'That bloke from Supertramp', indeed! His name is Roger Hodgson. His voice is an acquired taste, I grant you, but no more so than Neil Young.

For me, odd voices include:

Geddy Lee (Rush)

Esther Phillips

Windsor Davies

Compared to Jon Anderson of Yes, Roger Hodgson is a veritable Barry White.

Frankie Valli, Macy Gray, Ertha Kitt, Quasimoto...

that bloke out of Crash Test Dummies

Has a really very strange voice, especially in tandem with the equivalently odd Gary Louris, whose chalk and cheese harmonies make the Jayhawks as characteristic as they were. I was reminded of this by the really very excellent Salvation Blues, which arrived from Amazon on friday.
Worst voice ever has to be the 9ft bald australian lawyer who fronted that australian group, Midnight Oil. Makes Roger Hodgson sound like "Hurricane" Smith.

The Jayhawks combined voices are wonderful. But ooh! I love Midnight Oil's 'Beds Are Burning'!

Kevin Rowland. He later regretted singing in that exaggerated style. I'm all for distinctive voices, but I think it would have spread the joys of Dexys to millions more worldwide if he'd been a tad more natural.

As a huge Tom Waits fan it pains me to say it, but several songs from the "Small Change"/"Heartattack and Vine" era are classics lost to a voice just too sozzled to do them justice. But that was no excuse for Rod Stewart to try to mop them clean.
Waits' voice(s) on the post-"Swordfishtrombones" era songs seems to suit them just fine.

David Surkamp or something like that. Could disturb the sleep of dogs in foreign countries.

...David Surkamp's voice gives me the heebie-geebies! Not a massive fan of the singer in that band called Coheed and Cambria (Claudio Sanchez I think he's called)- he tends to overdo the vibrato and falsetto like Surkamp and early Geddy Lee did. I find Geddy Lee more tolerable now though, but there is a certain comedy value to be had from listening to him shrieking 'I Think I'm Going Bald' on 1975's 'Caress Of Steel'.

Budgie, who crop up on the podcast now and again, have Burke Shelley, whose vocals are again a very acquired taste.

I've always loved Jon Anderson and Roger Chapman's vocals; two totally different extremes, really!

I should preface this by saying I'm a huge fan of the man and the majority of his oeuvre but...

...Bob Dylan on 'Nashville Skyline' sounds like Mr Bean.

That bloke from the B52s (no apostrophe)... Fred Schneider? With his VE-ry dis-TINC-ive SING-ing STYLE (more like speaking really)

The lady with the harp, whose name escapes me for now (album is "Ys")... sounds like Bjork inhaling helium

Antony and the Johnsons: His voice puts me off. Sounds rather effete and theatrical.

Anthony Newley was odd also. Bowie copied him in the early days but moved on, thank god.

My long-standing irritation has been English singers taking on an American accent. This is slowly being replaced by regional English accents. Just about every new band I hear has this and I chart it back to Damon Albarn's mockney via Alex Turner and Lily Allen.

Give me a Neil Young whine or a Michael Stipe mumble or even an 'I'm weird-me' Alec Ounsworth from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah any day.

English guitar music is pretty darn awful just now.

on Jools last week had the highest voice I've heard in a long time. It was excruciating!

Once described as a chipmunk on helium.

And Perry Farrel from Jane's Addiction takes a bit to get used to.