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BEST EVER VOICES! (pics)

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Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

15:40 / 21.06.04

Who has the best voice? I know.

"That's so sweet of you to say"

Saving any movie he appears in, purely by talking the way he does, I give you Owen Wilson! As a bonus he also writes films of supreme AWESOMENESS with Wes Anderson and possesses a phrasing that is both beautiful, odd and heartwarming!

Saving any TV show she appears on - including the disasterously bad Johnny Vaughn show (which I sometimes watched purely to hear her speak) I give you the lovely Lauren Laverne!

As a bonus, she was also in Kenickie. It's possible that I would prefer a record of her merely talking for hours on end, and that perhaps I should just listen to the radio more often. She also likes Buffy.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:01 / 21.06.04

My favourite voices work best without pictures.

They are JAMES EARL JONES (Darth Vader, Thulsa Doom etc)

and

CHARLOTTE GREEN (on good days, she reads the news. On VERY good days, she reads the Shipping Forecast. Those are the days Stoatie has several cold showers in a row. And they STILL DON'T WORK!!!)

Bed Head

16:08 / 21.06.04

ooh, Charlotte Green is good, but if we're talking radio voices it's gotta be Adam Macy and his extra-special cuddly-sensitive voice.

But. I give you..

I *had* to nip in straight away and establish Toby Dammit as being the ultimate in Stamp vocal performances, before some bright spark suggests Zod. Zod’s pretty cool, but nothing in the universe is better than Toby Dammit.

...Says I. I’d elaborate further, like, but I’m just off out to get pissed and watch the football.

16:28 / 21.06.04

Joan Greenwood. Appeared in Ealing comedies - Sybilla in Kind Hearts and Coronets and Daphne Birnley in Man in the White Suit. And here in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Then she was the (uncredited) voice of the Great Tyrant in Barbarella. A good choice, because she has the most peculiarly attractive, halting, slightly nasal, headcoldy sexy voice. Delivers words as though she's dropping them down a well. In fact, a bit like a female Alan Rickman. It's like a regional accent from sexfordshire.

Opps!!

Opps!!

'nuff said

Ex beat me to it. Greenwood never seemed to talk as much as breathe the words out. Just the thought of her voice gives me the horn.

fidrich

19:46 / 21.06.04

Theoden's voice in Return of the King made me go all goosepimply. Mostly when he was being all foreshadowingy about the "doom of our time" and such...

Also, Sauraman.

Must be all the pipe-weed or summat.

Tezcatlipoca

20:27 / 21.06.04

Hmmm...so many to choose from, but, in no particular order:

Robert Stephens
Kenneth Williams
Tom Waits
John le Mesurier
Ron Pearlman
Cate Blanchett

bio k9

21:17 / 21.06.04

Our Lady Has Left the Building

21:36 / 21.06.04

Ian Holm. I really can't explain it, though for me he was at his best 25 years ago.
Michael Hordern. The man narrated 'Paddington Bear'. Is more required?
Eric Stoltz. Mmmmm.
Sice. Wake up it's a beautiful morning...
Neil Tennant. The grand dame of British pop. The uncle we'd all love to have.

Warewullf

21:39 / 21.06.04

The voice of Batman. *sigh*

Mike Modular

22:25 / 21.06.04

None-more-gravelly

Big, big love...

Also, I've always liked Frank Welker, the voice behind (amongst many others):

ONLY NICE THINGS

05:29 / 22.06.04

Yuni *and* Megatron?

Wowzer.

Lord Morgue

09:51 / 22.06.04

Clancy Brown- "RAMIREZ WAS AN EFFETE SNOB! HE DIED ON HIS KNEES! I TOOK HIS HEAD AND RAPED HIS WOMAN WHILE HIS BODY WAS STILL WARM!" I just can't seem to work this into polite conversation, let alone in church. And he also does Gargoyles.

The guy who did Pigsy's voice in the British translation of Monkey Magic. "Let me see your face, little one, just a peek- let me just have one little... SHEEEE'S HIIIIDEOUSSS!"

Denise Poirier - Aeon Flux. "Plop."

Linnea Quigley - "Trash" in Return of the Living Dead. "Does my body offend you?"

Micheal Caine - Do. You want. To go. To. The toilet. Arnold? Do? You want? To go? To? The Toilet?

Vin Diesel - Great voice, reflecting his twin roots- half deep, melodious Afro-American, half back-of-the-throat Italian-American wrong-side-of-the-tracks Fonzie/Rocky Balboa kinda thing. "Oh, the things I'm gonna do for my country."

Grey Area

10:03 / 22.06.04

I present to you a man who has (amongst so very many many roles) played Blackbeard, Markov, Charlie Chan, Detective Wilbur Fix and the Walrus, as well as voiced the characters of Prince John, Dr. Snuggles and Tarka the Otter. The breadth and acomplishment of the many roles he has filled are evidence enough of why I love this man's voice. I give you:

Sir Peter Ustinov (deceased)

Whisky Priestess

10:15 / 22.06.04

Me. My voice. The only comfort I have when I've got a horrible cold is that, once the endless nose-blowing stage has passed, I get the deep-throaty voice stage. I'm not kidding, it's dropped at least an octave between last night and this morning.

But apart from me, I nominate anyone with a slight Manchester accent, such as Dan off Big Brother and a couple of my exes.

