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Who you could happily sit and listen to all day
Its just got to be Iggy Pop, surely? [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mjhjm ]Have a listen to this on Sunday[/url]. He sounds like you'd expect someone who's lived the life he has to sound. This is a good thing! 😀
Your nominations please.....
Tom Waits.
Does he?
Mariella Frostrup, surely.
I'd 2nd Frostrup
Cheers, Rich
Janis Joplin
Beefheart - in his prime.
Toss up between James Earl Jones and Brian Blessed
He might not have the best voice but Chris Cornell is up there for me
Clarke Peters
His book readings on the radio are brilliant.
or Michael Jayston
his reading of Rogue Male was equally spellbinding.
Dead - Richard Burton
Alive - Reginald D Hunter
There was a guy on Radio Leeds the other night; one of the first Red Arrows pilots. He was in his eighties.
I could have listened to him chatter on in his eloquent, aged and humorously eccentric tones for hours.
Proper gentleman, just how you'd want an 80 year old ex RAF pilot to sound.
Binners ,you are correct.
Great radio.
Not gonna argue with the first 2 suggestions in the thread 🙂
Neil Hannon. It's like drowning in melted chocolate.
Cerys Matthews of course. I also miss the old BBC shipping forecast voice...
Lemmy.
Ed Milliband surely
Henry Blofeld
Peter Sagan
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tom waits.
Another vote for Tom Waits
Irma Franklin for the girly vote
Morgan Freeman
need to link to his image were you read the words in his voice 🙂
Henry Blofeld
Yes! I can happily listen to Agnew and Blofeld all day long even if the cricket is terrible!
Howlin Wolf
Lightnin Hopkins
John Lydon
Beefheart
To be honest Chambord...
I was just trying to raz Binners up with a posh bloke
😀
Ro5ey my dear old thing - surely nobody in possession of a soul could object to Agnew and Blofeld? 😀
Speaking - William Hague whenever he has to say 'Benghazi'
Singing - Zoltán Téglás
To be honest Chambord...I was just trying to raz Binners up with a posh bloke
😀
Regardless, I stand by my answer 🙂
Well played gentlemen 😀
Shireen Liane from the Slingbacks. Best vowels ever
I suppose it's possible Tom Waits had the best voice in the world, at some point, before his throat went on fire and he beat the flames out with a cricket stump.
I think David McAlmont is massively underrated... perhaps because half the people who hear him don't realise he's a bloke....
Eva Cassidy had a stunning voice; it was said that she sang like a black woman yet she was completely untrained.
Sara Montague on the Today programme has a nice voice and the sexiest laugh ever.
Arlott or Jonnners
My wife reckons Pierre from the ESF!!!!
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Leonard Cohen - "Women have been exceptionally kind to my old age ..."
@gofasterstripes Jeff Buckley and Father Ted? Strange mix, but I sort of see it...
I really like this (it's minus music, so silence for the first few seconds of video):
Oh +1 on Jeff Buckley *swoon*
30 million French women 🙂
30 million French women
Have some beast with your beauty...
Singing..... Kate Rusby.
Never heard her speak but her singing.....
John Martyn, yes!
Actually it was another Martin, Martin Jarvis above.
Clearly this is for singing and speaking, separately.
Woman singer. Might be Laura Marling.
Karen Carpenter.
Lana del Rey.
Brad Roberts from Crash Test Dummies.
If we're going John Martyn surely this one
Sean Connery in Dr No when he delivers his opening line.
Jeff Buckley
Tim Buckley
Stevie Nicks
Freddie, of course 😀
KD Lang
I'd agree with Iggy and Cerys and throw in Huey for the 6 music hat-trick
When Jeff Buckley first came on the scene I knicked the cd from my daughter thinking it was Tim [ his father and dead spit of him ] ,meanwhile she had robbed my Tim Buckley vynil thinking it was Jeff !!
Singists (tho most are admittedly ex-singists) :
Nina Simone
Nick Drake
Terry Callier
Beth Orton
Bobby Womack
and lately, the swoonsome tones of Yukimi Nagano, she just gets better and better - ave eeet! :
+1 for Beth Orton
I'll throw emiliana torrini in the mix too.
Hang on, we've got a winner - Carla Bruni
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Natalie Merchant would be a good shout too.
Charlotte Green.
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Filth.
Pure filth.
And Christine Collister;
As for the chaps:
Not safe for work.
Or Southeners.
Ray lamontagne.
I also like it when Radio 4 has Lord Viscout Kennilworth of Wutheringshire or similar on for that ultra poshness that doesn't exist in the real world.
I've always liked Christine Collister's voice too.
As above, Leonard Cohen & Stevie Nicks
Also the actor, Sam Elliott (Tombstone, The Big Lebowski)
Wwaswas,
She did a version of The Most Beguiling Eyes for a cover CD for HiFi Choice mag back in the 80's.
It's heartbreaking.
Can't find it on the web, will have to post it myself if I can find the CD.
I've got an album with it on 🙂
Think it may be on Spotify too?
Ok, cheers!
Nick Drake
Jeff Buckley
Elizabeth Fraizer
Anything with John Martyn
Jim Morrison
Richard Chartres
Not sure these two have ever been mentioned in the same conversation before...!
Aaron Paul, yo bitches
James Earl Jones reading Edgar Allen Poe's the Raven on the Simpsons.
Class. Pure class.
lauren laverne could talk the spooge out of me at a fatal rate.
singing-wise, +1 on the Kate Rusby. a few years ago i had the unsettling experience of being on a 1st date with a young lady who forced her way to the front and bellowed (repeatedly) her love for miss Rusby. I approved this act, and joined in, 'cause you never know..
edit: Dave Vanian for boy voice
Depends if you mean singing or talking dunnit?
Singing,
Chris Rea
Roland Orzabal
Karen Carpenter
Talking,
Brian Blessed
Keith Allen (in this)....
Otis Redding
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Breathtaking live, barely needs amplification.
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Mark Lanegan
Difficult to choose, really. Blokes, speaking, then Leonard Cohen, Samuel L Jackson, Tom Waits and James Earl Jones, singing, Jeff Buckley, John Grant, Mark Lanegan, Mike Patton.
Women, a little more difficult as I have a particular fondness for the female singing voice, but speaking, then Lauren Lavern, Katie Puckrick, Mariella Frostrupp off the top of my head, and singing, Sandy Denny, Emmylou Harris, Karen Carpenter, Laura Marling, Dusty Springfield.
Female = Nico
[i]Dusty Springfield.[/i]
Forgot about Dusty!
Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Singing: Freddie for men, Dusty for women
Taking: currently digging Alexandra Roach but yes any French woman would beat the sexiest voice from any other nation
Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura.Winner winner chicken dinner.
You're F***ing joking arent you?
She sounds like kittens abseiling down a blackboard.
Go get yourself an ear test.
I absolutely concur with everything countzero said. That list plus Beth Orton and Thea Gilmore
Singing: Freddie for men, Dusty for women
Taking: currently digging Alexandra Roach but yes any French woman would beat the sexiest voice from any other nation
Except Cerys; She's worth any number of frogladies.
I absolutely concur with everything countzero said. That list plus Beth Orton and Thea Gilmore
Your own thread about [i]the[/i] bestest voice and all you can manage is a shortlist? Pah!
You're F***ing joking arent you?
She sounds like kittens abseiling down a blackboard.
Go get yourself an ear test.
Lol. Each to his own my friend, her voice does it for me. Leftfield is the right field 😀
There does seem to be some consensus on a few of these.....seeing as I'm buying new speakers, maybe its time to buy some new music too 🙂