Bands that you'd like if there wasn't something about the vocalist that drives you nuts.
Mine are...
The Cranberries (oowah oowah oowah oowah drives me straight up the wall like fingernails on a chalkboard)
The Cure (super great music tailor made for me but off key vocals make my skin crawl)
Sammy Hagar Van Halen (Sure do love the Dave songs but...)
Evanescence (there is only so much forlorn wailing I can take. Since every song is like that I really have no use for the band)
Daniel Amos/Swirling Eddies (once again, love the music can't stand the vocals)
Clear Frontier (When the girl is singing it's okay but that guy...Yeesh! Don't get me started...)
IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE VOCALIST...
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IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE VOCALIST...
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The Mission UK. Great music, vocalist drives me batty.
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Yeah, much love for The Darkness.
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Sorry for the double post..but I jut read something Null wrote about j mascis...
Sorry J...you can sure write a good song, and play some damn good instruments...but you shuld have put more effort into singing on key, especially when you were Dinasaur Jr.
Sorry J...you can sure write a good song, and play some damn good instruments...but you shuld have put more effort into singing on key, especially when you were Dinasaur Jr.
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99% of why I don't like heavy metal is the vocals. Death metal is at 100%, and rising, if that's possible. Speed metal, well, that's just silly. Sounds like Alvin & the Chipmunks doing regular metal, whis is, as I've already mentioned, not all that interesting. I will not pay $16 to listen to somebody scream at me; if I wanted to listen to people scream at me, I'd just move back in with my parents.
Bands like Boston and Queen, who change out singers that really defined the band with somebody who just doesn't have the chops almost always lose me completely. I think I'd rather they just changed the name of the band if they're not using the original singer. Of course, sometimes the replacement singer is as good, or better than the original, like with Genesis, Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac, or the Scorpions. Then it's a good thing.
Bands like Boston and Queen, who change out singers that really defined the band with somebody who just doesn't have the chops almost always lose me completely. I think I'd rather they just changed the name of the band if they're not using the original singer. Of course, sometimes the replacement singer is as good, or better than the original, like with Genesis, Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac, or the Scorpions. Then it's a good thing.
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I appreciate being given a fair shake. Frankly I don't think I sound all that much like Ric I just think people try to place a familiar label on things and that's generally the closest thing they can come up with. I'm okay with it because I am a fan of Ocasek and the Cars and it's generally meant as a compliment.Menolly wrote:...so I have been told...aTOMiC wrote:Uh oh. I hope you never ask to hear me sing anything.Menolly wrote: The Cars (except for Drive)
I dunno, TOM.
I can't stand Ocasek.
But, it could be his delivery as well as tone.
I'm willing to give you a listen with an open mind.
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I'd agree with what a couple of others have mentioned as far as Bob Dylan goes. Generally great songs, but I can't listen to them unless someone else is performing them.
That brings to mind a funny clip I heard a few years back from an interview with Dylan, though. The interviewer asked him how he would respond to all of those critics who complained that he couldn't sing. He replied, in his drawl "You know, if you listen to all those records, I actually do hit all those notes..."
That brings to mind a funny clip I heard a few years back from an interview with Dylan, though. The interviewer asked him how he would respond to all of those critics who complained that he couldn't sing. He replied, in his drawl "You know, if you listen to all those records, I actually do hit all those notes..."
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Albums youve bought for one specific song, and then discovered that it was the only song on the album that you liked.
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