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Antony of Antony and the Johnsons

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

geoff hansen (sp?) sounds like elliott smith if elliott smith was a 12 year old girl. it's impressive.

― tylerw, Monday, 22 November 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Singer of the Delays! Even when he goes "low" he still sounds like Stevie Nicks.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Totally agreed on the Spinners -- the "nowhere to go / guess I'll leave it alone" part.

Also Simply Red on "Holding Back the Years" -- I was relieved to learn on another ILM thread that I wasn't the only one who initially thought Mick was an older black woman.

Also Michael Jackson's half of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" -- I still can't tell where his lines end and Siedah Garrett's begin.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Singer of the Delays! Even when he goes "low" he still sounds like Stevie Nicks.

-- roxymuzak (emilysu...), November 22nd, 2004.

shit, i was just gonna say that... Greg Gilbert.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

At the club we were at on Saturday, they were playing something where the singer sounded exactly like Bjork, but the music was all crunchy and guitary and new-sounding (so I knew it wasn't Sugarcubes or KUKL). Finally we asked dude who it was and he said the Mars Volta. The Mars Volta is all dudes, right? Can anyone confirm that the singer from MV sounds a lot like Bjork?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

The ghost of Jermaine Stewart owns this thread.

― maria b (maria b), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Break out the cherry wine!

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

He doesn't sound female, but I hate the way Kurt Wagner's voice is so cig-damaged that the only way he can possibly hit any notes is to sing falsetto.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

A vision of my future.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"The ghost of Jermaine Stewart owns this thread. "
OMG. My trivistuffed brain randomly accessed his hit the other day "We Don't Have To Take Out Clothes Off (To Have A Good Time)." Sorta like the black Nick Gilder.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

trivistuffed=trivia-stuffed.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

the black Nick Gilder
I think we have a winner! Now can we break out the cherry wine? And have a good time.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

My mother visited me once and some Terry Callier was playing when she arrived. She presumed the singer was "a beautiful black woman".

Since then Tel and Nina Simone have sat close to each other in my brain.

― Acme (acme), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Sylvester, especially on "You make me feel (mighty real)".

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Ray Charles masquerading as the Raelettes on "I Believe to My Soul."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know what Tracy Chapman is, but it's not right.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link

on jimmy sommerville's duets with that chick with the bad hat heck if i knew who was who.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

(that's with the communards)

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to admit growing up I thought Limahl was female.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

in keeping w/ this board's recent prog/yes obsession ...

http://www.jonanderson.com/images/ja_ajaj_abwh_1.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Also Michael Jackson's half of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" -- I still can't tell where his lines end and Siedah Garrett's begin.

-- Joseph McCombs (jmccomb...), November 22nd, 2004.
funny !!!!!!!!!
michael can hit the high notes siedah can't hit hahaha!
why wasn't this album called "terrible"

― beatitboy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Geddy Lee and his remarkable similarity to one of the Wilson sisters on his Tom Sawyer vocals

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Wayne Newton's voice is more squirrel than girl.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Eisbär, Are you sure that picture of Jon Anderson isn't a picture of Andy Gibb? I mean if it didn't actually say "Jon Anderson" on the side, how could you tell?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

On the other hand, there's that one Pointer Sister (took the lead in "Automatic") who sounds like a man!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I learned something new on this thread - I always thought that was a female singer in "Games People Play."

― mike a, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

bonnie 'prince' billy, especially in "death to everyone". i listened and could not decide.

― kiss gergo, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

"That background singer in "A Girl Like You" by the Smithereens."

I think that song has Marilyn Wilson, wife (or at least ex) of Brian and mother of Carney and Wendy singing background vocals.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

we got this far without Green!

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Mike Patton on various late-career Faith No More tracks, especially the backup vox on "Evidence".

― rogthefrog, Sunday, 28 November 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

F.R. David

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 November 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

What about the dude that sang the hit version of "Brother Louie". The group was The Stories, the guy Ian Lloyd, right?

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

My friend thought Doug Martsch, on "Randy Described Eternity", was female. Understandable.

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

peter criss of Kiss with Beth

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

the kid from hunky dory, but then a lot of teenage boys sound like girls.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

That *is* a woman on the Spinners' "Games People Play." The group was out of the country when Thom Bell was cutting that vocal part.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I love that record, and I love that Alex loves it.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The singer for Coheed & Cambria sounds like a chick to me.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

jeff hanson

thomas & samson

― katie hasty (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Billy Mackenzie
Andrew (shit, forgot his name, from Geneva) ???

― benoit, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Cassandra Wilson is my vote for man-sounding-woman. More so than even the Auotmatic vocal by the Pointer Brother.

― PappaWheelie, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Paging Sarah Vaughan

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Zac Hanson
Jimmy Osmond
Aaron Carter
Stevie Wonder at the time of "Fingertips"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Mike Scheidt, singer/guitarist for the Oregon doom-metal trio Yob, sounds remarkably like a woman, specifically Lori S., singer/guitarist for stoner-metal trio Acid King.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

That's a lot of posts to not include Aaron Neville.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Or Horace Andy.

