Oscar J
Stevie Wonder is still one of the best to me, although he's hardly in his prime these days. He conveys so much emotion and warmth with his voice.
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Pingfah
Mike Patton dull, one of the stupidest comments I've read all day, and I've been reading the Daily Mail comments section. Exactly what does a singer have to do to qualify as interesting then? Cut off his own head and sing from the stump?
Pingfah
[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]
I'm really not interested in reading over seven pages of 'Adam is shit / Adam is God' posts, but based on the thread title, and within my area of knowledge of 'rock' singers, two that get very little exposure outside their own band fans are Danny Bowes of Thunder and Danny Vaughn of Tyketto. Bothe wonderful vocalists who have incredible ranges and feel, without faltering or having to switch to falsetto at the top end.[/QUOTE]
Danny Bowes has one of the greatest rock voices I have heard. Immensely powerful and technically excellent, but more importantly , it drips with feeling, soul, emotion.
I'm really not interested in reading over seven pages of 'Adam is shit / Adam is God' posts, but based on the thread title, and within my area of knowledge of 'rock' singers, two that get very little exposure outside their own band fans are Danny Bowes of Thunder and Danny Vaughn of Tyketto. Bothe wonderful vocalists who have incredible ranges and feel, without faltering or having to switch to falsetto at the top end.[/QUOTE]
Danny Bowes has one of the greatest rock voices I have heard. Immensely powerful and technically excellent, but more importantly , it drips with feeling, soul, emotion.
someonewholikesadam
[QUOTE] [b]Pingfah wrote:[/b]
Mike Patton dull, one of the stupidest comments I've read all day, and I've been reading the Daily Mail comments section. Exactly what does a singer have to do to qualify as interesting then? Cut off his own head and sing from the stump?[/QUOTE]
Now THAT is funny!
Mike Patton dull, one of the stupidest comments I've read all day, and I've been reading the Daily Mail comments section. Exactly what does a singer have to do to qualify as interesting then? Cut off his own head and sing from the stump?[/QUOTE]
Now THAT is funny!
Pingfah
Hah. Well, thanks :)
Adam's alright in my book. He's a good lad and amazingly talented. There's nobody I would prefer off hand, for Queen. George maybe, but he's dead too now.
Adam's alright in my book. He's a good lad and amazingly talented. There's nobody I would prefer off hand, for Queen. George maybe, but he's dead too now.
mike hunt
Whenever someone mentions a singer for Queen they always go with the ballad and pop singers like Lambert and George M, yea they could sing that style, but how about songs like Dragon Attack (lambert version is pretty embarrassing) and rockers like Tie Your Mother Down. Personally a proper Rock singer would be better, even if they struggle with the ballads and pop songs. Check out the foo fighters playing Under Pressure, they're not great singers but that performance still kicked butt. At the end of the day Queen were A Rock band. I think Patton would have kicked butt with Queen.
someonewholikesadam
I'm a little slow on the uptake. Mike Hunt isn't really your name, is it? LOL.
noorie
SWLA, just one thing I cannot understand. If you are 58, you grew up in the most glorious era of rock. With bands like The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, (the list is quite endless...) So, what is it that makes women your age (according to your statistics) such avid Adam Lambert fans? I must say Adam comes across as a really nice and decent human being, and sings fairly well, but since this thread is about the 'best' singer, surely he's not someone you'd pick? I listened to every single one of the videos you sent, and honestly none of them was very impressive. They were okay. That's all.
My mother is 57, and you could not pay her enough to make her sit through an AL concert. So perhaps the demographic you quote is not too right? In any case, I guess it is all a matter of personal taste.
Right now, I have plugged in my earphones, and am listening to My Fairy King, and truly appreciating every nuance in Freddie's tone, every dramatic change of mood, every genius little bit here and there (the sigh after 'look what they've done to me'). Sheer perfection! (I am NOT comparing Freddie with Adam here - can't be done in any case as they're not in the same league (sorry, just being a bit bitchy!) ; just appreciating the beauty of this song and FM's voice.)
I guess all of us here just have to agree to disagree, right...?
My mother is 57, and you could not pay her enough to make her sit through an AL concert. So perhaps the demographic you quote is not too right? In any case, I guess it is all a matter of personal taste.
Right now, I have plugged in my earphones, and am listening to My Fairy King, and truly appreciating every nuance in Freddie's tone, every dramatic change of mood, every genius little bit here and there (the sigh after 'look what they've done to me'). Sheer perfection! (I am NOT comparing Freddie with Adam here - can't be done in any case as they're not in the same league (sorry, just being a bit bitchy!) ; just appreciating the beauty of this song and FM's voice.)
