Name a band in which the primary vocalist can't sing.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Yeah, I AM looking for trouble, why do you ask? :evilgrin:

[Richardo]

1. The Band

Bob Dylan is unlistenable.

[graywarrior]

22. Grrr rrrrrrr

:grr:


:rofl:

[Le Taz Hot]

2. You might considering rewording the question.

"Name a band in which the primary vocalist CAN sing." That goes for "pop divas" as well.

I just found out about something call "Autotune" -- some device that electronically makes sure the vocalist track is in tune. AAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[bertha katzenengel]

7. Autotune?

My god. There goes MUSIC.

Back to classical for me. :puke:

[B3Nut]

44. Been around for quite a few years now

The Autotune system from Antares is the most prevalent/popular, available as a hardware device or as a software plug-in for digital recording pacakges like Pro Tools, Sonar, Cubase, Logic, etc. It's sometimes nice to be able to correct a clinker in an otherwise good performance by a good singer, but it too often is used to correct for lack of pitch control. I was listening to a Nelson Riddle track from the 60's this morning (Theme from Route 66, off Ultra-Lounge Bachelor Pad Royale)...the sound quality and performance far surpassed most of today's recordings. There's no substitute for good musicians, a good room, a good engineer, vacuum tubes, and analog tape. Delicious.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Crazy Dave]

10. With the exception being Cher

She was and still is the one and only true diva with talent in my opinion. Twenty years from now people will still know who Cher was.

Britney who? You mean the girl in all those down-loadable porn movies used to sing?

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Downloadable porn movies?

The hell you talking about?

[Crazy Dave]

27. Speaking in terms of the future

Just a hunch....Nobody will give a shit about Britney or her music in a few more years so she'll probably start doing a bunch of little 5 min. porn downloads that you can put on your ipod for $0.99 apiece. Or she'll be dead or in prison. I just hope she gets her tubes tied sometime in the not so distant future.

[peekaloo]

3. Smashing Pumpkins.

[wavesofeuphoria]

5. totally agree!

[Throd]

63. Billy mucho sucko

If he sounds so crappy on studio tracks, just imagine how horrible it was before the mix-down.

[Mad_Dem_X]

54. Awww, Billy can sing when he wants to

:shrug:

[LibraLiz1973]

72. I love the Smashing Pumpkins

[NashVegas]

4. I've Got to Say The Who

Roger hasn't been able to hit the higher notes comfortably for decades, bless his heart.

[LibraLiz1973]

73. You mean he can't sing now, right? Because he surely could

back in the day

[kwassa]

86. Roger Daltry was always a terrible vocalist. Still is.

I saw him back in the 70s. He sucked. The Who is good enough to overcome that liability.

[NashVegas]

107. His Limitations Were Worked Around

He never did have the greatest range, but their earlier stuff didn't ask very much of him.

It's when he has to start belting he runs into trouble, and belting is pretty much all he's done since 1975 or so.

I got to see the Who in the very late 1980s and he couldn't hit the high notes at all, but it was a great show in spite of that, and his presence & charisma more than make up for what's lacking technically.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. The Rolling Stones. And Bruce Springsteen.

:shrug: What can I say? Mick's a great showman, and at least he can carry a tune, but god damn, the man can't sing.

As for Bruce Springsteen: I have never, will never, understand the appeal. The only song of his I've ever liked is "Philadelphia" and that's because it was an awesome movie and the song fit perfectly.

[Patiod]

52. My dear Bertha

You have clearly never been to see The Boss in person. I have converted more "never got the appeal" people to true fans by taking them to see him live. The man radiates both joy and energy (okay, maybe not when he's doing his "Nebraska" stuff, but still). To see him rip into Rosalita, Born to Run, Badlands or any of his other anthems live is not to be believed.

Listening to that voice sing "Thunder Road", whether live or recorded, gives me chills every time.

It may help to be a Philly or Jersey girl, but anyone who isn't a Californian can normally be converted.

Hope all the kittys are well...:hi:

[LibraLiz1973]

71. lol Patiod I agree

Growing up my sister loved Bruce Springsteen. She had the born in the USA poster (of his ass) on the ceiling over her bed. It was Bruce this and Bruce that. I HATED HIM.

