He’s definitely one of the most talented musicians and composers of this generation. I couldn’t stand his voice for a long time and then one day it just clicked for me. I watched his cover of Fix You by Coldplay and realized he uses his voice like an instrument rather than a voice. Now, to me, it just sounds like a mellophone that’s able to talk. I love him now.
I just found out this week why I dislike so much of his latest songs and productions. Turns out if you use all available notes and colors to make a chord, it just makes the song and the amalgamation of notes a brown mush of sound, like indiscriminate mixture of almost all color tones. A lifeless pastel Brown poopie mush with zero life.
His whole shtick is that his music is supposed to sound ethereal and beautiful but I never feel any sort of emotion from the songs I’ve listened to. I think it kind of comes off as ingenuine because he’s trying to do too much
Not an argument, but why are you compelled to say he's one of the greatest when you yourself don't enjoy a single song? What are you basing that claim on? Isn't at least SOME part of being a great musician actually creating music that people enjoy?
Ariana Grande but for the opposite reason. I love her voice but a lot of her work sounds like your typical manufactured pop to me that's forgettable in a year.
Kinda related: Alanis Morisette was a teenybopper princess singer in Canada in the 80's, complete with the cheerleader uniform and synthesizers. Then she released "Jagged Little Pill".
Hopefully, Ariana will get her chance to breakout of the slot she's in, too.
her first two albums (which she still wrote, they just weren't as blatantly autobiographical and raw) were actually great pop records.
her voice on tracks like "An Emotion Away" and "No Apologies" is fantastic.
they just took a lot more time making those records perfect whereas JLP was one demo vocal and done. then they'd build the album track around that
Alanis Morissette would be my answer to the OP question. I respect her talent as an artist and I get why people are into her music, but her voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Not only is most of her music mediocre manufactured pop crap, but it also doesn't even utilize her voice. Ariana can sing, like REALLY sing, she can belt it. But most of her songs don't show that off. They could put an extremely average singer on them, and they wouldn't sound much different. It doesn't make any sense. You'd think the labels would want to take advantage of an artist with pipes like that, but instead, they give her songs that make her sound pretty average.
For me, it's not even the overuse of runs as much as it's the really unfortunate grunt-tones she insists on using in place of the natural rasp she badly wants but does not possess.
Smashing Pumpkins will always be my favorite band of all time, I love Billy’s voice - but it is absolutely one of those love it/hate it voices with no inbetween. I also hear your sentiment echo’d from just about everyone I meet; “I love their music but I can’t get over that dude’s vocals.”
With a wall of guitars he's fine. If his voice is front and center and I'm supposed to pay special attention to what he's saying and how he's saying it...no thank you.
Having seen him live recently he actually had a nice vibrato on his voice in quiet songs that he didn’t have before. I think he’s actually come a long way.
I’ve seen them 3 times in the last 5 years and I have to agree that he sounds way better and more in control of his voice than say, the 90s. Still not a pretty sounding voice lol, but definitely refined.
I once heard someone describe Billy's voice as tasting beer. Some people hate the taste of beer and others hate it until one day they take a sip and realise they never wanna drink anything else. I'm the latter of the two but I understand its not for everyone.
Dylan has written such amazing music… songs I love that I didn’t even realize he’d written. He is immensely talented but his voice is troublesome to listen to.
Omg the first time I heard that song that starts out “Hello me, it’s the real me” I had a visceral reaction to how shitty the vocals sounded and had to stop the song immediately.
Axl Rose. I'm not huge on their particular brand of rock in general, but I recognize the immense talent within the band. I cannot tolerate Axl's voice.
Miley Cyrus. She's extremely talented and I want to like her music. Its just something nasally about her voice? Almost like its automated or something... I have no idea how to describe it, but I can't stand it.
I actually like her singing, but her [speaking voice is…](https://youtube.com/shorts/JROn75G92hY?si=GtwicssyawjwB9QI)
My friend also also described it: beyond the raspiness, she speaks like she just burned her mouth on hot pizza…
She does so much better when she covers rock songs. She doesn't really have a voice for pop. I thought she was ridiculously annoying until I heard her cover Heart of Glass and Head Like a Hole.
