>"Bowie was a horrible singer">Extremely unique vocal style>Expressive>EmotionalThis is why taking any musicians (typically amateurs) opinion on anything related to other artists is retarded. Even before he took vocal lessons he hit a peak most people never will.
>>130732176>>"Bowie was a horrible singer"Said no one ever
>>130732186>Said no one everGo on reddit.
>>130732176He was good in the early days before he trashed his voice with coke.
>>130732203>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsLt0SFrap0He was doing lines every night and smoking a pack of cigarettes every day during this
>>130732176DON'T FAKE IT BABY, LAY THE REAL THING ON MEEEEEE
>>130732203if you listen to the 1967 debut as compared to the raspy gargle he does by the late 70s it's pretty dramatic
>>130732231He objectively sounds better & more unique in the late 70s than he did in his first albums
>>130732186He was a baritone who tried to sing high. You sound like a duck quacking when you do that but somehow Bowie made it work.
>>130732314>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXZVh3882c&list=RDwXXZVh3882c&start_radio=1>tried to sing high
>>130732196I'm good
>>130732196>go on reddit
>>130732176It's true, Bowie's voice is the worst thing about his music, other than the often cheesy choice of synth arrangements. That's why his best stuff was made with good sound designers like Eno taking care of the production
>>130732624The only thing eno produced was Outside but it was Bowie and Visconti who did the Berlin Trilogy. He was mainly an idea guy and someone who could achieve the sounds they were looking for
>>130732624Just one example among many, this track has cool sound design and could've been an interesting dark ambient track (it was produced by Eno ofc) but it's utterly ruined by Bowie annoyingly ''singing'' over it
>>130732667Forgot the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFOtIiRzFtQ
>>130732681Every single song on this album is like ''oh interesting sounds...'' and then Bowie starts singing with that annoying shrill vocal tone and it ruins every single track on that album
>>130732752Bowie's doing his old man baritone on most of the album, fuck are you talking about
>>130732681He always pushed boundaries but desu most of his stuff after the mid 80s wasn't that good.
>>130732943The only good song on that album is ''The Heart Filthy Lesson'' because he doesn't do that forced ''shrill'' voice that he does in a lot of other tracks unfortunately. He can sing normally like in ''I'm Afraid of Americans'' but he often does that shrill thing where he sings on an upper register and it sounds forced and awful
>>130733134Yeah he comes in with such shrill singing on these tracks bro just ear piercing high pitchnesshttps://youtu.be/gHHCPtDBBhc?si=5eb4qjQjxGA70d5C&t=65https://youtu.be/ZntIjsQVmpo?si=splX6iopOMP6IJA5&t=73https://youtu.be/heal8E-3Hh8?si=1jV18T0ZQ7MhKUYR&t=50https://youtu.be/mc4bBHLJpz4?si=3mHJxfTz70ph2426&t=52https://youtu.be/bDh9QgzFBN4?si=PK3TWjhsQYWyCNy2&t=12https://youtu.be/QLkNdXQ9FU4?si=r_sHCppbMsoa1Kmu&t=37Quick question, are you fucking retarded?
>>130732176bowie is a unique singer but he isn't a typical "good" signer. young americans has the best vocal performances from him, too bad half the album sucks. i would give a reply to @130732624 but he's sucking eno's cock so hard i don't want to
His singing changed after 1974/1975 probably because of all the coke, fear and schizophrenia
>>130734784I theorize that it became too strenuous on his vocal cords to sing in the ziggy voice all the time. If you look at videos of him right when he started his soul/cocaine phase and was done with the Diamond Dogs tour, his voice is completely shot. I bet he could do it well past that but it probably just wasn't worth it
>>130734594The way he sings in Hallo Spaceboy, A Small Plot of Land and I Have not Been to Oxford Town for example is really annoying, it's like a very nasal affected tone, it's unpleasant
>>130734989Very nasal affected tone as in singing in a slightly higher vocal register?If this were the rise and fall of ziggy stardust I'd get it since he's shrill throughout that album, but outside? I don't know what you're hearing
>>130732176He was a great performer and a great song writer. This board doesn't actually like music anymore so they get filtered by him
>>130732176Listening to Bowie right nowAnyone who says he's bad at singing has shit for brains
>>130732176Nu /Mu/ are way too weak willed for Bowie
Is there anyone else that sings their songs in that strained way that Bowie sings in Heroes?
