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A mix of poets singing badly: Helen Adam, "Cheerless Junkie Song" (1975) Helen Adam, "Apartment on Twin Peaks" (1977) Kenward Elmslie, "The Woolworth Song" (1978) Kenward Elmslie, "Saga of Skunk's Misery" (1980) Anne Waldman, "Uh-oh Plutonium" (1984) Drew Gardner, "Segue Reading at BPC" (2005) I must be missing tons, so please help to expand the list. By badly I mean singing that grates against the standard voice of platinum record or top-40 music. I should probably also distinguish between a gravelly voice that produces negativity and a mellow or powerful voice that parodies popular music, i.e. Waldman's track. But in any event folks who can actually sing or sound pleasant with musical accompaniment--like Nate Mackey or Lisa Jarnot--don't count here. |
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Beautiful
oh but great things can be done w/ bad singing...