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  1. 06-07-2008, 11:11 PM #1
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    Favorite voices... go!

    If you name a singer of a band, please list that band as well.

    Andy Partridge (XTC)
    Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
    Morten Harket (a-ha)
    Kasim Sultan
    Brian Johnson (AC/DC)
    Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates)
    Bjork
    David Bowie
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  2. 06-08-2008, 12:15 AM #2
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    The obvious choices, not repeating yours (aka Bjork)
    Tom Waits
    Marvin Gaye
    Leonard Cohen

    Others:
    Chris Cornell (Badmotorfinger era Soundgarden)
    Kristy Thirsk (The Rose Chronicles)
    Peter Steele (Type o Negative)
    Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
    Ihsahn (Emperor)
    Steve Perry (Journey)
    Joanna Newsom
    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7
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  3. 06-08-2008, 01:07 AM #3
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  4. 06-08-2008, 01:16 AM #4
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    Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten)
    Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy)
    Diamanda Galás
    Dale Bozzio (Missing Persons)
    Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
    Donna Summmer
    Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (D.A.F.)
    Bryan Ferry
    Kristin Hersh
    Michael Gira (SWANS)
    Russell Mael (Sparks)
    Claudia Brücken (Propaganda)
    Klaus Nomi
    House of Self-Indulgence + Radioactive Lingerie
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  5. 06-08-2008, 01:24 AM #5
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    Eric Burdon of the Animals. Everyone knows House of the Rising Sun, but check him out on Tobacco Road.

    I'll also go with:
    Willie Nelson
    Steve Perry
    Paul Simon
    Aretha Franklin
    Glenn Campbell
    Ray Charles
    Waylon Jennings
    B.B. King
    George Jones
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  6. 06-08-2008, 01:50 AM #6
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    Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros)
    Nick Drake
    Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
    Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead)
    Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
    Stuart Murdoch (Belle and Sebastian)
    Tom Waits
    Scott Walker
    Chris Whitley
    Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
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    Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian)
    Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
    Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening)
    Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)
    Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)
    Stephen Merrit (Magnetic Fields)
    Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
    Neko Case
    Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
    David Bowie
    Joanna Newsom
    Aaliyah
    Vashti Bunyan
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  8. 06-08-2008, 03:03 AM #8
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    Mama Cass Elliot
    Astrud Gilberto
    Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Art Bears)
    Alison Krauss
    Roy Orbison
    Gram Parsons
    Neil Young
    Alan Wilson (Canned Heat)
    Robert Wyatt
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  9. 06-08-2008, 03:27 AM #9
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    Regina Spektor
    Bob Dylan
    Nick Drake
    Erykah Badu
    Billie Holiday (I can't believe she hasn't been mentioned)
    Frank Sinatra
    Colm Wilkinson
    Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney)
    Fiona Apple
    Steve Perry
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  10. 06-08-2008, 03:40 AM #10
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    Freddie Mercury, you bastards.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
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  11. 06-08-2008, 03:42 AM #11
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    ella, nina simone (how am i the first one with these two?) billy holiday, bob dylan, cat power, tom waits, louis armstrong, jonny lang is a guilty pleasure of mine, neil young, alison kraus, levon helm (the band), rick danko (the band), bjork, shannon hoon (blind melon), stephen malkmus, dino, craig finn (the hold steady), justin timberlake, jim james (my morning jacket), david byrne (talking heads), jeff tweedy (wilco)

    that's just off teh top of my head.
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    oh and Jeff Buckley
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    Wimmens:

    Shirley Collins
    Dagmar Krause (Henry Cow, Die City Preachers, I.D. Company, News from Babel)
    Yma Sumac
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Helen Kane
    Nina Simone
    Claudia Gonson (the Magnetic Fields)
    Betty Carter
    Jewlia Eisenberg and the other Charming Hostess gurls
    Nara Leão
    Allison Statton (Young Marble Giants)

    Guyz:

    Johnny Hartman
    Blind Willie Johnson
    James Carr
    Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine)
    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
    Lee Dorsey
    Fats Waller
    Klaus Blasquiz (Magma)
    Jorge Ben
    Mississippi Fred McDowell
    Billy Eckstine


    Toasters, MCs and talk-y types (Tibet, Cutler) excluded, mainly for space reasons.
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  14. 06-08-2008, 05:45 AM #14
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    Tim Buckley, mainly for when he's in acrobatic mode.
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    Kasper Eistrup (Kashmir):
    Rocket Brothers,
    The Cynic (feat. David Bowie)

    Jesper Binzer (D-A-D):
    Everything Glows,
    Cloudy Hours (Live),
    Reconstrucdead

    Jonas Bjerre (Mew):
    Snow Brigade,
    Apocalypso,
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  16. 06-09-2008, 03:49 AM #16
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    Most of these are coming from my Voice As Instrument thread from a few months back...

    Frank Sinatra
    Nina Simone
    Pearl Bailey
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Annie Lennox
    Richard Ashcroft (The Verve)
    Fran Healy (Travis)
    Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys)
    Rakim (Eric B & Rakim)
    Iarla O'Lionard (The Afrocelts)
    Jimmy Rushing (Count Basie's Orchestra)
    Neko Case
    Dianne Reeves
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