#1 Bob
Dylan
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It's the Tone:
Annoying Tone,Tone-That-Kills
Colin
Meloy (sometimes sounds like a crying baby, other times like a pouting 4-year-old boy. Who needs that?), Bob
Dylan, Dennis DeYoung (Styx), Billie
Holiday, Bob Marley, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Van Morrison
Lots of Bad
Notes,
Often Off-Pitch
Billie Holiday, Nina
Simone,
Bob Dylan, Lou Reed
Nina
Simone: WTF?
SAMPLE
Sounds Drunk or Stoned
Billie Holiday, Nina
Simone,
Norah Jones, The Pogues
Toneless
Geddy Lee, Dennis
DeYoung,
Lady Gaga, Britney
Spears, Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins, Peter Cetera, Mick Jagger, Van Morrison
Cry-Babies & Whiners
Colin
Meloy, Bob Dylan,
Jeff
Buckley, Neal Young
Arggghhh!
Depressing
Sarah McLachlan, Colin
Meloy
Heavy
Affectation Falsity, insincere,
vocal
mannerisms, fake qualities, too much of vocal gimmicks
& posturing, almost 100 percent stylistics
Bob
Dylan, Beyonce, David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Bjork, Mariah Carey
Blarers Forced,
forced, forced
Steve
Perry (Journey),
Beyonce, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins
Sneer
Overload
Bob
Dylan,Tom Petty
Banal
Billy Corgan (Smashed the Pumpkin)
The Sound of Strain
Van
Morrison, Phil
Collins,
Peter Cetera, Van Morrison, Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople)
Always
pretending: Affectation King David Bowie shows off his new fake teeth Harsh
as Hell
John Fogerty, Melissa
Etheridge, Dennis DeYoung,
Michael Bolton, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Kristian Matsson ("Tallest Man On Earth") Kristian
Matsson: Voice so
bad he uses pseudonym.
Rob Stewart, Brian Adams, Melissa
Etheridge, Bonnie Tyler, Kristian Matsson
Lou
Reed:
Anything for attention! Tried to distract us from voice by trying to be pretty.
Gimmicky
David
Bowie, Marc Bolan, Kim Carnes, Aaron Neville, Lou Reed, Neal Young, Kristian Matsson
Repetitive, Always
Sounds Same
Bob Marley, Ziggy
Marley
etc., Ozzy Osbourne, Dennis DeYoung, Joey Ramone
Mouth-Breathers,
Forcing Intimacy Back
off from that microphone! Please! Sam Beam
"Look I'm Not
Even Trying to Sing"
Bob
Dylan
Sings like "I'm a stupid dolt"
Rick Okasek,The Pogues,
Joey Ramone
"I'm imitating Bob
Dylan"
Jimi Hendrix, Lou
Reed, Ian Hunter,Tom Petty
Literally Can't Sing, Insulting All
Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits
Tom
Waits: Looks like his voice. Notice
similarity to Matsson. Could be connectionbetween bad lifestyle and bad
voice?
Just
Bizarre or Simply
Absurd
Yoko Ono, Tom Waits, Joey Ramone
"I have contempt for
the very
idea of singing, contempt for my audience, and contempt for
who I'm
singing about, and I do music as a private joke to make fun of
you"
Bob Dylan,
Tom
Waits, Lou Reed
Wierd Sounding Neal
Young, Colin Meloy, Kristian Matsson
Other
Annoying Mick
Jagger (Bark! Bark! Bark!)
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