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 Topic: Your favourite vocalists

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  • Your favourite vocalists
     OP - January 03, 2012, 04:31 PM
    As the title says.  Also, is there a pattern or trend among your favourites' voices or in the way they sing that you enjoy?

    I tend to prefer the ladies here or, in the case of men, a high/counter-tenor.

    El DeBarge - After The Dance
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtdSoG_7VY

    Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAcKSKCoLvM
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #1 - January 03, 2012, 05:00 PM
    Rock: Audioslave, Nine Inch Nails, Alice in Chains, Iron Maiden, Sigur Ros(too high pitched however)

    Rap: 2pac(soul), DMX(great voice), Souls of Mischief, Del the Funkee Homosapien, The Pharcyde

    list incomplete, I cant think much now
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #2 - January 03, 2012, 05:32 PM
    ^ I fell in love with The Pharcyde partly because of Tre's 'rap-singing'.

    And generally with rap, two of my favourite voices are complete opposites of one another; the smooth Snoop Dogg and the blaring Busta Rhymes.
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #3 - January 03, 2012, 06:23 PM
    I wouldnt say "I fell in love..." heheheh, but yeah his singing actually seems logical from a hip hop perspective. Its the type of singing that comes from within naturally. Its unlike singing compared to other genres of music because its not singing in its own right. Its highly spontaneous, comes from within, serves to furnish the beat and compliments the rapping. His voice is nice. And there doesnt seem to be(atleast much) influence from any other genre.

    Cept Raggae here at the start (only because of the accent he assumes)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSsUouGG4-k

    All of them can sound tuneful. They balance the melody of singing and the flow of rap very well in 'Passin' Me By'
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #4 - January 03, 2012, 06:39 PM
    I like that take on it, and I agree, it's a unique thing in itself.  Don't see it often.  Ol' Dirty and Busta had a bit of a similar thing going on in the remix for Woo Hah:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMQ4ZFdH5c
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #5 - January 03, 2012, 06:53 PM
    I desperately love Nina Simone. Not just for her voice, more for her soul and strength. But her voice does strange things to me. When I listen to Here Comes The Sun, no matter what mood I was in, I'm smiling and recharged. It's my medicine. Literally as effective as a drug. Then listening to Strange Fruit or Dambala, I don't think there is anything more harrowing to hear. It does destroy me. It wasn't my fight and I can never understand her plight, but I feel her rage. I understand that much. I can't name another singer who takes me to so many different emotional places.

    What You Gonna Do?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtMEsIVLVo
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #6 - January 03, 2012, 06:58 PM
    Nick Cave and Mike Patton immediately come to mind.
    "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
    Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
    [Kepler's epitaph]
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #7 - January 03, 2012, 07:21 PM
    Quote from: arX on January 03, 2012, 05:32 PM
    And generally with rap, two of my favourite voices are complete opposites of one another; the smooth Snoop Dogg and the blaring Busta Rhymes.

    I've always had a soft spot for Busta. ELE is one of the most acomplished and complete hip hop albums ever in my opinion. That was his peak for me.

    Busta Rhymes - Everybody Rise
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBQemP6AKSg

    He's a beast!
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #8 - January 03, 2012, 07:27 PM
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  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #9 - January 03, 2012, 07:41 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on January 03, 2012, 07:21 PM
    I've always had a soft spot for Busta. ELE is one of the most acomplished and complete hip hop albums ever in my opinion. That was his peak for me.

    Busta Rhymes - Everybody Rise
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBQemP6AKSg

    He's a beast!

    It's brilliant.  And his breakout with A Tribe Called Quest's Scenario remains my favourite Busta moment:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhHH3_t218

    20 years on, he's doing it live in tribute to ATCQ.  Absolutely incomprehensible but mad energetic:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N62VPY5wcc
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #10 - January 03, 2012, 07:53 PM
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  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #11 - January 03, 2012, 08:02 PM
    Quote from: arX on January 03, 2012, 05:32 PM
    ^ I fell in love with The Pharcyde partly because of Tre's 'rap-singing'.

    And generally with rap, two of my favourite voices are complete opposites of one another; the smooth Snoop Dogg and the blaring Busta Rhymes.

    Busta was awesome. Grin

    Quote from: arX on January 03, 2012, 04:31 PM
    As the title says.  Also, is there a pattern or trend among your favourites' voices or in the way they sing that you enjoy?

    I tend to prefer the ladies here or, in the case of men, a high/counter-tenor.

    El DeBarge - After The Dance
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtdSoG_7VY

    Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAcKSKCoLvM

    See I much prefer an earthy contralto. Eartha Kitt or Meshell Ndegeocello sound heaps better to me than Minnie Ripperton does.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #12 - January 03, 2012, 08:04 PM
    osmanthus said "heaps," he must be thus an os man. cool2
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #13 - January 03, 2012, 08:09 PM
    Speaking of voices doing strange things to me, I was listening to this song and all of a sudden my knickers had vanished.

    Prince - The Beautiful Ones
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DijrdUoFt80

    /faints
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #14 - January 03, 2012, 08:13 PM
    Quote from: passingaround on January 03, 2012, 08:04 PM
    osmanthus said "heaps," he must be thus an os man. cool2

    It's a synonym for "oodles".
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #15 - January 03, 2012, 08:29 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on January 03, 2012, 08:02 PM
    Busta was awesome. Grin
    See I much prefer an earthy contralto. Eartha Kitt or Meshell Ndegeocello sound heaps better to me than Minnie Ripperton does.

    Hm, with females I don't have that bias as I do with the male vocalists.  I love me some (a lot heaps of) Meshell and Sade and Toni and Anita Tina and Gladys and fuck I'm sure so many others.  Naija posted this in the Sex Music thread and I'll post it here because it's my favourite Sade tune:

    The Sweetest Taboo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRFmnAw1siY

    And Rachelle Ferrell who spans the whole range:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uD_MUu55U
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Your favourite vocalists
     Reply #16 - January 10, 2012, 08:59 PM
    Earth, Wind & Fire are in a league of their own when it comes to vocal harmony.

    Ramsey Lewis ft. EWF - Sun Goddess
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
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