I appreciate now and always will:
Fred Mercury
Roy Orbison
John Lennon
Jacques Brel
Ella Fitzgerald
Colin Blunstone
I once appreciated but then realised my folly:Greg Lake: Everything just sounds the damned same, Greg. Mind you, whenyou have a 14 note range, you're bound to be a bit 'Ringo-bound',aren't you?
Peter Hammill: He just strikes me as an
arse now
Jon Anderson: Maybe not just the voice, but those lyrics too. Acolleague and I now try to insert Jon's words into boring meetings atevery opportunity, just to see if they can get into the minutes. 'Sowhen will this project be ready?' 'Oh...ten true summers or so'. 'Andhow will you know?' 'We have a plan....and assessing points to nowhere,leading every single one.' 'Are you feeling okay, Mike?' 'Oh...I getup, I get down....'
Lou Reed: It used to be great but has sort of fallen apart a tadrecently. Instead of reciting his lyrics he now seems to do synchopatedgroaning.
I appreciate now, but did not used to:David Surkamp - an absurd noise to come out of a man's face, although Idon't know I ever found it 'annoying' to begin with
Mika - his material is fairly shoddy though
Jandek - if you don't know, for pity's sake don't ask
I do not appreciate and never will:Roger Chapman - good god, that must be a joke; 'like a man driving atractor over a heavily ploughed field with small weights tied to hisscrotum' (Milligan)
Justin Hawkins - his greatest offence is thinking he can sing and doinghis awful and inappropriate vocal pyrotchnics to show off thatdelusion. I'm sure it sounded great singing along to Queen records inyour bedroom into a hairbrush, Justin. Just keep it there.
Whitney Houston - even in her pre-crackpipe days, once you realised shesang a quarter tone flat
all the time and made up for it bythat hellacious warbling you just cannot focus on anything else. Hervoice is like fingernails scraping down a blackboard for me.
Mariah Carey - As above. No, really.
Janis Joplin: I just
don't get itBrad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies) - it just makes me laugh. When Iworked in a pub that's the sort of voice I'd hear from 15 year oldstrying to pretend they were eighteen so they could buy snakebite.
Mike
Mark Pring wrote:
Listening to The Strawbs on Last FM got me thinking about voices that Iinitially found annoying but later learnt to love.
For Example:
Chris Farlowe
Nick Drake
Kate McGarrigle
Anna McGarrigle
Woolly ( love might be a bit over the top )
Billie Holiday
Joni Mitchell ( more tolerate)
Howlin' Wolf
Peter Gabriel
Too difficult:
Jon Anderson
Robert Plant
Phil Collins
Dave Cousins
Learnt to hate:
James Taylor
Greg Lake