Went an saw a show @ Vets Stadium and guess who was converted?

Born to Run gets me EVERY time. Atlantic City, Badlands, Rosalita.. I cry every time I hear The Rising.

I'm a fan. Converted, but a fan.

[BlueJazz]

81. Bless you Bertha..You're one of the few people who know the...

.... difference between "Showmanship" and "Artistry"

or more bluntly...Show and no Go...

[Rhythm]

8. Until i heard the acoustic of "Freak on a Leash", i would have said Korn.

Johnathan Davis and Amy Lee sound great together...

[Crazy Dave]

9. Brian Johnson of AC/DC

Their music still rocks :headbang:

[Common Sense Party]

97. Definitely rocks. He's not even TRYING to sing. n/t

[El Fuego]

11. Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks has a voice like fingernails on a chalkboard. I never understood how someone like her could have a successful career as a singer.

[Crazy Dave]

32. They had Christine McVie

True beauty and talent.

[idgiehkt]

60. I like quite a few that Linday Buckingham sang lead on

"Oh Well", "Never Going Back Again", "Second Hand News", etc and some of the more recent ones

Stevie did a lot of damage to her voice doing coke apparently, it was a bit smoother in the beginnning.

[NashVegas]

108. Same Here

Christine & Lindsey both had great voices. No bleeting.

[LibraLiz1973]

75. Yeah, not so much a Christine fan

I've never liked her vocals

[rhiannon55]

91. I LOVE Christine's voice

smooth and sexy...

[Shell Beau]

70. I hate to agree but I do!

[LibraLiz1973]

74. Stevie is one of my idols

So I politely disagree with you.

[Lady Effingbroke]

12. Almost all of them.

[Frank Cannon]

26. You said it. Almost every "popular" act today can't carry a tune

with a front-end loader. And they can't play instruments, either. How sad is that?

Sure, there are rare exceptions (and I'm sure people some will point them out here), but for the most part, it's pretty much a vast wasteland out there.

I'm convinced that this is by design. I think that the powers-that-be that sell us all our music WANT the idiotic kids out there who have no talent whatsoever to THINK that they can be the next big thing. Every kid now wants to be the next P Diddy or American Idol (and they probably can be), and so they're even more inclined to buy all the records of their dubious "musical" heroes who have about as much talent as they do.

The other day I heard that there have been some American Idol finalists who actually COULD play an instrument, and even quite well. Yet they are not asked to do this. I wonder why?

[grannylib]

34. Sad, isn't it? Half the groups out there who call themselves "bands"

couldn't instrumentalize/vocalize their way outta wet paper bags.

My favorite exception, from the current lot: Chris Cornell from Audioslave. Now THERE is a voice, holy shit...one of the best sets of pipes in R 'n' R today, and the band can fuckin' PLAY...
They rock.

[LibraLiz1973]

76. Chris Cornell fuckin blows my mind

Awesome voice

[grannylib]

90. I've got their latest album at the top of my b-day wish list - hope hubby or

one of the kids comes through!

[peekaloo]

13. Rush.

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[AllegroRondo]

17. Heretic!

:spank:

[peekaloo]

20. *giggle*

cats were mating outside my window one night and I swear it sounded like Geddy Lee.

:hide:

[grannylib]

30. I hear ya there. In the lower register, he's not TOO bad, but man, those

upper octaves...it sounds as though he's being wedgied as he's trying to sing...

[AllegroRondo]

43. My daughter (12) asked me "who's the girl singing?"

:banghead:

[gmoney]

59. my first reflex response, too...

[Left Is Write]

83. Ditto.

[Danger Mouse]

103. Rush: great music, awful singer.

I'd really be into rush if i could stand that singing. But I can't.

[KG]

14. Crash test dummies.

[Rockit]

38. What was that song of theirs?

Mmm Mmm Mmm?

[Fran Kubelik]

45. That was it.

I hated that song.

[donheld]

93. Superman Song

:loveya:

[T_i_B]

15. Oasis

[billyskank]

56. Heresy. Oasis are God's own band.

Actually, I have heard that Liam's voice has been shot for about five years now. Not taking into account however good he was in the beginning, I should add.

[LoZoccolo]

67. They released albums in 2002 and 2005.

I think they speak for themselves that Liam's voice is not shot.

