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Steven Tyler’s vocal musings are the world worst, for me.
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Songs that are ruined by annoying or stupid parts or solos
- Thread starter Fredrik E. Nilsen
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Okay, I haven't read all 102 prior replies but I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on this one: I think Robert Plant's singing nearly ruined Led Zeppelin. Arguably the best drummer in rock, the absolute riff king bringing the tonnage on lead guitar, perhaps the most underrated bassist ever and...Robert freakin' Plant, squealing and caterwauling over the top. Some Zep songs are so great that Plant couldn't ruin them, but he always tried. When I was a teenager a friend offered me tickets to see Zep at the Garden and I turned them down as I couldn't bear to listen to Plant's screeching. (Kind of regret that now as the show was filmed for The Song Remains the Same.) Still, Zep were fantastic despite, not because of, Robert Plant's voice. And don't get me started on his idiotic Viking/hobbit/citrus fruit lyrics...
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Almost every modern metal band with screaming/growling. It starts off with a really cool riff, the singing starts and it's actually good power metal style vocals and then they start screaming and growling for the rest of the song and it totally ruins it. I have no idea what's wrong with clean powerful vocals in metal songs. The cookie monster vocals need to stop.
Maybe, but it goes on forever. There was a point where I used to enjoy it, but it got real old real fast.
Robert Plant is one of the greatest singers in the history of rock. Zeppelin is as good as hard rock ever got, with no one who even comes a close second, and it's largely because of Plant's squealing and caterwauling. I can think of very few singers who contributed as much to their band's overall sound.
Bad example by whose standards? Clearly he isn't a fan, and you are.
The Live Bullet version by Bob Seger is definitive; enough so that Metallica's cover was just ill-advised. If you were going to cover it, you would have to take it somewhere else, and they just plain didn't.
I don't get how so many of you take the unique quality that made a band famous, and try to sell it as a weakness.
Steven Tyler = One of Rock's Legendary Talents
Robert Plant = One of Rock's Legendary Talents
ELP = One of the Greatest Bands of all of Prog, and every note amazing
Marvin Gaye = One of the Greatest Geniuses of All of Recorded Music, never sang a single bad note in his entire career
Rock with Flutes = If we're talking Jethro Tull, Chicago or Focus, absolute heaven
I don't think people are saying it's weakness they're saying it's not for them. Music is subjective, what you like other's may not and vice versa.
Whos idea was the middle bit? It sounds like they had a section they didn't know what to do with so they just crowbarred it into the middle of the song.
I like the solo, it looks to be an expression of the endless tribulation of this life.
Good music is a personal opinion. All a musician can do is hope the style fits a large number of people.
Good music is a personal opinion. All a musician can do is hope the style fits a large number of people.
Jan Hammer really gets on my nerves on Jeff Beck’s Wired and Blow By Blow.
Don’t get me started on harmonicas. The Saturday Night Special of instruments.
Don’t get me started on harmonicas. The Saturday Night Special of instruments.