Who has your favourite voice?

[butchersapron]

Roger Livesy

 

[rioted]

Bernice Reagan
Don Van Vliet

 

[Babe Rainbow]

Leonard Cohen. Scott Walker. Paul Simon. Brendan Perry. Roland Orzabal. Michael Stipe.

Lisa Gerrard. Aimee Mann. Leslie Feist. Joni Mitchell. Oleta Adams.

 

[dessiato]

Lady Gaga can be surprisingly good, you just need to get past her pop and costumes. She was very good with Tony Bennet

 

[campanula]

for pure unearthly gorgeousness - Andreas Scholl

 

[bimble]

Richard Hawley has a voice I could listen to all night. Soft but not too sweet.

 

[AverageJoe]

Morgan Freeman. Ever when he's singing.

"He thought is was going to be a good day. It was not a good day"

(you did that in his voice didn't you...)

 

[ska invita]

Chaka Khan, the full range but especially the high notes slay me,

 

[l'Otters]

I couldn’t get near just one favourite voice. A lot of what I like about music is the voice. Then there’s people’s speaking voices.

I’d probably start with Diamanda Galas for singers.

Have a massive soft spot for Jello Biafra but that’s less about singing and more about derangement, intonation and subject matter.

Been enjoying Katie Stelmanis from Austra lately.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Willy Nelson

Josie James

 

[Badgers]

Joe Pasquale or Gary Neville

 

[Oula]

Neil Fallon from Clutch

Hank 3

 

[SpookyFrank]

Dolores O'Riordan

*runs away

 

[Kaka Tim]

Sam Cooke. Dusty Springfield. Debbie Harry. Johnny cash. Ella Fitzgerald. Amy Winehouse. Joe Strummer.

 

[Reno]

Nina Simone
Scott Walker
Esther Phillips
David McAlmond
Dionne Warwick
Billy Mackenzie

 

[Badgers]

Sam Elliott

 

[zahir]

Ioulia Karapataki - current favourite anyway

 

[Sasaferrato]

Joan Baez.

 

[Knotted]

Still Lotte Lenya.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Curtis Mayfield
Alison Goldfrapp
Peter Murphy
PJ Harvey
Shirley Bassey

 

[fucthest8]

Leonard Cohen. Scott Walker. Paul Simon. Brendan Perry. Roland Orzabal. Michael Stipe.

Lisa Gerrard. Aimee Mann. Leslie Feist. Joni Mitchell. Oleta Adams.

Noce bump. Like that you picked Roland Orzabal. Such a shame they did so much rubbish, but that first album and half the second was mint.

 

[fucthest8]

So many great suggestions on here, think all of mine have already been covered.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Noce bump. Like that you picked Roland Orzabal. Such a shame they did so much rubbish, but that first album and half the second was mint.

The Hurting was either the second or third album I ever bought. Still stands up. They did seem to use up most of their gos on it, though.

 

[fucthest8]

The Hurting was either the second or third album I ever bought. Still stands up. They did seem to use up most of their gos on it, though.

Innit. It was around that time I hatched my "no-one gets signed up early enough to do an average/shit first album any more" theory. You can work the rest out

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Innit. It was around that time I hatched my "no-one gets signed up early enough to do an average/shit first album any more" theory. You can work the rest out

Then you get the likes of Depeche Mode who were a bit shit then got loads better.

Talk Talk transformed from a run of the mill pop band into something totally different.

But that's probably a different thread.

*By 'album' above, I mean tape, because I only had a tape player. And a mono one at that. An oblong grey one with a handle at one end. First album (tape) I bought was Ultravox Vienna. Not quite as enduring, I suspect, but burned into my brain from the number of repeat listens.

 

[fucthest8]

Then you get the likes of Depeche Mode who were a bit shit then got loads better.

Talk Talk transformed from a run of the mill pop band into something totally different.

But that's probably a different thread.

*By 'album' above, I mean tape, because I only had a tape player. And a mono one at that. An oblong grey one with a handle at one end. First album (tape) I bought was Ultravox Vienna. Not quite as enduring, I suspect, but burned into my brain from the number of repeat listens.

Ah, but Depeche Mode got better because of drugs.
Songs of Faith and Devotion is fucking awesome. Most of their stuff from the 80s can fuck off

And yes, Talk Talk were the exception etc, but yes, wrong thread

(Oh god but I loved early/earlier Ultravox though. "Your name has slipped my mind again" still does it for me)

 

[Sprocket.]

Al Green. Aretha Franklin. Anne Nesby. Laura Nyro. Joni Mitchell. Paul Rodgers. To name a few.

 

[campanula]

I like clarity and range in a human voice (I have found it hard to lose my early choral background). I don't care for opera at all but I do love early music (Palestrina, Dowland, Byrd) along with an accomplished singer such as Emma Kirkby - a particularly clear, bell-like soprano with none of that annoying vibrato or vocal acrobatics of the coloratura diva.
Very separate from voices which are part of a wider musical ensemble such as bands. I love the creamy voice of Sam Cooke, the phrasings of Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald and the warmth of Mari Wilson and Peggy Lee

 

[imposs1904]

Ella Fitzgerald or Patsy Cline.

Don't ask me to pick between the two.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Calvin Johnson and Laetitia Sadier