Also Tom Lehrer's (affected) Deep South drawl in the song "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie" has always left me strangely stirred. And actually, I love educated American accents in general. Mmm, preppies ...

Sir Real

10:19 / 22.06.04

Macy Gray: -because I love the sweet rasp
Fiona Apple: -at a bar one time saw every male head in the
room turn, in unison, towards the speakers
soon as her voice came out of them
Orson Welles: - just cause I'd feel bad if he was left out

Pan Paniscus

10:41 / 22.06.04

Time to stop messing around.

WAITS!

BLESSED!

GUDMUNDSDOTTIR!

BLANC!

Saveloy

11:59 / 22.06.04

Joss Ackland - steak and kidney pudding for the ears
Jane Horrocks - eccles cakes
Jimmy Young - tea and biscuits
John Hurt - fags
Sid James - tea and biscuits and fags
Arthur Mullard - bubbles rising through molten spam
Wilfred Brambell (as the 'clean old man' in the Beatles film 'Hard Day's Night') - gets you at the back of the eyes
Joyce Grenfell - plucky but tremulous 1950s posh (best in St Trinians)
Basil Rathbone - no-nonsense, Edwardian action posh
Alastair Sim - gliding around with a reassuring but dodgy vicar
Terry-Thomas - a very fine waxed 'tache for the ears
Fenella Fielding - cf Joan Greenwood. "Do you mind if I smoke?"
Viv Stanshall - lovely solid bit of wooden furniture with a deep shine to it
Alison Snowden (or whoever it is that does the voice of Margaret in the animation 'Bob and Margaret') - like Horrocks, but more, um 'mincey'.

I also second the following, mentioned above:

Laverne
Williams
le Mesurier
Blessed

Hattie's Kitchen

12:41 / 22.06.04

I love Chris Morris's booming Paxman-esque tone.

Also:
Terence Stamp (sex on a stick)
Willie Rushton (something incredibly soothing about his voice)
Pam Ayres (as above)
Chistopher Lee (if I was a bloke, I'd want his voice)
Jeanne Garofolo (sexy husky Italian-American actress)

However, Gail Porter's voice makes me want to hurt her with big sticks.

Pants Payroll

13:32 / 22.06.04

Cmon, nobody's mentioned Lance Henriksen!
I also have to mention Kate Bush, Lou Rhodes from Lamb, Jeff Buckley, John (Bender) DiMaggio, and Lord Morques spot-on Micheal Caine impression.

Sir Real

13:54 / 22.06.04

waitwaitwaitwait,
We forgot Mr. W. S. Burroughs.

13:59 / 22.06.04

Sue Perkins. Delivers a deadpan dyke dimension to the divine doubleact (while Mel emotes and squeaks).

(Incidentally, given my attraction to such lovely low-voiced ladies, is there any way I can get myself down a few tones, without screaming under railways brideges or singing while I have laryngitis?)

Ah. Agreed to marry me once, y'know...

Cat Chant

14:27 / 22.06.04

Alan Rickman: sort of like a male Joan Greenwood.

Melanie Safka and Bjork can both make me cry on the high notes; Billie Holiday, obviously, has the best voice ever, because she can hit notes that do not exist, and she sounds like she's gargling (sort of like a genderless Rickman-Greenwood creature).

Morrissey, Morrissey, Morrissey; and Uncle Bob, because whenever I'm depressed I can just go Lord KNOWS you've paid some DOOOOZ getting THREUUUGHHHH, Tangled up in BLEEEEEEUUUUUGH and I feel better.

Gareth Thomas: authoritative yet avuncular; scalds you with fury or wraps you up warm. Sometimes both in a single sentence. Wriggle.

Matthew Fluxington

15:13 / 22.06.04

Definitively:

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

16:05 / 22.06.04

I do love that top picture. I know people that don't like Pavement because they think SM sounds too college rock. Those people are crazy!

Hieronymus

17:07 / 22.06.04

Keith David. Bar none the coolest, richest voice of both film and animation.

Murray Hamhandler

17:13 / 22.06.04

Ha ha ha...I thought that Scharpling was Belushi at first glance. As for that other guy in the photo, who could resist the golden throat that regaled us with:

"B is for the bravery you've given us.
U is for unanimous victory.
S is for the strength with which you rule us with.
H is for forgotten memories.
Bush! Bush! America's greatest president!
Bush! Bush! The best we've ever had!"

Smoothly

17:19 / 22.06.04

Bill Cobbs

Sam Elliott

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

18:39 / 22.06.04

The dude that voiced the original Winnie The Pooh

Frank Oz

Oleta Adams

Stephen Fry

Angela Bassett

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18:40 / 22.06.04

Tangina Barons, from Poltergeist

Bed Head

19:00 / 22.06.04

Sam Elliot also belongs in the thread for Best Hair. Alongside that hunky economics dude off Channel Four news.

Oh, best voice: how could I forget:

I guess mainly for the real Joan Baez, the one whose singing on the Silent Running soundtrack turned me into a hippy before I could speak, but also a nod to my Joan-obsessed primary school teacher, who had hair just like her and played the guitar and everything, and who I remember as frequently leading school assemblies with all us village kids singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ and ‘John Henry’. Such is the boundless, world-changing, life-transforming power of the lovely Baez-voice.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:15 / 22.06.04

David Warner. The voice of affordable evil.

bio k9

22:36 / 22.06.04

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