I guess all of us here just have to agree to disagree, right...?
someonewholikesadam
[QUOTE] [b]noorie wrote:[/b]
SWLA, just one thing I cannot understand. If you are 58, you grew up in the most glorious era of rock. With bands like The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, (the list is quite endless...) So, what is it that makes women your age (according to your statistics) such avid Adam Lambert fans? I must say Adam comes across as a really nice and decent human being, and sings fairly well, but since this thread is about the 'best' singer, surely he's not someone you'd pick? I listened to every single one of the videos you sent, and honestly none of them was very impressive. They were okay. That's all.
My mother is 57, and you could not pay her enough to make her sit through an AL concert. So perhaps the demographic you quote is not too right? In any case, I guess it is all a matter of personal taste.
Right now, I have plugged in my earphones, and am listening to My Fairy King, and truly appreciating every nuance in Freddie's tone, every dramatic change of mood, every genius little bit here and there (the sigh after 'look what they've done to me'). Sheer perfection! (I am NOT comparing Freddie with Adam here - can't be done in any case as they're not in the same league (sorry, just being a bit bitchy!) ; just appreciating the beauty of this song and FM's voice.)
I guess all of us here just have to agree to disagree, right...?[/QUOTE]
Noorie,
But I REALLY grew up in the era of Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson and disco. So rock was never my genre of choice. As to the demographic of (ahem) older women, I am spot on with that. I thought I was nuts when I first went crazy over Adam. And then I saw this article entitled, "Why Cougars Crave Adam Lambert." It is pretty much spot on. I guess he makes us feel young again.
BEGINNING OF ARTICLE:
Let's talk images. A snake. A butterfly. A young man with his shirt unbuttoned to his waist, pouting at the camera. Lots of chest stubble. Alone, each image is rather boring. Put them together, and what you have is a hotter-than-Johnny Depp new Rolling Stone cover of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. The 27-year-old dude who made guyliner fashionable again gave an interview to the magazine confirming—big surprise—that he's gay. What's really surprising: I can't stop thinking about him. And neither can any of my cougar-aged friends. We love Adam, truly, madly, deeply, in a kind of weirdly Mrs. Robinson sexual way. And the reason doesn't just have to do with our past lives as professional groupies. It also has something to do with biology.
Just a few short months ago, most of my female friends and I were clueless about Adam Lambert. We're busy, professional women, some of us with demanding families and children, all of us with demanding jobs. We never spent our Tuesday nights in front of the TV. Yet this year, for slightly more than two months, phone calls went unanswered and any type of social or familial interactions were put on hold on so we could plop ourselves in front of our sets at 8 p.m. to watch American Idol, the No. 1 rated show on TV, which none of us had ever bothered with before. It started innocently enough: A friend, waylaid by a flu bug, was channel-surfing from the comfort of her couch one Tuesday evening and saw a bejeweled young thing singing a scorching rendition of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." She left us phone messages and tweets, saying, and I quote, "ohmygawdyouhavetoseethisemoglambowielovechildonAmericanIdol." We went, "Huh," but we tuned in the following week. And then we were gone.
My seemingly well-adjusted posse, myself included, morphed into archetypal Adam Lambert fangirls. We became Glamberts, besotted with the leather and rhinestones, the perfectly smudgy guyliner, the emo coal-colored coif and, oh, yeah, the preternatural vocal range. When we got together, we no longer talked about good books, North Korea or the recession. We talked about all things Lambert. We became the thing that we normally despise: a cougar court that fell into a gentle loin lust with a man young enough to be our son. And a gay one, to boot.
In terms of biology, Adam Lambert's attractiveness is kind of bizarre. Some research shows that women like square jaws and deep brows—iconic masculine traits—when they're looking for a fling. But we like more feminine traits when we're looking for The One, the long-term mate. Lambert has a little bit of both going on for him, as anyone who saw his version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" can attest.
When we aren't laughing at our patheticness (because, let's get real, even if Lambert were straight or gave in to some bi-curiosity, he would never be interested in us), we are actually ruminative enough to wonder what it is about this fellow that turned us into such loons. One thing we know for sure is that we are not alone. There are thousands of women of a certain age out there who are just one Adam Lambert Google search away from crashing their computers.
