S+D-Vocal tics

Well, there's Michael Jackson's 'da!', which punctuates a lot of his late 80's material, especially at the end of a line.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark E Smithah

Dale Bozzio-oh!

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

DMX also has "WHAT", which is actually even better than "C'MON!".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

S: The James Brown Syndrome:

"papa don't take no messah"
"hot pantsah"
"get upah, stay on the sceneah, like a lovin machineah

D: The James Hetfield Syndrome:

"exit lightugh, enter nightugh"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I kind of like it when Ad Rock does his rolling R on Paul's Boutique.

― Orange, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Speaking of rolling "R"s, I friggin love when Serj Tankian rolls his, like:

"spirit pulls through all things"

becomes

"spidrdrdit pulls thrdrdough all things"

In fact, Serj is like ALL vocal tics, from the Fred Shneidery wack-voiced-blurting-of-lines (a la "Sugar") to the vibrato-out-the-yin-yang-delivery (such as in "Spiders") and other places all over the map, AND I LOVE IT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

We KNOW, nickalicious, WE KNOW.

http://www.mcdman.com/images/clients/System%20of%20a%20Down%20-%20Serj.JPG

Would it make you feel better if I told you I loved Chop Suey on first listen?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim Buckley had a mighty arsenal of vocal tics, most of which cannot be recreated with a keyboard.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

James Hetfield Syndrome! Genius!

― Grell (Grell), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"foo-CHA!" -Mick 'n' Axl

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, that's a great pic Nord! Serj is completely confused and entranced by the surrounding color-shape freakout!

(ps, y'know, of all the stuff I listen to with vocalists with really idiosyncratic voices [TMBG, Del the Funky Homosapien, etc.] I take the most flack for luvvin Serj. Which is cool and the gang with me.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

that low growl of T. Texas Tyler's is k-classic

but like any vocal tic, it's best taken in small doses

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Mariah Carey's extra octave she used to hit before she got crazy and stopped singing.

"Can you imagine that girl having an orgasam?"
--Howard Stern

― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

A wonderfully tic-filled flawed vocalist = Jello Biafra.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

when peggy lee gets all growly = dud, kind of

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

If you think Richard Harris is overwrought but *Astral Weeks* isn't, you're living in denial.
But that's OK. Overwrought is O.K., though I think its overwroughtness undercuts the claims of metaphysical signifigance that folks like Lester Bangs have given the LP. I mean, how moved can I be by such a spectacularly bizarre artifact? Intimations of deviance set to arrangements as fruity and free as wild blackberries, and as sad and lovely as a sigh. But when listening to it, I spend my time more awestruck by its peculiarity than thinking of its loveliness. And Van's voice...oh baby. Listening to it now, I'm amazed how, when I was a kid, I didn't notice Van's library of embarrassing vocalisms. Think of the human voice at its most artless -- constipation, gargling sugar-free chocolate milk, getting your hand caught in the car door, PeeWee Herman imitations, especially good orgasms, you name it -- and chances are you'll find its vocal analog on *Astral Weeks.* It's his voice and the way some songs meander when they stray away from the bedrock structural certainties of the blues that makes some of this sui generis weirdness stumble into the land of godawful doily-edged beatnik poetry. (Could Leadbelly or Otis Redding have sung it all better, then?)
So in sum, classic, but its canonical status might prevent you from seeing just how intriguingly "unclassic" it is.

-- Michael Daddino (epicharmu...), May 19th, 2001 1:00 AM. (link)

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

If you think Richard Harris is overwrought but *Astral Weeks* isn't, you're living in denial.
But that's OK. Overwrought is O.K., though I think its overwroughtness undercuts the claims of metaphysical signifigance that folks like Lester Bangs have given the LP. I mean, how moved can I be by such a spectacularly bizarre artifact? Intimations of deviance set to arrangements as fruity and free as wild blackberries, and as sad and lovely as a sigh. But when listening to it, I spend my time more awestruck by its peculiarity than thinking of its loveliness. And Van's voice...oh baby. Listening to it now, I'm amazed how, when I was a kid, I didn't notice Van's library of embarrassing vocalisms. Think of the human voice at its most artless -- constipation, gargling sugar-free chocolate milk, getting your hand caught in the car door, PeeWee Herman imitations, especially good orgasms, you name it -- and chances are you'll find its vocal analog on *Astral Weeks.* It's his voice and the way some songs meander when they stray away from the bedrock structural certainties of the blues that makes some of this sui generis weirdness stumble into the land of godawful doily-edged beatnik poetry. (Could Leadbelly or Otis Redding have sung it all better, then?)
So in sum, classic, but its canonical status might prevent you from seeing just how intriguingly "unclassic" it is.

-- Michael Daddino (epicharmu...), May 19th, 2001 1:00 AM. (link)

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't find a more appropriate thread for what might be a really easy question.

Is there a formal name for what vocalists use when singing... like a frog? Let me back up - think blues singers, Boz Scaggs at times, Pee Wee Herman at the most extreme end of the scale. Where you can imagine the singer making this rounded rectangle shape with their mouth in this sort of rictus smile. Cartoon characters make this noise when they're spun around really fast on an out-of-control carousel. HURR HURR HURRR

I'm just going to step away from this thread and cover my eyes.

― pplains, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 16:21 (twelve years ago)

at first i thought you were trying to describe how Britney Spears sings

― surm, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 16:36 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vFec5x1U3I

Especially on the second line, "Cry no more," etc.

― pplains, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 16:43 (twelve years ago)

A less intense version of that Marvin the Martian voice.

― pplains, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 16:45 (twelve years ago)

Prince: "aaaaaahhhwwwaaaa!"

― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 16:45 (nine years ago)