You know, the one who makes your teeth ache at the first bar of any song you hear. Major successful ones, post 1970.
Worst recent male pop singer
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*breaks finger hitting mouse button on Michael Bolton choice*
*contemplates creating sock puppet profiles to stuff ballot box*
*contemplates creating sock puppet profiles to stuff ballot box*
WoW! Billy Joel on that list???? I'm not sure about that. \
Phil Collins dosen't sit well with me, but he's such a good guy and like Billy Joel has such a proven record of success I couldn't vote him the worst, I think on just plain ol' dumb luck that he got famous without much of a voice, Donnie Osmond or worse tony deFranco, God did he suck...It's funny though, as I think about this, I seem to come up with way more female famous putrid voices than male..... Probably just me.
Phil Collins dosen't sit well with me, but he's such a good guy and like Billy Joel has such a proven record of success I couldn't vote him the worst, I think on just plain ol' dumb luck that he got famous without much of a voice, Donnie Osmond or worse tony deFranco, God did he suck...It's funny though, as I think about this, I seem to come up with way more female famous putrid voices than male..... Probably just me.
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I never really liked Michael Bolton; I merely tolerated him. Now, I can't stand to listen to him at all. He just annoys me.
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I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you saying Donnie Osmond can't sing? He has a pretty good voice. Find the soundtrack to "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and have a listen.
On that list, if I went by singing ability, I'd have to go with Steve Perry. I still remember a Rolling Stone review from the early '80s where they said he sounded like Minnie Mouse on helium.
Never said he couldn't sing, just never thought he should have attained the fame he did, with the voice he had,(has) and never did a thing for me.
Chad Kroeger of Nickleback. He does the same little sing-songy thing in every last song. I can't really describe it adequately, but it makes me cringe.
Also, his lyrics are an embarrassment to rock and roll, and rock and roll has pretty low standards in that department already.
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Does it count when a horrible voice is saved by brilliant lyrics? You know which two I'm thinking of....
P.S. Manilow's got great pipes.
P.S. Manilow's got great pipes.
Hah, so true. I don't really mind Nickleback, cookie-cutter tunes and all, but this puts me right off.
Just for truth in advertising: I kinda figured Bolton would win this competition. Top of my list, however, is McDonald. There's just something about that over-wrought mumbly tenor, the same in every damn song, that makes me want to run out with Ted Nugent and shoot Bambi.
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Blacbird, you forgot the latest crop inflicted on the public by American Idol. Daughtry, David Archuleta, etc. Yodeling, melismatic, all of them pretty much of the same vocal mold.
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Amen brother.
Dating myself here - and he didn't make much of a splash State-side - but Edward Bear couldn't warble two words before I was mashing radio presets.
I share the view of those who think Chad Kroeger should be on list and Billy Joel should be off. Joel was/is a very talented performer whereas Kroeger (Nickleback) keeps putting out the same annoying music with the same annoying vocals year after year, and people actually buy it!
Yeah. Which is why "Piano Man" routinely makes lists of the top ten most hated pop songs.
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The singer of Hoobastank... when he's singing live... it's like he's murdering my eardrums...
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Piano Man is waaay overplayed and IMHO, Billy does NOT belong on this list 
. It's like how KISS has what? 385 albums, yet radio stations around here only ever play Rock and Roll All Nite - which makes me want to jab a fork in my ear just so I don't have to hear it.
But worst pop vocalist? Michael Bolton - between his grating voice and flowing coif (and the equally annoying short do he got when he finally admitted he looked like an idiot with the bald on top, flowing coif)... Argh.... easily the worst on that list...
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. It's like how KISS has what? 385 albums, yet radio stations around here only ever play Rock and Roll All Nite - which makes me want to jab a fork in my ear just so I don't have to hear it.But worst pop vocalist? Michael Bolton - between his grating voice and flowing coif (and the equally annoying short do he got when he finally admitted he looked like an idiot with the bald on top, flowing coif)... Argh.... easily the worst on that list...
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^ What she said- I Love Billy Joel, he is a talented singer song writer and muscian-
Michael Bolton on the other hand makes me shudder-
Michael Bolton on the other hand makes me shudder-
I know exactly what you're talking about. There's a specific note progression and rhythm that seems to show up in every song, usually in the chorus. I swear they write new songs by taking an existing song and holding the sheet music up to a mirror or flipping it upside down.