I'm sorry, but Darius Rucker has a good voice.

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He does.

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorrier.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Let 'er cry...

― Ghostface Threadkillah (calstars), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You're not sorry. And while his voice is all too often put in the service of mulch, you're also right.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

You're absolutely right. Sometimes he presses and ends up flat but he's definitely got pipes.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sometimes". Dude's Flatty McFlatvoice, y'know?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I was trying to be nice!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I like his tone, but yes he's King of Flat.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course he has a good voice. I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it's put in the service of mulch, as even when it is mulch, it's his mulch.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I like his tone, but yes he's King of Flat.

ok, but so's the RZA

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

rucker's voice is a bit monochromatic, isn't it? (and by that i don't mean "black" har har)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

He was blessed with a deep monochromatic voice which isn't the same thing as a good voice.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

it's one of the least expressive voices i've ever heard.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

He has no clue how to sing expressively.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry, but David Coverdale has a good voice.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey now....Coverdale has a fine voice for what he does.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You're preaching to the choir here. That whole breakdown in the middle of "Still of the Night" where he's all like CAN'T KEEEEEEP AWAY (cantkeepaway) is TIGHT

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon, man..."Fire" by Deep Purple? "Slow'n'Easy" by Whitesnake?

Coverdale may be a towering example of needless priapism and shameless Robert-Plant-wannabeism, but he's got the vox to get the job he's bet at done.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

beSt

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

darius rucker
sounds like eddie vedder. there,
I've said it at last.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

He (Rucker) sounds 8 million times better singing non-Hootie songs (he did something at I want to say the NAACP Image Awards where he was crooning big band numbers and was really fucking good at it).

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

darius rucker
sounds like eddie vedder. there,
I've said it at last.

actually, the comic strip Great Pop Things had a Hootie-inspired scene where Sam Phillips notes that he'd sell ten million copies if he could just find a black guy who sounds like Eddie Vedder.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

best-ever review of Mr. Rucker: "a black guy trying to sing like a white guy trying to sing like a black guy."

― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm Darius Rucker, Bitch!"

Ah well. A guy can dream.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Rucker actually sounded quite good -- completely unlike the hits -- on their cover of "Can't Find the Time" from the Me, Myself and Irene soundtrack.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That's no way to talk about Dan.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i await the mick collins/darius rucker comparisons.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm Darius Rucker, Bitch!"
Ah well. A guy can dream.

Count me in on that dream.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

RRRRRRRRRRRRRucker!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

He has a *pleasant* voice. It sings *pleasant* music. It's (take your pick) non-offensive. (unless you think vapid/insipid is offensive)

Nice.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure it offends some people, actually. And actually, I believe Danyel Smith compared Hootie's pipes to Dobie Gray in a great review in *Vibe once. (But yeah, I hear Eddie Vedder in there, too, yuck. Or at least early Scott Weiland, which = marginally less yuck.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

If people can hate opera singers, it's open season on everyone.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/images/irony/Slide11_WBOPERAHR.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://artofdisney.com/daffybugsshowdown.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hmmm, music hater."

http://www.tultw.com/pics/giovanni0030.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do people say singers sound like Eddie Vedder when they really sound like Scott Weiland?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Weiland is just a Giovanni Jones wannabe.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Because no one really wants to think about Scott Weiland (who has also gone through something like three or four vocal changes over the course of his career while Vedder has stayed pretty constant).

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do people say singers sound like Eddie Vedder or Scott Weiland when they really sound like Darius Rucker?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA dave OTM.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I concede.

But I really don't think ppl like Rucker or Scott Stapp sound like Vedder AT ALL and I don't know why people draw the comparison so much

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(psst it's the instrumentation not the singer)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(yah)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame that Crash Test Dummies shithead for all of the above.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I could see how Hootie & the Blowfish kinda sound like Brad Roberts taking a massive dump

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Winnipeg represent!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I never got the Hootie/ DMB comparison .. except that they're both dull.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

why should opera singers somehow be above reproach? dan r an operaist.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan R MARRIED to an operaist, for a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The entire raison d'être of the operatic voice is to be the best possible instrument for the most demanding, acrobatic music (which will also have to be projected unmiked over an orchestra). Due to extremes of range, volume and stamina (not to mention language and nuance), any singer will tell you that singing opera is the hardest thing you can do as a vocalist and that those who do it well are fucking astonishing.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And might even make for some astonishing f...riendship.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yooooooouuuuuu are my type of guy, let me straighten your tie, and I will dance for YOU.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

but dan, that doesn't mean someone has to like what people do with that supreme instrument.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe not like, but at least respect.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Agreed. Anyone who doesn't think it takes a lot of talent to do what they do is an idiot. (but talent != enjoyable music)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(psst it's the instrumentation not the singer)

well, Xgau pegs them as REM. no, wait...

but dan, that doesn't mean someone has to like what people do with that supreme instrument.

but dan, I am completely uninterested in beauty

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

and we all know beauty is an objective quality, right gabbneb?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

I think he'd do a mean job on Neil Young's "Walk On". anyone know his people so that I can suggest this?

― Euler, Thursday, 5 December 2013 23:02 (twelve years ago)

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