sexiest male vocals?

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Personally I have a weakness for the moment when Thurston Moore yells "LIKE THIS" on "Hotwire My Heart." Also notable: Iggy on "Gimme Danger."

― gedoudahere, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Jarvis Fucking Cocker.

also when he out of Soviet says "Ahem...I digress" on "Marbleyezed".

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan Ferry and the aforementioned JC. I love how Ferry mocks everything he sings, especially his own lyrics.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Cocker: OTM. Ferry, however, is just that bit too mocking to be truly sexy, in my view.

― gedoudahere, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Slave to Love" is pure sexy.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah definitely bryan ferry. i think lou reed too. and otis redding, percy sledge, ed kuepper, paul weller, the guy from the doves

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ferry's vocals are too obvious in their seductiveness, too controlled somehow, to really affect me as they seem intended to. When someone sounds like they're fucking losing it, that's what I react to. That said, yes, Ferry is a terrific singer, and Flesh + Blood is a very steamy listen.

xpost

― gedoudahere, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Otis Redding, indeed, I must say.
But LOU REED? No way in hell, not to me.

― gedoudahere, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Obvious, but Bowie.

Though, I just consider him a sexy man all round.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

lou reed... i think it's something about his voice being really deep. i absolutely love that song "what's good" from the until the end of the world soundtrack. and sweet jane.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only heard "What's Good" a couple of times, and not recently, so I can't really say about that particular song. My nomination for Sexiest Lou Reed Song, if I had to make one, would be "Satellite of Love," and most of the reason for that is the David Bowie backing vocals at the end.

― gedoudahere, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Daniel Ash on "So Alive".

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost - david bowie is super sexy too, you're right. that is a great song too.

it's so subjective on a number of levels though, don't you think? since we would all define what constitutes "sexy" so differently?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course. Not trying to be unnecessarily contentious. I just started this because the existence of the "sexiest female vocals?" thread seemed to call for it.

Other possibilities:
Kevin Shields (cf. Isn't Anything, esp. "Cupid Come")
Nick Cave (cf. "Do You Love Me?")

― gedoudahere, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yes nick cave for sure! and i confess a bit of a torch for tex perkins from the cruel sea. i think the deep voice thing might be a bit of a theme for me. and vocalists who make me think of a dark smoky bar, late at night.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

gregory isaacs
larry marshall
delroy wilson
john holt
pat kelly
slim smith
james brown

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

1.Bob Seger
2.Billy Squier
3.Elvis P.
4.Errol Brown (The guy from Hot Chocolate)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

junior byles
cornell campbell

good call on elvis

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

david sylvian, clearly

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

John Lennon on "Helter Skelter" -- "DO YOU DON'T YOU WANT ME TO LOVE YOU / COMIN' DOWN FAST I'M MILES ABOVE YOU..."

― snazz, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

robert forster

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Hutchence.

― maria b (maria b), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://chetbakertribute.com/images/gallery_images/cb_image_03.jpg
-- even though he could sing horribly off key at times.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

John Lennon on "Helter Skelter"
Paul actually wrote and sang the whole thing. I love the backing vocals btw.

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I was convinced that we'd done this before but as it turned out I couldn't have been more wrong.

Don Van Vliet
Tom Waits
Dave Vanian

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

joe cocker, aesop rock, and dexter holland

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought we'd done it before, too, but if we've not, well...

-Sonic Boom
-Kurt Ralske (no snippy emails please, it's a compliment!)
-Brad Laner
-Mark Gardener
-James Bourne

(What can I say? I either like saucy breathy and whispered or choirboy)

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Saucy breathy, eh?

So you'd really go for a guy who breathed tomato ketchup fumes all over you, right?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Palmer on "You Overwhelm Me."

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

You can take that "apostrophe catastrophe" to cover comma catastrophes, as well. Sigh.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

So you're saying you wouldn't go for a guy who breathed tomato ketchup fumes all over you now?

Thought it was too good to be true [sigh].

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it depends if he was a dirty dronerock boy who sung like a choirboy, now, wouldn't it?

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope, I'm only good for the ketchup breath I'm afraid.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Major Harris. bow down.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, babe, is that a Jazzmaster in your pocket, or have you just been hitting the Emporer Tomato Ketchup? etc. and so on.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

uhhh.. r kelly?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the majority of this list is WHITE BOYZ

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Find me a black mang who sings like a choir... DANG PERRY!!!

