Who's the most boring singer you know of?

[Archae]

I'm taping older records for my aunt, and I'm hearing old singers I haven't heard in a long time.
With good reason, some of them are sleep aids. :boring:

So far, it's:

1. Eddy Arnold
2. Perry Como

[femmocrat]

1. I love Perry Como.

He's relaxing, not boring! LOL

[Archae]

14. Yeah, he's relaxing, all right.

Zzzzzzz...

[pink-o]

2. Doris Day was pretty bad, too.

The days when white singers didn't wanna be associated with "Race Music"...it all sucks. Sounds like melodies dipped in a vat of clorox, with overenunciation to prove how white they all were.

I grew up at the onset of British Invasion and Mowtown in the 60s, and by that time everyone sounded black. The Young Rascals, white Acadians from Quebec, did songs like Good Lovin' and Beautiful Morning, which could've been Mowtown.

Okay...it sucks that so many rock n' roll singers stole their styles from African Americans, but it sure made for more interesting Top 40!!!

[LisaM]

38. Doris Day????

I love Doris Day.

[pink-o]

42. I like a lot of her movies, including "The Man who Knew Too Much"

Mostly, because I love Hitchcock, and in spite of the fact that she sings Que Serra Serra in it. But that whole genre of overenunciating white singers to prove they're not black is like aural itching powder to me! I cringe at the McGuire sisters, Jo Stafford, et al--but I actually like Rosemary Clooney because "Come on 'a my House" has some soul.

Thank God for civil rights on so many levels: but one of the main things is it brought great Black Music into the mainstream.

[LisaM]

48. Doris Day is an activist

I don't think of her as trying to sound black; I think of her as more of a cross between a big band singer and a show tune singer - halfway between Rosemary Clooney and Shirley Jones, both of whom I also like.

[pink-o]

3. dupe

[tigereye]

4. Celine Dion?

[MrScorpio]

5. OH GOD, YES!

You win

[tigereye]

6. he he he

:woohoo:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Celine. Paula Abdul, Beyonce, Pink, Stipe, Michael Bolton, Carrie Underwood (fucking awful!)

Charlotte Church.

Pretty much anyone that shows up on American Idol.

[martymar64]

8. What you said and it goes double for that Justin Bieber.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Fucking hell yeah. What a fucking loser he is.

yeah, it's great that a most likely gay person is getting all rah rah rah from the otherwise xenophobic ignorati of this cultural shithole of z country, but goddamn - the kid just fucking sucks as an artist, and I'm not willing to judge a person's artistry on their sexuality, gender, race, or mental illness.

Art can only be judged by actual artistry.

And Bieber just don't have it.

[SoxFan]

45. Pink doesn't bother me

"Please Don't Leave Me" is actually a pretty good approximation of later-vintage New Order, complete with Hooky-style bass line.

[flvegan]

9. Whoever that CHUD is that fronts Nickelback.

Same song, repeated 10 times, does not an album make.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

31. I second that.

Nickelback songs do all sound the same and I can't stand the lead singer's voice.

[SoxFan]

44. AC/DC has done it for 30 years

[TreasonousBastard]

10. The last one somebody here posted a YouTube of.

[valerief]

11. Sting. nt

[foxfeet]

13. Sade.

(Shah-day; sorry, don't have a font with an acute accent mark.}

[XemaSab]

15. Any one of two dozen indistinguishable reggae musicians

I know there are people who like modern reggae, but most of it sounds the same to me.

[Tikki]

16. Cliff Richard....

Marrow, Meringue, Boom-a-rang....Long blue Boom-a-rang...;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1cG-4YSyhQ
Sorry about this...I really am...


Tikki

[begin_within]

17. Harry Conick, Jr.

Sorry, but he bores me.

[amerikat]

28. +1 he picks good songs but his versions have no soul (nt).

[gbate]

18. Michael Buble or Celine Dion.

[Initech]

33. How is Michael Buble popular???

Him, Harry Connick, and Brian Setzer should team up and make a really lame Rat Pack.

[MilesColtrane]

19. Rick Astley

Lady Gaga

Any number of modern auto-tune wonders...

[WinkyDink]

27. You must be a strong, strong man.........

[MorningGlow]

20. This might get me in trouble, but...

Dave Matthews has always put me to sleep. Or I get agitated when I realize his songs WON'T END. Either way, he elicits a negative reaction from me. Can't stand his stuff.

Also, I've found that recent "hit" song by Lady Antebellum to be better than a glass of warm milk. "Need You Now"? Is that it? It's SOOOOOO uninspired and just, well, badly written. Bores me to death.

[peekaloo]

21. as for #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1yvS_m_7eE


:rofl:

[MilesColtrane]

22. ...also Katy Perry.

I just don't get it.

[baldguy]

23. Michael Bolton

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman".

