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World's Greatest Female Vocalists
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There's no Kate Bush on this list
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Ahh, cheers. I must have assumed it was a 'female vocalists' thread because all the singers mentioned were women.
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David Sylvian is so oddly but powerfully attractive that I have this theory even straight guys actively want to fuck him.
(Or at least, he used to be...)
Back in the day (ie early 80s) he was legendarily described by Paul Morley as being "too fragile to fuck" which is pretty spot on. Though nowadays he looks every inch the middle aged Buddhist seer. To often though he flirts with overly MOR jazzish naturalistic textures and emerges as Stings slightly leftfield brother. But when he's set against alienatingly modernistic electronics (be it with Japan on "Tin Drum" with ethno-prog synth pop or solo on "Blemish" with processed digital guitar avant-ambient) he's world class.
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I imagine he'd be all kinds of fey and emotionally closed then open like his vocals. His orgasms are like nervous breakdowns.
Brian Eno looks like a seer now, too. This gives me hope that you can outlive and overcome your own acid burnout.
Brian Eno looks like a seer now, too. This gives me hope that you can outlive and overcome your own acid burnout.
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Haha Sting's brother!!
Blemish is like an avant-ambient take on a "blood on the tracks" style break-up album, but with lyrics/vocals like Scott Walker (but recorded entirely dry and MUCH louder than the backing music, to make the album intentionally painfully human and present) and an amazingly brutal/damaged lyric sheet which interacts in awesome ways with the backdrops... a fantastically angry album in parts, but hidden beneath a lowering opiated hum.
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No, I really like a lot Sylvian's stuff. Even love that 4th world business with Harold Budd (or is it Jon Hassell) and Holger Czukay.
He's not female.
Even when the music is dreck... he has brilliant vocal tone and phrasing.
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hehe
Isn't Fourth World with Brian Eno? I have both volumes, it's excellent. Eno/Hassell.
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Yeah you're right - I just use it as a generic term for pseudo ethnic ambience.
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Is today a really depressing day? Or is it just me.
I was just thinking of putting Japan stuff on my stupid ipod for my flight today and just thinking of the ballady songs of theirs made my brain have a funky episode. :slanted:
I was just thinking of putting Japan stuff on my stupid ipod for my flight today and just thinking of the ballady songs of theirs made my brain have a funky episode. :slanted:
You mean "Ghosts" and "Night Porter"?
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Yes...
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Ha I usually put on the MFA "The Difference it Makes" when I'm trying to trick myself into being happy.