I fucking LOVE the music, Dave Knudson is a hero of mine, but that spanner drawling on tunelessly about how cool and bohemian his life is makes me a saaaaaaaaad panda.
I can see why they would start to annoy people when they write long songs without much break from his voice which can sound like a bit of a parody of a large man barking sometimes. They generally work better when played off other vocals, like in Queen of Hearts.
I think his vocals are great, but they are probably the weakest part of the band? He makes up for it by being a charismatic stage presence and all-around top bloke but yeah
Decent band there, solid rhythm section. Bono isn't a great lyricist, I don't like his voice much tbf. So take the other three and chuck any other singer on top, and you've got a winner. Bono can go be a private equity guy (his firm made something like $1.5bn from the Facebook IPO), and Chris Cornell can front U2 instead. Call it SoU2dgarden. WIN.
I swear, I increasingly find that I'll hear about some hot new band, the description sounds like exactly the kind of stuff I'm into, the song starts, the music's doing it for me and then... flop, Bland Vocalist X starts warbling away and I lose all interest...
I like Rodger Daltrey but he was the weak link. I'd also love to hear what Led Zeppelin would sound like if they went with their original choice of Steve Marriot
Plant's classic, and integral to the LZ sound, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be improved on.
Personally I like his voice, but often hate his little embellishments & vocal stylings, which probably sounded cool in 1975 but can be really toe-curling these days. All the bay-be bay-be bay-bes and uh-uh-uh-uhs, to say nothing of the thoughtful asides where he ruminates on the profundity of his own (desperately shitty) lyrics. Think the version of Stairway To Heaven on The Song Remains the Same soundtrack.
I mean he's OK, but generally speaking if there's a moment in a Led Zep song where I'm having problems (and there are plenty of those), it's always because of something Plant's doing.
I'm not saying I don't love them, but I'd love them a whole lot more if they stopped inviting Horace Andy doing that warbly voice thing on their albums.
Primal Scream
what???
Steve from TAAS is incredible.
Gareth from NCF is great :(
James Blunt
Neutral Milk Hotel
good call
on NMH
Hope of the States
oasis
Hope of the States is Right
they would have been so much better without the out of tune croaky vocals stuck on top of some really good music.
He has the same singing voice as Frank Skinner
bizarre mid-Atlantic out of tune thing
Jeff Mangum's voice is the soul of NMH.
When his voice cracks on a high note - that's why we listen to it in the first place!
People are strange.
You don't like tom
from forward russia?
WILD BEASTS
weirdly
without the crazy voice man I'd never have paid them any attention.
wild beasts yes
Wild Beasts 2 vocalists make them even better
the way they play off each other on Reach a Bit Further is fucking beautiful. God I love them both.
Hayden's voice on His Grinning Skull is fucking amazing.
Los Campesinos, Bloc Party
& plenty of emo bands could be good with less whiney/hackneyed singers.
Oh, on the flip side, I'd like Ryan Adams more if he fired The Cardinals
If...
A Silver Mt. Zion could tell Efrim to shut the fuck up, and just play his guitar, i'd be a much bigger fan these days.
Razorlight
If they fucked Borrell off (and he took his tunes with him)
the world would be a better place
without borrell.
What you are hinting at would turn him into a Martyr.
Would you really want that?
the smiths
:O
i'm inclined to agree
i like the songs but morriseys voice and pervading smugness is something which i'm rarely in the mood for
I think you're confusing intelligence with smugness
Surely one of The most insecure, self-deprecating artists around?
I don't normally say this
but you are batshit crazy.
dans in agreement shocker
another dan here
adding to agreement shocker
:D
Deerhoof is a good call.
something comforting about seeing a thread, instantly thinking of a response in your mind
and then realising the thread is three and a half years old and you posted the exact same response at the time.
The Dismemberment Plan?!
Are you freaking nuts?
I love his stuttering falsetto. It's like the guy from Shudder To Think. Brilliant vocals.
I also disagree with Los Camp- I quite like the vocals, it's the plinky keys, violin and xylophone which annoy me beyond belief most of the time.
I might like Volcano! a whole lot more if their vocalist wasn't so awful.
I do, in the Los Camp case,
struggle to separate all those horrid diy-indie factors out from one another sometimes...
^ The singer from D-Plan is the best bit!
Someone needs to make them reform now.
i love the vocals
in the Dismemberment Plan and Johnny Foreigner. Although I can see how the latter might be an acquired taste.
I've learned to live with the vocals in the Wave Pictures but they still make it hard to listen to more than a few songs at once.