[T_i_B]

100. Even in the beginning....

...Liam's singing wasn't a patch on Noel's. Liam Gallagher isn't even the best frontman in Oasis!

[Parche]

16. BAND

Matchbox 20.................arrrrrrrrrghhhh like listening to chalk board scratches

[Shakespeare]

19. Nickel. Fucking. Back.

Guy sounds like he's dry-heaving his way through every song.

[Scarlett17]

23. Amen n/t

[bullwinkle428]

61. People drove 200 miles through a snowstorm to see them last night,

here in Iowa! They showed a segment on the local news interviewing some of the concert-goers...it was a sold-out show... :scared:

[Initech]

65. Worst band ever!

[AshevilleGuy]

96. Yes! What is up with them?

I grew up in the 50s and 60s; you know what our music was like. You can not imagine what shit like Nickelback sounds like to me.

[LSK]

113. Please make them go away

:scared:

[bif]

21. Led Zeppelin

Live, Plant sucked the big one!

[Alexander]

105. Agreed - Plant's voice crapped out years ago.

But then, when you are chain-smoking, drinking like a fish and generally abusing your body, ingesting tons of drugs and hitting notes high enough to peel paint every night, what do you expect?

Plant was the weakest link in that band. They could never replace Bonzo but if Plant had keeled over instead, I'm sure they would've found somebody else to sing.

All of Deep Purple's singers were WAY better than "Robert Planet", as Frank Zappa called him.

[Deja Q]

109. .

:loveya:

You are so right on! :D

[Scarlett17]

24. Creed. Scott Stapp sucks.

I hate that pretentious bastard.

:puke:

[Mad_Dem_X]

55. Yep.

Just a very, very bad Eddie Vedder impersonation.

[bif]

25. Crazy Horse

Neil Young! Yikes!

[Dervill Crow]

62. The first time my friend Kim heard Neil Young sing, she said,

"Oh my God, that sounds just like your mom!" My mother, may she rest in peace, never lost her Southern accent. I suspect she suffered from clinical depression. She would drink a six pack or two and sing maudlin folk songs in a voice eerily similar to Neil Young's. :rofl:

I do like his politics.

[grannylib]

28. Guns 'n' Roses. Great music, lousy voice on Axl Rose. *shudder*

[AshevilleGuy]

95. Ohhh... I could not stand looking at them,

they looked so nasty, but I do appreciate Axl Rose' petulant vocals. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. REO Speedwagon and Lynyrd Skynyrd

I win. :bounce:

[fla nocount]

35. You win w/REO. They've sucked since they left Peoria

and tried to sound like the Eagles. They used to be a rock band, not everybody knows that.

[deucemagnet]

66. LOL!

I'm gonna keep on lovin' yo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-u!

[Crazy Dave]

36. Yewwwwhewwww!

Dat thar' langwidge git yew shot down heya in skynyrd cuntry!

[BurtWorm]

37. And Journey and Foreigner and Bread and Poison and The Darkness and Kiss

For starters

[Common Sense Party]

98. Journey? You think Steve Perry can't sing?

I mean, you may not like their sound, and that's fine, but...

Whom do you consider good singers?

[GoneOffShore]

31. Remember Wings?

Linda McCartney was the worst vocalist in the world. They deliberately turned her mike OFF all the time.

[rhiannon55]

92. And then there was Yoko...

oh. my. god.

[johnnie]

33. I'm not going to mention them by name

Just initials:

Led Zeppelin

[Guava Jelly]

39. White Zombie

Great music crappy vocals

[Dukkha]

40. just about any emo band

*whine whine whine*

[ghostsofgiants]

46. I'd broaden the scope on that and say just about any punk band.

[RedStateShame]

41. The Flaming Lips

Now, don't everybody throw rocks at me at once. Wayne Coyne's crackling, almost-hits-the-high-note voice is one of the reasons I love that band. Mind you, he never nails a note dead-on, but has that ever stopped him from trying his Okie heart out? There's something very beautiful to be appreciated in that style that no TV karaoke contestant could ever understand.

[Little Wing]

42. Public Enemy

[HEyHEY]

120. judas!

