I just got a CD of thiers last week as a gift. It’s called The Gorey End, and is apparently based on unpublished poems by Edward Gorey. I think this best sums up my reaction.
Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys sings falsetto for a bunch of his stuff (“Closer to Heaven,” for example.)
You have become three men sitting in chairs?
Elton John sang a lot of falsetto before his throat surgery.
They were on a soundtrack? I must see this (musten’t I? Is it any good?). Hell is fairly atypical really. Funny, the song not sung in fallsetto is the one that sounds like a woman.
[Tiger Lilies]
You are my whore, the one I adore
You are the one my twisted heart adooooorrrres.
[/Tiger Lilies]
Isn’t falsetto used to yodel?
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LOL - I heard a comedian talking about him a while back. He proceeded to imitate Frankie, singing in falsetto, “Walk like a man, talk like a man…” and then said, in a pleading voice, "Frankie, sing like a man!
Kegg - Yodeling uses both full voice and falsetto. It involves shifting between full voice to falsetto without stopping the sound. You can actually hear the “shifting of gears” where the switches are made, and that gives yodelling its distinctive sound. (I heard a yodeller explaining it on the radio a few years ago. NPR, I think.)
I have to disagree that there can be no power in falsetto. Ever heard a really decent operatic soprano? Are you willing to bet that, say, Jessey Norman cannot blow out the back of an auditorium falsettily?
I am a fan of bad, overblown falsetto (I have an odd sense of humor). One of my favorite instances of this is the song “Miserable Lie” from the first Smiths album. The song starts off slowly with Morrissey singing in his normal voice…then they begin rocking out a bit…then he careens into the most exaggerated, psychotic falsetto I’ve heard for the last two minutes of the song.
I’m sorry, but this whole thread is just sad.
It amazes me, the lengths to which some Rush fans will go just to try to deny the plain truth that Geddy is a woman.
::d&r::
Philistine!
Somebody once said that Geddy Lee sings like he’s got his dick in a thumbscrew.
Women don’t have falsetto ranges. Some of us can just sing really, really high, if we know what we’re doing. It can be a lot of fun to sing really high without hurting myself, but if I do it wrong, OUCH.
I was in a college choir once with a guy who could go really high, and the odd part was it didn’t sound like he was going into falsetto though he must have been to be able to sing first soprano parts.
I’ve never met a woman who couldn’t sing in head voice.
But “head voice” isn’t falsetto.
As a baritone, there’s a clear – too clear – distinction between my real voice and my falsetto voice. And no, this has nothing to do w/ head vs. chest voice. I know all about those, and it’s a different concept.
But I’ve talked with more than one professional tenor with really high ranges, and they claim not to know what falsetto is. To them, it’s all the same voice through the whole range – allowing for head/chest distinctions.