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THE best female vocals? (your favorite female singers)
Apr 2, 2011 at 2:43 PM Post #376 of 5,010
Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy
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Apr 3, 2011 at 12:15 AM Post #380 of 5,010
I wouldn't say it's a joke. She has a very talent rare among women. Most people don't understand how hard it is to actually do that. It takes a ton of vocal training, just like conventional singing.
 
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^ that's a joke right  
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It sounds terrible.might as well be a guy screaming.
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Apr 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM Post #381 of 5,010


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morbidtoaster said:
I wouldn't say it's a joke. She has a very talent among women. Most people don't understand how hard it is to actually do that. It takes a ton of vocal training, just like conventional singing.
 


 
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+1. Not everyone prances around listening to Lady Gaga.
 
 
Apr 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM Post #382 of 5,010
Sorry but I have to agree with GreatDane...I don't find anything good about that.  I love a lot of different kinds of metal, but give me any of the good female-fronted goth-metal bands over that any day of the week. Even non-metal lovers would have to respect the singing of someone like Tarja Turunen.  But she really sings.  That kind of screeching, while I am sure it is interesting to some, and can undoubtedly be emotionally evocative to some, does not constitute good singing, IMHO.
 
Apr 3, 2011 at 1:02 PM Post #383 of 5,010
Tarja is my favorite female vocalist of all time (as stated earlier in the thread). Angels isn't way up on my list or anything, but I see how people could have a lot of respect for what she does. It's a very rare find to see a band like this fronted by a woman.
 
While I agree that she may not belong in this thread, she's far from 'a joke'.
 
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Sorry but I have to agree with GreatDane...I don't find anything good about that.  I love a lot of different kinds of metal, but give me any of the good female-fronted goth-metal bands over that any day of the week. Even non-metal lovers would have to respect the singing of someone like Tarja Turunen.  But she really sings.  That kind of screeching, while I am sure it is interesting to some, and can undoubtedly be emotionally evocative to some, does not constitute good singing, IMHO.
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Apr 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM Post #384 of 5,010
Maybe it's just a generational thing. I come from the classic metal tradition, being an old fart. I grew up with people like Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson, who had multi-octave vocal ranges, and used them. Female metal Singers like Tarja are very much from that tradition.

While I do not consider AC/DC a metal band, it was nonetheless Brian Johnson's 100% screeched vocals from Back in Black (an album I, along with 50 million or so other people, love) that saw the dawn of the completely screamed vocal. Johnson had a controlled, almost bluesy screech, but it was all screech. That's evolved over the last 30 years into a variety of screeching and screaming metal vocals. I don't debate that these have artistic merit - that's in the ear of the listener to decide. And they may even be very difficult to do, sure. But I still don't consider it "singing". It's something else.

I hated male "cookie monster" metal vocals until I learned that these were really a vocal effect, and were not in any way something someone could do naturally. Somehow I started to appreciate them a little more after that, although I still don't really want a whole song of it. But used as a foil to offset beautiful operatic female singing, it works for me.
 
Apr 4, 2011 at 1:34 AM Post #385 of 5,010
on the topic of metal my fav female singer happens to be Kseniya from kalevala (rus)
a russian folk metal band
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=123232
 

 
Apr 4, 2011 at 12:58 PM Post #386 of 5,010
A few Rock Goddesses...:)
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/hpkitLUbeEg
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/7qUFZwJb9GA
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/eiW_NI9stp8
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/zjGvAI8eji0
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/YYWdiG1Bf0c
 
 
 
Apr 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM Post #387 of 5,010
Some lesser known, but highly recommended female singers...
 
Let's start with the most "popular" one: Martha Wainwright. I simply love that voice!
 

 
 
She has an unbelievable vocal range, yet (almost) nobody knows her: Happy Rhodes
 

 
And finally, the rarest of rare: Deirbhile Ni Bhrolchain. AFAIK she's only recorded one album ("Smaointe").
I don't understand a single word of it, yet still it strikes a chord with me and gives me goosebumps every time I put it on.
 

 
 
Apr 4, 2011 at 6:26 PM Post #388 of 5,010


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james444 said:
And finally, the rarest of rare: Deirbhile Ni Bhrolchain. AFAIK she's only recorded one album ("Smaointe").
I don't understand a single word of it, yet still it strikes a chord with me and gives me goosebumps every time I put it on.
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wow.. thanks for that not only b/c she's great, but while searching i discovered another AMAZING group of woman singers
 
the Wailin' Jenny's.. WOW!
 

 
Apr 4, 2011 at 9:53 PM Post #390 of 5,010
No doubt, man.  She is awesome, and so is Epica as a band.
 
 
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