Good Music, Sucky Singing
Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a nitpick about certain musics, but I was sure there were more bands that came to mind than two of them, but alas, two is all I can recall at the moment.
Coheed & Cambria and System of a Down
These two bands, I would totally listen to if they:
a) got a new singer
b) did an instrumental album
c) all of the above
My favorite bittersweet song by Coheed is Welcome Home, unfortunately, my ideal version requires me to skip around to get to the non singing parts. It’s also not like you could find a polite way to say “Hey, you mind redoing this song but taking your voice out of it?”
I don’t have a favorite SOAD song because I’ve given up on them for years, but everytime I hear a cool tune, I secretly worry that I won’t have it for long because Dude-Man’s voice will start a’wharblin’. Up down Up down high low high low.
If I had great musical accompaniment but starting singing in one of my many joke voices, everyone I know would be like “Sasha, stop that, that’s annoying, you’re ruining perfectly good music.”
Instead of, oh I don’t know, hailing my style as original and different from the general malaise of music these days. It’s an illusion, if enough people like SOAD or Coheed, the rest of the people will find a reason why the singing is okay in this instance. If any of these bands auditioned for anything requiring regular singing, they’d grab the attention of the casters with cool opening riffs and then spiral down the toilet once the singing started.
Placebo and Wheatus kind of fall into this category, but I’m not a fan of the music.
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone else’s is wrong, and mine is correct.