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Vocals

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Just been looking at early videos of Marti Pellow on repeat. That smile! Woahhhh wet wet wet indeed ;)

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    Didn't Marty enjoy a syringe full of heroine back in the day? Nothing as sexy as a Glaswegian junkie in a Gers top eh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I like people with non-classic voices like John Grant, here with It Doesn't Matter To Him Ft. Sinead O'Connor, or LD Beghtol, here with All my little words


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    nullzero wrote: »
    Didn't Marty enjoy a syringe full of heroine back in the day? Nothing as sexy as a Glaswegian junkie in a Gers top eh?

    Very intelligent and informative post, clap yourself on the back there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    women:

    dolly parton
    Aretha Franklin
    Tina Turner
    Mary Black
    Sinead o connor

    Men:
    Elvis
    Dean Martin
    Serj Tankin
    Roy Orbison
    Geoge Jones


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Very Suprised Kate Bush hasn't been mentioned yet more



    Or Luke Kelly



    [Edit] Oops sorry lukesmom


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,887 ✭✭✭dmc17


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Female
    Tori Amos
    Chrissie Hynde
    Kate Bush

    Male
    Morrissey
    Ian Curtis
    Noel Gallagher
    Very Suprised Kate Bush hasn't been mentioned yet

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    catallus wrote: »
    Didn't he go for a swim and got pulled under by a current?

    He got caught in the wake of a passing boat after going out swimming in the evening/after dark at the end of May, body wasnt found for almost a week iirc

    Vocal range was unbelievable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Have to agree with some artists already mentioned

    Skin from Skunk Anansie
    Tori Amos


    Also Richard Ashcroft from the verve - amazing voice, very haunting.
    Here is him live in Glastonbury.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    I agree with you Vito Corleono re Hope Sandoval.

    I'd say my favourite vocal performance of all time may just be River Deep, Mountain High, as performed by Tina Turner.
    It's just... indescribable.

    Patti Smith named it as one of her favourite songs ever - Smith herself also having a wonderful, acrobatic voice.

    And her protegée. And Stevie Nicks' voice, while raspy, is still strangely beautiful.

    Depeche Mode's David Gahan has a class voice too.

    And obviously Bjork, Orbison, Bush, Cash, Franklin, Gaye, Morrison, Buckley, Morrissey, Jagger, Page et al.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    **** ive to go and listen to babuska babuska now as its stuck in my head. thanks rdm


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Having only watched 20 Feet From Stardom yesterday, Darlene Love has to be up there...







  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    The Great Gig in the Sky is a great test and in order of goosbumps
    Clare Torry (studo),
    Rachel Fury live 1989
    The McBroom sisters Durga and Loralei 1989-

    Sam Brown was good in more recent times but lacked in the emotional interpretation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Forgot to mention Whitney Houston. An incredible vocalist and dedicated coke aficionado.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    How has no one mentioned Karen Carpenter? Don't think anyone has has a purer tone


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    lukesmom wrote: »

    Did he yeah??? Were you there? It was a false rumour that he has strongly denied but sure your dead right to believe stuff on internet anti Protestant websites I'm sure they know their facts ;)


    I was actually. Front row, second on the left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭spankysue


    Females: Cass Elliot, her voice was beautiful, pure velvet.
    Tina Turner, her version of "Son of a Preacher man" is the best imo.

    Males: Leonard Cohen, such a soothing voice
    Nick Cave, he could be singing about murdering me & I'd still be turned on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭H2UMrsRobinson


    Probably not to everyone's taste but I'm enjoying listening to James Blunts back catalogue at the moment thanks to the marvel that is spotify.

    I keep falling asleep though (lol not blunt induced, only time I get to listen to music is in bed at night) I'm enjoying the combination of melody and his voice. It's not particularly pure or amazing, it just seems really connected with the lyrics and it soothes me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Roy Orbison was the first to come to mind(I know he's been mentioned several times, only now bothering to post here :P)

    Another fantastic voice is Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears
    Pink deserves a mention too :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Matt Heafy - Trivium
    Matt Tuck - Bullet For My Valentine
    Nell Sigland - Theatre of tragedy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
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    lukesmom wrote: »
    Very intelligent and informative post, clap yourself on the back there

    I already did


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Leogirl


    Male- Eddie Vedder, Nick Cave, Jack L
    Female- Sinead O Connor, Eva Cassidy, Dusty Springfield.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Beyonce too. She has some set on lungs on her!


  • Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In terms of conveying emotion, Cat Power is another who deserves a mention. Her voice is heartbreaking; when she sings, you know that she's felt pain. Moon Pix is my go to album when I want to crawl into a hole and die.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Corey Taylor.
    Hayley Williams.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭maxfresh


    male- james maynard keenan - tool , a perfect circle

    female- Stevie Nicks - fleetwood mac


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Aidric wrote: »
    Forgot to mention Whitney Houston. An incredible vocalist and dedicated coke aficionado.
    http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/guyspeed.com/files/2012/02/bateman-whitney.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    lukesmom wrote: »


    I was actually. Front row, second on the left.

    Yeah yeah I believe you ;)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I'd agree with a lot of choices so far. I'm likely to get blasted for this, but Bono at his peak had one helluva set of lungs on him. Pride, Angel of Harlem, live version of "a sort of homecoming" and a fair few others and unlike a fair few he could do it live. Some are fantastic in the studio, but can't sustain it nearly so much in a gig. George Michael in his prime also a bloody good singer.

    Going further back John Lennons voice always appealed to me. He could go from soft with a touch of harshness to full belter mode. His mate Macca had a very clear voice. On outtakes he's so pitch perfect you'd swear autotune had been lashed up in the 60's. The Bee Gees another crowd with great lungs. The lassies from ABBA were singers and no mistake. The range they had was unreal. I remember watching some singer or other who was tasked with covering one of their tracks saying it was incredibly difficult because of their range.

    Spreading the field wider and further back Paul Robeson had an amazing voice. Interesting man too. Pavarotti was truly incredible. Even at the end of his life he blew the doors off the populist Bocelli bloke without breaking sweat. At his peak? Check this 1980 performance of Nessun Dorma, a song subsequently overplayed, near raped by lacklustre pub singers masquerading as talent.



    And bear in mind the mic is about six feet away from his mouth.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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