I'm not into squeaky helium voices.

Hm. Not sure I know what you mean. Really beautiful and very melodic voice. To each their own I guess.

Modern oasis with Liam at live shows.

Oh, I thought of a good one... the Fuckemos. I kinda like the low-pitched voice but not over the course of a whole album haha.

She sounds like a cartoon character to me.
Their drummer is great, though.

I always found Deerhoof's music to be very cartoony (in a good way.) The vocals are fitting, if you ask me.

They remind me of the fellows in your signature. Albeit not as good.

I dunno, one of my favorite genres of music is J-Pop, so I guess her voice doesn't strike me as anything too squeaky or annoying.

I just thought of the perfect one.. TORA! TORA! TORRANCE! Pissy, noisey, mean, slashing, creative fast college rock with two sharp contrasting guitars, an amazing rhythm section.. just really a great, high-energy band. With the worst vocalist I've EVER HEARD. EVER.

Limp Bizkit. I don't care what anyone says. The bassist/drummer/guitarist of this band really had something special going on. Even though the band sucks, if you pay attention musically, there's a lot of interesting riffs and such... certainly moreso than most mainstream bands. But Fred Durst is terrible.

I love the Black Eyes.

Few are. :cool:

In Reverse surely? The songs are average but Liam is a really good singer.

Anyway, too few bands realise that being technically good musically should not have to extend to your singer, i hate it when the vocals on an otherwise decent rock song are given the studio sheen treatment in order to be passable for radio; See The Killers or Maximo Park.

I really like his timbre as it's pretty unique. He's indeed a bad singer in the sense that he's nearly always out of tune live.

The Beatles when Ringo sings :D

Joy Division.

Ian's timbre is beautiful but I guess that on a technical level the voice is very far from perfect.

Neil Young. He kinda has a duck voice but that doesn't prevent it from being moving on his best songs.

Television. Verlaine is far from great technically (on the vids you can see how he struggles in order to sing as best as he can), but his voice suits the music.

I think this thread is about vocalists whose voices can ruin the music, not vocalists who don't have technically good voices, but still fit in with the music.

she does a great national anthem, and she sings the great songs anyway
but yeah think you're right
an over the top preaching Jim Morrison can still irritate me

Exactly, Death and the Maiden.

I should have called it "good bad, shitty VOCALIST".

Or "shitty frontman"

Ok, so only Ringo fits :D

i like slipknot's first album. its totally unpretentious straight up metal. and loud. and heavy. and the last song borders on tribal psychedelic noise, all those yelps and screams and percussion.

Die! Die! Die! has a very irritating singer.

surely you must be kidding. ian curtis and neil young!!! ian has one of the most sound appropriate voices of all time, somber, low, atmospheric, and totally beautiful! and neil young, that whiny falsetto that is capable of leading the saddest ballads as well as the most fist pumping excellent hard rock songs! two of the best male vocalists of all time.

i got one; yoko ono. the music is usually pretty interesting, but i HATE her voice. i know some find it creative of different or appropriate to the music, but i just find it deliberate, annoying, and cringe inducing.

Agreed. I actually found her debut to be surprisingly quite good, but I doubt I'll listen to it any more since I just can't stand her voice.

did anyone else see gang gang dance at summerstage yesterday?...there you go...

I love Kyuss musically, but the vocals have always been a problem for me.

I love their voices but that doesn't prevent me from noticing their strong technical limitations. I mean good voice doesn't equal good singing. But off course then technique is not what matters most in order to appreciate music.

And as was already said I misundertood what the thread was about so my references to Curtis and Young were off topic anyway.

I was kinda thinking Kyuss too.

Usually the vocals are fine but sometimes they can be distracting...

I find Kyuss' vocals to be bland and extremely off-putting.

I don't mind 'em.

I don't mind them either. I think Kyuss are one of those few bands where that kind of vocals really works.

He actually sounded very good when I saw them. And the new band members did too. It was a pleasant surprise.

In my view, the "good band, bad singer" phenom pervades most music today. Most are incredibly bad lyricists to boot.

atari2600 - I hate the studio/live "autotune" thing for vocalists - if you can't sing in the first place, any amount of technology isn't going to save your hide.

The Sick Lipstick.

Awesome music; kinda no wave meets new wave or something... actually, it reminds me of the sound Wire had on "Send".. that really overprocessed sound... but with a no wave kind of sound...

But with the brattiest, cattiest, riot grrlish, loudest, most annoying vocals ever that dominate every song and automatically makes the whole band seem shitty.

An aside, but a guy at dime trades with the tour manager for Smashing Pumpkins and Billy ended up requesting some Booker T & the MGs. Some was used for the pre-show music.

this is probably an unpopular opinion but when i heard the new Suishou No Fune i couldnt get past how amazing the music would be without their singer...

:(:(:(

I think Pirako is great!