what are you listening to? - Page 2371

Genteel Death · 10.26.2015, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

I'm sad you think my brain is a dripping turd.

Meanwhile...

Who does this singer sound like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCt5RM2_93c

Shitty song. But that's not why I brought it up.

She does that sickeningly fake white-girl Billy Holiday thing that a good 85% of soulful indie female singers do nowadays. Know what I'm talking about?

So, who does this singer sound like? Close your eyes and tell me who you could mistake her for. I want to make a list of idiots with this affectation.

C'mon man, she's such an easy target.

Genteel Death · 10.26.2015, 04:49 PM

I'm interested in your dude naked vocals of this.

Genteel Death · 10.26.2015, 04:51 PM

Severian's input always appreciated too. So pure.

evollove · 10.26.2015, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Genteel Death

C'mon man, she's such an easy target.

I'm not picking on her. I feel sort of bad for her. I'm talking about her style, which she picked up from somewhere else.

Regina Spektor, that Feist chick, Sharon Van Etten, even Kate Nash with the accent: they all sound very similar.

To my ears, they're struggling to channel Billie Holiday. I never told anyone they had my permission to try this.

Genteel Death · 10.26.2015, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

I'm not picking on her. I feel sort of bad for her. I'm talking about her style, which she picked up from somewhere else.

Regina Spektor, that Feist chick, Sharon Van Etten, even Kate Nash with the accent: they all sound very similar.

To my ears, they're struggling to channel Billie Holiday. I never told anyone they had my permission to try this.

I don't really know most of those chicks apart from Regina Spektor, whose music I know very little about. I'm sure you're right and you get a lot of dudes trying to sound like the Pavement singer too. It's just as bad. Also, how much can you do with a voice, really?

evollove · 10.26.2015, 06:16 PM

Or all those singers who try to be the Alice in Chains guy or Eddie Vedder? God, how many hundreds. Maybe that trend is over now.

It's really weird how vocal trends occur at all.

In the pop world, for the past decade many people have decided to sing "may" for "me," as in: "Look what you're doin' to may." I hear that all the time. Who decides this stuff?

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Originally Posted by Genteel Death

how much can you do with a voice, really?

I dunno. Seems to me the people who sing from their own gut manage something uniquely their own.

But I can see how the lowly ones might have a problem, and might latch onto whatever's hip in the air.

Genteel Death · 10.26.2015, 06:33 PM

I don't care about the pop world.

Bytor Peltor · 10.27.2015, 10:59 AM

Severian · 10.27.2015, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Good idea. I'm gonna do the same.

The Soup Nazi · 10.27.2015, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

I'm not picking on her. I feel sort of bad for her. I'm talking about her style, which she picked up from somewhere else.

Regina Spektor, that Feist chick, Sharon Van Etten, even Kate Nash with the accent: they all sound very similar.

To my ears, they're struggling to channel Billie Holiday. I never told anyone they had my permission to try this.

WHOA, leave SVE out of that bunch! As for the rest (and about five million more), yes, they sound lamely Holiday-ish but their root is more Chan Marshall than Billie.

Genteel Death · 10.27.2015, 05:09 PM

Is that Cat Power chick really that influential on girls singing these days? She's alright by me, it's just that she only seems to sing about disappointment, lost opportunities in love and that sort of shit. Nothing wrong with that, it just get a bit tedious after a while.

Genteel Death · 10.27.2015, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

Good idea. I'm gonna do the same.

What record is that? You guys!

Genteel Death · 10.27.2015, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by pepper_green

it's Thee Oh Sees - Drop

Thanks.

The Soup Nazi · 10.27.2015, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by pepper_green

I think she got all self-empowered and Mary J Blige recently.

She actually covered Mary J Blige's "Deep Inside" on a John Peel session (not quite "recently", evidently).

Genteel Death · 10.27.2015, 06:34 PM

Ween suck.

Severian · 10.27.2015, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by pepper_green

my fav is Floating Coffin by them.

Floating Coffin is a high point for sure. Also my favorite, though this year's Mutilator Defeated at Last has been in pretty constant rotation since its release.

I'm also big into the old OC'S material, like the 3+4(Songs About Death & Dying/Get Stoved) and 2 collections.

Severian · 10.27.2015, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Ween suck.

Let's argue!

Genteel Death · 10.28.2015, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian

Let's argue!

evollove · 10.28.2015, 08:24 AM

By sheer coincidence...

Browsing around youtube. Come across a cover of "David Watts" featuring a harp and sitar. Sounds promising.

Then the female singer comes in. Hey, what do you know? THAT voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zix8j-8UE

Bertrand · 10.28.2015, 01:47 PM

Thee Oh Sees are so great...
Web on their latest has been my favorite (sort of) song since I first heard it played live last year.
I find it hard to listen to the whole album after that, as it opens Mutilator...
You'll hear people saying how good they are and wonder whether these guys are sane after listening to an album picked randomly. Their live performances are so thrilling, the songs are way better on stage (I discovered the studio version of Dead Energy after a couple of live shows and could not recognise it).
I find Carrion Crawler/The Dream, Floatin Coffin to be among the solid albums, along with Putrifiers II.

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Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	Is that Cat Power chick really that influential on girls singing these days? She's alright by me, it's just that she only seems to sing about disappointment, lost opportunities in love and that sort of shit. Nothing wrong with that, it just get a bit tedious after a while.
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Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	Ween suck.
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evollove invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,879	By sheer coincidence... Browsing around youtube. Come across a cover of "David Watts" featuring a harp and sitar. Sounds promising. Then the female singer comes in. Hey, what do you know? THAT voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zix8j-8UE
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Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,268	Thee Oh Sees are so great... Web on their latest has been my favorite (sort of) song since I first heard it played live last year. I find it hard to listen to the whole album after that, as it opens Mutilator... You'll hear people saying how good they are and wonder whether these guys are sane after listening to an album picked randomly. Their live performances are so thrilling, the songs are way better on stage (I discovered the studio version of Dead Energy after a couple of live shows and could not recognise it). I find Carrion Crawler/The Dream, Floatin Coffin to be among the solid albums, along with Putrifiers II.
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