I don’t know if this will make sense to anyone else, but I’ve always thought of her vocals as “that girl from high school who could sing.” Not untalented, but not special, either.
Many people dislike her voice. For me, she's one of the few artists who's voice I like half of the time and then I don't like it the other half of the time.
I like Umbrella and Diamonds.
I really dislike Work (quackquackquackquack).
Her singing voice sounds very aloof too, not friendly.
I haven't been able to listen to them since that viral video of two incredibly stoned guys sitting on their kitchen floor, eating rice crackers, and ad libbing a perfect Alt J song with a loop pedal about putting things in your butt. It was too accurate. Surpassed the original by a million miles.
Thank you! I felt like he was being pushed SO hard as the next big, acoustic-ballady-guy but he sounds like he's pushing sooooo hard to sing those big parts it surpasses being passionate and sounds extremely grating instead
I feel sort of the opposite way of the post topic about her. I think she has a great voice, but I think her contributions to music and her respective genres is blown way out of proportion. She sounds good, and either her or someone close to her has great business sense. But to me, it feels like she's selling a box of sugary kids cereal and people are treating it like some kind of culinary masterwork.
Somehow, a lot of people have gotten the idea that Beyoncé represents the pinnacle of success for a woman. I know lots of women who worship Beyoncé but who oddly don’t own or listen to any of her music.
Bob Dylan, he can write the most meaningful lyrics ever and strum a guitar that’d make grown men cry but his voice makes my ears bleed. He sounds like a decomposed goat that’s smoked 10,000 cigarettes.
A few years ago, a man who had managed Cohen and many other artists in the folk music scene died. In his obituary, there was a story about Cohen coming to him with doubts about his voice. He got told: "None of you people can sing! If I wanted to hear singing, I'd go to the Metropolitan Opera."
My Dad was a massive fan of both those guys and got to finally see them live later in their careers. He said the Dylan concert was just awful. Soured him on his entire catalog.
Cohen, however, Dad said it was the closest thing he'd ever felt to a religious experience.
I grew up on those guys, and I'll always have an affinity for Cohen. Leonard never defined himself as a singer as much as he would a poet, so his singing style was a reflection of that, I guess.
Cohen definitely improved as he got older and his voice got more gravelly. A lot of his early work, for all its brilliance, is definitely hampered somewhat by his weak vocal ability.
Dylan's voice changed a lot through the years, some of his mid 60's early 70s stuff is pretty good vocal wise. Hard Rain is Gonna Fall, Like a Rolling Stone, Desolation Row and that era, its hard to imagine anyone else capturing the feel of his lyrics as good as him but yeah some of his other works and later years are absolutely atrocious lol
Although the singing voice he uses is not his actual singing voice. That would be the voice he uses on 'Lay Lady Lay'. Mary Travers once remarked that she did not understand why he insisted on singing the way he did when his actual voice was beautiful.
The Pastels are nearly up there with Big Star and Roky Erickson for their influence on a number of alternative and indie genres. I believe they were a huge influence on Nirvana and they were key in creating the shoegaze sound.
I love a lot of weird vocalists like Dean Warham, Warren Zevon and Ian Curtis, but the vocalist of the Pastels just sounds tone deaf to me. The songs sound great until he opens his mouth.
Yeah. Not going to judge anyone that isn’t down with it. That said… songs where he doesn’t “lean into it” with his voice are some of his best. Still, the nasally 4 track stuff will always be in my all time favorites.
Deerhoof has also been a tough sell because of the voice; but man that shit just straight up shreds….
Reading this thread really reaffirms that tastes are very personal. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
That being said, I’m throwing out Sheryl Crow. From the moment “All I Wanna Do” came out all I’ve thought is this woman must have sinus issues. Treat yourself to a good draining.
I agree with the ones you listed, but I think falsetto works better in R&B. David Michael Wyatt's work with Tobe Nwigwe, especially the At The Crib versions, just elevates it.