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

R Kelly's breath smells of tomato ketchup, eh?

No wonder he's such a hit with the laydeeeeez!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

DULLI DULLI DULLI DULLI DULLI

plus Elvis sometimes (pick one)

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

There was that one memorable morning when my own breath smelled of Las Ketchup...

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

THANK YOU, BURR. I was just getting ready to post regarding my lack of faith in the collective ILM aural sexometer in not picking up on Mr. Green. My faith is restored.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Gedge.
All the shame and smuttiness of Jarvis Cocker, plus.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

barry white
eugene record

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

SNOOP

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

MYSTIKAL

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

KANO!!!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Anastasia.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince Far I!

― Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh...Marvin Gaye.

― Iggy Bliss, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe I forgot Al Green

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I don't know from sexy .. but Lloyd Cole & Daniel Ash (on 20th Century Boy once especially)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Rawls has a sexy voice. Al Green sings sexy.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Craig Finn from Lifter Puller/Hold Steady. makes me sohot.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom Waits

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee Dorsey.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'The Genius of Ray Charles.'

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Stan Ridgway

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green's got me like George Costana cuz yo, it MOVED!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

captain beefheart on "im gonna booglarize ya." im a heterosexual man, and that growl shakes my groin.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Gahan, Stipe, Morissey, Dulli

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was 15, as many years ago, my parents' friend's 20 yr old daughter used to visit me in my bedroom and writhe and grind about to Marc Bolan's whispery cool all over Electric Warrior's vinyl goodness.

Does Marc Bolan has the sexiest male voice ever? Doubt it, but the experience still ranks among my most umm, sexiest memories.

― PT, Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally agree with you on the other three but Stipe??? really?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

serge

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green is the clear winner. I will also go to bat for Dean Wareham, particularly on Penthouse and much of Romantica.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, why didnt i say marc bolan. duh duh duh. the cap'n is still up there though. he makes my wig all pooped. and im still heterosexual. i swear.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

(I am sad that no one took my bait.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not my field to be honest, but Gregory Isaacs.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cool Ruler has worked wonders for me, Dadaismus. Or, in a pinch, Ken Boothe.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Hell - "Betrayal Takes Two"

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(I am sad that no one took my bait.)

if anyone actually knew who anastasia is, someone might have piped up. or maybe not, 'cause she kinda DOES have a sexy male voice.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew a girl named Nikki
I guess you could say she was a sex fiend
I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with magazines
She said "How'd you like to waste some time?"
And I could not resist
When I saw little Nikki grind

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd really love to play Penthouse for Al Green and tell him that Deano is no. 2.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Maxwell
JC Chasez on 'Plug It In'
Phil Oakey

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, learn to read plz thx.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

just joshin', touchy!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll further the love for Marc Bolan. I love how he sounds so spacy and down to earth at the same time. He does the best gasp of all time.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The first 10 times I heard Anastasia (on the radio while in Spain), I thought some Europop girl was doing a duet with Ed Kowalczyk from Live. (Hey, it's not as far-fetched a scenario as one would think). There's a very easily definable moment in her current single when she goes from a softer, more "feminine" first verse into the full Kowalczyk mode.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Charley Keigher from King of The Slums, Ian H (?) from Bradford, Morrissey and David from Wolfhounds.

― svend (svend), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Seconding the David Gedge nomination. Also nominating Rob Dickinson of The Catherine Wheel.

― Josh Anomaly (josh_anomaly), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

forgot #5... Michael Gira

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Leonard Cohen circa "I'm Your Man." Decades of smoking may kill him yet, but the man sounds damn sexy. "There ain't no cure for love" is tops too but may be a bit cheesy, whereas "I'm Your Man" is stunning.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

there is so many kind of sexy... if i didn't know how he looked like i would say early 80's marc e. smith has the sexiest, most exciting voice. and lou reed's voice *is* sexy, for example listen to "i've got a tiger in my tank", a pre-VU song, rowr. boys don't cry-era robert smith too in the boyish sexy way. also i guess the singer from action painting! since he has the robert smith thing going on too. for sexy-sweet i like sonic boom too, the AR Kane guys etc. but talking strictly of sexy-sex voices, i would say jimi hendrix.

― chomisan, Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Shaun Escoffery

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Colin Blunstone on "Time of the Season" and many others.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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