Not quite the answer to your question, but Cafe Tacvba. Great music, lousy singer, like that guy says about Red Hot Chili Peppers. Jesus Christ.
How has no one mentioned Tom Waits.
He has some good songs, but his voice sounds like a alley cat with a stomach full of garbage who won’t let you sleep. I know that it’s the point for some ppl, but I can’t stand it.
The Heart of Saturday Night is like a more palatable gravely lounge singer.
He’s on key and in tune though, same as Dwight Yoakum. You may not like their voice, but they are excellent singers.
Janis Joplin is I think the best example of cat screeching in tune, on beat, in key. I find her both great and near unlistenable.
I love his music, voice included, but if you don’t like the voice please listen to the early stuff before he got so rough. I honestly like those records better. The Asylum Years album collects a bunch of the good ones. ETA - or Ol’55 I think has so many good ones, including the namesake song.
Off topic but I watched him play piano and sing on some late night show a long time ago and oh boy did he look like he was on heroin, nodding off.
Linkin Park and Papa Roach. 2 okISH bands with the worst singers in music history. Shit gives me headaches.
Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night’s aria.
The worst recorded sound that I have ever heard was Kurt Cobain doing a mic check on a Nirvana live bootleg. Like a tortured cat with laryngitis.
BEanS, bEAnS, BEanS,
JEsSiE ATe soMe bEanS,
SHe wAS HapPY, HapPY, HAppy
ThAT SHe aTe SOMe beaNS
The best thing about Nirvana is the Foo Fighters.
Sizzling hot take, lol
I call 'em like I see 'em. ;)
MOR version of Nirvana with a less dead singer so they can tour.
I wouldn’t say the Foo Fighters are any kind of Nirvana, let alone a MOR version. There are a lot of significant differences between the two. Probably the biggest one being that the Foo Fighters have a decent number of songs that are listenable from beginning to end, whereas Nirvana only ever came close once with Lithium, but still fucked it up by making the bridge vacant gaze, drooling mouth agape level stupid.
David Lee Roth. Tone deaf
I saw Hole play a show years ago and their opener was this god-awful band called Imperial Teen.
Hands-down the worst band I’ve ever seen.
Now, if you ask about the most disappointing concert I’ve ever seen, it was the Smashing Pumpkins’ Horde Fest run. No one’s showing up to hear you mix bongos into your songs and experiment with your music live.
Did Imperial Teen play Yoo Hoo? I’ve always liked that song.
You guys ever listened to Corey Feldman?
I posted it in reply to another comment, but I think this is worth it’s own mention.
Sweet… Jesus…
Saw it before, but never noticed the thumbnail before now. Couldn’t have found a more suitable one.
Puddle of Mudd and definitely Wes who’s last name I don’t give a shit to spell out.
Their 15 minutes of fame were long pass in the 2000s and they’re one of the shit pillars that came to be known as butt rock.
Their performance of About a Girl on Sirius is one of my favorite things ever. It never fails to make me giggle.
He tried so hard to blame it on a cold, lol. Then he tried I think at some point, making it like a parody?
No dude, you just suck that fucking bad. Stop making excuses.
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Really surprised that no one’s mentioned Yoko Ono.
She’s really not that bad if you’ve ever heard Linkin park.
Is there a band called Yoko Ono? I ask, because I’m fairly sure there isn’t a singer.
The Plastic Ono Band… It is not good.
Not a good singer, for sure. Here’s her wikipedia page, and if you want to hear her “singing”, check out the Beatles documentary “Get Back”.
Did you honestly think from my comment that I didn’t know who Yoko Ono was?
I was saying that whatever noises she makes, she isn’t a singer. Therefore she doesn’t qualify for a mention in the “worst band or singer” category.
I couldn’t tell, so the gamble was either I get whooshed, or I help someone become one of today’s lucky 10,000. I guess I got the former, lol.
Rebecca Black.
Trickhay on YouTube… Learned about him when he posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a singer for his music. He’s become an inside joke for my SO and I. I think my favorite is “hoop dance”.
David Lee Roth’s solo work… makes my ears bleed