#worst singers

[canadianstud]

Top 10 Best, Underrated & Overrated Singers Ranked 🎤

[djbobbyfx]

The Worst Singing Covers Ever

[bitcandymusic]

Bands That Saved You From Vocally Transmitted Ear Cancer

Ever heard a song and wondered how a lead vocalist would essentially sound like a cheese grater scraping against Gilbert Gottfried’s voice box if he wasn’t supported by a great band? Now imagine listening to the isolated vocal track on loop with the cast of Glee whistling and snapping their fingers to it. Too sadistic? Well, let’s just keep it limited to the vocal track then.

Now there are tons of incredible vocal tracks by Freddie Mercury, Outkast and Damien Rice I could enlighten you with, but I’d rather disorient you with some shitty vocals instead.

Julian Casablancas - "Reptilia"

If you've ever wondered what the guy from the Strokes would sound like if he were performing while something in his body was rupturing, well, here's the isolated vocal track from "Reptilia":

If that's Julian Casablancas without the "man shouting while trapped in a treasure chest" effect they put on his voice in the original track, even he wouldn't have received a passing score singing his own song in Rock Band.

The producers took some fairly ear-grating vocals, then added some distortion effects to make them sound worse, thus tricking us into thinking the purposefully bad vocals were a stylistic choice. They raised the bar by lowering it. Clever.

Steve Harwell - "Days Like These"

Once upon a time in the early 2000s, we were all Smash Mouth fans. But then the Armageddon never came by. So we sobered up and went back to some better music instead. There are probably a bunch of fully released Smash Mouth songs you've never heard, but there's one you've never heard because the band never released it, and it didn't become public until it was leaked onto YouTube.

It was called "Days Like These," and in it, lead singer Steve Harwell recorded the vocal track and, well, that's pretty much as far as they got, I guess.

The song is all about being a regular dude who likes his friends and the sun and whatever else was in Mr. Riptide's eye line as he soaked in a Jacuzzi filled with Corona. If spiky hair with frosted tips could sing, it would sound like this:

On second thoughts, forget I ever said that. Without the music, it's just a cartoon dog with a backward baseball cap yelling at you about contentment.. All we have is what appears to be the result of someone secretly recording the idly sung tune of a SoCal surfer bro as he shat in a public toilet along Venice Beach.

[bitcandymusic]

3 ABC-List Actors Who Eventually Became D-List Musicians

Russell Crowe

Yes, Russell Crowe is in a band, well was…errr….is? The actor’s most recent band is The Ordinary Fear of God; however back in the 90′s he was the front-man for 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. However sultry and smooth Crowe’s voice may be on screen, it doesn’t translate that well to music.

It’s a good thing that almost nobody heard his music, otherwise it might have tainted his career! (assuming the Theater Society have issued a royal pardon for his singing in Les Miserables)

 Jennifer Love Hewitt

Unlike the other uniquely fucked up contenders in this category, this buxom brunette made her mediocrity a lot more tolerable by being so easy on the eyes. She broke out into the music scene at the same time Buffy the Vampire Slayer made her a household name and bathroom reading material for every adolescent with raging hormones.

Surprisingly, her music made it big in Asia, so record companies let her continue to pump out more trainwreck albums. Although her vocals aren’t Ashlee Simpson-esque atrocious, her pop lyrical stylings are so damn syrupy-sweet and sugar-coated that you could die of diabetes before you could finish listening to her first track.

Steven Seagal

Ok, really. How the hell did Seagal get a record contract? Who is seeing his movies and listening to his music? I don’t get it. Where does someone get the idea that Seagal should even record an album in the first place? The “singer”, and I use that term very loosely here, struggles heavily through the vocals on both his records: “Mojo Priest” and “Songs From The Crystal Cave”- album titles that sound more like awful movies that he starred in.

Seagal is heavily backed with decent musicians, so if you do decide to listen to his music, please don’t confuse the two. The worst part about the whole endeavor is that he seems to take himself seriously…trying to play guitar and sing…which seems to just be too big a feat for him to tackle – and this time he doesn’t have his stunt double.