One of the new album's best songs is "Stray Dog," which features a gravelly spoken-word narration by Iggy Pop, very different in tone from the singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner's light and sometimes colorless singing voice.
The hero has a colorless, off-rhythm voice, dead eyes, disorderly hair.
My memories of the hospital that night are colorless flashes of needles, soft voices, and arm restraints. .
The Tosca, Georgina Lukacs, was maddeningly uneven in Act I. Some of her attempts to sing big created a large woofy wobble in the middle of her voice and a pinched, colorless top leading to poor intonation and a tendency to scream.
If these words sound jejune, the song is not: While Demi's voice struck me as colorless in the past, here her raspy vocals crash and soar, the sound of a muffled cry caught in her throat; that undifferentiated delivery has been swapped for a style that's deeply emotional, and even -- dare I say it -- adult.
I remember his enunciation of "colorless, odorless, and tasteless" in a precise Edinburgh voice.
If ever you want your voice to be heard on these colorless omissions, Rock is the guy.
Her thin, eager voice singing the Burt Bacharach-Hal David hit "The Look of Love" is as colorless as that of Charles Foster Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander, whom Kane pushed to be an opera star, singing an aria from the fictional "Salammbo," in "Citizen Kane".
Colorless colors, shapeless shapes.
