The first section of this playlist (songs 1-6) consists of songs in which the vocalists use voluntary stuttering as a musical device. None of these songs is meant to mock stuttering or discriminate against stuttering. Only the sixth song, "The Stuttering Lovers," directly mentions stuttering. Some of these musicians were likely unaware that they were incorporating voluntary stuttering into their singing; instead, they simply enjoyed the musicality of stuttering.  One exception is Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s song "You Ain’t Seen Nothin' Yet," which was written as a playful tribute to their road manager, who stuttered. Mainly, you will hear the use of sound and syllable repetitions, but the Who’s "My Generation" also has prolongations. 

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Songs 8-70  are all by musicians who stuttered at some point in their lives. Only song #8, "Scatman," directly addresses stuttering, as Scatman himself was a stutterer. Since people don’t stutter when they sing, you won’t hear any stuttering in these songs. The artists range from those who continue to noticeably stutter when they speak to those who stuttered when they were young and whose stuttering eventually went away on its own, yet led to the inspiration to explore singing and rapping, as these forms of expression could be done without stuttering.

There are likely some covert stutterers here, too, as it can be challenging to know when someone’s stuttering has gone away completely and when they are managing it in such a way that it is invisible to most people. In each case, I picked 3-4 songs to represent each artist. In some cases, a band name will appear on the playlist as the person who stutters was or is the vocalist for the band (e.g., Ann Wilson in Heart, Marc Almond in Soft Cell, Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, Peter Murphy in Bauhaus, Noel Gallagher in Oasis- although his brother Liam usually sang lead vocals, but not on these songs- and Chris Martin of Coldplay).