Male Singers That Sound Like Chicks

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:58 pm

How do you feel about them?

Two bands I am speaking of: The Delays and The Hourly Radio.

The Delays on MySpace - play "Nearer Than Heaven"

The Hourly Radio on MySpace - listen to "Deaf Ears"

So far it doesn't bother me, but is it weird? Is it annoying? Should a male singer REALLY sound like a male? Does it even matter? Thoughts? Stupid subject? Lemme know! :)

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:44 pm

<------ secretly digs Coheed & Cambria.

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:50 pm

Oh yeah them too! "A Favor House Atlantic" is one of my faves. I love dancing to that song at one of the local clubs here.

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:58 pm

What are you talking about?

Sin,

Jon Anderson

Mike the Lab Rat · Post by **Mike the Lab Rat** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:08 pm

RadioFan wrote:What are you talking about?

Sin,

Jon Anderson

Surprisingly, Chris Squire's voice isn't much lower. I have "Fish Out Of Water" (his solo disc) and was surprised at the testosterone-deficient tone of Squire's voice. Good disc though...

PrimeX · Post by **PrimeX** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:52 am

Rush wins, game ovah.

PS- The PrimeX will NEVER click any MySpace link. 12 year old chatroom geigh much?

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:12 am

PrimeX wrote:PS- The PrimeX will NEVER click any MySpace link. 12 year old chatroom geigh much?

Lots of music on there.

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:16 pm

PrimeX wrote:Rush wins, game ovah.

I was just thinking about this. Yes, Geddy has a high-pitch voice, but he still sounds like a guy. The two bands I mentioned in my original post could totally be mistaken for women. The singer of the Delays sounds like Stevie Nicks on some songs!

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:22 pm

Have you heard Antony And The Johnsons? Dude doesn't stop at just sounding like a girl...

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:28 pm

Donovan wrote:Have you heard Antony And The Johnsons? Dude doesn't stop at just sounding like a girl...

a former student i trade music with put Antony and the J's on a disc he gave me recently, i thought it was eartha kitt first time i played it.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:51 pm

think of Ween on the frat classic "Push the Daises"

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:20 am

I just downloaded some Antony and the J's and you guys are right! Very interesting....

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:00 am

patsy stone wrote:Oh yeah them too! "A Favor House Atlantic" is one of my faves.

Rack that song

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:28 am

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:Surprisingly, Chris Squire's voice isn't much lower. I have "Fish Out Of Water" (his solo disc) and was surprised at the testosterone-deficient tone of Squire's voice. Good disc though...

I hear ya ... err, so to speak.

Saw YES in '94 in KC, my only time to have seen them. It was July 4, 1994, in fact. I know because my brother and and I had driven from Lawrence to outside of OKC on July 2, spent the night at my mom's, then got up at 6 a.m. or some shit on July 3, drove to Dallas and saw a second-round World Cup game between Sweden and Saudi Arabia in the Cotton Bowl, with temps at or above 100 degrees. We drank beers anyway during the game (hey, we were in our early 20s, the place was sold out and the atmosphere was PHENOMENAL, despite the heat). My bro and I drove back to OKC, drank heavily, then got up about 8 a.m. again the next morning on July 4 so we could make it back to Kansas and see the U.S. Play Brazil in a bar filled with crazed soccer fans in Lawrence.

Somehow, the chick my brother was dating managed to get 10th-row tickets for YES at Sandstone Amphitheater, outside KC, for $5 apiece. She was there with us in the bar and convinced us to go, although that didn't take much, since my bro and I are both YES fans.

After the U.S. soccer game on TV, my bro and I get back to our place, with about 3 hours to spare before we have to leave for the concert, and I tell my bro I'm going to take a nap.

He's urging me not to, saying I'm going to miss the show, and then he and this chick he's dating take off for the show.

I don't know how, but I managed to wake up about 7:30 p.m., knowing the show started at 8, and there was no opening band.

I made a decision, half-asleep -- fuck it, I'll endure the pain, change clothes, maybe get in a quick shower and go see YES on the 10th row for $5.

Fuck yes, was that a good decision. Probably in the top five rock concerts of the 80 or so I've seen.

Jon Anderson was phenomenal. They did "Hearts" about four songs into the show, along with a LOT of their classic stuff. Chris Squire did the backing on that and many other songs -- good stuff. About halfway through the show, Jon Anderson says, "I'm sorry the U.S. lost today." Of course, much of the crowd had no freaking idea what he was talking about. And then he said, "This isn't much, but I hope you enjoy it.

Then Trevor Rabin breaks out with a Hendrix-like version of the "Star Spangled Banner"

Yes, one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Hell, one of the best weekends ever.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:49 am

I saw Yes in maybe 91, it was the tour with the rotating stage (!!!). friend of mine shows up with two tickets and says "let's go". i didn't really care to go that much, but we went. at the old McNichols Arena in Denver. we bought some Mickey's Big Mouths and smoked a joint and hit the road in his Dodge van.

it was a great show. they really kicked ass. and they were wearing capes and curly toed elf-slippers. I was mightily impressed. they brought it.

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:57 am

patsy stone wrote:
PrimeX wrote:PS- The PrimeX will NEVER click any MySpace link. 12 year old chatroom geigh much?
Lots of music on there.

Yep.

Some good shit you'll never see or hear about on the radio either.

Funkywhiteboy · Post by **Funkywhiteboy** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:52 am

Bee Gees. :P

Mr T · Post by **Mr T** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:55 pm

I love Steve Perry. So you can shut the fuck up!

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:00 pm

TenTallBen wrote:
patsy stone wrote:
PrimeX wrote:PS- The PrimeX will NEVER click any MySpace link. 12 year old chatroom geigh much?
Lots of music on there.
Yep.

Some good shit you'll never see or hear about on the radio either.

I get more than my fill of good shit you won't hear on the radio from here and from Regnyouth

Oh, and how could I forget Chocoreve

Mike the Lab Rat · Post by **Mike the Lab Rat** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:49 pm

I've seen Yes about 4 or 5 times. Always a pretty good show, regardless of who happens to be in the lineup that year.

My favorite show was when I saw them at SPAC (at Saratoga) in the 80's. There was a tradition there in which the folks with lawn tickets (aka, "the cheap seats where you could catch a buzz and get drunk") would at some point during the show have a massive marshmallow war. Hundreds or even thousands of freaking marshmallows being winged from one side of the property to the next. You'd see frigging waves of them arcing across the sky, people being pelted with dozens at a time, innocent bystanders being inundated....

Well, after about twenty minutes of this crap during the concert, Jon Anderson made everyone quiet down and then said (in that helium-impacted, British accent) that he was dedicating the next song "to the marshmallow warriors of Saratoga"

cue: "Starship Trooper"

Yeah, the stoned and drunk freaks, who were by this point covered in stale beer and marshmallows let out one hell of a big roar.

And no, I was not one of those freaks. I had indoor seats, dammit.

That's my story and i'm sticking to it.

KatMode · Post by **KatMode** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:12 pm

Hot Child in the Androgenous City

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:22 pm

I really don't understand the statement.

Sincerely,

Geddy Lee.