The good news is that people who know about these things think that our little Lambert love-fest is downright mentally healthy. "I think more women would be happier if they channeled their inner 14-year-old girls once in a while," says sex therapist Laura Berman, director of the Berman Center in Chicago. She's always been fascinated with the Clay Aiken phenomenon, that of girls going crazy for a seemingly sweet, innocent-looking boy-man (Aiken is now, like Lambert, out and proud).
While Aiken may be the ultimate "safe zone," Lambert, she believes, somehow managed to be "hardcore, crazy, humble, adorable, charismatic, sweet and mind-blowingly talented," all in one package. "He's a study in contrasts, and the gay thing doesn't matter," she says. "Anyone who can get women to talk, giggle and get their mojo back is fine by me. Enjoy the ride."
Indeed we will. But it still begs the question exactly why our mojo leaned more toward Lambert than toward cute-as-a-button Kris Allen, the eventual winner of the competition, a young man whom Lambert admitted to having a little crush on.
Part of the Lambert allure is that some women find his onstage lack of inhibition a powerful aphrodisiac. According to psychoanalyst Dr. Gail Saltz, we all have a little touch of the voyeur inside of us, but it's often repressed. Then along comes Lambert, and those voyeuristic floodgates open. "Here's a guy who is a maximum exhibitionist, molten hot, can sing anything and is screaming, 'Look at me,' and for some women, that's an incredible turn-on," says Saltz, author of The Ripple Effect: How Better Sex Can Lead to a Better Life.
It may also go back to our childhood, as all things psychoanalytic seem to do. According to Saltz, buried deep inside all of us is the childhood desire to be able to have everything and anything, whenever you want. So part of our fascination with Mr. Lambert is that we may want to be like him. "[Lambert] is the poster child for having it all," says Saltz, associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine. "Men want him, women want him, and that ambiguity is as hot as hell."
But my friends and I also think it may be something more. We were once slam-dancing to the beat of The Clash and The Sex Pistols. We weren't the girls who liked The Eagles, we liked The Buzzcocks. But today, our lives are dictated by the confines of appropriateness. So maybe we just want to be like Lambert; hey, even his wardrobe is better than mine.
For other women of a certain age out there who are having little Lambert crushes of their own, sex therapist Wendy Maltz, founder of healthysex.com, suggests that we think about what's going on with our relationships in our lives. For her book, Private Thoughts: Exploring the Power of Women's Sexual Fantasies, Maltz interviewed scores of women to determine where sex
SWLA, just one thing I cannot understand. If you are 58, you grew up in the most glorious era of rock. With bands like The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, (the list is quite endless...) So, what is it that makes women your age (according to your statistics) such avid Adam Lambert fans? I must say Adam comes across as a really nice and decent human being, and sings fairly well, but since this thread is about the 'best' singer, surely he's not someone you'd pick? I listened to every single one of the videos you sent, and honestly none of them was very impressive. They were okay. That's all.
My mother is 57, and you could not pay her enough to make her sit through an AL concert. So perhaps the demographic you quote is not too right? In any case, I guess it is all a matter of personal taste.
Right now, I have plugged in my earphones, and am listening to My Fairy King, and truly appreciating every nuance in Freddie's tone, every dramatic change of mood, every genius little bit here and there (the sigh after 'look what they've done to me'). Sheer perfection! (I am NOT comparing Freddie with Adam here - can't be done in any case as they're not in the same league (sorry, just being a bit bitchy!) ; just appreciating the beauty of this song and FM's voice.)
I guess all of us here just have to agree to disagree, right...?[/QUOTE]
Noorie,
But I REALLY grew up in the era of Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson and disco. So rock was never my genre of choice. As to the demographic of (ahem) older women, I am spot on with that. I thought I was nuts when I first went crazy over Adam. And then I saw this article entitled, "Why Cougars Crave Adam Lambert." It is pretty much spot on. I guess he makes us feel young again.
BEGINNING OF ARTICLE:
Let's talk images. A snake. A butterfly. A young man with his shirt unbuttoned to his waist, pouting at the camera. Lots of chest stubble. Alone, each image is rather boring. Put them together, and what you have is a hotter-than-Johnny Depp new Rolling Stone cover of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. The 27-year-old dude who made guyliner fashionable again gave an interview to the magazine confirming—big surprise—that he's gay. What's really surprising: I can't stop thinking about him. And neither can any of my cougar-aged friends. We love Adam, truly, madly, deeply, in a kind of weirdly Mrs. Robinson sexual way. And the reason doesn't just have to do with our past lives as professional groupies. It also has something to do with biology.
