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OT: Popular vocalist you dislike (for any reason)

He is a legend and is responsible for some Motown classics as a singer and a writer, however his voice has always kinda bothered me.
 
I saw Smokey in Atlantic City just a few years ago and he was fantastic. I prefer not to believe this is real. If so, extremely disappointing and well off-key.
 
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donalddoowop said:
Elvis Presley
Otis Redding
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I still love Otis. But with Elvis I don't find him completely unlistenable (only most of the time) and only sometimes annoying, but there were IMO tons of singers that had better voices. Now that tinny, thin voiced Roy Orbison, that's another matter...and that nasal Marc Anthony, waiter, check!
 
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Sinatra. It's not necessarily his voice, though I don't care for it, I just dislike that genre of music.
 
Whitney Houston! I don't know...........maybe its just the song, but if I have to listen to "I Will Always Love You" ...................... AGAIN, the 'regurgitation' process will be imminent! :p
 
LCConnFan said:
Whitney Houston! I don't know...........maybe its just the song, but if I have to listen to "I Will Always Love You" ...................... AGAIN, the 'regurgitation' process will be imminent! :p
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Lol
 
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LCConnFan said:
Whitney Houston! I don't know...........maybe its just the song, but if I have to listen to "I Will Always Love You" ...................... AGAIN, the 'regurgitation' process will be imminent! :p
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Listen to the Original then, written and performed by Dolly! Not sure which is worse though.

Modern singers, there are too many of the young females and males that sound like carbon copies.
 
Whitney Houston agreed. doesn’t so much sing as yell.
bob Dylan...yuck.
any of the singers since the 90s who sound like they’re grunting on the toilet...a la nickelback.
 
Ethel Merman. A voice that could kill trees and make animals start hibernating. As a kid, it seemed like she was on Ed Sullivan every other week...along with Ed’s other geezer faves like Sophie Tucker and Jimmy Durante
 
Plebe said:
Otis Redding? This man is one of the smoothest, most soulful voices ever. Too soon departed.

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To me he was not smooth. He made some smooth songs wild. Listen to the difference between his version of "Try A Little Tenderness" and the Aretha Franklin version. You will see what smooth is from Aretha on that song. I did not like that "got ta got ta got ta kind of style. Smooth to me is the lead singers of the Flamingos, Spaniels, Heart Beats, and the second version of the Five Satins, among others. Mathis, Sinatra, Como and Cole personify smooth. JMO.
 
Geez, there are so many. But a few jump right to the front:

Celine Dion -- on so many levels.
Christopher Cross, the guy who sings for REO Speedwagon, and the guy who sings for Cheap Trick. Don't like their music, don't like their songs, don't like their voices.
Geddy Lee -- I actually have a great deal of respect for Rush, I want to like them, but my reaction to his voice is at the most base level, I can't get past it.
 
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donalddoowop said:
To me he was not smooth. He made some smooth songs wild. Listen to the difference between his version of "Try A Little Tenderness" and the Aretha Franklin version. You will see what smooth is from Aretha on that song. I did not like that "got ta got ta got ta kind of style. Smooth to me is the lead singers of the Flamingos, Spaniels, Heart Beats, and the second version of the Five Satins, among others. Mathis, Sinatra, Como and Cole personify smooth. JMO.
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Not smooth. Soulful. And a legend.
 
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