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Sat Feb-14-04 09:59 AM
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Favorite "Non-traditional" Singing voice |
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Michael McDonald leads my list for a singer that on first listen you'd think lacks real vocal quality in a traditional sense, yet conveys intense feeling in a very unique way. Berry White and Janice Joplin are in that category, too.
Got music? What's your favor in this line?
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:05 AM
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1. Iris Dement, although she's ultra-traditional, in a way. |
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:26 PM
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32. Saw her at the Birchmere not long ago |
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She is the voice of my heritage.
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:07 AM
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2. Define traditional... you mean since recordings? |
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or how people sang for eons before?
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:13 AM
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Maybe "really distinctive" is a better description.
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:08 AM
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Booze- and drug-coarsened vocal cords, but very expressive.
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Sat Feb-14-04 09:38 PM
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62. I Love Marianne Faithfull! |
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:13 AM
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4. Gilmore Tamny from the Yips. |
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I REALLY love her singing on "Clouds Were Ships."
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:23 AM
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5. Richard Butler - The Psychedelic Furs |
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No range, no versatility, could be mimicked by almost anyone...
But what he did, he did very well.
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:27 AM
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:30 PM
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50. His "Oh death" is incredible. |
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:32 AM
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8. And no discussion of "non-traditional" voices is complete without: |
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YOKO ONO!
Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, Kyoko...
And yes, I'm being completely serious. I love Yoko.
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:23 PM
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Kiss kiss kiss kiss me now, Just just just just one one kiss will do!
:-)
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Sat Feb-14-04 09:11 PM
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Edited on Sat Feb-14-04 09:11 PM by Whitacre D_WI
It's nice to meet someone else who actually likes Yoko!
on edit: :yourock:
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:43 AM
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Sat Feb-14-04 12:36 PM
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...Maria Callas' voice was DEFINITELY beautiful. Challenging, sure. Nontraditional? Oh, yeah.
But I don't for a second think of it as not beautiful.
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Sat Feb-14-04 10:53 AM
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Edited on Sat Feb-14-04 10:54 AM by dolo amber
Ethyl Meatplow/Geraldine Fibbers. :yourock: :bounce:
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Sat Feb-14-04 11:00 AM
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13. Lou Reed, until about 1979... |
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Edited on Sat Feb-14-04 11:01 AM by mitchum
he doesn't even bother to try anymore. Just talks his way through the material Others: Mr Dylan (of course) Richard Butler Chet Baker Lucinda Williams
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:14 PM
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28. I'll second that one... |
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remember his awful vocals on the VU reunion?
"Shiny shiny shiny boots of leather, ooo baby..."
ooo baby? in "VENUS IN FURS"?
OOOO BABY!?!?
I have no son.
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Sun Feb-15-04 05:57 PM
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74. His "The Raven" sounds like Schoolhouse Rock |
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and you're right, that "Venus in Furs" is just wretched
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Sat Feb-14-04 11:03 AM
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Great voice with great phrasings. In the band I was in I had to sing "Leave you hat on" and "The Letter". Very rough on the vocal chords but a lot of soul.
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Sat Feb-14-04 11:05 AM
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Edited on Sat Feb-14-04 11:07 AM by phaseolus
Go here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006LLPC/qid=1076774590//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl15/104-6574439-3139939?v=glance&s=music&n=507846...and listen to the snippet of "The Nearness of You" to hear the best version ever of a sappy Cole Porter tune. It's the only vocal track from a brilliant solo piano album from the '80s. On edit: Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington, not Cole Porter. Sorry.
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Sat Feb-14-04 11:09 AM
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16. Can't forget Willie Nelson |
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Talk about a strange vocal.
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:30 PM
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Sat Feb-14-04 11:16 AM
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19. Traditional Eastern European women vocalists |
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such as The Bulgarian State Choir, Lado Ensemble (Croatia), Marta Sebestyen (Hungary), the Pyatnitsky Folk Choir of Russia, etc.
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Sat Feb-14-04 12:05 PM
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I love her songwriting, too...
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Sat Feb-14-04 12:06 PM
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21. Louie Armstrong and Tom Waits. |
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Sat Feb-14-04 12:21 PM
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23. Tom Waits? Louis Armstrong? Ethel Murman? |
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Let me think of some more.
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The primal scream he lets go in the middle of "With a Little Help From My Friends" is classic.
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:14 PM
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27. How about the master of nontraditional vocals: Tom Waits |
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:39 PM
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33. Brad Roberts remember him? |
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Mmmm,Mmmm,Mmmm Song...Brad Roberts Crash Test Dummies!