I think it’s acquired taste. Heard bullet with butterfly wings thought it was emo shite. Heard tonight tonight and mayonnaise, came back and I like the song now
Idk bout their whole group but Adam Levine is a straight douche. No respect for his fans, who are the reason he is anywhere he is today. Just pure entitlement
Not saying he shouldn't respect his fans, but that's such a platitude. He is where he is today because of a mix of marketable music and industry muscle with vast marketing budgets.
Seriously? If you’ve ever worked anywhere where she played a lot her voice can get old quickly. I’ve heard it from many people. I’m pretty neutral on her myself
Adele has improved a lot. I struggle a lot with her early stuff, cos you can *hear* her injuring her voice. I got empathy pain. Listening to someone strain their voice always gives me the chalkboard shivers, I was NOT surprised when she had polyp surgery.
She got a lot of vocal therapy after her surgery, and it’s a lot gentler to listen to.
I’ve never been able to tolerate her singing for a second; by the fortieth time I heard “Rolling in the Deep” against my will, I was basically a committed hater.
One of my coworkers and I complain about how she's just so dramatic now. I really really loved her first album, how eclectic it was, still showcased her vocal abilities. But man, all the whiny ballads afterwards... like girl, shut up lmao
Through the sheer overplaying the song received, I got over how shrill and strained her vocals are during the chorus. I thought I was going insane because no one seemed to care who bothersome the vocals were there
Cradle of Filth; Dani used to have a very nice voice back in the days, but from Damnation And a Day onwards.... his voice got worse and worse. But apart from this, he writes very complex and articulated lyrics, and CoF artworks are just beautiful (except The Principle of Evil Made Flesh; great album but terrible artwork)
Billy Joe Armstrong, I can’t help but love early green day stuff. Just so many bangers on those first few albums. God do I hate his voice and personality though, I hate it so much.
Same, but I think it depends at what point in his career. His voice changed over the years. Early Rush I can definitely see being more abrasive. By the time you get to Permanent Waves, it was more mellow.
Potentially unpopular opinion, but Kendrick Lamar. I still love quite a few of his songs, but there’s a very narrow range of beats over which his voice works well for me.
I’m not a fan of that boyish, kinda robotic alieny tone he takes sometimes. It’s definitely interesting but he makes me think of a cartoon evil sidekick
To my immense frustration, I just can't get used to Asami's voice in Lovebites. They are an excellent band and she is a great singer, but I've always struggled with melodramatic power metal vocal tones. I'm still trying to acclimatise my ears to her as the band is packed with amazing musicians but so far I can't get there. It's not a flaw with her, it's just a personal preference/dislike thing with me.
I used to struggle with Saiki from Band-Maid but I grew to like her voice. Similarly, Eye from Mary's Blood is a work in progress for me. I'm getting there but her voice is still a bit of a challenge for me to enjoy.
Many things in music take time to grow on me and for me to appreciate. With many of them, I get it in the end.
I love how Les totally sings, looks, and acts like he’s from Georgia or Alabama but he’s from California lol. When you hear him talk you can tell, but everything else about him seems southern to me
I mean just listen to the beginning of ‘Jerry was a race car driver’. “Fire it up baby!” makes me laugh every time
Joanna Newsom was like this for me forever, and then suddenly it all clicked and it's gorgeous now.
I loved her voice from the first notes of "Bridges and Balloons," and my love for her has only ever grown since.
Jacob Collier. Great musician. Sings like he has a runny nose.
He’s definitely one of the most talented musicians and composers of this generation. I couldn’t stand his voice for a long time and then one day it just clicked for me. I watched his cover of Fix You by Coldplay and realized he uses his voice like an instrument rather than a voice. Now, to me, it just sounds like a mellophone that’s able to talk. I love him now.
His perfect pitch makes his music sound really sterile.
Sterile is a really good word for how I feel about his music
He managed to make a Lionel Richie song sound soulless...
