Your least favorite female vocal performance.

[terrya]

Mine...ANYTHING by Bjork. Lord, that voice is the equivilent of fingernails on a blackboard.

Yours?

Terry

[TrogL]

1. Any of the current crop of whiney females

I actually like Bjork because she doesn't whine.

[StClone]

18. Bjork, I am told has a highly trained voice

Not whining I'll agree with but if she has a more pleasing voice than a 'self made whiner' like Sarah Mclachlan I'll beg to differ.

[Dookus]

2. Joni Mitchell

has that effect on me.

I know a lot of people just adore her, but I can't get past the voice.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Sacriledge!

[meegbear]

3. That chick from the Cranberries

Does she have to AA-YAH! in EVERY song?!?

[Dogmudgeon]

5. In Irish music, it's good luck to sing like a mating goose

Honest.

I saw it on the Internet, so it has to be true!

--bkl

[bobthedrummer]

26. Delores O'Riordan is her name.

:hi:

[meegbear]

28. Bad singing is her game

Yeeech.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. The great thing about her is, once you get past the singing, the lyrics

are worse.

[Donkeyboy75]

57. LOL,

like that anti-drugs song that goes something like:

"To all those people
doing lines,
don't do it!
don't do it!"

:wtf:

She must be the Nancy Reagan of Ireland. Does she really expect someone to listen to that song and say "Oh, the Cranberries have a great point."?

[Maddy McCall]

4. Shania Twain

[AndyP]

6. Celine Deion

Or however you spell her name.

[UnAmericanJoe]

56. AGREED.

Celine Dion is the worst.

"The worst Jerry! The worst!"

[NightTrain]

7. Minnie Riperton's "Loving You" makes me homicidal.

n/t

[Maddy McCall]

10. LOL!

My brother and I were kids when that song came out. We were not a pleasure to be with on long trips. Can you imagine the back-seat screeches our parents had to put up with when we sang along to it?

[afraid_of_the_dark]

27. Doot'n doo doo doo doo.... AHHHHHHHH

I really hate that song!

[NightTrain]

30. Sad thing is, Riperton was a fine singer who made many excellent records.

Unfortunately, "Loving You" is the only song for which most people know her because it was her only hit. How sad. :cry:

[Donkeyboy75]

58. When my buddies and I are out with our wives

and we've had a bit too much to drink, we always belt that one out to our lovely ladies in public. Let's just say that I have problems with even the easy notes, so it sounds especially horrible.

[skypilot]

8. Alanis Morrisette

Especially that "You Oughta Know" song. Is that the title? Anyway, HORRIBLE!!!

[bif]

9. Wait! You people have never heard Abby Lincoln or Dakota Stayton

Abby Stinkin' Lincoln has the worse voice of anyone I've ever heard. I can sing better than she does and I totally suck. When she sings it sounds like the record player is speeding up and slowing down. And Dakota isn't much better.

[mn9driver]

11. Roseanne Barr singing the Star Spangled Banner

Ouch.

[terrya]

12. You're right. Yeeeehowww!

Terry

[StClone]

13. Lisa Loeb and Gloria Estefan

I prefer female rock/pop to males with the exception of these two sickly sirens.

[On the Road]

14. Any Song Sung by Laura Nyro

I love her songs, but her voice just gets me every time. AHHHH!

She's one songwriter who is best appreciated through covers, preferably by the 5th Dimension:

- Stone Soul Picnic
- Save the Country
- and many more

[Jade Fox]

52. I love Nyro, but her singing was sometimes.....

way out of control. Some of her originals are better. I prefer her version of
"Eli's Coming" to the one by Three Dog Night.

On her very first album her singing was more toned down, and its a great record.
She was about 19 when it was made, and all the songs are originals. Amazing.

[Wickerman]

15. Nico

sorry, loved the VU, couldn't get to Nico. Well, all tomorrow's parties is a lasting memory - in German.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. sacriledge!

[Wickerman]

19. I figured that would be

unpopular. :shrug: Couldn't make it work.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. No. No. No. We all know she can't sing, but for god's sake, don't admit it

Don't you want to be cool?
Just like I am in the photo below.

[Wickerman]

36. Oh, yeah, right -gotcha

it IS classically uncool to not love Nico, huh?

But you, dude, in the photo, are happening!

:thumbsup:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

40. Thanks, i've been working out, with my Daleks.

[NightTrain]

33. So is your spelling of "sacrilege."

:eyes:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Yes. A double pun! I deffinitely intended that.

