Who Has The Dreariest Voice Of All Time?

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Morrissey.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

nico fool

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrissey.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Common

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephin Merritt

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Fat Boab Smith ownS this, despite the fact I'm starting to get over my 80's Cure hatred, it's still not pretty: makes me think of taking a big gulp of coffee you realise too late has gone stone cold. UGH, UGH, UGH!

― Soukesian, Friday, 24 September 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna say Merritt too, but he's trying to be dreary, isn't he? or maybe he's just trying to sound weary.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Trying or not, the dude sounds like he could use a cup of coffee and a hug.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The great dreary/dreamy divide is bridged by Mark K. of Red House Painters.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel Ash

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, I just realized that KYLE must really like dreariness!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The great dreary/dreamy divide is bridged by Mark K... -- having read this far I became suddenly afeared, VERY afeared, that after the K there'd come ...nopfler!!

*shudders*
*shakes*
*shivers*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Fiona Apple
Mark Lanegan

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

laetitia sadier

whose voice i like a great deal, but it doesn't really convey emotion so much

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

bob dylan

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

In an unflattering way, what about that guy from Hootie & the Blowfish (Darius Rucker)?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

leonard cohen

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Gack, yes (and not in a complimentary way for me either).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"I was born like this
I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice"
-- LC

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Gira

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably some crappy sludge-metal band or something.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 September 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Lloyd Banks. Turntablelab brilliantly put it thus:"dude's flow is beige".

― M Carty (mj_c), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Thompson

― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bob Dylan"?! "Richard Thompson"?!? Dude,...

Glen Frey
Reg Presley
Paul Rodgers

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 25 September 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Knopfler
David Gilmour

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Tweedy.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The singer in Hood. And I really like Hood, but still.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 25 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Lloyd Banks. Turntablelab brilliantly put it thus:"dude's flow is beige.

Might as well call it khaki, it's so beige. Banks is basically 50 Cent without the enthusiasm or the weird vocal inflections.

― Chris O., Saturday, 25 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

M. Gira owns this thread.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jandek

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Celine Dion. I mean, really.

― meathead, Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you Maria B. Gira Gira Gira. And I mean it as a compliment.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever that guy is who sang for the Crash Test Dummies. He's like Gira without a sense of fun.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't find Gira's voice dreary. I guess he can do dreary, but when he's bellowing something like "let the light come in, damn you to hell" he sounds more like Robert Mitchum in Night Of The Hunter.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 September 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Genesis P-Orridge - but I mean it as a compliment

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis Costello

― holojames (holojames), Monday, 27 September 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Soukesian is completely OTM upthread with Fat Bob. He gets away with it in the Cure trilogy (Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography) and their later anologues (Disintegration, Bloodflowers) but on the pop material... I want to stick pens in my ears at times. And I quite like the Cure.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 27 September 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Cave.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

no one's said natalie merchant yet, or her out of the cranberries

i agree about the red house painters.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Dido trumps all.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the guy from tragically hip.
HOLY JESUS FUCK.
it's like only the very worst aspects of michael stipe's voice with a slight edge of jello biafra, plus he does this quasi-morrisey thing that just makes it unbearably fucking miserable. ack.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 9 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim Wheeler. Lordy, Ash are useless.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 9 October 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

kevin ayers is dreary. richard thompson is right up there. the guy from the wrens is fucking dreary, but i like them pretty well.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 9 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuart Staples from the Tindersticks, dude.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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NO COMPETITION!!! WHY WON'T SOMEONE DO THE RIGHT THING, AND BURN THE 'SIMPLY RED' BACK CATALOGUE???

― janice irving, Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah! Someone hates Mick Hucknall!!

― JTS, Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for Mark Lanegan here.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Brett Sparks from the Handsome Family is just brimming with woe.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

sam elliot, hamilton leithauser, ben stein, beth gibbons, tom waits, jonathon richman, jeff tweedy, nico, bill callahan, and kris kristofferson are examples of good dreary. morrissey, stephen merritt, adam duritz, and joe lieberman are some examples of bad dreary.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think anyone who does that multisyllabic melisma thing on a slick urban R&B record is drearier than just about all the singers mentioned here. The more syllables and notes you pack into the word 'I' or the word 'love', the more dismally soulless you actually are.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 10 October 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

James Freakin Taylor

David Kitt, an Irish singer-songwriter who would bore you into a coma with his monotonous, droney voice.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Sunday, 10 October 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Mick Jones?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Sunday, 10 October 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel O'Donnell.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 10 October 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Lloyd Banks.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe the answer is Thom Yorke

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 10 October 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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