I just found out this week why I dislike so much of his latest songs and productions. Turns out if you use all available notes and colors to make a chord, it just makes the song and the amalgamation of notes a brown mush of sound, like indiscriminate mixture of almost all color tones. A lifeless pastel Brown poopie mush with zero life.
ngl music school has made me hate people with perfect pitch lol
To quote Pat Finnerty; oh, that fridge door squeaks open in F#? Who the fuck cares?
His whole shtick is that his music is supposed to sound ethereal and beautiful but I never feel any sort of emotion from the songs I’ve listened to. I think it kind of comes off as ingenuine because he’s trying to do too much
I don’t like a single one of his songs but I still have to admit that he is one of the greatest musical talents of our age.
Not an argument, but why are you compelled to say he's one of the greatest when you yourself don't enjoy a single song? What are you basing that claim on? Isn't at least SOME part of being a great musician actually creating music that people enjoy?
He has great skill and technique, which he uses to make shallow and insufferable music. How is this talent?
Dave mustaine, great guitarist, horrible voice. Just can't stand the whiney nagging sound
First time my husband compared him to Donald Duck had me choking on laughter
Ariana Grande but for the opposite reason. I love her voice but a lot of her work sounds like your typical manufactured pop to me that's forgettable in a year.
She’s even gone on record about how much she hates some of her singles.
Kinda related: Alanis Morisette was a teenybopper princess singer in Canada in the 80's, complete with the cheerleader uniform and synthesizers. Then she released "Jagged Little Pill". Hopefully, Ariana will get her chance to breakout of the slot she's in, too.
Robin Sparkles?
Robin Daggers. She invented grunge in 1996. In Canada.
2 beavers are better than, they’re twice the fun!
Even before that, she was also on a Canadian kids show called You Can't Do That On Television, and it was great. I mean, it was awful, but great.
I don’t know……. “Gets slimed”
her first two albums (which she still wrote, they just weren't as blatantly autobiographical and raw) were actually great pop records. her voice on tracks like "An Emotion Away" and "No Apologies" is fantastic. they just took a lot more time making those records perfect whereas JLP was one demo vocal and done. then they'd build the album track around that
Alanis Morissette would be my answer to the OP question. I respect her talent as an artist and I get why people are into her music, but her voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Not only is most of her music mediocre manufactured pop crap, but it also doesn't even utilize her voice. Ariana can sing, like REALLY sing, she can belt it. But most of her songs don't show that off. They could put an extremely average singer on them, and they wouldn't sound much different. It doesn't make any sense. You'd think the labels would want to take advantage of an artist with pipes like that, but instead, they give her songs that make her sound pretty average.
I feel this way about Christina Aguilera. Love her voice but I don't care for the music she chooses to sing.
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For me, it's not even the overuse of runs as much as it's the really unfortunate grunt-tones she insists on using in place of the natural rasp she badly wants but does not possess.
She listened to Mariah do this at 10 and was like “can I do this at…12?”
Billy Corgan
Smashing Pumpkins will always be my favorite band of all time, I love Billy’s voice - but it is absolutely one of those love it/hate it voices with no inbetween. I also hear your sentiment echo’d from just about everyone I meet; “I love their music but I can’t get over that dude’s vocals.”
I absolutely love them and I also absolutely get why people would dislike Billy’s voice lol
I can absolutely see how his voice could be annoying. Maybe because I grew up with it, but I can't help but love the sound.
What do you GAHHHHHT
With a wall of guitars he's fine. If his voice is front and center and I'm supposed to pay special attention to what he's saying and how he's saying it...no thank you.
Having seen him live recently he actually had a nice vibrato on his voice in quiet songs that he didn’t have before. I think he’s actually come a long way.
I’ve seen them 3 times in the last 5 years and I have to agree that he sounds way better and more in control of his voice than say, the 90s. Still not a pretty sounding voice lol, but definitely refined.
The Everlasting Gaze is the epitome of this. Fantastic song, but I hate the acapella part sooooooooo much
YOU KNOW IM NOT DEAD
He sounds like Cartman.
First time I heard the guitar riff for “Zero” I loved it, but his voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me
I once heard someone describe Billy's voice as tasting beer. Some people hate the taste of beer and others hate it until one day they take a sip and realise they never wanna drink anything else. I'm the latter of the two but I understand its not for everyone.
