Since Lloyd and Verlaine both take a lot of criticism for their singing
voices, what about Eno's singing? Chrissie Hynde had this to say about
Eno, whom she admires: "His singing is not unlike the shriek of a hare
that has just caught an air pellet up the ass" (New Music Express, quoted
in Rolling Stone, Sept. 12, 1974, which misspelled her name "Hynd"--this
was before the Pretenders). God bless Chrissie--there was a time when
punks did not mince words. This quote has an interesting Anglo-American
angle: nobody says "hare" in the USA, but something about "caught an
air gun pellet up the ass" does not sound British. Wonder if Eno's label
used it in his press kit?