The obvious winner. Compared to her, Bob Dylan sounds like Pavarotti.
Nope. The guy was farking incredible. Listen to “Fill Your Heart” or “Strawberry Tea” or “Your Cheatin’ Heart”, for example.
What, may I ask, do you find so horrible about his voice?
I hate Frank Sinatra and Peter Cetera! 
Surprisingly enough, I saw her live, too, and she was great. She’s got a lot of charisma (and Passion!), and a pleasingly powerful voice live.
I also hate Michael McDonald.
(And of course, Peter Cetera 
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About Green Day… has no one heard Good Riddance? Anyone whos heard that song has got to know that he can sing. I mean hes not fantastic or anything but he can hold his own.
As for Ashlee Simpson, I think the lashings she gets about singing is pretty unfair, yea she had the trouble with SNL and some of her performaces havent been fantastic but the MTV show she had showed her singing in shopping malls and schools and sometimes the studio, she was well able to carry her tune.
Anyone I think is really bad has already been mentioned so Il shut up now!
Well it seems that any singer is fair game for this topic. Any Dopers feel that Enrico Caruso and Jenny Lind were highy over-rated?
You know, on the previous page I mentioned Freddie Cannon as occupying the lowest rung on the subterranean stepladder of singing. Now that I think of it, there is someone who has reached new depths in the “anals” of singing - and his name is Pete Cetera.
To tell you the truth I have never liked the songs of Chicago. One reason - I’m a guitar player. Try playing “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” on the guitar. Just doesn’t work. Their songs and lyrics are terrible and I feel that Mr Cetera completes that picture. (a picture of dogs playing cards).
So how people actually read the OP? It’s not asking what singers you don’t like.
Celine Dion?? She is a great singer even if you don’t like her style.
Frank Sinatra??? Another fabulous singer.
these posts must be made by people who don’t sing and have little idea of what the technicalities of singing are. So you post singers you don’t prefer regardless of whether it has anything to do with the OP.
99% of all country singers? Reba Mcintyre? Trisha Yearwood? Listen to Martina Mcbride sing Independence day. She’s awesome. Granted there aren’t a lot of great male country vocalists but there are some that are good. Gary Morris.{actually he is great} Michael Martin Murphey. Jim Reeves.
For some people without a good singing voice it’s all about style and the emotion of her delivery. That’s the secret of Tom Waits. Awful singer with great style.
Willie Nelson is another one with a real medipcre voice but a cool delivery style that has brought him plenty of fans.
So read the OP over…and try again. Sheesh people.
I don’t know; the singers I’ve posted as bad singers were also singers I don’t like, but that’s mostly because I don’t like bad singers.
Thought of another terrible singer - Brian Johnson (lead singer of AC/DC).
I’ll give you Brian Johnson, as long as you don’t touch Bon Scot!
Considering his current condition, you wouldn’t *want * to touch Bon Scott.
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Seriously? You think Frank Sinatra is/was not a good singer? Dare I ask how you came to this fairly interesting conclusion?
My favorite quote from that bio
I have to agree with cosmosdan. It’s quite obvious from this list just how non-musical the general public is. I may not like a lot of the performers listed here, but most of them are actually pretty good singers.
My nominee? Axl Rose. I think his voice worked perfectly for the style that Guns N’ Roses did, but he’s really pretty bad…and the only reason he’s on key in most of his recordings is because of studio tuning. Live, he hits about 15% of the notes he sings, mostly by accident.
Yoko Ono!!!
Sounds like cats f**king :eek:
You make that sound like a *bad * thing!
People who actually can’t sing, attempted anyway, and were only famous as comedy acts for their bad singing are discounted in the OP. These are the truly awful like William Hung, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Eilert Pilarm. It is a fun discussion, but this ain’t what the OP was asking for.
There are plenty of people who can’t even attempt to hold a tune and still lead bands and have some people who listen to them. I would vote for the dude from The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, Yoko Ono, and many rappers a la Biz Markie who has attempted to sing. In the truly talentless, no amounts of studio tuning helps.
Then there are those who once could sing and have lost it (Roger Waters and Lenny Cohen) and those who consistently are flat or miss lots of notes live (the ones that studio tuning has helped a lot – I’d say the teeny-pop crowd, Alanis Morrisette, early Michael Jackson, and Madonna). Then we start to go into the “no accounting for taste department.” My personal pet peeve is the singers like Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and X-tina who apparently have not met a note that couldn’t be oversung. But I’m not going to call them “the worst singer.”
About Dylan, Cohen, and Waits. They have terrible voices. They would not be singing if they weren’t genius poets and if they could make the same impact by writing books of poetry. Waits is smart enough to write songs that take advantage of his voice and they could never be done by anyone else. I’m not a huge Dylan fan, I have only 6 or 7 of his albums, but man that guy can craft a song. Unfortunately, I often have to turn off Blonde on Blonde midway through cause he is just bleating on and on interrupted only by tugs on the harmonica. Witness how transcendent a Dylan or Cohen song can become when covered – Hendrix’s “Watchtower” (who was no great voice himself but light years beyond Dylan), The Byrds “Tambourine Man”, and most of all, one of the most beautiful songs ever put down, Jeff Buckley singing “Hallelujah.”
Wow, really? I’ve never heard anything of his, but his son Adam has the most amazingly sexy voice. I guess he doesn’t sound much like his old man, then.
Britney Spears has a horrendous computer enhanced voice.
Neil Young makes me wanna puke!
And Lou Reed is extremely overrated.
But Neil Young makes me wanna puke!!!
Pop singers like Barry Manilow, Wayne Newton, and anybody from American Idol/Star Search are absolutely useless.
Did I mention Neil Young makes me wanna puke?