Best raspy/screeching vocal performances

[No eye deer]

I was going to put this in the ‘Covers’ thread, but thought this was an appropriate spot for it.
Jimmy and Joe doing a Randy Newman number. Love it!

 

[Gough]

12 Songs by Randy Newman still sounds great.

 

[worbod]

Not so much Ray Charles himself on this song but his female accompanist Margie Hendrix who belts it out.





A Margie Hendrix solo song

 

[mcnulty]

Final verse holy s**t:

 

[No eye deer]

Final verse holy sh*t:

Last song of the last time he ever performed live. You can hear the pain in his voice. Breaks my heart.

 

[mcnulty]

Last song of the last time he ever performed live. You can hear the pain in his voice. Breaks my heart.

Shattering. Though for pure Cobain I always come back to Aneurysm.

 

[PoopingHindi]

Ben Ottewell

 

[Pistol Night]

Shattering. Though for pure Cobain I always come back to Aneurysm.

Cobain and Grohl belting that chorus is dynamite

 

[Bollox]

Raspy ? Screeching ?

Noddy Holder comes straight to mind.

 

[Professor Knowall]

I betcha no-one expected Roger Miller to appear in this thread - yet here he is -

 

[No eye deer]

I betcha no-one expected Roger Miller to appear in this thread - yet here he is -

Haha! My old man had that album when I was a kid.

 

[Plugger35]

 

[worbod]

 

[worbod]

From the top end of the musical alphabet, Abba and AC/DC.

 

[No eye deer]

 

[Professor Knowall]

From the top end of the musical alphabet, Abba and AC/DC...

I thought I was being a bit different with Roger Miller in this thread - then you go and pair-up Abba with AC/DC!

 

[worbod]

Something different, from 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

 

[Fossie 32]

Listen to this if you can

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Exhibit A. Wait for it!


Exhibit B. Bugger off Susan!


Exhibit C. If you can't wait, listen from 4-11 through to 4-39 for what I can only describe as voice shredding. What a talent. Bass player, song writer, singer and Australian.

 

[deanc]

Hound Dog - was a derogatory slang term of the time, referring to a man seeking regular casual sex, but always promising more. That's what Big Mamma's original version was about. Then when Elvis (the 3rd recording artist of the song) performed it years later it was the lyrically changed 2nd cover version that he adopted which depicted an actual dog...

 

[Fossie 32]

Exhibit A. Wait for it!


Exhibit B. Bugger off Susan!


Exhibit C. If you can't wait, listen from 4-11 through to 4-39 for what I can only describe as voice shredding. What a talent. Bass player, song writer, singer and Australian.

Tal W. Mmmmm

 

[Mesc]

 

[Zuma]

Sorry if the title of the thread is a bit clumsy-sounding. They were the best adjectives I could come up with when I decided to create this thread. Hopefully the song examples I have included provide people with an understanding of what I am referring to.

I was interested in putting together some songs which feature raspy or screeching vocals. The songs do not necessarily feature raspy vocals all the way through, more they highlight excellent use of screeching or raspy singing to give the song a certain character.

To begin I will feature Paul McCartney, who could easily feature in 10 or 12 such songs. The song I will feature here is I’m Down. McCartney’s voice is raspy and screechy pretty much all the way through which suits the rocking nature and upbeat tempo of the song.




Another good example of Paul’s raspy vocals is in Oh Darling, which prompted John Lennon to tell Playboy magazine in his 1980 interview that if Paul “had any sense, he would have let me sing it.”
This is “Old Siam, Sir” from Paul’s Wings days.

Glad to see Old Siam, Sir. Even better we’re his 79 live performances of the song with Wings if you can find them. So glad to see you there is another oft forgotten gem, also from the back to the egg album.

 

[Zuma]

Joe Cocker shows getting raspy can work well in a ballad.

My wife walked down the aisle to this song

 

[Zuma]

More prime raspy screeching McCartney for you:


In Pauls Raspy rock vocal prime


And still at it around the age of 60


Rocking raspy jam you might not have heard