Tae away the singer, which band would you listen to?

[Corrundum1]

Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[thunda]

Dixie Dregs

https://youtu.be/32QDL63rmgw

 

[311boogieman]

I've tried I really have but bands like:

King Diamond
Mercyful Fate
Helloween

Throw them in that bucket of stuff where my mind gets fatigued when I try to listen to entire song let alone an entire album. That high pitched 'signing'

 

[Oblivion DC]

Dream Theater, God Forbid, and Nevermore.

DT and God Forbid have one song each that I can actually fully enjoy (Pull Me Under, The Antihero) but fucking Nevermore is unlistenable across the entirety of their expansive catalogue.

Byron is the man.

I should have been more clear. While I do enjoy Byron's vocals, the backup vocals on their final albums just turned me off completely. So if it's a choice between no vocals or with vocals which include the backup vocals, I'll go for no vocals.

 

[Mailman1971]

Air Supply

 

[Speeddemon]

Children of Bodom

Pet Shop Boys


...just to name some where the music is being crippled by annoying vocals.

I seem to have a penchant for 'air raid siren' vocals, whether it's Maiden, Toxik, Agent Steel, Mercyful Fate or Priest.

 

[thunda]

Air Supply

LOL!

 

[Mailman1971]

I actually saw them in concert. They played on the military base when I was stationed in Japan.
Those 2 put on a helluva show.

 

[MetalHeadMike]

To each his own, but IMO, Randy is essential to Lamb of God.

Agreed

Used to hate Randy's vocals when I heard LOG played on liquid metal back in the day, but after listening to them a while his vocals grew on me. Now I own a bunch of their older albums and love his screaming

 

[Mailman1971]

+1 for Randy.

 

[adrianb]

DREAM THEATER!!!!

This.

Anything after "Awake" is hard for me to stomach.

Ed

My personal tipping point was "Black Clouds and Silver Linings". I also never got into "Systematic Chaos" and i liked 1 song on "A Dramatic Turn of Events".

 

[adrianb]

Cool thread.

Arch Enemy for me. FANTASTIC guitars. Bad singing.

I love AE. And i tend to consider death metal vocals as another instrument, rather than singing.

 

[Badronald]

I do not listen to music that I don't like the singer generally.
A good singer is essential to my listening enjoyment.

It's really why I don't care for much modern music. I don't like the current, modern singing style. Particularly popular rock music. Horrible.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

I can't really answer other than any band that has cookie monster vocals. I know I miss out on some pretty good guitar work as I'm out as soon as I hear that vocal style/