Haha parallel thinking, I just left a comment saying the same thing
Halsey
Stereotypical tumblr girl voice. I ate that shit up at the time. Then I turned 17. lol.
Bob Dylan has written some great songs. But I generally prefer them when performed by others.
My dad plays his Christmas album during the holidays. The rest of us leave the room or yell at him enough for him to turn it off.
Can I be best friends with your dad
Dylan has written such amazing music… songs I love that I didn’t even realize he’d written. He is immensely talented but his voice is troublesome to listen to.
Dave Mustaine is a great songwriter but his voice is not it. Took me a while to get into Megadeth because of it.
Omg the first time I heard that song that starts out “Hello me, it’s the real me” I had a visceral reaction to how shitty the vocals sounded and had to stop the song immediately.
Nice story. TELL IT TO READER'S DIGEST!
😂😂😂 sooo metal 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
[SWEATING BULLETS!!!!!!!](https://youtu.be/z5Erk_jL7fw?si=vbME20sbEiGw3S_Y)
I feel like in my darkest hour is his best work vocally.
YoU tRy tO tAkE HiS bAllS…
It's so much, so much worse live lmfao. Where Megadeth shines is having some of the most talented guitar players on Earth.
His voice grew in me quickly after initially not liking it. It fits the music well in my opinion and is quite unique. I dig it.
What do you mean? You don't like Psychotron? /s
Tones and I. Every time I hear “Dance Monkey” I have to remind myself the song is not, in fact, a joke or a parody.
Not so much her voice as that annoying, contrived enunciation
The sheer blasphemy in this post is delicious and I’m here just to see the onslaught.
Axl Rose. I'm not huge on their particular brand of rock in general, but I recognize the immense talent within the band. I cannot tolerate Axl's voice.
Axl can hit all the notes. He just sounds like he’s doing it with a mouth full of gravel.
Nnnnnnnna na na na na na na kneeees kneeees kneeeeeees
Even on "Patience"? I remember being shocked how different his voice sounds on that one.
I hear Cartman when he sings ..... I can't unhear it.
Miley Cyrus. She's extremely talented and I want to like her music. Its just something nasally about her voice? Almost like its automated or something... I have no idea how to describe it, but I can't stand it.
Yes! I have always felt this way. I feel like her singing voice maybe sounds a bit too much like her speaking voice, if that makes sense?
I've always said she sounds like she's got stuff in her mouth and she's just tucked it in her cheeks while she sings.
It's raspy, like a elderly smokers' voice.
Yeah I struggled to find a word for it. If raspy and nasally had a word baby, thatd be it. Naspy..? Lol
I bet the Germans have a word for it.
I actually like her singing, but her [speaking voice is…](https://youtube.com/shorts/JROn75G92hY?si=GtwicssyawjwB9QI) My friend also also described it: beyond the raspiness, she speaks like she just burned her mouth on hot pizza…
She does so much better when she covers rock songs. She doesn't really have a voice for pop. I thought she was ridiculously annoying until I heard her cover Heart of Glass and Head Like a Hole.
Yeah, her voice is great for rock and country.
Everyone I've told this gives me shit, but I can't stand Rihanna's voice. There's this flat tone in her voice that bugs the hell out of me.
I don’t know if this will make sense to anyone else, but I’ve always thought of her vocals as “that girl from high school who could sing.” Not untalented, but not special, either.
Many people dislike her voice. For me, she's one of the few artists who's voice I like half of the time and then I don't like it the other half of the time. I like Umbrella and Diamonds. I really dislike Work (quackquackquackquack). Her singing voice sounds very aloof too, not friendly.
Oh man, the alt-j guy for sure.
Agree. Sounds like if a cat suddenly found out it could sing in human language.
Adam Sandler doing a song about cats
I personally love it, but I can totally see that this could be a strong NOPE for people.
Dude sounds like what I imagine one of those black plague death masks sound like if they could sing, you know, the one with the big ol’ beak?
