Which indie rock singers can actually sing?

[SalParadise]

not exactly "rock", but leslie feist?

[kosmo vinyl]

the going out gurus certainly have us pegged...  but i'm also digging being called an indie elitist.

[joz]

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?
 
   

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]

[/b]

ouch. someone needs a hug.

[joz]

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?
 
   

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]

[/b]

and btw, it's actually a very beautiful, very rare piece of vinyl that he has wanted for many years and i was able to find it for him. yeah, i'm special. when's the last time you did something that nice for your fat, snot-nosed wife?

[lionforce5]

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 sure you're in your late 30's?
 
 Ted Leo is alright until he hits the high notes...then he may as well be singing through a kazoo in his left nostril.
 
 Personally, as far as voices go:
 Hrishkish Hirway
 Laetitia Sadler (Sp?)
 Beth Gibbons
 Peter Murphy
 Bjork
 Roots Manuva (I know he doesn't sing...still an amazing voice)
 Lisa Shaw
 Miki Berenyi (whatever happened to her?)

[tenfifteen]

There are some pure vocalists I love (Tony Bennett, George Michael), but then most "amazing vocalists" today typically end up on a different trac--like say, American Idol or Broadway.
 
 I grew up listening to Otis Redding who, with all that rasp and holler, probably doesn't qualify as a great "singer," but that's a different thing than being a great vocalist, and Otis was truly great. Totally shaped my opinion of vocals in pop music.
 
 Celine Dion is probably a better singer than M. Ward, but I know whose voice I prefer. It's an instrument like anything else... Tom Morello is a better guitarist than Britt Daniel, but Audioslave sucks.

[amnesiac]

My vote goes to Sufjan Stevens. Not quite "rock", though...

[Taster]

Jim James
 Jason Lytle

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

A few that come to my mind:
 
 Joe Pernice
 the guy from Nada Surf
 Jeff Buckley
 James Mercer when he wants to

[dotdot]

[amnesiac]

Jenny Lewis. Does Rilo Kiley still qualify for "indie"?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Sure, why not?
 
 And I'll agree with you on that one.
 
 And add Neko Case to the list.
 
   

Originally posted by buddha:
  Jenny Lewis. Does Rilo Kiley still qualify for "indie"?

[godsshoeshine]

rilo's on warner bros. but yeah, she's good

[jardison]

Mike Patton.

[BLACKSTORM]

Originally posted by jardison:
  Mike Patton.

Agreed. A genius as well.