Can't stand the sound of their voice.

[Mr. Laser Beam]

. . . And for the record, Fran Drescher's voice doesn't bother me for some reason.

You wouldn't happen to be a Noo Yawker yourself, would you?

I think the NY accents are really cool and I wish I could talk like any of them, but Drescher herself has a voice that sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. Hers is not representative of the whole!

 

[JonathonWally]

. . . And for the record, Fran Drescher's voice doesn't bother me for some reason.

You wouldn't happen to be a Noo Yawker yourself, would you?

I think the NY accents are really cool and I wish I could talk like any of them, but Drescher herself has a voice that sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. Hers is not representative of the whole!

You obviously don't know a lot of girls from either Queens or "The Island."

 

[SVD]

good sounding voices in Hollywood not on the list here yet:
Michael Emerson (at least as Ben Linus)
Alan Alda

I wish that my voice really sounded the way I hear it. Our voices sound different when we hear ourselves talk, vs. the way others hear us, I think it's because the sound waves bounce off the bones in our head and then come back to our ears. Anyway my voice *as I hear it when I talk* isn't that bad, it's the way OTHERS hear it that really grates. I wish I didn't sound like that...This is why I'm never uploading a vocal sample to this board. Y'all would start laughing or ralphing or both if I did.

So I'm not the only one that's noticed that their voice sounds different as-spoken vs. as-recorded! I always thought the recording equipment was bad when I hear the playback of my voice.

My voice as recorded on answering machines and on camera 6 years ago on the local news sounds deeper than I hear it.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Not an actor, but I can't stand James Blunt. Not only because of THAT song, but mostly because of that voice which reminds me of Alanis Morissette (whom I also normally can't stand).

My friend, you have TASTE!

Aside from “You're Beautiful” being one of the worst songs ever written, James Blunt's screechy tenor voice makes me want to rip both my ears off. There's nothing worse than a bad tenor. And Alanis Morissette's singing is more like whining on pitch.

He served in the Kosovo war, you know. Thankfully, not as the Forces' Sweetheart.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You wouldn't happen to be a Noo Yawker yourself, would you?

I think the NY accents are really cool and I wish I could talk like any of them, but Drescher herself has a voice that sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. Hers is not representative of the whole!

You obviously don't know a lot of girls from either Queens or "The Island."

Are they as bad as hers?

 

[JonathonWally]

I think the NY accents are really cool and I wish I could talk like any of them, but Drescher herself has a voice that sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. Hers is not representative of the whole!

You obviously don't know a lot of girls from either Queens or "The Island."

Are they as bad as hers?

I don't think it's 'bad" really. Fran amped it up for The Nanny, but her natural voice is how girls from the area sound. I used to go out with a girl from Ronkonkoma, sounded just like her.


Edited to add some gratuitous Fran wanking

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkp7wsJc8MI[/yt]

 

[scotpens]

Voices I like (off the top of my head):

Lauren Bacall
Diana Rigg
Roscoe Lee Browne
Stacy Keach, Jr.
Ray Walston
F. Murray Abraham
Vincent Price
Bryn Terfel
Shirley Bassey
Orson Welles
Ken Nordine
Annie Lennox

Ken Nordine? Christ, I didn't think anyone else on the planet knew who the hell he was.

Reaching back into the mists of antiquity (i.e., the 1940s onward), my favorite female speaking voices are:

Lauren Bacall
Lizabeth Scott
Sally Kellerman
Kathleen Turner
Lauren Hutton
Claudia Cardinale

And male voices:

Raymond Massey
Christopher Lee
Jonathan Harris
George Sanders
Walter Pidgeon
Peter O'Toole

Of course, voices are one thing, accents are another. I think Jennifer Ellison's scouse accent sounds cute, but to a lot of Brits, it's like the proverbial nails on a blackboard.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

Kate Mulgrew's Janeway is fairly irritating.

Claudia Christian does a bang-on Kate Mulgrew impression. She had 1000+ people rolling in the aisles, years ago at a Toronto Trek. (Ours was the first con she had done since being fired from the show... in fact, she first announced it on our stage.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Ah, Claudia Christian. Speaking of annoying voices...

 

[Amaris]

Not an actor, but I can't stand James Blunt. Not only because of THAT song, but mostly because of that voice which reminds me of Alanis Morissette (whom I also normally can't stand).

My friend, you have TASTE!

Aside from “You're Beautiful” being one of the worst songs ever written, James Blunt's screechy tenor voice makes me want to rip both my ears off. There's nothing worse than a bad tenor. And Alanis Morissette's singing is more like whining on pitch.

. . . And for the record, Fran Drescher's voice doesn't bother me for some reason.

You wouldn't happen to be a Noo Yawker yourself, would you?

Nope, I wouldst be a redneck from Southwest Ohio.

 

[AstroSmurf]

You obviously don't know a lot of girls from either Queens or "The Island."

Are they as bad as hers?

I don't think it's 'bad" really. Fran amped it up for The Nanny, but her natural voice is how girls from the area sound. I used to go out with a girl from Ronkonkoma, sounded just like her.


Edited to add some gratuitous Fran wanking

You know, I don't mind the accent. I find it rather interesting. I just can't deal with the high frequency that Fran's voice resonates at. Actually, my entire list of female voices all have that in common. They all remind me of my sister's voice and how bad it used to get on my nerves when I would have a migraines as a teenager. (I get sound sensitive and hearing her was like extreme torture.

But I think Fran Drescher is a very attractive woman. She's hot.

 

[Rii]

Christian fucking Bale.

 

[Roshi]

I really like Bon Scott's voice! Better than Brian Johnson's...

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

Sir Patrick Stewart
Sir Ian McKellen
David Tennant (which I just realised I actually sound a little bit like)
Alan Rickman (why the guy still isn't knighted I don't know)
Gary Oldman

O yes, I'm with you on this blokes. Love Gary, he is the best.
I'm not crazy about Rene Zellweger and Eddy Murphy.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

As a rule I rarely dislike voices of actors, but Orlando Bloom's voice is very unappealing to me and detracts from his otherwise very fine features.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm not crazy about Rene Zellweger and Eddy Murphy.

This guy knows how Renee Zellweger sounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFMDVhZ4Zms#t=1m0s

 

[Kibbin]

I can't stand so called comedian Alan Carr, his voice being one of the main reasons. It's like nails on a godram chalk board

 

[shivkala]

I love "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," on NPR, but I hate when Kyrie O'Connor is a panelist because her voice drives me nuts. And that's saying something for a radio program which regularly has Paula Poundstone as a panelist! If you're interested (read: masochistic enough) in hearing her voice, here's a YouTube video of her answering a question.

On the TV side of things, Mary Murphy on So You Think You Can Dance annoys me to no end. The screaming, the laughing...my poor ear drums.

Lastly, the woman who does the voiceovers on Desperate Housewives also annoys me. For her, at least, it's less the voice than the tone and inflection she uses.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Julianne Moore's voice in FREEDOMLAND made me hate her for years, even though it wasn't her normal voice. Why didn't I walk out on that turd of a movie? I only paid a dollar.

I still have yet to see anything posted that tops Sally Struthers.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Hate Megan Fox's voice. Jeez, can't act to save her life and should never, ever say a single word. Where are the mouth-stitching creepy Puritans when you need 'em?

Love: Alan Rickman, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom. Yes, Orlie has a great voice.

Ah, and Trey Parker of course. I love all of his voices, including the real one.