Bands where the other guy has a better voice than the lead singer...

i don't disagree but most of partridge's singing comes in an irritating faux-american accent

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac)

cf. the beginning of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8MQOmIVoQ

this arguably applied to the Goo Goo Dolls before Takac took a backseat to Rzeznick, but some would argue the opposite

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Nash Kato and King had pretty different vocal stylees in Urge Overkill. Nash was the hipster. King usually had the emo story tunes.

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Straitjacket Fits - Andrew Brough's voice much easier on the ears than Shayne Carter's, regardless of which one you prefer...

Who was considered the lead singer in the Monkees? I always figured it was Davey Jones, mainly because he didn't seem to play any instrument beyond the tambourine. And Mickey Dolenz clearly had the better voice. But then again, Dolenz sang lead on many, if not most, of their big hits. I'm so confusing!

I don't know that the Monkees really had a lead singer. Dolenz and Jones contributions were fairly evenly split with Nesmith not terribly far behind.

always thought James Iha had a more pleasant voice than Billy Corgan but I didn't particularly "like" Iha's voice either.

Bill Ward was a better singer than Ozzy technically, though he'd have never fit the doomier stuff.

also Corrosion of Conformity, Pepper was a better vocalist than Karl Agell on the Blind album which is largely why he became the lead vocalist after that album (that and Karl's departure).....

Sonic Youth? Lee Ranaldo's voice is passable at best, Kim Gordon's voice is 100X more distinctive.

Most SY albums have an approximately equal number of Moore-sung and Gordon-sung songs, with one or two Ranaldo songs thrown in. Not sure who counts as "lead singer" in this case.

Oddly, I sometimes argue that Gordon was the better singer but Sister and Murray Street, maybe the two that are most Moore-dominated, are two of their albums that I play the most.

The Flaming Lips should let Steven Drozd sing lead on more songs

they'd certainly be less irritating without wayne

Joy Division

No

I suppose you are the expert. Well argued. I would delete my comment if I could but my humiliation will just have to live on.

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Massively butthurt. How could I not be with that take down! Fortunately taste isn’t subjective.

Jeez, dude. I wasn't pulling rank or even making an argument, just expressing a more-or-less irrational but strong personal disagreement on that particular opinion. 2xp

Hook sounds a bit like Chris Rea here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U08U2RbqFi8

while obv not the case overall, I do think oates's gives his all to songs like 'friday let me down' whereas hall would sleepwalk his way through it, so theres usually an oates banger on each of their albums. Also noticed between song like this, 'youve lost that loving feeling' and 'alone too long' that poor old oates seems to live quite the lonely existence :(

ZZ Top. Bassist Dusty Hill tends to sing a song or two per album and has a much higher, cleaner voice than Billy Gibbons.

I know Suzanna Hoffs has the more distinctive voice, but I feel like Michael Steele and the Peterson sisters have prettier voices.