>male high tenor
>female contralto
I've decided this is the secret sauce of The Pixies vocal mix. Can anyone think of any other bands with this vocal combination? The only other band I can think of that had this is Fleetwood Mac.
Male high tenor
Jayden Johnson
Jaxson Martinez
>kim deal will never bully you for your tenor voice
what's the FUCKING point bros i'm going to lose it
Tyler Anderson
There's just something so alluring about a guy singing like a girl and a girl singing like a guy together.
Camden Baker
Smashing Pumpkins did this occasionally, when Billy Corgan's ego allowed it. D'Arcy singing huskily really rounded out Corgan's nasal tone.
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Aiden Moore
definitely a kino combo, but you'll have a hard time finding more outside pixies, that is a "secret sauce". maybe i'll steal that idea if i ever find a contralto.
when i was still trying to learn to sing with the diaphragm i tried with a few beach house and breeders tracks and always wondered why i could sing with them, kinda gay but contraltos get no love, very kino voices.
good pick user
Andrew Young
This is why for the longest time (before I ever saw what they looked like) I couldn’t tell if the singer in this band was a man or a woman. Somehow those voices just go good together, keeping the Kim harmonies to a minimum on the later albums was why I don’t fucks with the stuff after Doolittle quite as much. After that was Francis Black trying to sound more like a generic buttrock 90s musician
Connor Jones
Adrian Collins
>After that was Francis Black trying to sound more like a generic buttrock 90s musician
i'm not a huge pixies fan aside from a few albums so maybe someone could correct me but it seems like his singing on early albums was bound to fuck up his voice. i don't know how long he could do that yelling, i don't know what he sounds like now but i wouldn't be surprised if he had to tone down his voice.
Jonathan Watson
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Good example of that. Yet this is the song that filter 50% of Pixies fans
Matthew Peterson
I like Kims dynamic on the breeders too of singing harmonies with her identical twin who has the exactly same voice, which gives a kinda cool effect that seems like it’s done in some studio trickery but is actually real
Levi Howard
Trompe is the most underrated Pixies album. Sure it doesn’t sound like the other records but it’s definitely the most hard rocking of all the rockers where Black is at his yell-iest
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Andrew Morgan
bloodthirsty butchers after Hisako Tabuchi joins kinda does that, except that what you get instead is a baritone singing way up in his range which leads to another interesting result.
Oliver Myers
I never understood the hate for this. Crackity Jones and There Goes My Gun are easily worse. Though most indie rockers aren't musically developed enough in order to appreciate blues and slide guitar.
Brody Reed
Also La La Love You is just dumb cutesy filler. Doolittle is a lot less strong than I remember it being. Surfer Rosa is #1.
Leo Walker
I don't hate it, just the worst song. Both the songs you listed are better than it.
Doolittle is still the better album
Bentley Watson
Fleetwood Mac "Hold Me"
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Dominic Thompson
Now that I've thought about it I think tenor + contralto harmonies are particularly great because they create a type of voice that doesn't exist IRL. It almost sounds angelic.
Jace Richardson
It was common in Motown/Spector '60s pop but fell off in the 70s for some reason. Guys stopped singing like faggots for the most part until the '90s.
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Cameron Perry
Cameron Roberts
amazing how '90s' this feels despite being in the 80s
Grayson Moore
The New Pornographers
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Another Fleetwood Mac example
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