Which indie rock singers can actually sing?

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Nasally voices WORK for country music, but not rock music. Case in point: Robbie Fulks. He's done hardcore country, pop, and even some straight ahead rock. On the country stuff, his voice works well, on the other stuff...not so well. Dwight Yoakam is another example. His nasally voice works well on traditional sounding country songs, but when he takes to covering the Clash and Queen...ewww bad news.
 

i dont know what bores me more;  you talking about country music, or me listening to it.
 
   10 zzzzzzzz's

[nkotb]

I agree about the context being important, but I think you're a little off with some of your examples. I wouldn't exactly call the Decemberists and Death Cab "rock."  I mean, sure, they're rock bands in a sense, but it's not like they're dishing out power chords and sounding all whiny.  I mean, for as much as I dislike Ben Gibbard, I think his voice works for his bands.  Ditto to Colin Meloy.  
 
 

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Nasally voices WORK for country music, but not rock music. Case in point: Robbie Fulks. He's done hardcore country, pop, and even some straight ahead rock. On the country stuff, his voice works well, on the other stuff...not so well. Dwight Yoakam is another example. His nasally voice works well on traditional sounding country songs, but when he takes to covering the Clash and Queen...ewww bad news.
 
 And what's up with that Joanna Newsom chick and the Devandra Bernhardt dude? They have to be like the worst singers of all time.

[ggw]

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[sonickteam]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Nasally voices WORK for country music, but not rock music.  

i was speaking more along the lines of just being a "better singer".

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Sorry, should have saved that for the Fulks board.
 
 Much more interesting fodder is to be found on this board, like Loserpalooza, HFStivalshite, or the latest totally unoriginal British band to completely rip off bands from the 80's but still sell out the Black Cat because their fans were in diapers in the 80's.
 
 

Originally posted by white man from town:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Nasally voices WORK for country music, but not rock music. Case in point: Robbie Fulks. He's done hardcore country, pop, and even some straight ahead rock. On the country stuff, his voice works well, on the other stuff...not so well. Dwight Yoakam is another example. His nasally voice works well on traditional sounding country songs, but when he takes to covering the Clash and Queen...ewww bad news.
 

i dont know what bores me more;  you talking about country music, or me listening to it.
 
   10 zzzzzzzz's [/b]

[jtleibs]

I agree with Sam Beam and Ted Leo, both have great voices. I like Jeff Buckley's voice, but I'm not sure I would consider him indie.

[joz]

i suppose that, by your definition rhett, tom waits would also be a "bad" singer. maybe you should enlighten us as to who is a "good" singer in your book. are you going for perfect pitch (e.g., an art garfunkel or thom yorke) or do you go for a vocalist whose voice is suited to the style of music he/she is singing?  if it's the latter, then one could argue that no one is a bad singer.
 
 i saw melt banana live once and their female vocalist ranks up there with yoko ono as one of the screechiest, most obnoxious vocalists IMHO...there are people in the world that enjoy it though. just because i don't care for it personally, doesn't mean she's a bad singer.

[ggw]

Which is worse, the quality of the "fodder" on this board, or the fact that you have contributed 10,000+ posts to those topics?
 
 

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
 Much more interesting fodder is to be found on this board, like Loserpalooza, HFStivalshite, or the latest totally unoriginal British band to completely rip off bands from the 80's but still sell out the Black Cat because their fans were in diapers in the 80's.
 

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
 
 Much more interesting fodder is to be found on this board, like Loserpalooza, HFStivalshite, or the latest totally unoriginal British band to completely rip off bands from the 80's but still sell out the Black Cat because their fans were in diapers in the 80's.
 

or......some obnoxious jerk-off country fan forces his pigheaded opinions on everyone, every chance he gets and then gets all pissy and whiny when someone throws it back at him     thats really the vast majority of this board.

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by joz:
 are you going for perfect pitch (e.g., an art garfunkel or thom yorke)  

i am totally positive Rhett will say Thom Yorke is not a good singer. he will lose all credibility if he doesn't....

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Remind me who Tom York is again?

[joz]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Remind me who Tom York is again?

why don't you just look it up on one of your marvelous search engines or databases that you consult numerous times a day to give yourself an air of intellectual superiority in posting something you spent 20 minutes researching on the web?

[sonickteam]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Why don't you go blow another $75 for some shitty record for your husband's birthday, so he can pretend to care all over again, you fat, snot nosed bitch?
 
 

Originally posted by joz:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Remind me who Tom York is again?

why don't you just look it up on one of your marvelous search engines or databases that you consult numerous times a day to give yourself an air of intellectual superiority in posting something you spent 20 minutes researching on the web? [/b]

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Why don't you go blow another $75 for some shitty record for your husband's birthday, so he can pretend to care all over again, you fat, snot nosed bitch?
 

you are a total loser Rhett.  in every way possible really.