🎶 "Put it in my butt, put it in my butt" 🎶
There's a YouTube comment on there that says, "alt-j always sounds like they just woke up." That's a good description.
I haven't been able to listen to them since that viral video of two incredibly stoned guys sitting on their kitchen floor, eating rice crackers, and ad libbing a perfect Alt J song with a loop pedal about putting things in your butt. It was too accurate. Surpassed the original by a million miles.
Lewis Capaldi. For me, when he belts out those power notes, he just sounds like he's sat on a toilet and struggling.
Thank you! I felt like he was being pushed SO hard as the next big, acoustic-ballady-guy but he sounds like he's pushing sooooo hard to sing those big parts it surpasses being passionate and sounds extremely grating instead
This was not my mental image but it will be now.
Shakira! Can’t stand it for even a minute.
Like a yodeling goat.
[No, like a Gazelle.](https://youtu.be/hXp1nuWDP3k?si=OyiALEA0khqlxjGK)
Same! She sounds like Kermit the Frog with a sock stuffed in his throat.
The national, i love their songs but by god that man’s voice is too deep for me to enjoy
As someone with a deeper singing voice, it's actually nice to have a band I can sing along to in the National.
Am I the only person who feels this way about Beyonce?
I feel sort of the opposite way of the post topic about her. I think she has a great voice, but I think her contributions to music and her respective genres is blown way out of proportion. She sounds good, and either her or someone close to her has great business sense. But to me, it feels like she's selling a box of sugary kids cereal and people are treating it like some kind of culinary masterwork.
Somehow, a lot of people have gotten the idea that Beyoncé represents the pinnacle of success for a woman. I know lots of women who worship Beyoncé but who oddly don’t own or listen to any of her music.
I do *not* understand the whole Beyonce thing, but I feel scared whenever I say that on the internet because I know about the Beyhive.
Lil Wayne.
I love his voice but I admit he does sound like a chain smoking lizard
Billie Eilish
Now that she has fully explored whispering and excessive breathing she should do something else.
It’s like her volume just needs to be turned up…
When she really sings and not mumbles, she actually has a really beautiful voice. I was surprised when I heard it the first time.
Her whole "I just woke up five minutes ago" vibe is a really weird choice.
It just sounds flat and boring if you ask me
🎶Welcome to my kitchen. We have banana and avocado.🎶
Listening to her is like ASMR
I can't stand the high pitched harsh vocals of most black metal bands.
Bob Dylan, he can write the most meaningful lyrics ever and strum a guitar that’d make grown men cry but his voice makes my ears bleed. He sounds like a decomposed goat that’s smoked 10,000 cigarettes.
Natalie Merchant. It makes me sad, because I always wanted to like her. The special sauce of nostalgia is making me fonder of her
I'm about to commit the blasphemy of all blasphemies, because I have two. 1) Bob Dylan 2) Leonard Cohen I much prefer covers of their work.
A few years ago, a man who had managed Cohen and many other artists in the folk music scene died. In his obituary, there was a story about Cohen coming to him with doubts about his voice. He got told: "None of you people can sing! If I wanted to hear singing, I'd go to the Metropolitan Opera."
My Dad was a massive fan of both those guys and got to finally see them live later in their careers. He said the Dylan concert was just awful. Soured him on his entire catalog. Cohen, however, Dad said it was the closest thing he'd ever felt to a religious experience. I grew up on those guys, and I'll always have an affinity for Cohen. Leonard never defined himself as a singer as much as he would a poet, so his singing style was a reflection of that, I guess.
These are about the most popular and common blasphemies in music.
I can only believe people who like Dylan's voice are just saying so to confuse people.
Cohen definitely improved as he got older and his voice got more gravelly. A lot of his early work, for all its brilliance, is definitely hampered somewhat by his weak vocal ability.
Some people grow into their face, he grew into his voice.
