Top Contender for "I Just Don't Get it..."?
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200Plus Club said:
Just reading Bruce's autobiography. Very interesting hearing the background to their early albums and famous songs. Never been their biggest fan but they've endured and turned out some good stuff over the years.
Not listened to the latest albums yet.
The first albums with Paul Di'Anno are not too bad.Not listened to the latest albums yet.
cherryowen said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
You can feel the emotion if you listen to someone like Karen Carpenter.
100% thisA voice to soothe the most fevered brow
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Whitney Houston. It's all so effortless and pitch perfect so lacks any humanity in my opinion. If a computer could sing, it would sound like Whitney. I want my signers to be making an effort to get it right. You can feel the emotion if you listen to someone like Karen Carpenter. When Whitney sings, it's just someone who is just doing her job. A job she can do supremely well without much effort. It's f
king souless and very boring.
Interesting - I'm not a fan of that style of music really, but her voice gets me every time.king souless and very boring. Maria Carey for me - Sounds like a cat in a tumble dryer to me.
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marcosgt said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Whitney Houston. It's all so effortless and pitch perfect so lacks any humanity in my opinion. If a computer could sing, it would sound like Whitney. I want my signers to be making an effort to get it right. You can feel the emotion if you listen to someone like Karen Carpenter. When Whitney sings, it's just someone who is just doing her job. A job she can do supremely well without much effort. It's fking souless and very boring.
Interesting - I'm not a fan of that style of music really, but her voice gets me every time.king souless and very boring. Maria Carey for me - Sounds like a cat in a tumble dryer to me.
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We call it vocal gymnastics.
You have an impressive range, we get it. You don't have to use it every fricking line.
Another vocal tick is that sort of urg/grrr sound these type of singers often make. You hear this a lot on xfactor type shows/singers. Around 1:20 on this video - https://youtu.be/mU_A1uvyLRQ?t=76
You have an impressive range, we get it. You don't have to use it every fricking line.
Another vocal tick is that sort of urg/grrr sound these type of singers often make. You hear this a lot on xfactor type shows/singers. Around 1:20 on this video - https://youtu.be/mU_A1uvyLRQ?t=76
Russian Troll Bot said:
I don't know the technical term, but I hate sings like that who turn it up to 11 and extend every line to show off their vocal range, not "I love you" but "I loooooooooovee yoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuu". Just like a 5 minute guitar solo, it's impressive on a technical level but isn't enjoyable or emotional.
Don't, whatever you do, look up Georgia Brown if vocal histrionics aren't your thing. Speed 3 said:
Manic Street Preachers
All very earnest but its music by numbers and one of those annoying songwriters who makes lyrics fit where don't oughta in the melody
I would highly recommend listening to The Holy Bible - best work they've ever done and completely difference to the Manics as of now. Opposite of music by numbers.All very earnest but its music by numbers and one of those annoying songwriters who makes lyrics fit where don't oughta in the melody
Nothing particularly offends me and there's good/bad and genius in every genre - but when you get into the harsh end of noise (Merzbow, Stallagh) you've lost me.
Russian Troll Bot said:
I don't know the technical term, but I hate sings like that who turn it up to 11 and extend every line to show off their vocal range, not "I love you" but "I loooooooooovee yoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuu". Just like a 5 minute guitar solo, it's impressive on a technical level but isn't enjoyable or emotional.
The technical term is melisma, and you’re right it’s annoying.JLC25 said:
but when you get into the harsh end of noise (Merzbow, Stallagh) you've lost me.
had to look those 2 up - and WTF??Stalaggh have found a small cult-like fan base due to the fact that they actually have mental patients do the vocals for their albums. One particular "guest" vocalist was locked away for brutally stabbing his own mother over 30 times to death at the age of 16....
For me it’s Coldplay, I don’t passionately hate them or anything but I just find their music really dull and his voice grating, not a big U2 fan either.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers last few albums have done nothing for me,they don’t seem capable of writing anything good without John Fruscainte.
Some people don’t like OK Computer, fair enough, music is certainly very subjective I think it’s a brilliant album, as is The Bends and In Rainbows but their other work I can take or leave to be honest.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers last few albums have done nothing for me,they don’t seem capable of writing anything good without John Fruscainte.
Some people don’t like OK Computer, fair enough, music is certainly very subjective I think it’s a brilliant album, as is The Bends and In Rainbows but their other work I can take or leave to be honest.
Simes205 said:
Russian Troll Bot said:
I don't know the technical term, but I hate sings like that who turn it up to 11 and extend every line to show off their vocal range, not "I love you" but "I loooooooooovee yoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuu". Just like a 5 minute guitar solo, it's impressive on a technical level but isn't enjoyable or emotional.
The technical term is melisma, and you’re right it’s annoying.Is there a technical term for that thing French singers all seem to do. They stretch the first word of the line of lyrics over 95% of the music, and cram the remaining words super quick into the last 5% of the line of music. Difficult to explain in words ,but Charles Ansnavour......
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (takes 5 seconds) mayhaverthefaceican'tforget (takes half a second).
They all do it, Edith Piaf, Sacha Distillery. Every bloody line. Does my f
king head in. W124 said:
Joe Bonnamassa. No emotion. He’s not that good technically either.
He's a very good "MOR" blueser, and blows me into the weeds for playing blues guitar (the result of being 100% more talented, and practising more than my half hour per day), but I largely agree.BB. Moore, and Green are - for me - much easier on the ear.
Moonhawk said:
Adele - I have had cats put down that made that noise........i'm all for real emotion in a song, but the faux anguish she liberally furnishes her songs with really grates.
Sounds like a cat being shoved through a cheese grater; Someone Like You is a prime example.AdeTuono said:
I'd lay money that that's the first time YazzATPP has been mentioned in the same sentence as Dylan/The Stones.
Probably the last, except as a quote too!I rather liked the energy of "The Only Way Is Up", but my wife bought the CD for me on the strength of that and it was 99% crap - definitely a one-hit wonder!
I suspect, though, that you'd have more fun at a Yazz concert than a Dylan one... (Actually, you'd probably have more fun at the Dentist!)
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That fking dirge "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl.
Every year either this or "Last fking Christmas" is consistently at the top of every Greatest Christmas Hits list and I just don't understand why. If I hear it in a shop in the festive period I'm likely to leave.
king dirge "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl.Every year either this or "Last f
king Christmas" is consistently at the top of every Greatest Christmas Hits list and I just don't understand why. If I hear it in a shop in the festive period I'm likely to leave.Gassing Station | Music | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff