Screaming in Music

[saoirse13]

To be totally honest... I F**KING hate it. I don't know why, and I'm usually open to all types of music but every time i hear bloody screaming it puts me in a crappy mood and i usually end up with a headache.
Bring me the Horizon are the one band that I can't stand. Especially during this song ft Lights. For her part it's quite a nice song. But when he starts to sing I start to think "why won't someone put him out of his misery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdst_X8StU

 

[guitarsniper]

I quite like metal, but there's definitely levels of skill. A bad screamer tends to be worse to listen to than a bad singer.

 

[Aiedail256]

I have a friend who loves symphonic metal and melodic death metal. Once, he linked me a few examples of each. I told him that the only reason I didn't like them was because the vocalist wasn't singing.

Perhaps an explanation is in order:
Vocals must have pitch for me to consider them "singing"
It has been my experience that screaming in songs generally has no specific pitch.
If a song has a vocalist, I cannot enjoy it if I don't consider the vocals "singing"
Therefore, very few songs featuring screaming are enjoyable to me.

This is one of them:

 

[LilithSlave]

Omg another one!
Do you like Pianos Become The Teeth?

I do now!

Thanks for sharing. Glad that I'm not alone around here.

 

[CruisingForBiddies]

Of course, sometimes it's just hilarious.

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I just wet myself. Words cannot describe how much I laughed.

... I think I'm missing the joke. Muse aren't consistently good enough songwriters for me to accept that they're taking the piss here. Unless of course their first two albums were designed to be parodies as well...

I'm not a fan of Muse at all. But this is just bad, that's the joke.