10 most annoying singers... Ed "blamed" for #2.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/17793/the-ten-most-annoying-singers
Ed mentioned as to blame for #2.
Ed mentioned as to blame for #2.
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Who would be your #1?
(Can you tell this pissed me off--God, these people are a waste of bandwith--Kill 'em all--guess I had a little more say.)
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The Ten Most Annoying Singers
Posted Mon Apr 21 4:31pm PDT by Rob O'Connor in List Of The Day
It's stunning to learn that others don't share our tastes. Then again, how did an entire generation embrace faux wood paneling, shag carpets and putting thick plastic on their furniture? Well, someone thought it was a great idea!
Hey, I like Bob Dylan's voice and kept him off this list because I could! Instead, I found the ten singers most likely to make you drive off the road.
Now that's a terrible fate. Not only are you stranded in some ditch, but you're stuck listening to one of these ten singers, who it would seem are singing that way just to mock you. Oh, the injustice.
10) Celine Dion: I know there are millions of people who would beg to disagree, but let's get real, people. She sings 15 notes where one would suffice and turns every song into an anthem for self-empowerment. It's like getting an hour of Oprah condensed into four minutes. She sings. It's time to start the lawnmower.
9) John Mayer: Young people are impressionable. I'm not sure where John Mayer learned his vocal craft. I hesitate to call it singing. It's more like whimpering. And for some reason, this has become a trend not stopping anytime soon. As you'll sadly learn as we go further down this list.
8) Conor Oberst: As the wunderkind who leads Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst was given a certain amount of leeway since he was a young teen when he started out and his precious singing--so sensitive and intimate you could hear the post-nasal drip--was mistaken as precocious. Well, he's in his 20s now and he still sounds like he's swimming back to the womb for protection from this hard, harsh world. Come on buddy, stand up straight and stop trying to imitate the Cure's Robert Smith. He got there first. And even he must know he sounds a little silly.
7) Lily Allen: Contrary to this column, I want to like fresh, young talent. I want to hear singers bring true commitment to their material. The first time I heard Lily Allen I thought it was quaint. Then it seemed every young female singer was determined to sing just like her, as if they're running out of air in their lungs and have to get back to the respirator before the next verse begins. Sure, she's bouncy and spunky. But if I might quote what Lou Grant once told Mary Tyler Moore: I HATE SPUNK.
6) Devendra Banhart / Tiny Tim: I'm not convinced they're not the same person. Tiny Tim was a novelty item singing with that stupid ukulele something about tiptoeing through the tulips. Anyone with any half sense would know it was novelty item that shouldn't be used as the basis for an entire recording career. And for thirty years, it wasn't, until freaky-folk dude Devendra Banhart showed up and started warbling in that unlistenable, untrained vibrato the kind of nonsensical lyrics that didn't sound all that great back when people were taking the kinds of drugs you're supposed to be on in order to enjoy it.
5) James Blunt: All this talk in the media about whether or not waterboarding is torture is moot. Forcing anyone to listen to "Beautiful" on repeat constitutes torture. You want my darkest, deepest secrets? This guy's quivering voice gets you my social security number, my mother's maiden name, my personal PIN and any random government secrets I'm currently harboring.
4) Frankie Valli: Frankie Valli was a hero to some back in his day. I grant you this. He was consistent! He consistently sang in a voice designed to send dogs running for cover and perfect for breaking glass. "Rag Doll, " "Sherry," "Dawn," "Big Girls Don't Cry," the list is enormous. He very well could be tried as a war criminal. Who would object? Seriously? Who?
3) Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins): Yes, despite all his rage he's still just a rat in a cage. Unfortunately, that cage came with a microphone for him to transmit his Smashing Pumpkins hits to a helpless, hapless world at large. While Billy could orchestrate grand walls of guitar and write albums of endless tuneage, he insisted on singing it himself. Except this is not singing in any conventional sense, but rather the sound of a petulant, whiny child. This is what happens when parents don't tell their kids to shut up often enough. Children need to know you don't like them.
2) Scott Stapp (Creed): We could probably start laying the blame on Bono, Eddie Vedder, Jim Morrison and that guy from Blood, Sweat and Tears, but in the end it's Scott Stapp who epitomizes that macho bellow that sounds like a man who's gone overboard at the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet and has just received spiritual orders to let everyone know they're going to hell if they don't save themselves somehow. His spiritual torment becomes your problem. Thanks, pal.
1) Michael Bolton: OK, this was easy. C'mon, you knew Mr. Bolton would top the list. Who else can take a love song and turn it into a hernia? When a man loves a woman he doesn't do so by screaming in her ear--so why should it be acceptable for a man to sing a sensitive love song as if he's directing traffic for the hearing impaired? R&B classics deserve their place in musical history and should be protected from this man's desecration of all that is holy. It's only right. Let's make it a law.
Phil Collins is FAR more annoying than any of them!!!!!!!
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that's a pretty good list
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Lol, if you even said that name to a few of my friends they would probably drop to the ground. I have a friend that likes them, and on a drive from West Michigan to Cleveland they listened to it the whole way and every stop they looked like they wanted to kill themselves, lol. Our car listened to BHIC
HAHAHA! Agreed! That "Su-su-sudio" song (or however one spells it) from the 80's is responsable for more of my childhood angst than my abusive dad...........thanks alot Phil!
Even Johnny Cash,Waylon Jennings,Willie Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver???? (dont fuck with the outlaws!)
this is the funniest line tho---
Mr. Bolton would top the list. Who else can take a love song and turn it into a hernia?
great line and a great movie
His smack on Billy Corgan was the most insulting I think... The dude can write and play...
Would Neil and Bob's stuff be the same if they weren't singing it?
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What's up with Billy Corgan looking like Uncle Fester?
Exactly my point, and I agree about Billy Corgan. What really ticks me off about the whole thing is that it is meant to be a reflection of what GOOD taste the author has in music. He is a real authority. In other words, it is not done in a playful joking way, so it is more about the author than it is about any of these people. He is just using them. Personally, I can't stand to listen to 2 seconds of Michael Bolton singing, but he does have skills. His voice is no better or no worse than other people, such as Joe Cocker. The big difference is the content their songs.
But mr. justam
is who I am
"That's a repulsive combination of horrible information and bad breath."-Pickles
"Remember, death is a natural part of the workplace. So, when you see a dead body at work, don't freak out, just ring your death bell." "ting"-Toki Wartooth
but they're not and the dickhead that's there fully deserves to be there, yes this is an obvious statement from a pj fan, however i also agree with billy corgan being on the list, if you've heard him live, i mean, really....
mr paltrow from coldplay would get my vote for being such a lame thom yorke copyist, and yes, all those nasal emo whiners for sure, don't expect me to be able to name names...
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WTF? Phil Collins is the shit. Not his Disney stuff he does now, but his older solo stuff and with Genesis.
Watch the threesome scene in American Psycho and then tell me Phil Collins is annoying. That is the funniest shit ever.