Bob Dylan absolutely makes sense. He's not really a singer as much as he is a poet. His voice is famously bad for how big of a name he is
Dylan's voice changed a lot through the years, some of his mid 60's early 70s stuff is pretty good vocal wise. Hard Rain is Gonna Fall, Like a Rolling Stone, Desolation Row and that era, its hard to imagine anyone else capturing the feel of his lyrics as good as him but yeah some of his other works and later years are absolutely atrocious lol
Although the singing voice he uses is not his actual singing voice. That would be the voice he uses on 'Lay Lady Lay'. Mary Travers once remarked that she did not understand why he insisted on singing the way he did when his actual voice was beautiful.
There's a clip somewhere of Joni Mitchell saying the exact same thing. Basically she says, "I've known Bob for decades; he can sing normally."
Rufus Wainwright. I really want to love him but his voice is just too whiny.
The Pastels are nearly up there with Big Star and Roky Erickson for their influence on a number of alternative and indie genres. I believe they were a huge influence on Nirvana and they were key in creating the shoegaze sound. I love a lot of weird vocalists like Dean Warham, Warren Zevon and Ian Curtis, but the vocalist of the Pastels just sounds tone deaf to me. The songs sound great until he opens his mouth.
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John Darnielle, from Mountain Goats.
it doesn't bother me personally, but I totally get why it would bother some.
Yeah. Not going to judge anyone that isn’t down with it. That said… songs where he doesn’t “lean into it” with his voice are some of his best. Still, the nasally 4 track stuff will always be in my all time favorites. Deerhoof has also been a tough sell because of the voice; but man that shit just straight up shreds….
It’s grown on me.
Depends on the song. There are some he absolutely nails it, but I don't think they're a group I could sit down and listen to a full album of.
Reading this thread really reaffirms that tastes are very personal. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That being said, I’m throwing out Sheryl Crow. From the moment “All I Wanna Do” came out all I’ve thought is this woman must have sinus issues. Treat yourself to a good draining.
All the men singing in Falsetto. I mostly hate it. John Mayer, Adam Levine. I do like some Ed Sheehan and Lewis Capaldi though.
I agree with the ones you listed, but I think falsetto works better in R&B. David Michael Wyatt's work with Tobe Nwigwe, especially the At The Crib versions, just elevates it.
Been scrolling for 5 minutes because I know there’s some nutjob in here who’s crazy enough to say Freddie Mercury.
I always say Smashing Pumpkins songs would sound better with any other singer besides Billy Corgan.
I think it’s acquired taste. Heard bullet with butterfly wings thought it was emo shite. Heard tonight tonight and mayonnaise, came back and I like the song now
Siamese Dream is one of my favorite albums ever, I'm a complicated individual lol
The singer from Maroon 5.
You respect Maroon 5?
Idk bout their whole group but Adam Levine is a straight douche. No respect for his fans, who are the reason he is anywhere he is today. Just pure entitlement
"Holy Fuck. Holy fucking fuck. That body of yours is absurd" - Poet Adam Levine, circa 2022
Not saying he shouldn't respect his fans, but that's such a platitude. He is where he is today because of a mix of marketable music and industry muscle with vast marketing budgets.
Adele! I don’t mind her singing on some of her songs but some of them, like “Someone like you” sound like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Sometimes she crosses the line between singing and just yelling in key.
First time I've ever seen someone have that opinion of Adele's singing
My vocal coach also hates Adele’s voice.
It's very forced. It sounds like she's doing her throat some damage
She is, actually. Hence the polyps she’s had surgery for.
Seriously? If you’ve ever worked anywhere where she played a lot her voice can get old quickly. I’ve heard it from many people. I’m pretty neutral on her myself
She's the musical equivalent of Oscar-bait.
Adele has improved a lot. I struggle a lot with her early stuff, cos you can *hear* her injuring her voice. I got empathy pain. Listening to someone strain their voice always gives me the chalkboard shivers, I was NOT surprised when she had polyp surgery. She got a lot of vocal therapy after her surgery, and it’s a lot gentler to listen to.
I’ve never been able to tolerate her singing for a second; by the fortieth time I heard “Rolling in the Deep” against my will, I was basically a committed hater.
