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Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?

For me there is one that has always been top of the list.

Edith Piaf…..l just can’t think of anything worse.

Do not get me wrong and consider my choice is in any way racist….l love to listen to music with songs in any language… Italian, French, Spanish…..

Russian and German can however be extremely demanding, but Edith Piaf (if possible in any language) is a potential harrowing experience.

 

Do any others on here have a similar artist, or artists that can trigger the same physical reaction?

mylogic
mylogic OP
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@wolf_garcia 

Similar reaction with my Fathers dog, a very alert Bob Martin terrier. The dog would start howling every time l played a particular Ennio Morricone composition with the     dominant instrument being the flugelhorn played by Oscar Valdenbrini. It was a source of constant amusement…. Whenever  l slipped the offending track on he thought he was part of a wolfpack.

Footnote:- @devinplombier 

Invokes a ‘’similar reaction’’ from me when l am inadvertently ambushed by Edith Piaf on the radio. Thankfully l resisted the urge to do so in a cinema viewing Saving Private Ryan when that sequence appeared.

jpwarren58
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To truly appreciate Edith Piaf you would have had to see her in person. 

mylogic OP
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@jpwarren58 

I think you meant to say….. to have to hear her in person.

jpwarren58
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Chercher la petite bete.

mylogic OP
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Small frame BIG sound.
 

Mireille Mathieu springs to mind…..The late 1960s rebirth version of the modern Edith Piaf sound. Often a quest on TV variety shows (with Topo Gigio) on Saturday and Sunday nights in the UK, even though not many viewers actually knew what she was singing about.

 

After thought with me thinking back….. Edith, Mireille and Topo do all kinda look alike 

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