There's a significant difference between someone that can't sing and someone that doesn't try to. Tom Waits is an unusual vocalist and a brilliant storyteller. If you want to hear him sing, listen to his early work. It isn't poor by any measure.
And come one, the Red Hot Chili Peppers? If you romanticize about heroin overdoses and orgies, sure, they're "great." It seems like everyone who calls Kiedis a good frontman idolizes his self-fellating shitpile of an autobiography. Give it a rest already.
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