An authoritative compendium of the fifty nuttiest pop-singers of all time. Oh, yeah…The top of the nuttiest pops is pretty well a given, being that guy who started out as a poor young black boy and seems to have finished as a rich old white woman. Madonna is left out, although most of the usual suspects are there… including David Bowie. (who famously forgot most of an entire decade)
And then there is Sting, whose latest musical project is a collection of songs by John Dowland, which I think are an amazingly good concept. Even if you have never heard of John Dowland.
Enjoy, and be amazed and amused!
(unclear pronoun corrected - thanks!)
Madonna’s not nutty, she’s an artist, she’s edgy, she’s dedicated to fighting the real enemy, the eeeeevil of the Catholic Church.
I knew at least 30 gals just like her in college and half a dozen of them sang better.
Life’s weird.
Comment by Timmer — 20070228 @ 2247
You’ve got an unclear pronoun up there, Mom… maybe part of your sentence didn’t make it to publication? You seem to be saying that David Bowie is doing a compilation of Dowland songs, but the link points to a Dowland project by Sting. The wickipedia article also said it was Sting, not Bowie.
Comment by AProudVeteran — 20070301 @ 0027
I am so very glad that I’ve never heard of a good half of those people.
Comment by Mark Rosenbaum — 20070301 @ 1929
You’re so very glad you haven’t heard of half of them? I’m glad I don’t have to listen to most of them any more!
Comment by Sgt. Mom — 20070302 @ 0628
Say it with me: Mariah Carey does NOT have a five-octave voice.
Yma Sumac had a five-octave voice, and at her low end, she sang like a bass. Julie Andrews had over four octaves before her botched throat surgery.
Mriah. Carey. Does. Not. Have. That. Range.
(What bothers me is that I had to convince an engineer that she didn’t have a SEVEN-octave range. Physically, every time a voice goes up an octave, the vocal cords are twice as tight. So a seven-octave range would mean that the high note would have to be under 128 times the tension of the low note. If you’ve got some material that can do that, I’m sure the engineers would like to speak with you.)
Comment by B. Durbin — 20070302 @ 1546