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

32. LOL!

[Initech]

34. I told those fudge packers I like Michael Bolton's music.

:rofl:

[TZ]

24. Englebert Humperdinck.

Sorry Dad, no matter how much you made me listen to him I could NEVER enjoy him....

[Dulcinea]

25. John Mayer.

Ugh. Also the supremely untalented Katy Perry and the shrieking schlockmeister Celine Dion.

[SoxFan]

35. +1

Whiney git.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. Eddy was very much a product of his era...

...I grew up in a home where the soundtrack was basically Country & Western classic: Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens...and many more.

I don't think an Eddy Arnold-style singer would make it today. He'd be more apt to go the American Idol route and play to that crowd, but when you take a look at the current C&W landscape, there is no room for a guy like Eddy. He's been purged and sent to the history books.

If you're not a fan of Eddy you probably wouldn't like Jim Reeves either...they were similar in that they were the ultimate laid-back Country superstars, bringing the "crooner" element from singers like Bing Crosby into the more raw arena or traditionalists like Hank Williams, Jimmy Rodgers, etc.

:toast:

[shawmut]

30. Christopher Cross n/t

[SoxFan]

36. James Taylor

I know a lot of people love him, but I think it's as exciting as watching flies fuck.

[cemaphonic]

37. really, that whole crew of '70s singer-songwriters

Taylor, Chapin, Croce, Fogelberg, etc.

Awful sentimental lyrics, syrupy overproduced arrangements (take Cat's in the Cradle - that song might be tolerable with a piano or guitar accompaniment, but a sitar *and* and orchestra?), totally boring vocals. Yuck.

[LisaM]

39. I can't stand Harry Chapin or Jim Croce

But boring isn't the word that comes to mind.

[Forkboy]

41. I'd rather smash my balls flat with a meat tenderizer than listen to him.

[LostinVA]

43. OMG -- he is a god

[Odin2005]

53. How dare you insult my namesake! BURN, HERETIC!!!

:P

[LisaM]

40. Josh Groban

Nothing wrong with his voice, but I don't think he challenges himself with his material, and I find that boring.

[Beaverhausen]

46. Jack Johnson

[Throd]

47. Sammy Hagar fronting Van Halen

[BlueJazz]

49. This no-good lousy bastard here>>>

[midnight armadillo]

50. Morrissey

zzzzz

[gvstn]

72. Zzzzz...That's what makes him great!

Morrissey in a nutshell. Heaven knows I'm miserable now--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkvPnjb9hs&feature=related

[Withywindle]

51. Elton John.

I like his clothes, but his music? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. Andy Williams and Dionne Warwick

singing Henry Mancini's greatest hits at 33 1/3 rpm.
NOW that's boring.


I'd rather smash Forkboy's balls with a croquet mallet than listen to them sing.

[LiberalAndProud]

59. Andy Williams without a doubt. No matter what he's singing.

[Odin2005]

54. Katy Perry.

[PassingFair]

57. +1 ....godawful caterwauling.

Terrible voice, terrible music, terrible lyrics.

Of COURSE, my 15-year old LOVES HER.

She is not allowed to force me to listen
to her SCREACHING in the car, but she
listens to her here at home.

:puke:

[txwhitedove]

55. Phil Collins...

[Odin2005]

62. DIE!!!!!!!!!!

I love Phil Collins!

[Common Sense Party]

56. Dave Matthews

[TreasonousBastard]

58. Garrison Keillor-- forever ruining a perfectly good radio show trying to keep up...

with real singers.

[mysuzuki2]

60. Neil Diamond

[astral]

66. Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuze me?

The only way Neil Diamond could get boring is people playing his radio hits over and over and over and over again but that's just because they're soo GOOD!

[mysuzuki2]

71. Gustibus est non disputandum.

[Aristus]

61. Margo Timmons of The Cowboy Junkies.

I bought "The Caution Horses" once, and listened to it, and then asked myself: "Why did I like this so much the first time I heard it?"

Then I remembered: 'Cause I was getting laaaaaaaaid the first time I heard it! :evilgrin:


Mods: This is not a sex thread... :hide:

[lillypaddle]

69. Nooooooo

I love her singing!

[Tess49]

63. Frank Sinatra

[Maccagirl]

64. I can't believe Pat Boone hasn't shown up yet

Unless he's mentioned under the famous Duer named "Ignored".

I don't know if you can call them boring-but Carole King and Barry Manilow cannot sing. Sorry to their fans.

[Submariner]

67. Or, Debbie Boone

I'm afraid I could easily slash my wrists if "You Light Up my Life" came on the radio.

[gmoney]

65. Eric Clapton

[lillypaddle]

68. Shania Twain

[xchrom]

70. everyone who ever sang for Lawrence Welk? nt