Re: (TV) Size / Harp Magazine / my big hands (fall through the cracks) > tom / lou

[robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>]

listening to the vocal album had me thinking of lou,
too.  not because tom sounds like lou...but because
tom, like lou, started out with a not-great
voice...which has since deteriorated.  and he has to
find some way to make use of it.

the new vocal album actually had me thinking of tom
along w/ lou, dylan and ps in terms of folks w/
non-traditionally-gifted voices and how they have
aged.  lou can't sing at all now, if he ever could. 
pretty horrible.  tom's maybe in a bit better shape. 
dylan's voice has thoroughly deteriorated, but he
makes it work somehow (oh yeah, creative genius!). 
and patti smith has become a pretty decent singer,
imo.

had me wondering if tom's vocal limitations have
played a part in his lack of vocal output until this
month.  or maybe he doesn't think of it that way at
all.  i just can't help but think he may find singing
challenging.

last night i saw two gallants, cold war kids opening,
and thought, the way those guys are yelling, they've
gotta be shortening their shelf life.  also had never
seen such a collection of anorexic-looking boys in my
life.  teeny-teeny skinny-skinny boys.

r



--- Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> And finally, there are so many references in these
> reviews to Tom's vocals
> as Lou Reed-ish!  I dunno, in the phrasing,
> sometimes, but the general
> quality?  Not much.  I guess he sings in his lower
> register more these days
> than on the early stuff, so maybe that's it.  On the
> other hand everyone
> thinks the guy from Felt sings like Tom, but all I
> hear is Lou Lou Lou.


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