The Mellotron Group

Listening to The Strawbs on Last FM got me thinking about voices that I initially 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

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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, when you 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. A colleague and I now try to insert Jon's words into boring meetings at every opportunity, just to see if they can get into the minutes. 'So when will this project be ready?' 'Oh...ten true summers or so'. 'And how will you know?' 'We have a plan....and assessing points to nowhere, leading every single one.' 'Are you feeling okay, Mike?' 'Oh...I get up, I get down....'
Lou Reed: It used to be great but has sort of fallen apart a tad recently. Instead of reciting his lyrics he now seems to do synchopated groaning.

I appreciate now, but did not used to:

David Surkamp - an absurd noise to come out of a man's face, although I don'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 a tractor over a heavily ploughed field with small weights tied to his scrotum' (Milligan)
Justin Hawkins - his greatest offence is thinking he can sing and doing his awful and inappropriate vocal pyrotchnics to show off that delusion. I'm sure it sounded great singing along to Queen records in your bedroom into a hairbrush, Justin. Just keep it there.
Whitney Houston - even in her pre-crackpipe days, once you realised she sang a quarter tone flat all the time and made up for it by that hellacious warbling you just cannot focus on anything else. Her voice is like fingernails scraping down a blackboard for me.
Mariah Carey - As above. No, really.
Janis Joplin: I just don't get it
Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies) - it just makes me laugh. When I worked in a pub that's the sort of voice I'd hear from 15 year olds trying 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 I initially 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

'So when will this project be ready?'
'Not right away, not right away'.

'Can you be more specific?'
'Seasons will pass you by.'.

'Are you feeling okay, Mike?'
'I feel lost in the city'

----- Original Message -----

From: MAinPsych@aol.com

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:53 AM

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic annoying voices

In a message dated 2/18/2009 10:08:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, lsf5275@aol. com writes:

I've never particularly liked Cher's voice. Sonny's either, for that matter. Interesting point though.

Voices I didn't care for then AND now:

Eddie Vedder

Geddy Lee

I'm too horrified to think of a band with both Eddie and Geddy.

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Learnt to hate:

Greg Lake

Lend Your Love to me Tonight.......

And I'd like to include Glenn Hughes for consideration

Vance

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lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

>
> Well, how else are you going to get on top of your sadness and madness?
>
> In a message dated 2/20/2009 8:39:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> john.wright@consona.com writes:
>
> What always bugged me was:
>
> "Every day a little sadder
> A little madder
> Someone get me a ladder"
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> You can't always choose whom you love, but you can choose how to find
> them. *Start with AOL Personals.
> <http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000002>*
>
>

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Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

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with all the brass and hand cranks, Mike, I thought I was looking at
crewmen on the Nautilus at first.
Damned clever of that Nemo to stock in the finest scotch made.


Mike Dickson wrote:

>
> http://www.laphroaig.com/ <http://www.laphroaig.com/>
>
> l <mailto:lsf5275%40aol.com>
>

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To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
From: lsf5275@aol.com
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:58:22 -0500
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic annoying voices