Did you hear that, Porky? Someone thinks the music I like is great.

He's being polite.

Atari is you. You are atari, not me.

it was a joke on this:

"p.s. Avril Lavigne started as indie because she sang in those country fairs?"

Why don't you want to be Atari ? Have you got a problem with him ?
I thought he was your friend...:rolleyes:

bad joke, my mistake.

I was replying to "indie" as in independently released and how people use the fact as a distinguisher from major released bands. It's lame.

Why don't you sod off?

Keep cool, I was kidding. I didn't know you were allergic to this name.

I don't know. Lately I've been asking myself the same thing. And it's not just the vocals either, it's the trite lyrics that a lot of these people come up with. I don't mind both of these things being attempted, but if it's not working out, let it go.

I have a problem with the vocals on a lot of "post-metal" music - Isis, for instance. They seem to have a thing for taking beautiful music and plastering "I'm a demon" shit all over it. Pisses me off no end.

i love isis' vocals, i'm probably the only one who does.

No, you're not.

well shit Toliet, if a million bands have shit singers, which ones don't?

and are you including Carrie in that mention of Sleater-Kinney or just Corin?

i feel the same way. i'm tired of sunshine indie pop bullshit with singers who can't sing worth a lick and just write different lyrics for the same way of holding hands and shit. it's almost as if bad singing and cutesy lyrics are a requisite for indie bands.

while we're on the subject of shitty singers, let's talk about thom yorke.

nic fit got it right, i'm talking about bands that are otherwise "good" within the of what is vaguely recognised as the indie rock scene. what i want to know is why these bands think it's ok to have a dreadful singer when they wouldn't stand for equally inept intrument playing?

corin tucker can't hold a note to save her life, her voice wavers all over the place.
the guy from galaxie 500 sounds like a spastic playing a violin
and the guy from unwound sounds like a bored & whining child

imagine if one of the band members ability with an instrument was markedly worse than the others and yet they were given a prominent role within the band, it would sound preposterous.



stop being hoity-toity and pedantic, the "debate" about what "indie" means is as old as the hills and excruciatingly boring.

I can't stand his voice !!!:mad:
It became unbearable since Ok Computer, like a crushed cat.

HA!

Anyone who's heard bootlegs of the Stone Roses playing live will have noted Mr Ian Brown's ability to drift off into a key that is unrelated to the song that he's trying to sing.

that happens often enough that I dont express my musical opinions to women, you just never know what people listen to anymore.

I'm sure thousands of you have already mentioned this, and I'd like to chime in.

The guy from The Decemberists is the reigning king of god-awful, vomit-inducing vocals. I've tried to like this band... but his voice prevents me from doing so.

thats how I feel about Robert Plant.

i liked one decemberists album, but everything other than that was just too fucking wordy and "intellectual" (because it takes real brains to rhyme miranda with veranda) for their own good. not to mention mr. scene beefcake whose voice sounds like a fucking baby goat being assfucked by the dude from neutral milk hotel...who also suck.

haha if you ever said that to my sister she'd probably kill you.

i say it to my girlfriend all the time and she hits me :-(

Fuck you!!

Everything here is total bullshit, don't listen to _slavo_.
All awesome vocalists.
*By the way, Metric are a fucking awesome band, not just Emily.*


Vocals make or break a band for me, most often. I can't listen to Joanna Newsom because she sounds like a retarded 6 year-old.
The vocals in Mother Mother are horrendous.
Uhhh...

When it comes to just singers that don't sing all perfect-pitch and on-key... who gives a fuck? I can think of a very small few bands that do so that are actually good or have good lyrics. I love "shitty" vocals.

WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?! SOMETIMES I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS BOARD AT ALL! OPINIONS SHMOPINIONS, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL IS ONE OF THE GREATEST GOD-DAMN BANDS OF ALL-TIME!!!:mad:

Ha ha ! Many people want to kill because of my music tastes, but i'm still alive...:cool:

there are people who DON'T like isis's vocals?

wow..

What?! No... Isis' vocals are so fucking rad.
And Thom Yorke has a wicked voice. I would kill to have his voice.

neutral milk hotel have the second worst vocalist after galaxie 500, but with galaxie 500 the goodness of the rest of the band makes up for it.

fuck yourself pal

Who's debating? I'm just saying it's lame. A solitary opinion.

No way. Jeff's voice is fucking awesome, plus he can actually hit notes and makes the sweetest melodies, so don't give me that bullshit.

i fucking love clap your hands say yeah and will defend alec's voice forever. he has that "i'm choking on my voice" urgency when he sings. i love it.

don't even get me started on conor oberst... all of his releases the past ten years have been amazing and his voice is just getting better.

yeah, jeff has the ability to sing. some people just sound different and jeff is an example of that.

Thank-you for that, Jade. I know yr not that into them... but everyone should recognize! ...or am I thinking someone else...??? *smooch*

aeroplane over the sea is one of my favorite things ever, but yeah, could never get into on avery island.

Oh! Well! I love On Avery Island, but obviously Aeroplane is just untouchable.

i really couldn't see the band working at all without his voice
anything else would ruin it.