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 September 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link

I only just realized recently after hearing it at least 100 times that the Robin McNamara who sang "Lay a Little Lovin' on Me" was a dude.

It kinda goes both ways in Zep's "Battle of Evermore"--half the time I can't tell if it's Robert Plant or Sandy Denny singing.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 19 September 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 19 September 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Grazie to RW for the fact-check on "Games People Play." But weirdly, the guy with the handlebar mustache sings the female part in this Soul Train clip:

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 19 September 2008 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link

WHOA!

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 19 September 2008 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link

That's pretty ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure that like American Bandstand, performers lip-synched to the single on Soul Train.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 19 September 2008 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Or Horace Andy.

I had Horace Andy on one time and my mum came in and said "who's this woman you're listening to?" She also thought Nina Simone was a man once.

― chap, Friday, 19 September 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

When I was a kid, I thought "Hello it's Me" was sung by a woman.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 19 September 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

The bassist for the Eagles.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 19 September 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Vincent Gallo
Bernard Butler

― henry s, Friday, 19 September 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link

oh,and Russell Tompkins from the Stylistics...

― henry s, Friday, 19 September 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link

what scary ass chick looks like VINCENT GALLO?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 19 September 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Death Vessel guy Joel Thibodeau is pretty ~~uncanny~~.

― briania, Friday, 19 September 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Add britpop singer of your choice in here.

― Moka, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Death Vessel guy Joel Thibodeau is pretty uncanny.

Yar. I went to a Books concert where Death Vessel was the opening band and I spent the whole opening song trying to decipher if it was a guy or a girl, both for the voice and the androgynous look.

― Moka, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I had the opposite problem with "Pump up the Jam". I always thought it was a dude.

― Z S, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link

The first time I heard Material Issue was "Kim the Waitress," which I could've sworn was sung by a woman with a husky voice (like Carla Bozulich), and I thought it was a lesbian-crush song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, December 1, 2004 1:24 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― jaymc, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link

The first time I heard "Border Song" on the radio when Elton's first record came out I was pretty sure "Elton" was just an unusual name for a woman.

― ellaguru, Friday, 19 September 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link

― Lostandfound, Friday, 19 September 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I had the opposite problem with "Pump up the Jam". I always thought it was a dude.

There are a few as well. Thao Nguyen per example, i kept thinking it was a dude, I had to go to youtube to see the voice actually coming out of her to make sure it was a girl. Not that she has a very masculine voice, maybe all indie rock male singers are effeminate.

Also Courtney Love. I'm too young for Nirvana, so I first heard Hole through some friends and all the time I thought it was a dude singing until I saw a video.

― Moka, Friday, 19 September 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Lindsey Buckingham sometimes sounds like there are three girls singing in Fleetwood Mac.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 19 September 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Frankie Lymon

― john mccain's illegitimate black child (musically), Friday, 19 September 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Jamiroquai.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link

i sound like a girl

― Surmounter, Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link

but i like girls, so whatever.

― Surmounter, Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Ted Taylor of "(Love Is Like A) Rambling Rose" fame.

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link

When I was a kid, I thought "Hello it's Me" was sung by a woman

named carole king

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Sonny Charles

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 November 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh Lori by Alessi owns this thread.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Thursday, 13 November 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Ney Matogrosso / Secos & Molhados

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIyvM9Ce7mM&feature=fvw

― Moka, Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Bobb Trimble, according to Mrs. Redd.

― What's Welsh for Zen Arcade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 June 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link

^Bobb has tricked friends of mine, as well.
Re: Todd Rundgren's resemblance to Carole King: I heard "I saw the Light" while watching the movie Kingpin last weekend and I immediately started a search for it on the internet assuming that it was a Carole King hit. I guess I'm not the only one.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 20 June 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link

the members of The Rock Mafia do not appear in the video for their song "The Big Bang"...i assumed the lead vocalist was female until i saw a male member of the band perform the song on TV this morning.

― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link

lol i just heard-not-saw that performance here at work, totally assumed it was a woman

― da croupier, Monday, 20 June 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

Rhye is actually Mike Milosh.

― Moka, Monday, 24 December 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link

I'd been listening to Budgie for a few years before I found out that Burke Shelley was a man.

― Mike Dixn, Monday, 24 December 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbfIuZ5E_k

Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, one of the first recorded female impersonators, castrati aside.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 24 December 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link

Don't know how we missed the vocalist in Jigsaw, all those years ago. A drummer to boot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHHM17uzXY

― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

Ha, or Eric Carmen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_LcZhmkg88

― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link

That one guy from Air Supply. always thought All Outta Love was sung by a woman

― NINO CARTER, Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, apparently.

― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link

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