Cackest screams in the pop omniverse

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As inspired by listening to Seedling doing Coming At You Now in session for Peel. Now, I like Seedling. I like them a lot, even if Marg van Eenbergen wants to be Sharleen Spiteri a bit more than is really necessary. But at the start of the chorus to this one, she lets rip this blood-curdlingly embarrassing scream, the kind that possibly only a Dutch woman trying to sing really, really low, like him out of Gomez, could do - "BEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-beh...."

Which led me to think how many other people there are out there nowadays that just cannot bloody scream. Chester Bennington, going "over and over AG-EH-HEN!" with Gravitas For Men, 2 for 1 at Boots this Christmas. Som Wijay-Wardener, on every My Vitriol song, ever. Feel his pain. Fuck off.

My knowledge is limited, though. Any that are worse than this (the Seedling one needs hearing)?

― Mr Swygart, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Shane MacGowan a lot, but when he screams, it's both scary and funny at the same time.

― Manny Parsons, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Madonna's squeals on Like A Virgin are charmingly useless.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

naah.. they're a come-on.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Eagles - "Heartache Tonight". It's impossible to typographically render the lameness of the singer (Henley? Frey?) puffing himself up for a big ol', satin-jacketed, party-hearty "Whooo" leading into Joe Walsh's utterly lackluster slide-guitar phrase. This scream is about as exciting as oatmeal and as sincere as, well, the Eagles.

― briania, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the other hand, the vocals for Gorgoroths first three albums and Burzum are some of the finest examples of what human vocal chords are capable of. The kind of bloodcurdling stuff where you can actually hear throat tissue being teared off.

― Siegbran Hetteson, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But I forgot my entry for the worst human screams: Dani of that travelling comedy troupe Cradle of Filth. You don't know whether to laugh or cry...

― Siegbran Hetteson, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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