talent to play properly and many of the musicians involved are very well respected in musical circles.

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but REAL metal (heh heh)) actually takes a lot of talent to play properly and many of the musicians involved are very well respected in musical circles.
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I wasn't talking generally, I was talking specifically about singing itself.

I'm amazed that alot of metal fans (and perhaps actual musicians too) really like classical music.  Like my brother, and some girls at the auto shop I worked at.  I don't understand it!   ::)

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Heck, just last weekend I attended my first metal concert in quite a while - a triple-bill of Dio/Deep Purple/Scorpions, and they all sounded pretty good to me... :-)
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fx: green with envy

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Cool! And if anyone thinks that Ronnie James Dio and Ian Gillan can't sing, they don't know what singing is!  
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... though I do sometimes wish that Dio wouldn't always sing about rainbows...

;-)

Phil

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I wasn't talking generally, I was talking specifically about singing itself.

I'm amazed that alot of metal fans (and perhaps actual musicians too) really like classical music.  Like my brother, and some girls at the auto shop I worked at.  I don't understand it!   ::)
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Well we like to think of ourselves as being a little sophisticated. LOL.  And like I said, heavy metal is often quite technical to play and complex in its arrangements, rather like classical music. Even classic musicians have drawn the parallels; a lot of heavy metal musicians are classically-trained too, so there's a connection from that angle as well. But I will agree that it is often the singing that turns people away.

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... though I do sometimes wish that Dio wouldn't always sing about rainbows...

;-)

Phil
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It would be nice if he wrote some lyrics about something other than dragonslaying. Heh heh. He's in his 60s now, were you aware of that?

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's in his 60s now, were you aware of that?


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Actually, my music reference books show him turning 53 on Wednesday... :-)

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Yes of course they do. That's because he gives his birthdate as July 10, 1949. However, he was playing bass and singing in a rock n roll band called the Vegas Kings in 1957. There are pictures of him on a biographical website (http://www.dio.net), that lists his entire discography from his very first recording, made with his band Ronnie and the Redcaps in 1958! He dropped out of college to play rock n roll. I don't know what college age is, but I'm sure he had to have been older than 8 or 9. That would put his REAL birthyear somewhere between 1940 and 1942...
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Yes, I know the birthdates given in books can be erroneous, so over the years, I've learned not to treat them as gospel. And in this case, I think you're right, Goreripper. Actually, it doesn't surprise me that he may be older than his early 50's, 'cause he sure didn't look 34 to me in the "Rainbow in the Dark" video, lol. But then again, your post implies that Dio himself is helping to perpetuate this, so the discrepancy will continue, I guess...

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You guys are so funny, really made me laugh this morn, he he he, thanks.  I agree, the following ones stinketh:

Michael Bolton
Eminem (sings bad, raps good)
Kid Rock
Creed guy trying to sing like Pearl Jam
Mariah Carey, Cher, Yoko Ono, the list goes on...

FEH to all of the above!

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Disagree on Eminem, neither sings nor raps well.

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I didn't look back through the thread but I'm sure someone had to mention Axl Rose. :P In his own words (speaking of that.........ahem *cough cough*.......voice),".......it gets worser every day!!"
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I know.He screams too much in his songs. :P ;D

Howard

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I think Mariah Carey's voice hurts my ears, and that lady who had that one hit in the 70's is horrible too.

I wany anyone's opinion of whose voice in the music business is the most annoying.
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Mariah Carey hurts my ears too. The singer you are referring to must be Minnie Ripperton, the song is Loving You.

Natalie Maines (Dixie Chix) is another one I can not stand to hear, and oh yeah how can I forgot Shania Twain, she says WOO so many times in her songs it about sends me over the edge. I never liked her at all.

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Well I don't know how ANYONE can call this music, but I think I MUST say TINY TIM! UGG Now, there are MANY others I could bash, but I will restrain for now!


How could I have forgotten Tiny Tim, actually it was easy  ;D