The Ten Most Annoying Singers

[Dennis Willis]

Alright kids, start your engines...

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/17793/the-ten-most-an...

My two cents:
-Michael Stipe, R.E.M.
-Any rapper or contemporary artist who "sings" off cue.
-Justin Timberlake

I'll think of more, but who annoys you?

[Cabernet]

I find Madonna as fascinating as everyone else, but her whiny occasionally off pitch voice has cut right thru my marrow since she got "touched for the very first time" and felt the need to pass it on to the rest of us! I feel similarly about Mariah Carey, except she's not even fascinating:(

[Kelly Frank]

How about any country singer who yodels through their nose?

[Dennis Willis]

And while we're on the subject of country...

Country music is the Scientology of the music industry. Pop and rocks acts such as Def Leppard and Bon Jovi are suddenly "going country" (joining the cult). Take your simplest pop or rock song, add a smashed guitar line and a cowboy hat and BINGO BANGO, you have a country song! Even worse, when artists like Garth Brooks and Faith Hill dare to put the banjo down and explore a slightly different sound, they are ostracized for "turning their back on country." Sure, Carrie Underwood is country's big selling wunderkind, but you just wait until she tries out another genre. Country music is both elitist AND simple. It also doesn't take a whole lot of talent to pull off a country song. Case in point: I can't sing a lick, but when I suckered into doing Karaoke, I'm doing a country song!

[Kelly Frank]

Well what's better than getting drunk and yodeling through your nose? Your friends will think it's really funny when the beer starts dripping out with the yodeling...

[Dennis Willis]

I think i was there the night that happened! Heh-heh!

[Oni Monk]

Well... I'm going for that guy from Supertramp hands down. Don't know how many times he's sent me sprinting to the radio, leaving me in a state of abject misery.

[Dennis Willis]

So I'm guessing we shouldn't pick "It's Raining Again" for the Song of the Day anytime soon, eh?

[Oni Monk]

Hey...how bout we throw an opposite spin on this. I'm a huge fan of Tom Waits & his less than pristine timbre. You know they wouldn't even let him in the door on American Idol (Reason #49 not to watch). Sometimes the "worse" voices are the best.

[Dennis Willis]

Yep, I love Tom Waits. Leonard Cohen too. And while we're at it, how about other less-than-perfect voices with Great Character: Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan (who has grown warmer in his grizzled old age), Randy Newman and the ultimate case-in-point, the late, great Johnny Cash. Just listen to him growl Nine Inch Nail's "Numb" or "God's Gonna Cut You Down"...

[Dennis Willis]

All of this got me thinking about quite possibly the most gloriously bad cover I've ever heard, that of "Please Release Me." It was recorded as a goof under the moniker Stumpus Maximus and the Good Ol' Boys

The Good Ol' Boys were actually Def Leppard and Stumpus was their road manager. It was the flip side of the "Hysteria" single (remember those?) and as a result is very tough to find. It's perfectly horrible but something tells me Sid Vicious would be proud.

So listen. Enjoy. You can thank me later.

http://www.deezer.com/track/179133

[Kelly Frank]

Um, yeah, that was painful!

[Dennis Willis]

Glad I could share the warmth!