Just a few short months ago, most of my female friends and I were clueless about Adam Lambert. We're busy, professional women, some of us with demanding families and children, all of us with demanding jobs. We never spent our Tuesday nights in front of the TV. Yet this year, for slightly more than two months, phone calls went unanswered and any type of social or familial interactions were put on hold on so we could plop ourselves in front of our sets at 8 p.m. to watch American Idol, the No. 1 rated show on TV, which none of us had ever bothered with before. It started innocently enough: A friend, waylaid by a flu bug, was channel-surfing from the comfort of her couch one Tuesday evening and saw a bejeweled young thing singing a scorching rendition of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." She left us phone messages and tweets, saying, and I quote, "ohmygawdyouhavetoseethisemoglambowielovechildonAmericanIdol." We went, "Huh," but we tuned in the following week. And then we were gone.
My seemingly well-adjusted posse, myself included, morphed into archetypal Adam Lambert fangirls. We became Glamberts, besotted with the leather and rhinestones, the perfectly smudgy guyliner, the emo coal-colored coif and, oh, yeah, the preternatural vocal range. When we got together, we no longer talked about good books, North Korea or the recession. We talked about all things Lambert. We became the thing that we normally despise: a cougar court that fell into a gentle loin lust with a man young enough to be our son. And a gay one, to boot.
In terms of biology, Adam Lambert's attractiveness is kind of bizarre. Some research shows that women like square jaws and deep brows—iconic masculine traits—when they're looking for a fling. But we like more feminine traits when we're looking for The One, the long-term mate. Lambert has a little bit of both going on for him, as anyone who saw his version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" can attest.
When we aren't laughing at our patheticness (because, let's get real, even if Lambert were straight or gave in to some bi-curiosity, he would never be interested in us), we are actually ruminative enough to wonder what it is about this fellow that turned us into such loons. One thing we know for sure is that we are not alone. There are thousands of women of a certain age out there who are just one Adam Lambert Google search away from crashing their computers.
The good news is that people who know about these things think that our little Lambert love-fest is downright mentally healthy. "I think more women would be happier if they channeled their inner 14-year-old girls once in a while," says sex therapist Laura Berman, director of the Berman Center in Chicago. She's always been fascinated with the Clay Aiken phenomenon, that of girls going crazy for a seemingly sweet, innocent-looking boy-man (Aiken is now, like Lambert, out and proud).
While Aiken may be the ultimate "safe zone," Lambert, she believes, somehow managed to be "hardcore, crazy, humble, adorable, charismatic, sweet and mind-blowingly talented," all in one package. "He's a study in contrasts, and the gay thing doesn't matter," she says. "Anyone who can get women to talk, giggle and get their mojo back is fine by me. Enjoy the ride."
Indeed we will. But it still begs the question exactly why our mojo leaned more toward Lambert than toward cute-as-a-button Kris Allen, the eventual winner of the competition, a young man whom Lambert admitted to having a little crush on.
Part of the Lambert allure is that some women find his onstage lack of inhibition a powerful aphrodisiac. According to psychoanalyst Dr. Gail Saltz, we all have a little touch of the voyeur inside of us, but it's often repressed. Then along comes Lambert, and those voyeuristic floodgates open. "Here's a guy who is a maximum exhibitionist, molten hot, can sing anything and is screaming, 'Look at me,' and for some women, that's an incredible turn-on," says Saltz, author of The Ripple Effect: How Better Sex Can Lead to a Better Life.
It may also go back to our childhood, as all things psychoanalytic seem to do. According to Saltz, buried deep inside all of us is the childhood desire to be able to have everything and anything, whenever you want. So part of our fascination with Mr. Lambert is that we may want to be like him. "[Lambert] is the poster child for having it all," says Saltz, associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine. "Men want him, women want him, and that ambiguity is as hot as hell."
But my friends and I also think it may be something more. We were once slam-dancing to the beat of The Clash and The Sex Pistols. We weren't the girls who liked The Eagles, we liked The Buzzcocks. But today, our lives are dictated by the confines of appropriateness. So maybe we just want to be like Lambert; hey, even his wardrobe is better than mine.
For other women of a certain age out there who are having little Lambert crushes of their own, sex therapist Wendy Maltz, founder of healthysex.com, suggests that we think about what's going on with our relationships in our lives. For her book, Private Thoughts: Exploring the Power of Women's Sexual Fantasies, Maltz interviewed scores of women to determine where sex
someonewholikesadam
cont'd.
