Wayne Brady. I’ve fallen in love with his talents.
Mycroft – I gotta stop reading your posts in the music threads, you’re clearly a hell of a lot more knowledgeable about this stuff than I am. I’ve already ordered the compilation album you recommended in the “definitive albums” thread – everything you’ve linked to here, I’ve just added to my wish list, until I win the lottery. Completely and totally off-topic of this thread (and hey, I was OP, so I’m allowed to, right?) – This is one of the most excellent albums of the last five years for me, if you do African music also. Sax player from Guinea, with a real Louis Armstrong type voice (which leave my knees unbuckled, hence the OTness of this aside). I feel compelled to offer up some good tunes to you in return, though! It took me a while to track down a copy, but it finally occurred to me to check half.com.
Anyway, on A Foreign Sound, I really like the lush, string-laden sound of the arrangements, which I think work really well, in a may-or-may-not-be ironic sort of way.
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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails isn’t just brilliant and hot, the things he does with his voice – from a raspy scream of “Head Like a Hole” to the soft creepy tension of “Hurt”. He’s phenomenal. Besides, the lyrics to “Closer” are some of the greatest ever.
I wanna f!ck you like an animal…
Pretty much says it all, no? And then, just in case you had any doubt what that means, he comes back and says: I wanna feel you from the inside.
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I agree with the first part, but there are at least five better songs on The Downward Spiral alone.
I’ll add another vote for Micheal Hutchence ( 
) and one for that guy from Staind. I’m not a fan of theirs, but I love his voice.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: http://www.juliafordham.com Please, won’t somebody who’s not heard her check it out and tell me of your conversion?
Michael Stipe and Bono. And when I find a recording of the both of them singing together, I am a puddle of Evil on the floor. 
I must add another vote for Karen Carpenter, the most beautiful female voice I’ve ever heard on radio. What a waste!
For the male voice, I nominate Jackson Browne. Maybe his lyrics color his vocals for me, but when I hear Sky Blue and Black: “You’re the hidden cost and the thing that’s lost in everything I do” I just melt.
**David Hinds ** of Steel Pulse
Gerry Rafferty
Al Green
John Lennon
Here’s another vote for Karen Carpenter. Thanks to all who have mentioned her.
Margo Timmins of Cowboy Junkies
Allison Krause
Janice Joplin
Karen Carpenter
I guess I have to represent here for the mass of otherwise rational women who still don’t know what hit them.
Clay Aiken-and someday I’m going to do PET scans on us to discover just what neurotransmitter is released when he sings in his lower range, so that I can market it as an aphrodesiac.
Oh, and add me to the ** Karen Carpenter** fan club too, please.
The 60s French pop chanteuses… Francoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, Jacqueline Taieb, Marie Lafouret…
sometimes Nico
There’s really no substitute for Jarvis Cocker. I’ll add Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand.
Hmmm, now that I think about it, I tend to prefer male singers with deeper voices (Calvin Johnson, Stephin Merritt, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, etc). However, something about Dean Wareham’s voice gets me. It’s just so … eerie.
That’s funny you should mention him, Damon Krukowski who’s also from Galaxie 500 gets me when he does his falsetto.
Jose Felciano has a most haunting voice.
Why is it when I try to play the music of Caetano Veloso at All Music.com, I am kept asking to login. I am registered, just did.
Am I a moran or something?
Bugs or Erin? 
In the upper right-hand corner, next to the AMG logo, there’s a little box that should say “Welcome back, Shirley/you are logged in.”
I’m logged in, and the music plays – maybe, if you just registered, you have to go out and go back in?
I’ve always had trouble with AllMusic since the whole registration thing began a couple of months ago. Did you use the password they emailed you? Even though I’ve tried to change my password, it still only accepts the one I was sent when I first registered. If I accidentally log out of AllMusic, I just open my email and copy-and-paste the password they sent me. It usually works then.
Brad Roberts from Crash Test Dummies gives me quivery thighs, Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes gives me goosebumps, and Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star gives me thoughts of stalking her until she agrees to marry me.
137 posts and no one’s mentioned Tom Jones? Holy smokes, he is the KING of knee-melting crooners.
[sub](My dream album is a Clay Aiken cover album of all Tom Jones songs. ::THUD:: ) [/sub]
Bonnie Raitt’s two big albums caught me when I was between wives and I listened to them so much and bonded with her so hard I should count her as wife No. 3.
I’m almost ashamed to admit this, but Shania Twain also does it for me, even though I’m positive that, in an alternative universe, she would be the Psycho Girlfriend I couldn’t resist.
I was listening to a mix tape I made a couple of years ago – dang, I do some good transitions (Liz Phair to Zap Mama to Kate Bush) – and have to add Annie Lennox to the list.