Mother fucking bro country warblers.

Somebody here in the old days coined a term for that Eddie Vedder, cowardly lion from Nickelback type singing that sounds a bit like some peanut butter stuck in your mouth.

What is the term please?

Was it yarl?

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:20 am Was it yarl?

Maybe it was Yarl!

Is it a verb? Are they Yarling?

Yarl. To yarl.

Very good!

I'm pretty sure we stole it from Jack Endino. HYRURRRRRRGGHH! I do remember someone calling it "TheoryOfANickelStaind hyurr rock" though!

jason from volo wrote: Thu Dec 09, 2021 5:49 pm Sometimes bespectacled, sometimes shoegazing, sometimes mumbling frontman whose guitarist likes to jingle-jangle. Morrissey. Michael Stipe.

Ah dang, I was thinking of running a list of singers who had no type, or invented the type. Michael Stipe came to mind, but I can see a Morrissey connection.

I think Eddie Veddar invented the "hyur" or "yarl", he's even apologized for it.

Who else is largely without precedent?
Scott Walker? Frank Black? Corin Tucker? Craig Wedren (shudder to think)? Greg Dulli?

I know it as the Hairrl. There's a Y in there too, like Heee-yyyyairrrrllll. Burly hairy-chest rock. I believe it started with Iron Butterfly's In A Gadda Da Vida. Tim Buckley had a little of the Hairrl, as did Cat Stevens.

But the modern day Hairrl was born with Metallica's Kill 'Em All in 1983. That very same year, Billy Gibbons planted a solid Hairrl in the opening seconds of ZZ Top's Gimme All Your Lovin'. Coincidence?

The Hairrl finally hit the mainstream in 1991 with Metallica's Black Album and Pearl Jam's Ten. After that, the disciples of Hetfield and Vedder just came out of the woodwork, like Alice In Chains, Collective Soul, Crash Test Dummies, Nickelback, Five Finger Ass Munch, and who can forget Hootie & The Blowfish and their big hit Hold My Hairrl?

For a while there it seemed like all the bands on the radio were trying to out-Hairrl each other. Everyone was doing it. Listen to Alanis Morissette's One Hand In My Pocket (if you have the stomach) and tell me she can't Hairrl with the best of 'em.

The sound may have fallen out of favor over the years, but the Kings Of Hairrl, James Hetfield and Eddie Vedder, are still alive and kickin'. Even though their music pretty much blows chunks now. All we need is a joint Metallica/Pearl Jam tour and we can have a great big Hairrl Fest, just like in the '90s!

The complete history of yarling : http://www.endino.com/archive/yarl.html

Anyone ever notice that Steven Tyler's whole "sound" is just the second half of Hey Jude?

zorg wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 7:15 am The complete history of yarling : http://www.endino.com/archive/yarl.html

Why didn't Mudhoney think of this? "The Touch Me, I'm Sick Foundation: Reach out and touch someone..."

HAHAHA
that was my favorite music blog/newsletter for so long.