Worst singer EVER!!!

[yui]

Tom Waits
*ducks so nothing gets thrown*

You are going to hell for that one, little girl! I love Tom Waits. Kewl lyrics.

I don't know if it qualifies me as the worst singer ever, but the last time I sang in the shower the dogs in the next county started howling.

Cat

You cannot be worse than I am, only louder.

 

[Stella_Omega]

He and Tom Petty sound suspiciously similar, but I love 'em both.

Everybody must get stoned...

And he's a great singer! So is Tom Petty. And so is Tom Waits!
If someone asked me to tear Brittney Spears' -or any number of barbie-andkendoll pop performers- larynx out with my hand.. I'd ask "which one, left or right?"
And it's not because of her voice or her abilities, it's because of what she let them do to the music for the sake of the money. Justin Timberlake? I don't care shit about him, sorry, but music is GAWD.

 

[Stella_Omega]

... I love Tom Waits. Kewl lyrics.
...

We could write a story based on some of his "Rain Dog" songs, wanna?

 

[yui]

We could write a story based on some of his "Rain Dog" songs, wanna?

We could write a dozen stories based on the song "Rain Dogs" alone. I'm game. Wanna play?

 

[yui]

Well, since you're here now.

Sing us a lil sumpfin', m'dear!

My singing is already on public record.

I'm still trying to work my mic - give me a minute to figure this out ...

 

[OhMissScarlett]

And it's not because of her voice or her abilities, it's because of what she let them do to the music for the sake of the money. Justin Timberlake? I don't care shit about him, sorry, but music is GAWD.

Psst. I was being sarcastic.

 

[yui]

Psst. I was being sarcastic.

Shame on you!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Shame on you!

I'll try not to do it again tonight.

 

[yui]

I'll try not to do it again tonight.

I heard that! Stop mumbling, Little Miss, um, Little Miss Scarlett! Don't make me get in Shang's locker for a switch.

 

[Guest]

I'll try not to do it again tonight.

ok, sure
*snicker*
BBBBAAAAHHHHAAAAhhhhaaaaa
ME?
im off to bed.

 

[minsue]

I heard that! Stop mumbling, Little Miss, um, Little Miss Scarlett! Don't make me get in Shang's locker for a switch.

http://addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/essen/popcorn.gif

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I heard that! Stop mumbling, Little Miss, um, Little Miss Scarlett! Don't make me get in Shang's locker for a switch.

Bring it!
I like Dom Yui. I think I'd let her kick my ass. What the hell, it's the weekend.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Psst. I was being sarcastic.

*snf*
I was being sincere!
Do you know how hard that is for me?

 

[Stella_Omega]

We could write a dozen stories based on the song "Rain Dogs" alone. I'm game. Wanna play?

Oh how we danced with the Rose of Trawlee
Her long hair black as the raven
Oh how we danced, and you whispered to me
"You'll never be going back home"

or...
Hush, a wild Violet,
Hush, a band of gold
Hush, you're in a story
that somebody told...

 

[Xelebes]

I searched to provide the AH with a sample of her voice.Two sites that had a recording of her singing have had to withdraw it because she was too popular!

Sorry. This is the best I could do:
News item

Og

A shining beacon for the dadaist movement at the time, I'm sure.

 

[Boxlicker101]

A shining beacon for the dadaist movement at the time, I'm sure.

When I started reading the article, I thought of Hyacinth Bucket (Pronounced Bu KAY, I'll have you know) except that she is more of an object of scorn than affection.

 

[Xelebes]

My mind went totally to speedbass. Unce.

 

[_Erik_]

Ugly ol' Babs...

I can't believe no one's posted Barabara Streishand.

So I'll post it.

Barbara Streishand.

 

[Kassiana]

Just about everyone on the local radio's pop music station. So much bland, overplayed pap, so little time. Other than the occasional Barenaked Ladies, it's all whiny junk.

For really bad singing, it's hard to beat Wesley Willis, though.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

You can't include everyone or there's no end to it.

If we confine our choices to people who make or made a practice of singing in public, whether for money or just to share their gift, I think Ogg would be right: Florence Foster Jenkins took the experience of bad singing to a height that's never been equaled.

Florence Foster Jenkins was a tone-deaf socialite who was convinced that she possessed a soprano voice of unsurpassed purity. She not only spent a fortune on lessons, gowns, and accompanists, but she regularly rented Carnegie Hall to put on recitals her friends were required to sit through.

While she had some elements of operatic technique down and could fill a room with her voice, she was absolutely tone-deaf and often lost all control and just started screeching and screaming in a truly shocking manner, as if she were shooting her voice at notes from across the room, hoping to hit them, and always with great dignity and enthusiasm. Listening to her now (she was active in the 30's and 40's, I believe), it's hard to believe she was serious, but she was. It's just astonishing to hear someone with such an obvious passion for music murdering it with such great self-satisfaction.

It's too bad Miserable Melodies is down, because you can hear her there, along with William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, Burt Reynolds, and a whole host of poeple who should have known better.

In their defense, though, they were doing it for money. Flo-Fo did it for love of art, and that's what's so terrifying.

My own choice for the one voice that comes closes to Satan's is Yoko Ono, as she recorded with John Lennon. Fingernails on a blackboard are a relief compared to her.

 

[Guest]

My own choice for the one voice that comes closes to Satan's is Yoko Ono, as she recorded with John Lennon. Fingernails on a blackboard are a relief compared to her.

Bare Naked Ladies did a song in her honor: You Can Be My Yoko Ono. I laugh hysterically every time I hear it. Caterwauling personified.

 

[Honey123]

Millie Vanillie...

 

[AppleBiter]

My vote is for that one guy on last season's American Idol try-outs who sang "Like A Virgin." I don't know if anyone saw that, but that guy takes the cake.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Millie Vanillie...

How do you know?

 

[oggbashan]

Eureka! Florence Foster-Jenkins found.

I have found an audio file.

Enjoy?

Hear her sing(?)

Og