- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,221
If I could Like this a thousand times, I would.
Both in the "Can't sing" and "Whose voices you can't stand" category. Also for being a massive tosser.
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[Music] Singers who can't sing (or those whose voices you can't stand).
- Thread starter marlowe
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If I could Like this a thousand times, I would.
Both in the "Can't sing" and "Whose voices you can't stand" category. Also for being a massive tosser.
The act that was the inspiration for the Shooting Stars Club Singer Round?
Nay, Nay and thrice Nay!
(Robbie Williams appears briefly in this vid just for [MENTION=28056]bn9 bha[/MENTION])
Tyrone Biggums
Well-known member
Anthony Kiedis, Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain.
And of course Shane MacGowan.
And of course Shane MacGowan.
Megazone
On his last warning
Neil Morrissey sounds like a moany, miserable old sod. (when singing)
Neil Young sounds like a dying goat.
Neil Young sounds like a dying goat.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,310
Which is the understatement of the year
I'm not a fan and I understand they are quite famously bad live even amongst their fans.
However having witnessed it live at Reading if ever there was a voice created in the studio there it is.
Other "quite crap" live I'm witnessed.
Suede when they started and were the next big thing.
Seal at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert, quite something to be out-sung by Zucchero.
Robert Plant at the above too, then of all people George Michael shows everyone how to do it.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,310
Can I raise you a Pet Shop Boys ?
That was always turn the radio off for me.
That was always turn the radio off for me.
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
Anything by Status Quo 
This thread is really poor. It's about people who can't sing not who you don't like, surely?
Robbie Williams is a good call as he really struggles to actually sing the songs that have been written for him. He's a shit singer. Fair play to him for making a fortune by getting decent tunes and having a "personality" though.
But people saying Kate Bush, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Smith, Amy Winehouse, Joe Cocker, Stevie Wonder etc. You're just wrong.
I'm no massive fan of any of them but they can/could obviously sing, and really, really well.
I can't stand Adele but I'm not about to say she can't sing as I'd be a ****ing idiot to do so. It's just that I think her songs are rubbish and she's hugely overhyped.
People who can't sing include the bloke from Franz Ferdinand (they also can't play instruments properly and are a joke of a live band), Ricky Wilson off've Kaiser Chiefs, The Spice Girls apart from Mel C, Simon Le Bon (as mentioned), David Essex (he's not from a reality TV show for younger people), Cilla Black (awful warbling scouseness).
Oh and if we're including Williams (which we should) then Mark bloody Owen who even on songs scripted for him by the tax dodging **** Barlow, and even when it's massively overproduced, he manages to sound like a dying hamster with severe nasal congestion. Hearing him sing live (on TV I stress) it's actually embarrassing.
Aim the arrows correctly.
Robbie Williams is a good call as he really struggles to actually sing the songs that have been written for him. He's a shit singer. Fair play to him for making a fortune by getting decent tunes and having a "personality" though.
But people saying Kate Bush, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Smith, Amy Winehouse, Joe Cocker, Stevie Wonder etc. You're just wrong.
I'm no massive fan of any of them but they can/could obviously sing, and really, really well.
I can't stand Adele but I'm not about to say she can't sing as I'd be a ****ing idiot to do so. It's just that I think her songs are rubbish and she's hugely overhyped.
People who can't sing include the bloke from Franz Ferdinand (they also can't play instruments properly and are a joke of a live band), Ricky Wilson off've Kaiser Chiefs, The Spice Girls apart from Mel C, Simon Le Bon (as mentioned), David Essex (he's not from a reality TV show for younger people), Cilla Black (awful warbling scouseness).
Oh and if we're including Williams (which we should) then Mark bloody Owen who even on songs scripted for him by the tax dodging **** Barlow, and even when it's massively overproduced, he manages to sound like a dying hamster with severe nasal congestion. Hearing him sing live (on TV I stress) it's actually embarrassing.
Aim the arrows correctly.
Not Andy Naylor
Well-known member
There's another category of performer, those who are technically quite poor singers, for example those who can't hit the notes and barely even try (Lou Reed being an example), but can deliver a song and whose voices have an emotional quality or a wit or a warmth that people like. So while some on here might not like, say, Shane McGowan as a singer, they'd have a job listening to Fairytale of New York and denying the strength of the performance.
Agreed. There's a lot to be said for individual character of a vocal over technical prowess.
Very true. Tom Waits being another example.
super-seagulls
Soup! Why didn’t I get any Soup?
Effing ABBA.
Always had an irrational hatred of ABBA.
ABBA and Viennese whirls- but that should be saved for another thread!
Always had an irrational hatred of ABBA.
ABBA and Viennese whirls- but that should be saved for another thread!
- Jan 3, 2012
- 16,582
Ed Sheeran. Never heard him do anything that hasn't set My teeth on edge...... but I probably haven't tried very hard.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Craig David, have to turn it off, really hate it.
studio150
Well-known member
Anything by Status Quo
You must have said that 'Forty-five hundred times'
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,892
With you on Abba, something tinny about them. I have just remembered another one for my original list.... Len Cohen.. It always sounds like him and the music have had a bad falling out 5 minutes previously and they are not going to work together.
David, trust me and don't try to listen to anything else by him.
He could bring out a nursery rhyme played backwards and millions would still buy it, or download it.
Another massive hype for people that listen to commercial radio.