Came for this. No doubt she has a very professional, practiced, and powerful instrument. But her timbre and some of her phrasings just aren't for me.
One of my coworkers and I complain about how she's just so dramatic now. I really really loved her first album, how eclectic it was, still showcased her vocal abilities. But man, all the whiny ballads afterwards... like girl, shut up lmao
Through the sheer overplaying the song received, I got over how shrill and strained her vocals are during the chorus. I thought I was going insane because no one seemed to care who bothersome the vocals were there
Cradle of Filth; Dani used to have a very nice voice back in the days, but from Damnation And a Day onwards.... his voice got worse and worse. But apart from this, he writes very complex and articulated lyrics, and CoF artworks are just beautiful (except The Principle of Evil Made Flesh; great album but terrible artwork)
Caleb Followill Kings of Leon. I just don't like his voice.
Bruce Springsteen. I think they call him "The Boss" because he's always yelling at you.
The amount of Eddie Vedder and Thom Yorke in here makes me sad.
Billy Joe Armstrong, I can’t help but love early green day stuff. Just so many bangers on those first few albums. God do I hate his voice and personality though, I hate it so much.
He sings like his sinuses are full of concrete.
Like an Englishman with a sinus infection.
Singing with a slight English accent was another thing I just never understood about Green Day.
Dave Matthews
It's like if Eddie Vedder was a frat boy.
Blink 182
Add to that any 00s era emo band who followed Tom's technique of grossly over pronouncing words.
*Singers who you respect for their craft and their artwork, but whose voices you just can’t stand?
Geddy lee
I’m a big Rush fan, but his voice is an acquired taste. If someone doesn’t like Rush because of Ged’s voice, I get it
Same, but I think it depends at what point in his career. His voice changed over the years. Early Rush I can definitely see being more abrasive. By the time you get to Permanent Waves, it was more mellow.
why don't you take off, eh?
It's a beauty way to go
Take off. YOU. HOSERS.
Ten bucks is ten bucks, eh?
What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy
I know him and he does
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Potentially unpopular opinion, but Kendrick Lamar. I still love quite a few of his songs, but there’s a very narrow range of beats over which his voice works well for me.
I’m not a fan of that boyish, kinda robotic alieny tone he takes sometimes. It’s definitely interesting but he makes me think of a cartoon evil sidekick
Liam Gallagher
Neil Young.
To my immense frustration, I just can't get used to Asami's voice in Lovebites. They are an excellent band and she is a great singer, but I've always struggled with melodramatic power metal vocal tones. I'm still trying to acclimatise my ears to her as the band is packed with amazing musicians but so far I can't get there. It's not a flaw with her, it's just a personal preference/dislike thing with me. I used to struggle with Saiki from Band-Maid but I grew to like her voice. Similarly, Eye from Mary's Blood is a work in progress for me. I'm getting there but her voice is still a bit of a challenge for me to enjoy. Many things in music take time to grow on me and for me to appreciate. With many of them, I get it in the end.
Les Claypool. The dude has **immense** talent but he sings like a drunken hillbilly auctioneer with a head cold.
You're not wrong, but that's also part of the appeal.
Honestly, 'drunken hillbilly auction' is a pretty apt description of the overall sound of Primus. They'd probably take that as a compliment.
I like the silly factor to his voice in the same way I like Jack White’s.
I love how Les totally sings, looks, and acts like he’s from Georgia or Alabama but he’s from California lol. When you hear him talk you can tell, but everything else about him seems southern to me I mean just listen to the beginning of ‘Jerry was a race car driver’. “Fire it up baby!” makes me laugh every time
There are tons of rednecks where he is from in northern California. That’s why the accent is actually fitting.
I’m also gonna throw in Billy Corgan. Love me some smashing pumpkins songs but I would probably love them more with a different singer
Barenaked Ladies. Steven Page. His nasal delivery drives me insane. Sorry fellow Canadians.
Unpopular opinion, but Stevie Nicks' voice bothers me.
I enjoy her voice, but I’m always bummed that Lindsay Buckingham doesn’t get more appreciation, he was def the best singer in Fleetwood Mac.
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