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 Post subject: Underrated vocalists
PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:58 pm 
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I'm talking about people that it seems nobody mentions when talking about "best vocalists", but when you really listen to them sing you think, DAMN, that's some singin'!!!

I nominate Nick Lowe.
Listening to the Rockpile album now, and goddamn if his singing isn't some of the best I've heard, in particular on "Heart".

Art Garfunkel is pretty amazing, too.
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PopTodd Wrote:
I'm talking about people that it seems nobody mentions when talking about "best vocalists", but when you really listen to them sing you think, DAMN, that's some singin'!!!

I nominate Nick Lowe.
Listening to the Rockpile album now, and goddamn if his singing isn't some of the best I've heard, in particular on "Heart".

Art Garfunkel is pretty amazing, too.


Um, hate to do this, but Nick Lowe isn't singing "Heart"....Billy Bremner is.
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Great call on Nick Lowe. And what about the vocals he pulls off in "You Inspire Me" from Dig My Mood? Awe. Some.

Grant Lee Phillips is another great voice that often gets forgotten.
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Spade Kitty Wrote:
PopTodd Wrote:
I'm talking about people that it seems nobody mentions when talking about "best vocalists", but when you really listen to them sing you think, DAMN, that's some singin'!!!

I nominate Nick Lowe.
Listening to the Rockpile album now, and goddamn if his singing isn't some of the best I've heard, in particular on "Heart".

Art Garfunkel is pretty amazing, too.


Um, hate to do this, but Nick Lowe isn't singing "Heart"....Billy Bremner is.


Okay... then I nominate Billy Bremner, too.
But I've heard enough Nick to know that he belongs here.
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I'll second the Art Garfunkel mention.

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Grant Lee Phillips is another great voice that often gets forgotten.


Totally agreed.

I keep forgetting about him, then I go and pull out Ladies Love Oracle or Fuzzy (which now may be pulled out tonight when I get home)and it all comes back to me.

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Radcliffe Wrote:
Grant Lee Phillips is another great voice that often gets forgotten.

Oh, yeah. Great pipes on the dude. Mockingbirds knocks me dead everytime.

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Mike Patton
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The Band had 3 pretty damn good vocalists.

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Grant Lee Phillips is another great voice that often gets forgotten.


Grant's also the town troubadour on 'Gilmore Girls' which I watch with joy each & every week with my two daughters.

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Grant Lee Phillips is another great voice that often gets forgotten.


Grant's also the town troubadour on 'Gilmore Girls' which I watch with joy each & every week with my two daughters.


hehe. So do I. Hell I own the first three seasons on dvd, on which he is seen most often. Last couple years hardly at all til recently. It's always neat when he is on.

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bob dylan - i don't understand how people think he has a terrible voice.

i'll add a rapper to this, jadakiss.

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hehe. So do I. Hell I own the first three seasons on dvd, on which he is seen most often. Last couple years hardly at all til recently. It's always neat when he is on.


The girls have all three too.
Season 4 was released yesterday...and yes I've been asked ever so nicely.

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bob dylan - i don't understand how people think he has a terrible voice.


He sounds like Enrico Caruso...or is that Enrico Palazzo ?

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Pretty much preposterous. I cannot think of another vocalist of recent vintage who is called out as often for being great and inventive as this guy.

Everybody loves him. The dudes in Dillinger Escape Plan, The Automator, Dave Grohl...


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Solomon Burke - anyone that has heard him doesn't under rate him, but not enough people have heard him.

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Pretty much preposterous. I cannot think of another vocalist of recent vintage who is called out as often for being great and inventive than this guy.

Everybody loves him. The dudes in Dillinger Escape Plan, The Automator, Dave Grohl...


yeah i was gonna say that. A great vocalist, but everyone already knows that
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Radcliffe Wrote:
Grant Lee Phillips is another great voice that often gets forgotten.

Count me as a fan.

I'll also add Jimmy Gnecco of the band, Ours.
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I'll also add Jimmy Gnecco of the band, Ours.


Seconded!
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gregg alexander, gregg alexander, gregg alexander...all we hear from you :)

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gregg alexander, gregg alexander, gregg alexander...all we hear from you :)


RESPECT THE ALEXANDER. :x

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rparis74 Wrote:
gregg alexander, gregg alexander, gregg alexander...all we hear from you :)


RESPECT THE ALEXANDER. :x

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Does he still update the webpage, even though the band broke up almost from the start [sic] - i.e. late '98, when they kicked off their mainstream appeal -, 'cause that would be funny.... A band is dead seven years later, but they still do tour-updates for non-existent tours, etc., etc.,...
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