The Album Review Club - Christmas Break Until 8th January

[RobMCFC]

As much as Dylan and Springsteen are lauded for their composition and playing ability their voices are a completely different matter. One nasal, one guttural, both put me off their music. There are quite a lot of early 80's new wave singers who are technically better than the two you mentioned.

Yes, sorry, reading back my post, I realised it could be misinterpreted.

What I was trying to say was that I like Springsteen and Dylan but fully accept that their voices won't be liked by everybody. So I was trying to preface my dissing of the atonal warblers by saying that I realise that I was launching my stones from a very large glass house.

I generally don't mind singers who are nasally, croaky, a bit gruff or even off-key unintentionally, but it's the deliberate attempts to sound different by adopting that new wave/punk wail that grinds my gears.

 

[OB1]

I'll go 4.5 out of 10 for The Midnight.

Like a fair but of the synth; not a fan of the vocals and at times it had the sound of modern pop, which I don't favour.

 

[threespires]

You don't think someone like Martin Gore starts with a tonic?

At the risk of putting words into robs mouth I suspect he was using the term colloquially.

Always interesting to me how it's rarely the more objective things like pitch issues or range that really make people dislike or like a singer; so often it's timbre, resonance, weight and all those other qualities that seem to matter more.

 

[RobMCFC]

To balance out @BlueHammer85 's two albums in the top 8 of our increasingly mammoth league table, he does a nifty line in the lower leagues: The Midnight's Endless Summer is his fourth selection that sits below 90th position. It seems that synthwave is not that popular with us old bastards, with 12 votes at an average of 4.67.

Time for @bennyboy to step forward .....

 

[bennyboy]

First set of clues.

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Lucy Angel - Lucy Angel

(and I didn't know you were into American country music. ;-)

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

David Bowie - Pin Ups

 

[BimboBob]

Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls.

 

[threespires]

Is there a punk band called Major Ball Ache or something?
(If not there should be)

 

[bennyboy]

Nobody correct so far.