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:40 PM
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And JB's voice wasn't the only "non-traditional" thing about his music!
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:45 PM
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35. Roy Orbison was unique |
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however I don't like picking favorites...it feels to limiting.
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:49 PM
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36. My choices - Ray Charles, |
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Roy Orbison, and Louis Armstrong. Maybe Patti Page? - when she got older.
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Sat Feb-14-04 01:59 PM
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has one of the most haunting voices in the blues-but I really like Howlin' Wolf!
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Sun Feb-15-04 01:44 PM
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71. Skip is one of the great singers of the 20th century. |
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I was listening to the Complete Bloomington, Indiana concert in the car this week.
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Sat Feb-14-04 02:30 PM
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39. Tom Araya! The most evil voice in Metal! |
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No one gets it off like Tom.
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Sat Feb-14-04 02:49 PM
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Tom Waits, Iris Dement, Lucinda Williams, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Robin Williamson, Alejandro Escovedo........
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Sat Feb-14-04 03:29 PM
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One of the few who sort of sings with an accent.
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Sat Feb-14-04 03:39 PM
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Sat Feb-14-04 07:55 PM
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44. I listened to an entire concert |
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She is very unique but VERY limited. The phrasing, tones, inflections were so similar in every song it was as if it were one long song. I kind of like her quirkiness and there was one point where she wound up a huge music box that she then sang in tempo with. That was cool, but she is rather narrow in her sound.
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I'm sorry, but Bjork has amazing range. She was a child prodigy singing Icelandic classical folk music. She composes with symphonies, has sung with punk bands and works with various electronica artists, continually reinventing her style.
I have seen her perform live at different stages of her career and by no means is her musical talent narrow or limited. Her inflections can in no way be similar in every song, since each one is so vastly different musically, particularly in her last record Vespertine, as to require it. She growls, purrs, screams, wails, moans and seduces her way through a song. I can't name a single vocalist who can match her in range, emotion and ability who is performing currently.
However, I do not consider her a non-traditional singer/vocalist, as her voice is very traditional...for Iceland! :-)
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May not have been up to her pedigree but I stand by my observation. Her sound was to me repetitve and possibly an acquired taste. As I said I liked some of her works and by no means wish to say she is untalented.
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:01 PM
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many other great ones listed in this thread too.
I don't know how Tom Waits keeps inventing these great melodies with that ravaged voice of his.
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:26 PM
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Victoria Williams & Amy Rigby
Special bonus prize to anybody who's seen them live!
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:27 PM
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49. *snicker* Glenn Gould |
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:31 PM
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52. Stephen Hawking -- Stephen Hawking Sings Broadway's Best |
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Now that would be memorable!
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61. I Really Ought Not Make Fun Of Him |
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64. I heard Hawking speak in Minneapolis some years ago.... |
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he joked that the only speech synthesizers he could find had American accents....
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:32 PM
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53. How about William Shattner? Brings tears to my eyes. |
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Listening to his TRANSFORMED MAN album never fails to make my ears water!
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Sat Feb-14-04 08:56 PM
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Actually, I'm only being half a wise guy.
The guy is a terrific blues growler!
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been on wierd T.Rex kick lately
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60. I agree with you about MM. Paul Carrick sometimes affects me that way too |
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not sure that I have spelled it correctly. He did a great cover of a Pink Floyd song that made it sound completely different, very intense, very personal.
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who is on record as describing his voice as "Louis Armstrong and Ethel Merman meeting in hell".
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66. Isaac Brock, Steven Malkamus, Hope Sandoval |
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But we're alone now and I'm singin this song for you...
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Don't Try to Lay No Boojie-Woojie on the King of Rock-and-Roll!
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when he mixes his Delta blues style with Tuvan throat singing. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000516VT/qid=1076868329//ref=pd_ka_2/102-7727207-9835310?v=glance&s=music&n=507846And, for that matter, any of the Tuvan throat singers, such as Kongar-Ool Ondar. Non-traditional, in a very traditional way :)
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Sun Feb-15-04 01:01 PM
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69. Female - Grace Slick -- Male - Tom Waits |
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72. Definitely Lucinda Williams |
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Also Kasey Chambers, Janis Joplin if you include her, Cyndi Lauper, Alanis Morissette, Bob Dylan, Liz Phair, Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies, Aimee Mann, Willie Nelson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, and more I'm sure..
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