To Croon or Not To Croon?

When it comes to Bono, there are three kinds of people.

1. Those who love him for, apparently, being awesome
2. Those who see his an unbearably arrogant self made Messiah
3. Those who get it right

Now, this is largely irrelevant, but I just want to establish that, whilst U2 are hugely overrated, they've written some quality sons amidst the drivel, and so this gives Bono enough credibiliy for me to base a blog on something the dude said.

I won't quote it directly, but a while ago I read a Rolling Stone article on the greatest vocalists ever. Bob Dylan placed in the top ten. Now, this may seem a strange notion at first if you've heard him sing (especially nowadays) because, he's hardly a soaring lyric tenor. However, Bono, who wrote the article on Dylan, made the the point that, after Bob Dylan, rock and roll vocals changed. People stopped trying to a have smooth, beautiful voice like Elvis or Sinatra, and it became about the voice being individual, particular, one that jarred against the ears and made you listen up a bit more, startled and yet captured in the headlights.

And that's awesome. Really. I rejoice massively in that fact, I love vocalists with strange voices.

But I'm incredibly sad that popular music has lost out having crooners. Men with beautiful, smooth voices who actually sing wonderful songs. Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Bobby Darin.Anyone with a kilogram of brains can realise that 9/10 artists in the charts nowadays CANNOT sing and have had their collective torsoes split open in a bloody spattering mess of gore, flesh and artistic integrity by the auto-tune monster. This leaves precious few crooners in the ol' fashioned sense of the word.

Michael Buble is holding the fort on his own at the moment really. Don't dare suggest Harry Connick Bloody Junior. Or Katherine Jenkins.

However, one man has crafted himself into a subtle, subversive, dark horse of a crooner for the 21st century.

Adam Green.

Who? What's that you say? Well to those of you not it the know, the colloquial description would be: The dude from The Moldy Peaches... who wrote that song they sing at the end of Juno
But seriously, Adam Green has this wonderful tonal, deep, velvet like voice that is incredibly individual but really does croon! This blog is basically a plug inspired by his new album.

Look the man up. Listen to "Drugs", "Castles and Tassels" and "Friends of Mine". Most of you probably won't like him. Or get him. But hey. Your loss. Such if life. Just stop listening to Chris Brown!