Singers You Can't Tell Apart

Paul Weller and Vic Reeves



Shooting Stars - 'I Will Survive' in the style of a club singer

To me everything Weller sings is pretty much incomprehensible. With endless riffs and guitar solos, man

 

You can disagree with me all you want about that but when I first hear both for the first time, I thought this ( just like "Who can It Be Now?) sounded absolutely nothing like the singers for mentioned each respective band.

Certainly the music sounded something like each respective band to a degree but the singers? Not at all.

 

Jeff Lynne (ELO) & Karl Wallinger (World Party)

 

rogers voice is more versatile but rods is more blues and r&b influenced

 

Martin Rossiter (Gene) and Morrissey (Smiths)

 

There is no "best" in music, only one's preference or opinion. A fact.

 

I guess it depends how familiar you are with the bands/singers.
Once you hear a singer enough you pick up on little nuances and timbres that distinguish even similar sounding vocalists.
I often felt that a lot of eighties hard rock and hair band vocalists all went to the same teacher lol ... but close inspection you could pick them.

 

They all gargled the same marbles.

 

Is it his British accent? Also, please explain the bit about riffs and solos. I think he writes short songs, no prog epics from him. Just curious that's all.

 

Eric Clapton and Freddie King Lyle Lovett and Jesse Winchester

 

I'm not sure which of the two Cars singers is singing any particular track . . .

 

But range and pitch can be measured.

 

They have different voices. I have no problem discerning.

Ed

 

I agree.

 

Any female singer in trance music.

 

That's where you're wrong, bucko. Just listen to the very start of the chorus: "Believe it or not." Compare that to the start of the chorus of "Say It Isn't So." The resemblance isn't perfect, but neither is it weak. It helps it it's in the background as it was when I first heard it (haven't seen the movie) and the rest of the production is a major clue that it might be a Hall & Oates joint. My fellow vocalist friend agrees.

 

I'm from England and we don't all sound like that.

Its all in my opinion of course, (as I am well aware that countless others would disagree and line up that we owe him some respect, which I would disagree on as well) but rather than go on an epic rant of why I don't like his music, the best word I can use to describe what I hear when I hear Weller is "dirge". A bit like when I hear Phil Collins, the words I use are "crane fly"

 

I went back and listened to them both and I sort of hear it... a little. Scarbury's tone is thinner than Daryl's ever was. Daryl always had (and still has) a fuller, richer tone.

Still, this thread is about "Singers You Can't Tell Apart". Your assertion that the resemblance isn't perfect disqualifies Scarbury from this thread...bucko....

Ed

 

If you play me an AC/DC song sung by the old guy who died, and the current guy I couldn't tell you which was which. They sound alike which was probably the band's idea when they hired him.

 

I actually hear more between Jeff Lynne (and at times) Thomas Walsh of Pugwash.

 

Any of the hundreds of girl singers who sound like Regina Spektor, with that whispery, childlike style.