Singers whose voice you can't stand

[tuga]

Elvis Costello.
Celine Dion.
Whitney Houston.
Roy Orbison.
Nat King Cole.
Tony Bennett.
Tom Jones.

I tried to like Tim Buckley...

I tend not to register the names of those singers I can't stand. And I don't listen to pop anyway.

Many of the female singers playing ad nauseam at shows are manure.
Same goes for most female singers which record with audiophile labels.
Any and all manner of ©rap...

 

[Paul Mc]

Leonard Cohen

 

[TheDecameron]

Kate Bush

The first song on her BBC Christmas Special 1979. The caterwauling sounding like it was induced by Ken Dodd’s tickle stick or perhaps something else? is complemented by the bad am dram dancing and costumes. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

 

[Colonel_Mad]

Laura Nyro

Glad I'm not the only one. Screeching like nails on a blackboard. Don't think the recordings help.

 

[Colonel_Mad]

Cilla Black

And another. Utterly talentless. The way she banged on you'd think she was the fifth Beatle. Barely mentioned in any of the Beatles biogs I've read.

 

[Nagraboy]

This all reminds me of a sketch from The Fast Show. When the old guy in the pub says: “Harry Connick Jr. He’s like a young pretender to old Frank’s crown. I’ll tell you, I won’t have him in the house!”.

 

[julifriend]

John Fogerty.

 

[Weekender]

Plus one on Laura Nyro.
She was recommended as "if you like Astral Weeks..."
As if.

 

[cj66]

John Fogerty.

Nooooooooooooo

 

[banjoman]

Keith Jarrett.

+1
Not his voice per se but just that he feels the need to use it at all

 

[banjoman]

Donna Jean Godcheaux.

hell yeah! The way she pipes in with horrendous background shrieks in the middle of some glorious Garcia-Lesh-Weir interplay build up on a 'Playing in the Band..' is the stuff of acid drenched nightmares
Many of my deadhead friends are sensitive to this but I hate her presence in every single Dead show with a vengeance

 

[Yank]

The first song on her BBC Christmas Special 1979. The caterwauling sounding like it was induced by Ken Dodd’s tickle stick or perhaps something else? is complemented by the bad am dram dancing and costumes. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

On her first (maybe only???) US TV appearance, halfway through the song she got off the bench and started crawling on all fours on top of the piano lid, moaning like some cat in heat.

 

[jackbarron]

Boris Johnson singing Happy Birthday To You.

Jack

 

[Chas B]

On her first (maybe only???) US TV appearance, halfway through the song she got off the bench and started crawling on all fours on top of the piano lid, moaning like some cat in heat.

Wish I'd been there, I would have given her my best tomcat impression!

 

[Fatmarley]

I always thought I had bad taste in music, and this thread has confirmed it.

 

[Accuphaseman]

Joe Dolce

 

[Mullardman]

Kevin Rowland

His stuff should come with a translation:

"Fapp ig sex pig whale in a sweat a de clob.. Oooo Geno!!!"

Let's have some of the real stuff. Geno was no great singer but the combination of his enthusiasm and the band's really tight sound was pure magic live. Saw him in Nottm '67.

 

[manwithnonaim]

Adele, Adele and Adele.

 

[vinylslug]

Cher,
Heather Small,
Jedwood (both of them)

 

[FrancisClement]

Elton John in his mid to later years - sounds like a pub singer