Really surprised that no one's mentioned Yoko Ono.
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She's really not that bad if you've ever heard Linkin park.
Is there a band called Yoko Ono? I ask, because I'm fairly sure there isn't a singer.
The Plastic Ono Band... It is not good.
Linkin Park and Papa Roach. 2 okISH bands with the worst singers in music history. Shit gives me headaches.
Trickhay on YouTube... Learned about him when he posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a singer for his music. He's become an inside joke for my SO and I. I think my favorite is "hoop dance".
Not quite the answer to your question, but Cafe Tacvba. Great music, lousy singer, like that guy says about Red Hot Chili Peppers. Jesus Christ.
I've watched so much german trash tv where people sing that nothing on this planet can shock me
I went to see The Offspring and Sublime (with Rome).
Offspring was pretty good though the arena had horrible sound. Sublime was hot garbage with Rome singing. The only thing saved it was the crowd knew all the words so we were all drowning out his shit singing.
Tom DeLonge : Blink-182
Never hit right for me. Terrible voice. Nasally and whiny. Wanna be punk. Men in their mid to late 20s singing about the drama only a 15-year-old in high school would care about or experience. It was weird.
I had no issue with Billie Joe Armstrong and Greenday. I really enjoyed their career and catalog.
Old school blink (Cheshire cat, dude ranch) Mark and Tom had a good interplay, and we're each suited to the songs they sang. They may still do that but I can't listen to anything newer than Mark, Tom, and Travis show
Red Hot Chili Peppers, best band ever, but boy is Kiedis a bad vocalist. Kudos perhaps for not doing auto tune.
Fleas energy made up for it and the songs are all bangers so it kind of pushed you over it. But if you keep focused on the vocals it's shit.
When I heard the Tool cover of No Quarter and found out the original was by Led Zeppelin I gave that version a spin too. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
Reason being that I really like the Led Zeppelin vocalist. But his performance on that song is just unbearable to me.
The Tool cover though, absolutely amazing!
Pink Floyd is underwhelming for a band commonly labelled as "prog rock". Most of their stuff is forgettable, albeit Alan Parsons Project came off it, so I guess it's not irredeemable if it inspired something genuinely good.
Worst concert, REM when they were starting out.
Recorded voice that irritates me the most? Dead Kennedys.
I am, personally, pretty tolerant of imperfect singing if the song is good, think a whole lot of bands just let the best singer they have sing, instead of finding someone who can really sing, and that's OK.
Biafra is... Something. I can't say whether or not it works in Dead Kennedies, but IMO it works just fine in Lard. I think that for the ethos of punk music--not pop punk, but the real shit--he's pretty good.
Smashmouth
Hey now...
Corey Feldman's Angelic 2 the Core is without a doubt the worst album I've ever listened to. It is not just mediocre or underwhelming, it is not just a "miss," it is actively and unforgettably horrible. Definitely worth checking out.
Ahh. The licorice jelly bean of music.
βGrossβ¦ here, try itβ
I have been fighting my way through the "1,001 albums you must listen to before you die' list, and there have been some truly terrible albums.
New York Dolls, debut album
Brian Eno, my life in the bush of ghosts
Marquee Moon, television
Slade, slayed?
Sugarcube, life's too good
Barry Adamson, Oedipus Schmoedipus
Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Heaven 17, Penthouse And Pavement
And the worst album I have ever heard on my life, king of garbage music Lou Reed and his garbage band of notmusic and pretention: The velvet underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico
aha a fellow 1001 albums listener. im currently doing it too. the heaven 17 album is one of my favorite discoveries. ill drop my 1 star ratings here let me know if i hate one of your favs lol
rolling stones debut
cheap thrills by big brother
gorillaz debut
young americans by bowie
untitled black is by sault
461 ocean boulevard by eric clapton
Damn! I haven't gotten any of those yet, but I think we might need to fight a little when I do! I'll save this and get back to you!
new 1 star album, 461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton
Really? Wow.
New one for me: treasure by the cocteau twins
i can see why thatd be 1 star for someone, i thought that album had some good songs though
I've only rated the velvet underground and nico album one star because I personally don't consider it actual music. Because of that, I have a hard time rating music I "just don't like" as one star because it's recognizable to me as music. So, I rated this one two stars.
I was surprised to see you rated a Clapton album so poorly because I like him (musically) quite a bit. We have really different tastes, and I think it's cool to know there is stuff that absolutely is not for me that is a five star album for someone else
Guns and Roses in '91 or so. God I loved them so, every song. When we got a chance to see them in OKC, with some band I'd never heard of, Crashing Gourds?, something like that.
We were tripping acid and the crowd was wild, should have been fun. They came out 2-hours late, screamed shit into the microphone, beat their instruments and left. Sometimes I couldn't even tell which song they were playing, that bad.
And worse, the opening band, who later became wildly popular, was apparently booed. We were late and had missed them.
Crashing Gourds?, something like that
Smashing Pumpkins?
How has no one mentioned Tom Waits.
He has some good songs, but his voice sounds like a alley cat with a stomach full of garbage who won't let you sleep. I know that it's the point for some ppl, but I can't stand it.
I love his music, voice included, but if you don't like the voice please listen to the early stuff before he got so rough. I honestly like those records better. The Asylum Years album collects a bunch of the good ones. ETA - or Ol'55 I think has so many good ones, including the namesake song.
Off topic but I watched him play piano and sing on some late night show a long time ago and oh boy did he look like he was on heroin, nodding off.
He's on key and in tune though, same as Dwight Yoakum. You may not like their voice, but they are excellent singers.
Janis Joplin is I think the best example of cat screeching in tune, on beat, in key. I find her both great and near unlistenable.
Someone I know listens exclusively to the Beatles on the car radio. From all the Beatles hype, it should feel like a party, but instead it feels like you're listening to jingle commercials during the whole ride.
Probably doesnβt help that theyβre so popular that their music was licensed and became synonymous with commercials.
Same thing with the doors and all things Vietnam.
I posted it in reply to another comment, but I think this is worth it's own mention.
Sweet.... Jesus....
Saw it before, but never noticed the thumbnail before now. Couldn't have found a more suitable one.
The worst recorded sound that I have ever heard was Kurt Cobain doing a mic check on a Nirvana live bootleg. Like a tortured cat with laryngitis.
BEanS, bEAnS, BEanS,
JEsSiE ATe soMe bEanS,
SHe wAS HapPY, HapPY, HAppy
ThAT SHe aTe SOMe beaNS
The best thing about Nirvana is the Foo Fighters.
I have a perhaps unreasonable dislike of The Best Day by Atmosphere.