Fav/best vocalist

[cookiepuss]

Rob Halford

Chris Cornell

Ronnie James Dio

Lemmy Kilmsiter

Shane Macgowan

Joey Ramone

Jello Biafra

[BellaBellucci]

eddie vedder and adam duritz of counting crows.

also, co-sign on chris cornell.

~BB~

[Trans Mission]

Wow, Chris Cornell was my initial nominee but felt he was too mainstream. Great to see others appreciating this belter O' music.

Another eligible candidate is Geoff Tate of Queensryche. Guy can belt one out! "Jet City Woman" does him vocal justice. As evidenced by.....

[DJ_Asia]

Freddy Mercury
Geoff Tate
Ian Gillan

[Dirky]

Guys ~

Iggy Pop
Nick Cave
John Lydon
Curtis Mayfield
Lou Reed
Eddie Kendricks (The Temptations)
Marvin Gaye
Stiv Bators
Lemmy
Genesis P-Orridge

Gals~

Francoise Hardy
Marriane Faithfull
Nico
PJ Harvey
Ronnie Spector
Holly Golightly
Genesis P-Orrdige

[TsJANIRA]

LOVES....HOPE SANDOVAL (((( HALAH & INTO DUST ARE MY FAVES))))



Apart from her i also love,, Sade, Nina simone, and Nina Pastori

[SarahG]

My top 5 would be, in no particular order;

Susan Ballion
Sonya Scarlet
Petr Štěpán
Monica Richards
Liv Kristine

But the hard part comes in deciding whether to pick vocalists who are really talented, talented but working in bands whose direction I can't stand. To use a "for instance," if Mozart were brought back to life, he'd still be abnormally talented, but if he were performing something I can't stand (like say he was doing nothing but writing house music), I'd probably gloss over picking him as a composer. There are probably a wealth of numetal, country, and r&b vocalists who I would think to consider, if they were doing music closer to what I like instead of what they are doing now.

I am guessing if we were picking vocalists we would have control over what they're singing, how they're singing, what the genre is- so this suddenly becomes much harder. In that case it would be tempting to list Sharon Adel, Tarja Turunen, Simone Simons, Serj Tankian, Dero Goi- artists who normally I can only stand in small dosages because of the stuff they perform currently. To put it another way, if Tina Root had only ever made music that sounded like her one solo album, I doubt I would even know who she is.

[farang]

My favourite is Susan Boils.

[Willie Escalade]

Freddie Mercury

I'm with you on that. Steven Tyler as well.

Lou Rawls and Donny Hathaway had two of the best voices ever placed on wax IMHO. Luther and Barry had some pipes as well.

[cookiepuss]

As Dirky mentioned, I'd add Iggy and Johnny Lydon as well. Really like PIL.

And I'll and Prince to the list as well as Mike Ness. (great combo huh?) Mike Ness is as true as he was when he was 16!!!

My all time favorite guitarist/singer, hands down Robert Johnson! Those scratchy recordings just add to the eerie words and picking! Just my opinion!


And yes, Elvis had talent but ripped off the other locals.