Guys, his voice is fucked over because he put too much strain on it when singing. He didn't sing correctly. The coke booze and cigs don't help either, but they were the cause.

Look at all of the beatles. They sang their asses off all of the time, and Paul still sounds fantastic. So do a lot of older musicians.

The BHN voice is gone forever. The SOSOG is when it started to sound like it does now, so I think he could obtain that.

Just my two cents after stumbling across this thread...

He has definitely damaged his vocal chords over the past 10 years. Singing from his throat like that will do it. I think cigarettes are another reason for his vocal changes over the years and could be the most contributing factor. Cigarette smoke affects some people more than others and I think in Liam's case it really affected his voice. He definitely doesn't pace himself either when he sings live. Shouting every song makes it hard to have vocal stamina throughout a 90 minutes show. Someone mentioned how he can sing Songbird live perfectly every time. Well it's pretty simple. He wrote that song. He worked it out to match his singing preference. Noel writes his songs with pretty high vocals so Liam has to strain to reach some parts where Noel can sing them comfortably.

The old days of 94-97 are long gone and will never come back. Thankfully we all have the memories of gigs we've been to and the bootlegs to enjoy still today. What we do have to look forward to is the ever evolving sound of Oasis. I really enjoy DBTT and the two shows on this past tour I went to were a couple of the best ever. Oasis is about energy and flag waving when you see them live. To be honest I couldn't tell you how he sang at either of the Toronto shows on the last tour because me and the rest of the fans were singing so loud! As long as they can pound out the studio albums, they'll still be great and the shows will be enjoyable....Liam just won't sound as pretty as he did 10 years ago. Doesn't bother me one bit :-)

I was just gonna post that about the lille interview
His voice sounds like shit

Hardly even sounds like Liam
Sounds like a character from Seasame Street struggling to hit the notes

I get this feeling too. But we all know that most of the time he's so drunk that can't even get the fonetics of the lyrics right.

liam can still sing very well after seeing the live performances for lyla and ggtia you gotta believe he can sing everything they've recorded... ggtia is a hard song to sing than Stop Crying Your Heart Out. The only problem is Liam yells the lyrics in concert to combat the noise... like alot of artists (metallicam, foo fighters etc...) he's only 33 for fuck sakes.

his voice is the worse for ware after all these years,still shit hot but,look at the lead singers of of the popular "bands" right now,they have nothing on liam,nothing

I suppose in the studio you've got plenty of time to get your voice sounding right, you can do as many takes as you like and so on. It probably took a while before Liam got Born On a Different Cloud sounding like a John Lennon song (as if the lyrics weren't obvious enough) and it was helped by the delay-echo thing that John used on his vocals.

When Oasis played Plymouth Pavilions, just twelve days after the Teeth Incident, his voice was awful and couldn't pronounce his Ms as rdwng30 said. Listening to the other Oasis bootlegs from the 2002 tour, up to that point he was sounding good - but you would have thought that when the DBTT tour began three years later, he would have had it sorted out. Some gigs he did, some he didn't.

Actually, who cares, it's Liam Gallagher, I'd be happy enough just to see him stand there and say nothing because he's a legend.

Whoever said Liam's got the best voice must be joking!! (think it was the first post)

It's not a "musical" voice by any stretch of the imagination. Noel is a far better singer than Liam will ever be , no one can doubt that.

The thing with Liam is he's got the look , the image and the attitude and he's voice suits the bands general style. He can belt it out with the best Rockers (maybe??). For egs. I don't think he's a better Rock singer than Axl from Guns and Roses or Robert Plant etc.. There are heaps of other vocalists that would put him to shame.

In regards to losing his voice you'd think that someone with his money , status and experience would hire a vocal coach to teach him how to sing properly. He definitely uses his throat way to much to wrench those notes out and tends to go out of tune every so often.

Whether he alone is the Oasis sound as someone else said is debatable. He's certainly a big element but it's mostly a combination of things that make Oasis what it is. I'd say the order would be something like:

1/ Noel's songs (and now Liam and Gem)
2/ The Chunky Rhythm Guitars
3/ Liams Voice
4/ The look . style , attitude and sound of the band.

All I can say is that if any of us roared down a microphone like that for the best part of 10 years then our voices would change as well! You go back to Definitely Maybe and Liam was technically a good singer - he could hit all the notes, even the high ones. Even today when he actually sings he has a decent voice, i'm thinking about some of the acoustic performances he did. When it comes to the gigs he wants to sing to the person at the very back of the venue and these days it comes out as shouting.

Its all well to say that other people who scream and shit can still do it but first of all people who scream almost never just shout down the mic there is a vague technique to it ie you can scream from the stomach/thoat same as singing
And the argument is that Liams closer to screaming than singing, the whole point of screaming is making your voice sound like its fucked, its not a nice natural thing
Liam could scream if he wanted to now, sdesnt mean that people who have been screaming for 10 years could SING better than him

And to say that Axel Rose is better at anything than Liam especially singing is the stupidest thing I've ever heard