Jack White's Voice Makes Me Want To Cry.

i was browsing in a record store recently, and they put on - i'm guessing - some album by that band that jack white is in that isn't the white stripes, and i almost had to leave the store. first of all, it was endless. i kept thinking: "well, that must be it, there can't be another song...". but there was always another song. it was so terrible. i felt depressed and aggravated - i was having a fine time browsing - and frustrated to the point where i actually could have started crying. i wasn't uncomfortable in any other way. i had eaten lunch. i ALMOST went to the manager to ask them to play something else, but i've never done that in my life, and i just couldn't bring myself to do it.

anyway, this isn't really about Jack White. just wondering if anyone else has been forced to listen to something that made them want to cry or die. when was the last time? i felt helpless. i can't even remember the last time this has happened. the only time i even feel remotely like how i felt in that store is when one of those whispery hat guys comes on the radio in the car, but then i can just change the station.

I feel this way whenever I stumble across "Pumped Up Kicks" on the radio

I think I know what you mean. The way some people sing just gives me a kind of visceral reaction that makes me want to get away as fast as possible. Regina Spektor does that to me.

the singer from james has this effect on me. hearing the song sit down makes me want to curl up in a ball and rock back and fro.

i think this in cafés sometimes, like there must be so much thoughtful aesthetic decisionmaking that goes into opening a café and decorating it and positioning the tables in the right spots and making the menu nice & varied but also affordable, and then they go ruin it by letting someone play terrible/too loud music, as if that isn't going to impact on how nice it is to be in a place

now i know how people feel when i'm playing waka flocka in my store...

I feel this way about Fergie. She just makes me uncomfortable and I don't know why.

Ron Howard's voice. I know Arrested Development is a great show, but I haven't been able to make it through more than three episodes because of the overwhelmingly grating nasality of his fucking voice.

(Also, misread thread title as "Jack White's Horse Makes Me Want To Cry.")

had a similar reaction to a bjork album (god knows which one) in a record store a couple years ago. was otherwise happily browsing the day away, but the sound of her voice drove me to tearless yet miserable seething. not the first time, either. in recent years, i've been similarly afflicted by yeasayer, animal collective and on several occasions by whiny, dolorous indie pap i couldn't identify. i guess it's my version of "hey you kids, get off my lawn!"

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i left a cafe that was playing jeff buckley's cover of "hallelujah"

Why did I read that as:

i left a cake that was playing jeff buckley's cover of "hallelujah"

I don't think that I can take it, yada etc.

i probably would have

was totally gonna make a joke about jeff buckley being all wet, but then i remembered!! sorry, jeff...

someone left Jeff Buckley in the rain

I like the idea of someone crying to a Jack White record. Makes me feel less weak for crying when I see a dead dog in the street.

The house next door to ours has a pool and outdoor speakers. Our previous neighbor emitted an occasional blast of Lucinda Williams or Jefferson Airplane, which was cool, but then he left and a young couple moved in. These new occupants, who we never got to meet, did a lot of work in their yard and liked to play a local country radio station loud enough to be audible over their lawn mower or leaf blower. On sunny weekends this started in the morning and usually continued until well after dark. We could hear their music anywhere in our house if we didn't have our own stereo on. I should have gone over and asked them to turn it down, but I hated to introduce myself that way, and they weren't being responsive to our greetings during non-blasting hours.

I grew up in rural Alabama, I listen to Merle and Waylon, I even read Rolling Country threads. I can handle this, I figured. Surely if I kept my ears open, I would at least hear a few good songs. But except for maybe one Miranda Lambert track, everything was boring or irritating. It went on and on. I started ranting to my wife about the evils of dynamic range compression and ProTools. I considered buying a low-power FM transmitter so I could jam their favorite station with white noise or fake police scanner broadcasts.

Eventually there was some kind of domestic battery incident and now they've moved out. Occasionally I see her over there sitting in the garage and talking on her cell phone. I feel bad they broke up, but I'm glad I don't have to talk to any FCC investigators.

I know I've mentioned this on ILM before (to the consternation of others), but Donald Fagen's 'I.G.Y.' seriously almost makes me nauseous. I find almost every element of that song viscerally unpleasant. Jackson Browne's 'The Load Out' generates something similar if not quite as virulent.

I agree - "I.G.Y." makes me want to vomit! Like some bad peach schnapps from an eighties preppy party! And I really like Steely Dan!

the whiny voice of kanye west makes me want to time travel back with him to a to a middle school playground, where I would beat his ass silly.

I like Jack White

He's good, though not as good as the Happy Mondays!

It's a great tune, but since childhood I can't hear Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell" without actually smelling a phantom fart

drowned out the football all evening, the cunt

what do people like about this guy's voice? they just tolerate it, right? it's not rockin or badass or nuanced or weird or flavorful or anything, just this dude squawking. He probably thinks he sounds like robert plant or something?

Guys imagine Jack White doing a whole album of duets with Paolo Nutini

You'd cry too if you were a Cubs fan.

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I don't hate him but I don't get his huge fanbase at all. He's not a good singer, his persona is not hypnotizing nor charming, he's hit or miss writing music and he's not a mindblowing guitarist. He's mediocre.

even him seems surprised to remain relevant.

he keeps it simple and that's enough

he's apparently a complete cunt, which doesn't surprise me

the singing on his new song really is awful

His new album is really awful.