Sexiest Singing Voice

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Who's got it?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Inspired by hearing the first Leonard Cohen album -- his voice is sexy as hell on that record. So confident & mysterious. I like it more than his later stuff, when it got deep & gruff, though I like that sound too.

What makes a sexy voice, do you think?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew Antone.

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Harriet Wheeler makes me tingly.

― paul cox (paul cox), Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This week I am all over Emma Pollock from the Delgados. Whose voice is not so much "sexy" but just ... right.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Harriet Wheeler definetly. Neko Case.

― ryan, Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What makes a sexy voice, do you think
melisma

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 6 February 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

We did this, surely.

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Cohen is sexiest I think, on New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Nara Leão has a sexy voice. Also Lefty Frizzell, the lead singer of the Intruders, Françoise Hardy, Glenda Collins. I guess locally Rebecca Gates.

But Al Green takes the cake I think, especially when he slips into his falsetto.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green: like drips of sweat s-l-o-w-l-y trickling down your spine.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

nina simone

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

David Berman. What?

― Famous Athlete, Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Sade

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Billie Holiday
Mick Jagger
Patti Smith
LL Cool J
All those Gilbertos (Astrud, Joao, Bebel)
Chet Baker
Lucinda Williams
Kim Gordon
Kim Deal
Prince
Howlin' Wolf
etc.

― Jesse Fox, Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(Ewww, Astrud Gilberto is like a kewpie doll.)

I shd also add: Connee Boswell, Tommy McClennan, Charley Patton.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Jenny Toomey

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but a Brazilian kewpie doll...

― Jesse Fox, Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I changed my mind. Remove Françoise Hardy for the same reason ixnay on Astrud Gilberto. (and what, are brazilians inherently sexier? that's silly.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Chilli from TLC

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno about overall sexiest, but nobody makes male sex noises better than Robert Plant.

― Kenan Hebert, Thursday, 6 February 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Thelma Houston, if only for that moment

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 6 February 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

yea we did this. my answer...the singer from ultracynic (i also like the singer from lens voice too)

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 6 February 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

lately it's John Grant of The Czars. Beck's latest album is like a shitty version of a Czars album.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Joni M. This is why Blue makes me happy (and sad) at the same time.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 6 February 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Jennifer Charles from Elysian Fields

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Perry

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

sarah nixey
bilinda butcher
kim gordon

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Mick Jagger, of course.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(How cd I have forgotten? Though it wd raise hackles if this weren't a marginal thread I think.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't we do this already? I seem to remember declaring it was Patty Donahue.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Debbie Reynolds?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

hope sandoval. case closed!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Chet, Billie, Etta James, Lucinda Williams, James Carr

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Possible answer: 'voices' are never 'sexy': 'people' (eg. 'bodies') are.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

See also
male: sexiest male vocals?
female: sexiest female vocals?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry for the redundant headings there, I didn't realize the board would automagically replace a thread's URL with its title.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

bryan ferry owns this thread.

― cecilia, Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, BF. Also Bob Dylan c. 1969.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Gregory Isaacs, Horace Andy, Slim Smith, Bob Dylan:)

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Dusty Springfield.

― Burr, Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I almost never find singing voices to be "sexy." I'm not sure why.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the vocoder

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Emma Pollock from the Delgados. Whose voice is not so much "sexy" but just ... right.

No, it's sexy. Also Bobbie Gentry. And Bryan Ferry, obv.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Pam Berry

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 February 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee Dorsey
Elis Regina
Peggy Lee
Mavis Staples
Crystal Waters
Serge Gainsbourg (& Jane Birkin)

― Edd Hurt (delta ed), Thursday, 6 February 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

obviously marc bolan.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

marvin pentz gaye.

― robert lashley (brotherman), Friday, 7 February 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Obligatory indierockist answer: Britt Daniel.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 7 February 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Stella Chiweshe, Martha Davis, Sheryl Crow

― dave q, Friday, 7 February 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

electric sound of jim seconded.

― kieron, Friday, 7 February 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Dani Siciliano, Dani Siciliano, Dani Siciliano.

― Damian (Damian), Saturday, 8 February 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with kilian - Hope Sandoval, definitely.

Also, David Sylvian.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 8 February 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

is it possibly Polly Styrene?

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 8 February 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god that would be close

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 8 February 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Fiona Apple, Alicia Keys, Milla Jovovich,
Norah Jones, and Mya - although in the last two cases I don't \think the voices are really very good, but I still find them sexy

― squirlplice (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 8 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jefferies brothers -- both Graeme and Peter.

― Jen (nstop), Sunday, 9 February 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

David Sylvian

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Exene Crevenka. Plus she's still totally hot.

― Stiv (Stiv), Monday, 10 February 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Cliched, but Barry White all the way. He could read the phone book and I'd go into convulsions. Hot.

― Alicia, Thursday, 27 March 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

there is no thread about Mavis Staples or the Staples Singers on ILX. did we know that she hooked up with Bob Dylan back in the day?

― the dessert speaks (gabbneb), Sunday, 24 May 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

Miles Davis

― goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Sunday, 24 May 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

i saw mavis and the staples perform last year .

― Surmounter, Sunday, 24 May 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

another vote for david sylvian

― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

I have never been more attracted to anybody than when I listen to Rita Lee sing the English version of Baby from Technicolor.

These are the lyrics:

You know, you must take a look at the new land
The swimming pool and the teeth of your friend
The dirt in my hand
You know, you must take a look at me
Baby, baby
I know that's the way
You know, you must try the new ice cream flavor
Do me a favor, look at me closer
Join us and go far
And hear the new sound of my bossa nova
Baby, baby
It's been a long time
You know, it's time now to learn Portuguese
It's time now to learn what I know
And what I don't know
And what I don't know
And what I don't know
I know, with me everything is fine
It's time now to make up your mind
We live in the biggest city of South America
Of South America
Of South America
Look here, read what I wrote on my shirt
Baby, baby
I love you
You do

I just close my eyes and imagine myself standing right next to her by a lake on a sunny day in Brazil, and I can not even imagine a better experience.

― filthy dylan, Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

Here it is:
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― filthy dylan, Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:22 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry, I didn't know embedding didn't really work on here like it used to. Here's the general link:

― filthy dylan, Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

mariah carey

― Surmounter, Sunday, 24 May 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

anyways, the correct answer is Gillian Hills:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QywnEs9v4pg

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:24 (fourteen years ago)

also Nick Lowe. no one ever talks about what a sexy voice Nick Lowe had.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:25 (fourteen years ago)

Lately, Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys is totally making me lose my shit with the sexiness.

― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:33 (fourteen years ago)

obligatory bilinda butcher representative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLWUYYKd3U

― kelpolaris, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:34 (fourteen years ago)

the vocoder

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, February 7, 2003 7:40 AM (8 years ago)

lol @ this.

― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:39 (fourteen years ago)

My fiance has always gotten a little moist when she hears Cino from Deftones... She says its like an ear orgasm. From which I reply, male or female?

― SeanWayne, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:42 (fourteen years ago)

I vote for folksinger Tracy Grammer.

― banjoboy, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

I ment Chino... I'm really the worst typer ever

― SeanWayne, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:58 (fourteen years ago)

The girl from Deee-Lite...daaaaaaaaymn!!

― frogbs, Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

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