# "Stiffie" (or the equivalent) inducing Singers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441 "2010-04-17T07:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/21 "2010-04-18T11:49:06Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Sam Brown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muDZD3wgoHI) Huh. I’d only known her from this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jTOmk1mSBlE/hqdefault.jpg "Pink Floyd Sam Brown The great gig in the sky") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTOmk1mSBlE) I don’t think anyone can measure up to the original performance, but she does a great job. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/22 "2010-04-18T12:02:40Z")
[Anneke van Giersbergen.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Z52sxUNgA) _swoon_ On the other side, [Michael Hutchence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLL7JdnIk0) of INXS. Man, that cat was just pure sex. I’m not gay, but he was undeniably sexy. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/23 "2010-04-18T12:56:09Z")
[Lisa Mitchell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90DflEOXi9E) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/24 "2010-04-18T22:08:38Z")
Kate Bush - [“The Sensual World”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJc64xncBt4) I’m not a lesbian but I’ve heard tell from several fellas this this song causes reactions sometimes. The fact that it’s inspired by [Molly Bloom’s sexy soliloquy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Bloom%27s_Soliloquy) from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, helps. Vocally and lyrically, [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDd_VE5Rask) just envelops and hugs you (song starts about 45 seconds in). Lyrically it’s not sexy (it’s about friendship) but you did mention voice, not words. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/25 "2010-04-18T22:20:15Z")
George Michael. I can suspend my disbelief for him any day. Chevelle (lead singer Pete Hamilton.) Bush (Gavin Rossdale) _fans self_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/26 "2010-04-18T22:24:24Z")
[Shirley Manson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAn6bMgqVs) [Jewel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LukEq643Mk), in her original incarnation. [Natalie Merchant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4pE9-_gL88&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/27 "2010-04-18T22:55:18Z")
Bjork: [pictures set to Venus as a Boy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_VeGtPpCI&feature=related) [Big Time Sensuality vid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_VeGtPpCI&feature=related) (I prefer the album version of that song, but I can’t find it in a video.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/28 "2010-04-18T23:35:29Z")
Pretty much anything by [Hayley Westenra](http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=hayley%20westenra&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=vid:1&sa=N&tab=wv&fp=bcdf8cbbf06dc4f). ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/29 "2010-04-19T00:47:41Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > … one of them four-hour boners I need immediate medical attention for. … Perhaps you should go see Alice about that? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/30 "2010-04-19T00:58:39Z")
Cerys Matthews, who I only know from her work on the Space song, “[The Ballad Of Tom Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of-ABC-0KM8)”. The whole song, but my pants get especially tight from the way she sings the line, “… and I am just a pussy cat”. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/31 "2010-04-19T02:05:51Z")
[Mark](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2H4rwd4q60) [Lanegan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNVLShpmpik) (not him in the picture). God almighty. Although it’s a toss-up as to whether his voice is smoking hot or chilling in a “this is what the harbinger of Armageddon will sound like” sort of way. …Which is also hot. Frank Sinatra, especially when he sings [Prisoner of Love](http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Frank+Sinatra+-+Prisoner+of+Love&tag=lastfmmp3-20&index=digital-music&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325). I swoon, I literally swoon, whenever I hear that song. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/32 "2010-04-19T13:24:00Z")
I don’t know her name, what she looks like, or the name of the song, but I’ve heard this tune on the radio a couple of times and something about her voice and the stripped-down production on the song is very sensual. The refrain is something like this (I’m going to murder these lyrics): It starts in my toes, and spreads to (or “I crinkle”) my nose The way it goes, the feeling grows… ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/33 "2010-04-19T14:14:00Z")
Tori Amos gives me funny feelings in my tummy. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/34 "2010-04-19T14:22:25Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > I don’t know her name, what she looks like, or the name of the song [Colbie Caillat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbie_Caillat), Bubbly. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/35 "2010-04-19T21:08:33Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Colbie Caillat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbie_Caillat), Bubbly. I wish Wikipedia would tell me how a last name that should be pronounced “KAI-yut” is actually pronounced “kuh-LAY.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mustardseed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mustardseed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mustardseed)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/36 "2010-04-19T21:51:46Z")
Am I really the first one to mention [Róisín Murphy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_c1AIAh-ak&feature=related) of Moloko? One of the more unusual voices (very deep for a female) belongs to 남상아 (Nam Sang Ah) of [3rd](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwNdk6ujO8k&feature=related) [line](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUGzSg8U8MY&feature=related) [butterfly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWFJxHEsvI&feature=related). Somehow I seem to prefer the deep, whispering voices - the way I’m wired apparently. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/37 "2010-04-19T22:28:36Z")
Stevie Nicks. It’s not even close. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/38 "2010-04-20T12:49:31Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Stevie Nicks. It’s not even close. Her voice has the opposite effect on me. I’m not turned on by a bleating goat. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/39 "2010-04-20T13:27:17Z")
Regina Spektor does it for me, especially “On the Radio” when she does that “Ah, ah, ah-ah-ah, ah” part. Also Liz Phair, Avril Lavigne, Duffy, Lily Allen, and (already mentioned) Colbie Caillat and Tori Amos. ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441/40 "2010-04-20T13:56:24Z")
It’s been over 20 years since this album came out but [Alannah Myles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEZxtdesraU) did it for me both visually and with her voice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stiffie-or-the-equivalent-inducing-singers/536441.md?page=3)