RONG 2

wasnt supposed to be capslock oops

capslock worthy tbh

Suggest banned everyone on thread, not sure what's going on, ring left and right, I'm comin' home mama

Ring left and right, I said it, so sorry mama

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/1787/dogdoodoo.jpg

Love that "Strenth" :)

XD

― i'm the kind of challop that's built to last (latebloomer)

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Look if we want to talk about crooning and golden voices than let's have a real benchmark like Roy Orbison. That guy could sing a hell of a lot better than Sinatra. I mean Sinatra became a legend primarily because of his branding (rat pack) and his good looks (ol' blue eyes)... I just can't get how someone would consider him to have one of the greatest voices.

― Green Manalishi (Viceroy), Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:24 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

god I hate the word "branding"

esp when applied to human beings

you think sinatra had a better voice than roy orbison?

I'll take Roy Orbison any day of the week, but I'm not a big fan of the Ring a Ding Ding guy.

it's weird to hear ppl dissing sinatra repping for orbison, it's like if can fans were trashing miles davis or something

it's weird to hear ppl dissing sinatra repping for orbison, it's like if can fans were trashing miles davis or something

― balls, Monday, August 23, 2010 11:13 PM Bookmark

This analogy is so unbelievably RONG.

orbison and sinatra are both a-ok by me

jb's analogy sounds about right 2 me

Also Sinatra is pretty widely considered not to have a traditionally "great" singing voice, regardless of what one thinks of his stylings. Orbison otoh is considered one of the great pop voices.

the young sinatra's voice is so sweet, v different from the rat pack years (altho he could still be sensitive)
orbison was otherwordly and great, i'd still take sinatra but it wouldn't occur to me to compare

Also Sinatra is pretty widely considered not to have a traditionally "great" singing voice, regardless of what one thinks of his stylings. Orbison otoh is considered one of the great pop voices.

loooooool "traditionally great singing voice" and "great pop voices" are totally different standards. sinatra is totally one of the great pop voices.

take billie holliday, pussy, and jazz out of frank sinatra add mario lanza, country, and loserdom and you have roy orbison. orbison was nearly as much a geek for greaseball faux opera melodramatic pop as elvis and sinatra was king of that shit.

Well I worded it badly. Orbison is known for his voice in terms of more traditional measures of singing ability - range, clarity, pitch, etc. Sinatra was a much more limited vocalist with a lot of style. They're totally different kinds of singers and their music is totally different and I don't really find it weird that someone would like one and not the other.

how the fuck was orbison's range impressive????

lol you have obviously heard like two roy orbison songs in your life stfu

i've heard more than you clearly

ok according to last.fm i've listented to roy orbison 55 times in the past three months (including 'shadaroba' 17 times which no idea what's happening there) so what orbison track am i missing where he's just putting ella fitzgerald to shame.

His range was like 3-4 octaves

I mean in In Dreams alone he spans like 2.5 octaves and hits a high C - a slightly weird one, but he hits a pretty clear one in Only the Lonely.

If forced to choose, I'd def pick Orbison.

here's the real question

joy orbison or jank sanatra

rank sinatra, surely

orbison is great but dismissing frank as some kind of poser is dumb IMO

roy's range is breathtaking and capable of conveying tragic emotion but jesus x what sinatra did w/phrasing was revolutionary & influential (even though he loathed R&R).

sinatra was my gateway drug into pre-rock pop songs - along w/ring-a-ding shoob-be-doo novelties he recorded SO many songs and the arrangements on his 50s sides kill

i dunno how heated a debate you can get into with someone nicknamed "balls"

Orbison is known for his voice in terms of more traditional measures of singing ability - range, clarity, pitch, etc. Sinatra was a much more limited vocalist with a lot of style.

If you care anything at all about singing, then you would have noticed Sinatra's clarity and pitch. It might be apocryphal, but the story that Miles used to model the pitch of his trumpet playing on Sinatra's singing totally makes sense.

miles told the story in his autobio so not too apocryphal!

for hurting and san te: 'miles' refers to miles davis.

OMG THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT I THOUGHT YOU WERE REFERRING TO MILES STANDISH

miles standish proud

^ lost pavement lyric

uh that's an actual REM lyric

tsk, kids

yeah i live 3 blocks from that dude. thx for the tip though!

plz more nu-ilxors imitating hot topic cashiers on noise board thx.

3 blocks from that dude who wrote the lost pavement lyric

Michael Stipe wrote lost pavement lyrics?

http://www.matadorrecords.com/pavement/biography.html
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=athens,+ga&sll=33.962672,-83.383205&sspn=0.009699,0.013797&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Athens,+Clarke,+Georgia&t=h&ll=33.963028,-83.384557&spn=0.00485,0.006899&z=17

there's a Grady Ave now?

really sad that I can't find a pic of the bumper sticker I see around Atlanta that says "If I'm injured in a car crash, take me to Grady"