Maltz interviewed scores of women to determine where sexual fantasies come from and what you can do about them. Maltz says that our connection with Lambert may be the wake-up call we need to be more playful, to have more fun and yes, to try to become a little more brave and confident. "There's something very wonderful about someone who can say, 'Accept me or don't accept me,'" Maltz says. "We tend to lose that as we get older."
So how's this for bravery? I'm actually thinking about going to the Idol tour this year. I might be one of the only fans over the age of … ummmm, 40-something, but I bet I can still shriek louder than any of Adam's tween groupies.
END OF ARTICLE
Maltz interviewed scores of women to determine where sexual fantasies come from and what you can do about them. Maltz says that our connection with Lambert may be the wake-up call we need to be more playful, to have more fun and yes, to try to become a little more brave and confident. "There's something very wonderful about someone who can say, 'Accept me or don't accept me,'" Maltz says. "We tend to lose that as we get older."
So how's this for bravery? I'm actually thinking about going to the Idol tour this year. I might be one of the only fans over the age of … ummmm, 40-something, but I bet I can still shriek louder than any of Adam's tween groupies.
END OF ARTICLE
someonewholikesadam
But, Noorie, it's not just about the "sexy" part. One of my friends is an opera buff and she loves Adam strictly for his voice and many do.
For me and most of his fans, we love everything about this man, his looks, his voice, his great stage presence, his intelligence, his sense or humor ... he's just an all-around great guy. And he has a fabulous wardrobe! You should hook your mom up with us. Guaranteed she'd have a great time!
For me and most of his fans, we love everything about this man, his looks, his voice, his great stage presence, his intelligence, his sense or humor ... he's just an all-around great guy. And he has a fabulous wardrobe! You should hook your mom up with us. Guaranteed she'd have a great time!
mike hunt
No, you could call me Mike miss I'm 58 not 14! You could leave out the Hunt. my nephew's name is Hunter if your that curious how came up with that name.
someonewholikesadam
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
No, you could call me Mike miss I'm 58 not 14! You could leave out the Hunt. my nephew's name is Hunter if your that curious how came up with that name.[/QUOTE]
Sorry. My mind was in the gutter. I've been around my husband too long :).
No, you could call me Mike miss I'm 58 not 14! You could leave out the Hunt. my nephew's name is Hunter if your that curious how came up with that name.[/QUOTE]
Sorry. My mind was in the gutter. I've been around my husband too long :).
mike hunt
I feel your pain
Pingfah
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
Whenever someone mentions a singer for Queen they always go with the ballad and pop singers like Lambert and George M, yea they could sing that style, but how about songs like Dragon Attack (lambert version is pretty embarrassing) and rockers like Tie Your Mother Down. Personally a proper Rock singer would be better, even if they struggle with the ballads and pop songs. Check out the foo fighters playing Under Pressure, they're not great singers but that performance still kicked butt. At the end of the day Queen were A Rock band. I think Patton would have kicked butt with Queen.[/QUOTE]
I get what you are saying, but I think GM could have BEEN a proper rock singer. The sheer confidence and power he approached that Somebody to Love Tribute Concert rehearsal was astounding, especially for somebody who had never taken the stage with a real rock band before.
Of course, that is not the direction he was heading in, but he could have gone that way if he wanted.
Patton would be amazing with anybody. I'm a big fan, Tomahawk and Peeping Tom are my favourite post FNM projects, he can do anything from avant garde metal to R&B. This Dead Cross band looks like it's going to be very interesting.
Whenever someone mentions a singer for Queen they always go with the ballad and pop singers like Lambert and George M, yea they could sing that style, but how about songs like Dragon Attack (lambert version is pretty embarrassing) and rockers like Tie Your Mother Down. Personally a proper Rock singer would be better, even if they struggle with the ballads and pop songs. Check out the foo fighters playing Under Pressure, they're not great singers but that performance still kicked butt. At the end of the day Queen were A Rock band. I think Patton would have kicked butt with Queen.[/QUOTE]
I get what you are saying, but I think GM could have BEEN a proper rock singer. The sheer confidence and power he approached that Somebody to Love Tribute Concert rehearsal was astounding, especially for somebody who had never taken the stage with a real rock band before.
Of course, that is not the direction he was heading in, but he could have gone that way if he wanted.
Patton would be amazing with anybody. I'm a big fan, Tomahawk and Peeping Tom are my favourite post FNM projects, he can do anything from avant garde metal to R&B. This Dead Cross band looks like it's going to be very interesting.