The Pitchfork People's List - top albums 1996-2012

well no, it's not crazy if you can't actually reach them

i was guessing "Exit Music For A Film" - def the lowest register I can think of?

I'm referring to people like Wayne Coyne really, Yorke can hit high notes, it's the squealy mid-range he's not great at.

Ugh Wayne Coyne. Yeah, I'll agree on that.

Haha I'm not going to tell unless Lex reveals. It was on OK Computer though. Let's have a poll! What OKC track does Lex not hate?

Also, ugh Wayne Coyne cosign.

"No Surprises", duh

xxposts DJP - yeah, but everyone has a natural register, right? Mine is naturally quite high and I'm pretty crap at doing low registers unless it's first thing in the morning. Asking singers to use their lower register if they're more comfortable with tenor or falsetto makes no sense.

Wayne Coyne just sounds a bit like Neil Young to me.

Neil Young can actually sing though, he just has a weird voice. Coyne is a bad Neil Young imitator who can't hit notes at all, in a way that's actually painful.

perhaps it doesn't make sense because you are misreading Matt's post, which said that people with a lower register who don't have high notes should stop straining to hit high notes all the time and sing in the register where they sound good?

Oh man, I cannot stand Neil Young. Which means Thom and I can never ~be together~ because that's his voice idol, I know.

;_;

xpost okay if that's what he meant cool.

But I am basically so picky about male singers and what I can tolerate from them that I am the worst person to be having this conversation.

I've developed a taste for Neil Young rather recently after years of hating him. x-posts

I keep meaning to start a "which classic rock vocalist has produced the worst indie imitators" but Neil would win by a landslide.

I had my "omg I like a Neil Young song that isn't on Trans, halp!" moment a few months ago on ILM but I think it really was a one-song exception. So maybe that's how Lex feels about his special Thom song.

Oh man, I cannot stand Neil Young. Which means Thom and I can never ~be together~ because that's his voice idol, I know.

never say never; I recently heard some old Bob Dylan song where he was actually singing instead of doing that annoying moany sprechgesang thing he became famous for and I was shocked by how much I liked it

it was Lucky, MDC got it

<3 Neil Young, weird voice and all. But then I like weird voices often better than non-weird voices. Speaking of which, can someone recommend some good weird-voice female singers for me?

Which song, WCC?

specifically the bit where he sings "glo-o-orious day"

fucking hate neil young's voice, so weedy, reminds me of travis

<3 Neil Young, weird voice and all. But then I like weird voices often better than non-weird voices. Speaking of which, can someone recommend some good weird-voice female singers for me?

Joanna Newsom?

Joanna Newsom is great! I know a lot of people get put off her voice, but it's exactly what I like about her.

fucking hate neil young's voice, so weedy, reminds me of travis

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Yeah, fuck Neil Young for ripping off Travis.

x-post

patty walters
yma sumac
judy henske
joan labarbara
catherine ribeiro

thanks, thread, for getting me to imagine Travis using vocoders.

Heheh, I'm never going to convince Lex to like Neil Young, but really his voice is very unlike Travis. I don't hear it as weedy (it can be very effective and powerful in places), but it is extremely "in the nose".

cheers Ward

<3 Yma Sumac & Joan La Barbara x-posts

@Mel W I have no idea. It was something about a girl who drove a motorcycle? I revived a thread about it but now of course with searching I cannot find it.

Speaking of which, can someone recommend some good weird-voice female singers for me?

Jun Togawa, Dagmar Krause, Nina Hagen, Yoko Ono, Björk and... Mrs Miller.

Also Yma for defs!

I don't know if Lhasa de Sela's voice is weird exactly, but it has a somehow very strange warm and clear quality to it that I don't think I've heard in anyone else's voice. You should check her out.

I like the turn this thread has taken.

Tanya Tagaq if you want to try out some Inuk throat-singing.

i will absolutely check out these weird-voice women artists. Thanks all.

I'm trying to get a good handle on what is meant by "weird" because otherwise I'm about two seconds off of suggesting Macy Gray

(could do with its own thread maybe)?

Macy Gray kind of does have a weird voice, though? Not crazy out-there weird, but *distinctive*. I wouldn't put her in my own list, but I could see an argument for it.

Mary Margaret O'Hara, Meredith Monk

weirdest voiced female singer i have heard in TIME: What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?

omg OTM

I think everyone should listen to that Farrah Abraham album, it's one of the most amazing things I've heard this year

i haven't heard the whole thing b/c it's not ~out there~ and i'm not convinced i'm gonna listen to it enough to justify shelling out on itunes, but the singles are O___________O

Recommend me: Weird-Voiced Female Singers

Look ma, this is "me not reading ILM and getting back on with my normal life." But I'm on a bus, I got nothing else to do. Hello WCC et al.

Anyway, I had some Big Thoughts about this list that follow my two tiny points upthread ("This is basically a Kid A vs. OKC debate" + "This is stupid and you'll regret it"). May I share them with you or should I just agree that Farrah Abraham is indeed awesome

Owen I should shout at you and tell you that you're trying to stay off ILX, but go right ahead, I'm always interested to hear what you have to say.

Yeah, I read some and it was cool but my mind has been on this topic more than it should've been. I read a handful of articles yesterday that tried to explain this list, and most of these responses imo are based on a false assumption, one that continues to proliferate.

lex, I know you hate Spotify but the Farrah Abraham thing is on it: http://open.spotify.com/album/2rdEDYy8l2S1BPcEIU5JRM

"Pitchfork is responsible for these bands' success." P4K is not responsible for creating the slavering* masses of that are Radiohead fans, Arcade Fire fans, (NMH fans, Kanye fans, etc.) I believe that the results of this poll are indicative of nothing more than the hegemonic stranglehold that these bands/artists and their publicists have successfully maintained on a subset of music listeners.

*or 'devoted', I say 'slavering' or 'enthralled' but I say it with respect

(xp to self, I'm typing as fast as I can)