I've just been listening to NME Hype Band #29484 Black Kids, and I wanted to like them, but I just find the singer's voice really weedy and tuneless. (On an amusing side note, I pointed this out in a comment to a youtube video of them and was met by some very creative abuse... http://uk.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=pmzUnkW_yKw)

But anyway, I would have said that it's fairly important that the lead singer in a band can sing, another example would be the fact that I can't stand Black Grape/Happy Mondays

On the other hand, Jeff Mangum can't really sing especially well, but that doesn't really detract from the brilliance of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Discuss?