Lines Delivered in Goofy Voices That Almost Ruin Otherwise Perfectly Good Songs for You

The reverse of this is when the singer performs the entire song in a funny voice, only dropping into their normal voice for a line or two, like Prince going from falsetto to chest voice in "Soft and Wet".

Wow, I couldn't disagree more. For me, the meta aspect to Reed's delivery adds to the wry poignancy of the lyric.

I could probably try to disagree more.

I think Lou was having fun on the track btw, I don't think he was 'thinking about making the track more fun'.

oh i have no doubt that he was having fun - i can tell because he audibly (hey!) set himself to the task of (OWW, oh!) working very hard to convey how much fun he was having (comewatchitnowmamaHAHAHAYOWWW!) thru his vocals

I like it, but I guess I can see how it might be a turnoff.

i dont want to speculate about his private life, but frankly it sounds to me like he might have been under the influence of drugs while recording it

I think Lou was going through one of his straight(er) periods at the time. He did sorta do a lot of improvising and messing around when he sang live at the time - I mean, he always did do that but he actually had the chops to pull it off then.

See also his disciple Jonathan Richman putting a lot of band directions in his recordings.

Candy & A Currant Bun's mannered spoken lines are a bit toe-curling, also the weird, too loud 'DROIVE ME WOILD' bit is dumb.

Zappa owns this thread so much he's not even been mentioned yet.

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I find sped-up vocals grating pretty much any time they're used, with Ween being an exception because, like Neanderthal said, that's kind of the point. I love "Songs of Praise" by Roy Wood but I think I'd love it even more without the choir of chipmunk Roys (which I do still appreciate at a conceptual level). I have no idea how "Smokeless Zone" by XTC goes because I always try to skip it before that voice comes in at the beginning.

Candy & A Currant Bun's mannered spoken lines are a bit toe-curling, also the weird, too loud 'DROIVE ME WOILD' bit is dumb.

Kind of agree about the "Drive me wild" bit - which is Roger I think? - but the Syd spoken lines are classic.

Zappa: Entire Albums Delivered in Goofy Voices That Totally Ruin Otherwise Perfectly Good Careers for You

I like the Residents, so I don't even know what I'm doing in this thread.

Looking at most of the examples, I probably enjoy this more often than it annoys me.

The dopey voice Beefheart puts on in "Hobo Chang Ba" was a major error of judgment.

One example that I really like is Alice Cooper singing "you'd kidnap a leper and mail him to your Aunt Jane" in a Paul Lynde voice during "Go To Hell."

Prince can get away with any number of goofy asides, but one that has always bothered me is the valley girl-esque "oh rilly?!"s that are peppered throughout "Housequake."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLYl4fM8yk

The German-language version of "The Model" glides along nicely until the second verse, where, after the line "Sie trinkt in nachtclubs immer Sekt" ("In nightclubs, she always drinks champagne"), someone oafishly bellows "Korrekt!"

I kind of love this bit, goofy or no.

― catarrh person (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 July 2021 22:48 (yesterday

Would it appear less oafish knowing that it's a reference to a nightclub where Kraftwerk used to go where one of the barmen would say "Sekt? Koooooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekt!!!"?

Any Danny Brown song where he does his "crazy" voice

Kendrick, great as he is, has quite a few weird baby voice moments that make me cringe. The nadir is probably "Put that pussy on a PEDESTAL/ Put that pussy on a HIGH HORSE" on Travis Scott's Goosebumps

Pink Floyd, "Have a Cigar":

"Everybody else is just GREEEEEEEN ..."

but one that has always bothered me is the valley girl-esque "oh rilly?!"s

That just reminded me of the "duh" in Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy".

Wow you lot really do hate fun

what do you consider fun
fun, natural fun

Less annoying than “James Browwwwn”

Every line ever delivered by Paul maccartney

Ha, I like his Little Richard voice but yeah I know what you mean, and maybe that one even counts as a goofy voice.

terrible thread, sorry