Deerhoof
seconded
this is what i would have said
silly
devourment
i'd like rolo tomassi more if they fired their synth player
Lovvers
you srs?!
yh i don't like his voice
it sounds really emo live
This thread is basically:
"I'd like band X if they weren't actually band X".
Very odd.
no it's not.
for example, the smiths: a lot of people like johnny marr's arrangements but can't abide morrissey. i find this perfectly understandable
I knew some people would say Wild Beasts
Personally, I don't think they'd be half as good without that singer.
marmite
MINUS THE BEAR MINUS THE BEAR MINUS THE BEAR
I fucking LOVE the music, Dave Knudson is a hero of mine, but that spanner drawling on tunelessly about how cool and bohemian his life is makes me a saaaaaaaaad panda.
i can understand les savy fav
but just no.
And yes to art brut.
i second Fucked Up..
those songs are too looooooong for all that screaming/bellowing. there's a reason most good hardcore tracks are 2 minutes or less
No. Just no to Fucked Up.
Stop being wrong
He's fantastic, don't get why people dislike the vocals so much - it suits the music perfectly.
Damian's vocals are incredibly limited
I can see why they would start to annoy people when they write long songs without much break from his voice which can sound like a bit of a parody of a large man barking sometimes. They generally work better when played off other vocals, like in Queen of Hearts.
I think his vocals are great, but they are probably the weakest part of the band? He makes up for it by being a charismatic stage presence and all-around top bloke but yeah
thats pretty much exactly how i feel
dragonforce
their singer is rubbish!
FOALS!!!!!!!!!
Limp Bizkit
Not joking...
U2
Decent band there, solid rhythm section. Bono isn't a great lyricist, I don't like his voice much tbf. So take the other three and chuck any other singer on top, and you've got a winner. Bono can go be a private equity guy (his firm made something like $1.5bn from the Facebook IPO), and Chris Cornell can front U2 instead. Call it SoU2dgarden. WIN.
Wu Lyf
Wild Beasts
The Cure
Radiohead
Guns 'n' Roses
I know this is an old thread (why is IvanIvanov doing all this bumping?) but I don't really care.
Ivan has to be an old user right?
Yeah, maybe
Most of 'em
I swear, I increasingly find that I'll hear about some hot new band, the description sounds like exactly the kind of stuff I'm into, the song starts, the music's doing it for me and then... flop, Bland Vocalist X starts warbling away and I lose all interest...
Rage Against The Machine
were so much better as Audioslave
The Verve
The Cure would make a great instrumental band
Mogwai certainly thought so
Led Zeppelin
I don't own anything by 3 of these bands
God knows what this relic was all about...
Radiohead
Seriously
Led Zep is a surprisingly good call too
Frightened Rabbit
The Who
I like Rodger Daltrey but he was the weak link. I'd also love to hear what Led Zeppelin would sound like if they went with their original choice of Steve Marriot
Talk Talk
If by "fired" you mean "shot out of a circus cannon point-blank into a brick wall and then hosed off the wall by homeless tramps pissing on it & finally washed down a stormwater drain while Aerosmith blares from a massive PA and cheering crowds celebrate
I'll go with U2
all kinds of wrong in this thread
Stone Roses
good call
Beaten to the punch by a good 4 years,
but HOTS is my stock answer for this.
Editors
Motley
Crue.
And Rod Stewart.
Also,
Led Zep without Plant would be a fucking disaster. Stop being silly.
Not silly at all
Plant's classic, and integral to the LZ sound, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be improved on.
Personally I like his voice, but often hate his little embellishments & vocal stylings, which probably sounded cool in 1975 but can be really toe-curling these days. All the bay-be bay-be bay-bes and uh-uh-uh-uhs, to say nothing of the thoughtful asides where he ruminates on the profundity of his own (desperately shitty) lyrics. Think the version of Stairway To Heaven on The Song Remains the Same soundtrack.
I mean he's OK, but generally speaking if there's a moment in a Led Zep song where I'm having problems (and there are plenty of those), it's always because of something Plant's doing.
Florence and that there machine, by there, that's it....
....her.
The Strange Death of Liberal England
would be so much better if Adam Woolway stopped trying to be Win Butler.
Laurel Halo
M People
Womack and Womack
Dingus Khan
Massive Attack
I'm not saying I don't love them, but I'd love them a whole lot more if they stopped inviting Horace Andy doing that warbly voice thing on their albums.
The Jam
Shit-hot rhythm section, then they go & let that prick Weller stick his horrible Arthur Mullard-esque bellow all over the top. Awful.
The Jam
Shit-hot rhythm section, then they go & let that prick Weller stick his horrible Arthur Mullard-esque bellow all over the top. Awful.