Their singing voice is awful but I LOVE them anyway!!!!!!

[devilgrrl]

I choose Nico. Her voice may be bad but it's beautifully haunting.

Same goes for Marianne Faithfull

[Sandpiper]

1. Axl Rose can't sing for shit

But I love Guns n Roses!

[hfojvt]

5. coming from a sandpiper ...

is that a bird known for its singing?
I would say Bob Dylan just for "Blowin'in the Wind"

[Sandpiper]

8. Don't think I've ever heard a sandpiper sing

If so, I didn't realize it.

Just see them running around on the beach a lot.

[hfojvt]

13. I think they just screech

not really singing, but what bird does?

[imax2268]

2. ashlee simpson

can't sing for shit...but I like looking at her butt...!!!

[NightTrain]

3. THE SHAGGS!

The Shaggs -- sisters Dorothy, Helen, and Betty Wiggin -- hailed from the culturally disconnected backwater of Fremont, NH. Having never seen a live rock band, but having heard their favorite songs on the radio, these hothouse siblings formed a trio playing two guitars and drums. In 1969 they recorded PHILOSOPHY..., now recognized as a monument of "aboriginal rock."

The Shaggs are a touchstone of unpretentiousness. Their music is earnest, authentic, and refreshingly guileless. Hacked-at chords, missed downbeats, out-of-socket transitions, blown accents, and accidental convergences abound. And yet -- it all works! The Shaggs' lost-chord wonderland has an internal logic that transcends the conventional relationship between ability, technique, and originality. PHILOSOPHY... crowns the Wiggin sisters as the legendary, if unwitting, Queens of Outsider Music.

[devilgrrl]

6. Zappa thought they were better than The Beatles!

:7

[RandomKoolzip]

7. I used to put on "Philosophy of the World" when friends would trip

on acid at my house. Never failed to make people go, "Uh...can you take that off?"

If you like The Shaggs, check out www.incorrectmusic.com. Their audio archives have an invaluable library of outsider musicians, like Y. Bhekhirst, Robert Alberg, Leonard Nimoy, etc. Good stuff!

[ZoCrowes]

16. I was intrigued so I checked them out

JEEBUS H CHRIST THAT IS HORRIBLE!! Wow just wow...I am still reeling at how fucking bad that is...I am just appalled...yet...find it strangely appealing. If nothing else it will annoy the living hell out of my friends. I'm buying it lol

[RandomKoolzip]

4. D. Boon of the Minutemen.

Couldn't sing, but MAN what a bellower!

[FDRrocks]

11. RIP n/t

[RabidNation]

9. Doc Dart

of the Crucifucks had the single most HORRID, annoying voice in the world.

I used to love to play their shit at deafening volume way back when I lived in dorms, surrounded by people I hated.

[jpgray]

10. Robert Wyatt. I fucking love his voice

Many others hate it with every fiber of their beings. :D

[tuvor]

12. Jonathan Richman, Gordon Gano, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen n/t

[u4ic]

14. Marianne Faithful

was great as God in Ab Fab.

[ZoCrowes]

15. Andy Bell of Ride

Mumble singing at its best. It is almost atonal but it makes a nice contrast to the music which is DENSE as hell. Layer upon layer of sound. Great stuff