[Jimbo S]

47. Nirvana

[HuffleClaw]

82. damn straight

couldn't play a musical instrument either

[XNASA]

48. Ministry nt

[RedStateShame]

49. The Ventures

[ornotna]

58. I disagree

Their vocals were perfect.

:P

[Bake]

50. Red Hot Chili Peppers

No kidding. That guy really sucks.

Bake

[mitchum]

51. "Take me to the pwace I wuv..." He sounds like Elmer Fudd

you're right; he really does suck

[LibraLiz1973]

78. Love the Chilis, can't disagree more with this pick

lol

[Bake]

104. Maybe. But the "Elmer Fudd" comparison is hard to argue with!

:rofl:

Plus, I always found RHCP to be a bit pretentious. Kinda like U2.

"Take me to da pwace a wuv ..." :rofl:

Bake

[MrSlayer]

123. First band that came to mind.

Zero range, monotone delivery.

[mitchum]

53. U2

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

57. If you qualify that with "since Achtung Baby," I agree. -nt

[LibraLiz1973]

79. I love Boners voice.

Seriously.

[Initech]

64. Linkin Park

[AshevilleGuy]

94. Thank you. NT

[AwakeAtLast]

68. Pantera - AC/DC

I like both bands' music to a point, but can't get past the vocalists.

[anti-everything]

116. I can't go along with you on Pantera.

Anselmo's raw power is what defines this band.

[SmileyBoy]

69. 90 percent of the bands that have come out in the past three years.

Turn on MTV or VH1 and take a look see.

[Magrittes Pipe]

77. The Scorpions.

There's a fan video letter out there with better sounds.

[LibraLiz1973]

80. Limp Bizkit

[Left Is Write]

84. Nickelback.

[Danger Mouse]

102. Have you been to my 'Nickelback is one of the most obnoxiously terrible bands of all time' thread?

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

121. no, but link it or start it again, please

[jane_pippin]

85. Whoever the singer is for the guy across the street's band

Booo to you, guy across the street's singer! Boo!

[Common Sense Party]

99. I'm not THAT bad. Close your windows if you don't like it.

Sheesh! Everyone's a critic.

[kwassa]

87. Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir .... the Dead never had vocalists.

[regnaD kciN]

101. Someone once wrote...

...that the Dead didn't want to spoil the "authenticity" of their music by having a vocalist who could sing in tune. ;-)

[anti-everything]

117. I'd be grateful if they were all dead.

I HATE the Grateful Dead. 3rd worst band in history behind Phish and Widespread Panic.

[AshevilleGuy]

118. Our local PBS station plays them every Wednesday night

from 9p to 4a. It boggles the mind - WHAT is the thing about the Dreadful Grate?? :shrug:

The first time I heard them back in the 70s , I wondered, "Is that all they do?".

[doc03]

88. Montgomery of "Montgomery Gentry"

[unsavedtrash]

89. The Police.

Sting never should have quit his day job.

[Forkboy]

106. Singing is way overrated

Celine Dion can sing but who gives a shit? Soulless crap is soulless crap.

Give me a bad singer in an honest band anyday.

[The Gunslinger]

110. Avenged Sevenfold

[DBoon]

111. The Velvet Underground

Lou Reed not only can't sing - he can barely talk

[LSK]

112. Dave Matthews

:hide:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

114. Yep.

[AshevilleGuy]

115. Flame away - it's Tom Waits

Yeah I know he is popular, very much so in my town. And I know people who pretend to like him because he is trendy.

But to me he sounds like he has had his throat cut and is gurgling through the blood. I just spent two hours at my local pub, and the bartender is a Tom Waits fanatic. Most customers were ignoring it, but myself and a female table server were in pain. To our protestations, he just turned the volume up.

Finally one of my friends went to to his car and brought in a Ween CD, which the bartender played. Ahhh.... :)

[Yukari Yakumo]

119. Counting Crows... or was it The Black Crowes...

I forget. I never liked the mid-90's alterno-rock.

Edit-
Oh, yes. I should add every Death Metal band to the list.
Here is a Merduk video. It parodies every death-grind metal band in existence.

[HEyHEY]

122. Our Lady Peace

[Lethe]

124. Coldplay

guy just needs to take some lessons or somethin'