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Music: Singer's with the wierdest vocal sound?

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FnordChan

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Nina Hagen has tremendous range...which she tends to traverse back and forth repeatedly during the course of a single song. This sounded particularly bizzare during her 70s punk/new wave phase. And, to top it all off, it's all in German!

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In a somewhat similar vein, Klaus Nomi sang operatic New Wave synthpop, alternating between baritone and a falsetto soprano on a regular basis.

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And, of course, Tuvan throat singers in general.

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Tarazet

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Prospero said:
Bjork.
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Bjork has a fantastic voice - she just uses more of it than most singers dare to. She may work in an experimental mode, but her voice is basically almost angelically pure. It's her fashion sense that's weird.

Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) and Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries) both have good-weird voices. Yoko Ono and Tiny Tim have bad-weird voices.
 
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radioheadrule83

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Bjork, Tom Waits, Billy Corgan, Ian Curtis, Axl Rose, Robert Smith...

they're all the one's I like that other people I know tend to find unique or acquired tastes...

Not necessarily the weirdest, but among my faves (in addition to the above): Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke, Matt Bellamy.
 
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ToxicAdam said:
Micheal McDonald


(hearing is voice looped in the background of Usher/Keys "My Boo" makes me insane)
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Isn't that voice digitally altered? I can't imagine him really sounding like that o_O
 
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Prospero

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sonarrat said:
Bjork has a fantastic voice - she just uses more of it than most singers dare to. She may work in an experimental mode, but her voice is basically almost angelically pure. It's her fashion sense that's weird.
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I agree with you that she has a great voice, but it generally takes a while for an American ear (or, at least, my American ear) to get used to it. (The first time I heard "Like Someone in Love" off Debut was my biggest WTF moment from her.)
 
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Prospero said:
I agree with you that she has a great voice, but it generally takes a while for an American ear (or, at least, my American ear) to get used to it. (The first time I heard "Like Someone in Love" off Debut was my biggest WTF moment from her.)
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I have to grant you that. Between her lyrics, occasionally primal style and occasionally atonal music settings, Bjork can take some adjustment. Personally, I have more trouble listening to her speak - can't really understand a word she says. It's better when she speaks in Icelandic with subtitles.
 
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kumanoki

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Flynn said:
Where does the rapping come from, their ass?

And, put me down for Mike Patton.
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I prefer to think of Mike Patton as 'eclectic' rather than wierd. He does what he does deliberately. Patton actually has a fan-fvcking-tastic voice.
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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Klaus Nomi, oh yes. We're done. Curse you, Fnord, for putting "Total Eclipse" in my head. I must now listen-- it's on my iPod.


Except I need to mention Nico and Toyah WIlcox after remembering them.

New Wave from Europe had some weird, weird sounds.
 
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Paul Stanley from KISS has a weird voice. A lot of the time he tries to emulate Robert Plant but usually fails miserably.

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Tom G. Warrior from Celtic Frost, mainly because he sings in English but can't speak it very well, which sounds like he's singing in another language altogether.
 
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kablooey

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Definitely Billy Corgan. He sounds like a squealing piggy.

For the record, squealing piggy = not good. Unless it's also kicking, screaming, and made by gucci. :p
 
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SlickWilly223

Time ta STEP IT UP
Axl Rose. He has such a high pitches singing voice, but when you hear him in interviews he has this bass-like voice, it's real deep. Kinda wierd.
 
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And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I think Joanna Newsom has all these guys beat. You just have to hear to know what I mean. Her album's amazing, too.
 
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MIMIC said:
The title is singers with the weirdest vocal sound.
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Come on man, rappers have distinct cadences & vocal stylings as well. Aesop Rock IS out there, I can barely listen to a whole album of his even though his beats bang & his lyrics are on point.

I would say Bjork or my man Bobby McFerrin!
 
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Daniel Gildenlow can do some strange things, and has some strange ideas about what to do with his voice (Trace of Blood, Perfect Element, Idioglossia)
 
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Flynn

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MIMIC said:
The title is singers with the weirdest vocal sound.
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sing
v. sang, (sng) or sung (sng) sung, sing·ing, sings
v. intr.

1. Music.
1. To utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones.
2. To vocalize songs or selections.
3. To perform songs or selections as a trained or professional singer.
4. To produce sounds when played: made the violin sing.
2.
1. To make melodious sounds: birds singing outside the window.
2. To give or have the effect of melody; lilt.
3. To make a high whining, humming, or whistling sound.
4. To be filled with a buzzing or ringing sound.
5.
1. To proclaim or extol something in verse.
2. To write poetry.
6. Slang. To give information or evidence against someone.


v. tr.

1. Music.
1. To produce the musical sound of: sang a love song.
2. To utter with musical inflections: She sang the message.
3. To bring to a specified state by singing: sang the baby to sleep.
2. To intone or chant (parts of the Mass, for example).
3. To proclaim or extol, especially in verse: sang his praises.
 
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MIMIC

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Flynn said:
sing
v. sang, (sng) or sung (sng) sung, sing·ing, sings
v. intr.

1. Music.
1. To utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones.
2. To vocalize songs or selections.
3. To perform songs or selections as a trained or professional singer.
4. To produce sounds when played: made the violin sing.
2.
1. To make melodious sounds: birds singing outside the window.
2. To give or have the effect of melody; lilt.
3. To make a high whining, humming, or whistling sound.
4. To be filled with a buzzing or ringing sound.
5.
1. To proclaim or extol something in verse.
2. To write poetry.
6. Slang. To give information or evidence against someone.


v. tr.

1. Music.
1. To produce the musical sound of: sang a love song.
2. To utter with musical inflections: She sang the message.
3. To bring to a specified state by singing: sang the baby to sleep.
2. To intone or chant (parts of the Mass, for example).
3. To proclaim or extol, especially in verse: sang his praises.
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Well, in that case, I change my choice to William Hung, sparrows, Mya Angelo, the wind, my cell's ringtone, and microphones that gets too close to the speakers.
 
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Mermandala

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I'm going with Dot Wiggins of The Shaggs.

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Her tin-nosed stammer through My Pal Foot Foot = sublime. even the curtains are limeish.
 
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Jim Bowie

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Stephen Malkmus of Pavement
Cedric Bixler of ATDI and The Mars Volta
Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria
Macy Gray
And I can't believe nobody's mentioned Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse and Ugly Casanova.
 
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