:D

[mndemocrat_29]

20. Anything by Jessica Simpson

[afraid_of_the_dark]

25. I'll second that one...

she's absolutely dreadful - but she thinks she can sing!

[SHRED]

21. Rosanne Barr

Singing the National Anthem.

Well....you said which "performance".

hehehehe...

:think:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Anything by Kathie Lee

or Anita Bryant.

[callous taoboy]

24. Yoko Ono

.

[Red State Rebel]

53. Ding, ding, we have a winner!

[truthseeker1]

31. Martina McBride because she reminds me of

Sean Hannity

[Mrs. Venation]

32. Anything By Diana Ross

Her voices sounds like air coming from a bicycle pump.

[curlyred]

35. Stevie Nicks

is just baaaaaaaad.

[mitchum]

37. Anything by Julie London...

she was a great looking dame, but she is the spiritual mother of all offkey baby breathing female "singers"

[blondeatlast]

38. I'm honored to be the first to say that Mariah Carey's

voice makes me want to hang myself. It literally goes right to my spine to cause squirming thereof.

Vocal gymnastics must be forced to go the way of the 8-track; attainable for those who can somehow appreciate its charms (they do, apparently, exist), but out of range for the rest of us.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

39. An obscure one

In the late 1980s a singer named Kyoko Koizumi was popular in Japan. Apparently, she drove teenage boys wild with lust, but her singing voice was unpleasant and always slightly out of tune. Unfortunately, this didn't prevent her from being all over TV and radio. No pop singer has ever annoyed me as much. Her grating voice haunted my summer trips to Japan.

[geniph]

41. Kate Smith SHRIEKING God Bless America

it gives me nightmares!

[tigereye]

42. for some reason the singer from the Cowboy Junkies

gets on my nerves. No affect, maybe? I do like the song Wedding Ring, but can't take too much of them. I just for once want her to rock out or shreik and wail like Yoko. For me Yoko gets a pass just for being Yoko and ahead of her time. BTW Irish wailing is usually cool with me.

[geniph]

48. I feel that way about Rickie Lee Jones

Please, please, Rickie, whatever it is that you're doing, STOP IT. It makes my teeth hurt.

[arwalden]

43. Anything By Kelly "I-Can't-Find-The-Note" Clarkson

Seriously... she just makes up the tune as she goes along. In trying to show off her vocal range she loop-de-loops and performs vocal acrobatics and contortions before EVER settling in on the CORRECT note.

The resulting tune of the song she sings is NOTHING like it's supposed to be.

It's horrible. Boys 2 Men does it. Mariah does it. All 4 One does it. Beyonce does it.

It just SUCKS!!!

Call me old fashioned... I don't mind a little vibrato when a note is held. I don't mind a Patty Labelle-style "low-to-high wind-up"... but these kids are missing something. The PURITY and beauty of a voice that can hit the RIGHT note directly and hold the note consistently is more admirable than the vocal tricks of today.

Rant over.

-- Allen

[Hotler]

44. Who ever sang...

"You light up my Life", was that Debbie Gibson??? That song really blows.

[Norbert]

54. Nope, Debbie Boone.

[mlawson]

45. Allison Krause (of Union Station).

I don't know if I spelled her name correctly, but her vocals really annoy me; it's like she is straining to hit most of the notes.

I don't like that genre, either.

[Spider Jerusalem]

46. I love Bjork.

But then, I also like Diamanda Galas. (Yes, I am weird.)

My vote goes to anything by Celine Dion.

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. Not a single one of you is EVEN CLOSE - it's Wing - you are NOT EVEN CLOSE

http://www.wingmusic.co.nz

Try listening to "Close to You"

http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/mp3s/CD4-01closetoyou.mp3

or Memory:

http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/mp3s/CD5-03memory.mp3

And remember, this is a woman with at least 4 CDs out.

[geniph]

49. I forgot that Christian singer - is it Sandy Patty?

something like that. The one that's even worse than Amy Grant for oversinging in too high a key. OWWWWW!!! STOP THAT!!!

[opiate69]

50. Anything by Courtney Love..

Especially the Stevie Nicks cover she did... horrendous..

[Burma Jones]

51. You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone

Oh the tortured belting
Oh the feeling
Oh the overwrought nasal bleats

[SEAburb]

55. Belinda Carlisle

Whether solo or with the Go-Go's her vocals are bad.

[joeybee12]

59. Anything by Madonna! She can't sing, can't carry a tune, can't

do anything except apply basic marketing principles.