Re: (TV) Some Ominous News on Waterman's '33 1/3: MM' Approach

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com> wrote:

> While we're on the topic of bothersome voices, does anyone else have a
> problem
> with Colin Meloy's singing? I don't hate it, but there's something strange
> - a
> seeming affectation (over-enunciation?), a semi-nasality, or just his
> timbre -
> it's hard to describe - that gets in the way of my fully appreciating the
> Decemberists; I can't stop noticing it. Incidentally, I've met Meloy - a
> friend
> and I were comped for a solo show at the Paradise in Boston because my
> friend's
> uncle is a friend of Meloy. He's a nice guy - so it's nothing personal!


I don't mind Meloy's voice as much as some, but his songwriting bugs the
living piss out of me sometimes.  At first it was sort of charming in a fey
way, but when you start to realize that he literally cannot write anything
that's not some kind of faux-Dickensian/sub-Kipling melodrama claptrap, it
gets old fast.

We are all being kind of cranky, huh?
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