Accents in Rock

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What's a good accent for singing? Are there any that have surprised you by how well it works?

(inspired by more north-east accents in rock
in Is "Decent Days and Nights" by the Futureheads the most disgusting song ever?

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I've been surprised by how well the northeast accent sounds, especially the ways that vowels are pronouced. It adds so much to the music. I've been addicted to the Maximo Park album for the last 2 weeks partly just to hear the roundedness of the vowel sounds.

It has never been something that I paid that much attention to in the past.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

i misread this thread as "accidents in rock"

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Was Nico's accent German or just weird?

― Heidy- Ho, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

aaronK, i totally just did the same thing

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

i wanted to see catastrophic stagedives and metallica lighting themselves on fire.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Nico was from Cologne. Her last name was Päffgen, as in:

http://beer.trash.net/img/beers/1658.gif

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Are there any that have surprised you by how well it works?

Serj Tankian (from System of a Down), his voice, in particular the way he rolls his Rs, is amazingly well suited to their twitchy sometimes operatic sound.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

MOTÖRHEAD

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ska.ru/images/2tone/BCHOSBpose.jpg
http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_123/_5/539178.jpg http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ek867/bob-marley.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Also
http://www.rockpalastarchiv.de/concert/gifs/dury00.jpg http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.wilkinson46/gfleimage.jpg

(Although they belong with Madness accent-wise anyway)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

coo ur, i've kind of inspired a thread. well bugger me.

i always think phil oakey sings in an obvious sheffield accent, particularly on the MKI human league stuff. mrs fiendish says she can't hear it, though, and calls me a knob.

and then there's gedge, of course: the way he sings "brassneck" is just joyous. in a leeds stylee.

from this we can discern i'm big on the ol' yorkshire accent. which is weird, me being a red-roser and all. but yes, i suppose i do connect with any north-of-englander singing in a regional accent: it's such a refreshing change from the characterless transatlantic drawl adopted by so many bland british singers.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Have you heard Client?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

wait, was there actually a rock accidents thread at one point? if so, can someone point me to it? was quite funny, iirc

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

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