Greatest Lead Singer Idiosyncracy

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Buddy Holly's hiccups, hands down (see "Not Fade Away," "Rave On"). Timeless. Classic. Launched many many careers. Still sounds cool today.

Also:

- The way Nick Drake elongates the consonants at the end of words, particularly words ending in -ing or -n.....takes a while to notice, but then becomes conspicuous.

- Lindsey Buckingham's manic yelps (see "Big Love" from The Dance)

- The way Kurt Cobain made his voice crack (listen between "sold" and "the" on "The man who sold the world"). Fuck you. It's great.

- etc.

― PB, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Björk's "Kyrr!" s and "Alt Semn Lay De!"s and other Björkish/Hopelansish/Gibberish sayings.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Any time Mark E Smith adds a "-ah" to the end of a word.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson's "jam-awwws!" and related.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Michael Stipe's nasal and cutting long E sound.

As in the word "ME" in "Me in Honey."

― Justin, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

"Jam-awwws"? I'd like a consensus on the spelling, please. I prefer "Shamone."

Oh, and also: the Jimi Hendrix half-laugh at the end of many of his lines, like "I'm not the only soul-uh / Who's accused of hit-and-run-uh / Tire tracks all across your back-uh / I can see you had your fun--uh--but."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Buddy Holly cop the hiccups from Elvis?

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Howard Tate's falsetto yelps. He'd jump into that whenEVAH.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Timmytaylor from Brainiac... god, where to start!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

the robert smith overemoting thing

― rgf, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Til Lindemann's scary Teutonic low baritone burr/East Berlin accent.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Klaus Nomi stomps on this thread.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

robin gibbs' vibrato.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

James Brown's amazing collection of grunts, screams, hollers, yodels, moans, groans and Godfather only knows what else.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Marc Bolan's amazing collection of warbles, wobbles, sighs, coos, grunts, yelps, slangy interjections, mystic syllables and the witches, groovers and faeries only know what else.

― brianiac (briania), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

sweet yodeling hank

― katie hasty (katie, a princess), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

morrissey's cookiemonster voice.

― b b, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

liam's imag-in-ay-shee-yun was great at the time. i remember hearing the demo with him singing normally and it sounds so flat.

it may be wearing a little thin now, though...

― se3_uk (se3_uk), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Joe Cocker pwns this thread

― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Geddy Lee's shrieks on Rush records from 1974-1982

― ZionTrain, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Thom Yorke's inhaling (actually, it drives me f*cking bats)

― electric derby, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Axl's low scary "wheah do we gow now?" voice!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Freddie Mercury's operatic, quasi-operatic and downright extravagant vocal gymnastics.

― ZionTrain, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Iggy Pops yelping and about a billion other things

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

hank williams mid-word yodels
hasil adkins bizarre vocalising
charlie feathers hiccupy vocals

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

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