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My list of top singers - please rip it apart! |
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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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No metal but you have Ozzy. Ozzy is practically the text book definition of metal!
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timothy leary
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Posted: January 16 2020 at 15:17 |
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Donald Fagen and Tim Buckley.
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Mortte
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1. P J Harvey 2. Sandy Denny 3. Kate Bush 4. Nico 5. Bobbie Watson 6. Laura Nyro 7. Judy Dyble 8. Ana Da Silva 9. Janis Ian 10. Nina Simone 11. Björk 12. Siouxsie-Sioux 13. Annie Haslam 14. Yasuko Onuki 15. Billie Holiday 16. Tuula Amberla 17. Stella Vander 18. Buffy Sainte-Marie 19. Nina Hagen 20. Yoko Ono
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Guldbamsen
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Hi Jon - long time no see  Just so happens that the last time you mentioned that Dissing album I went out and bought myself a used vinyl copy of the very same. It’s still a somewhat ‘fresh’ album to these ears, so I spin it rather often...and then I go for something like 6 Elefantskovcikadeviser afterwards  Edith: ahem...I guess my post took some mescalin before it decided to unravel itself. Edited by Guldbamsen - January 17 2020 at 05:25 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Are you seriously suggesting Yoko Ono is one of the twenty best female singers of all time?
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dr wu23
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Posted: January 17 2020 at 11:08 |
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Many great ones on those lists...the only one missing for me is Steve Marriott from the Small Faces and Humble Pie.
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Mortte
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Psychedelic Paul
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No, she's one of a kind.
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rogerthat
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Would definitely remove AXL as already suggested by others. Either of Ian Anderson or Hammill can take his place. Highly questionable whether Springsteen should be there either. I know he is a big NAME but in terms of singing quality, he is ok and it's more his songwriting doing the work for him. I also find hard rock isn't much represented in your list (or maybe that it's a tad biased towards BRITISH hard rock/metal). Either or DLR or Sammy Hagar should totally make the list, more so Hagar. I would actually want to include Jack Russell of Great White but since you said you are trying to focus on famous names, I guess not. Even speaking of famous names, though, Layne Staley should be there. As well, Brian Johnson is a great hard rock singer in his own right. On the other hand, Ozzy is very famous but middling as a singer purely.
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My female singers list:
1. Annie Haslam 2. Floor Jansen 3. Karen Carpenter 4. Barbra Streisand 5. Linda Eder 6. Aretha Franklin 7. Fiona Apple 8. Sandy Denny 9. Liza Minnelli 10. Minnie Riperton 11. Beth Hart 12. Agnetha Falstkog 13. Linda Ronstadt 14. Phyllis Hyman 15. Tori Amos 16. Lianne La Havas 17. Kate Bush 18. Bjork 19. Joni Mitchell 20. Sara Bareilles The above is purely as per personal preferences. If I had to rank for influence and importance: 1. Aretha Franklin 2. Barbra Streisand 3. Janis Joplin 4. Grace Slick 5. Joni Mitchell 6. Joan Baez 7. Sandy Denny 8. Linda Ronstadt 9. Karen Carpenter 10. Ann Wilson 11. Whitney Houston 12. Mariah Carey 13. Celine Dion 14. Amy Winehouse 15. Pat Benatar 16. Kate Bush 17. Bjork 18. Joan Jett 19. Elizabeth Fraser 20. Siouxsie Sioux I had originally included Dolores O'Riordian too in the influence/importance. She will have to be a honourable mention instead.
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richardh
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Prog Chris Thompson Justin Hayward Greg Lake John Wetton Annie Haslam Peter Nicholls Peter Gabriel Kate Bush Steve Walsh Pete Hammill Other Tom Smith (Editors) John Lydon/Johnny Rotten Agnetha Fältskog Bryan Ferry Bruce Dickinson Brian Connolly Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) Brad Delp |
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In no order..
Prog/Prog related etc.. Justin Hayward Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Kate Bush Peter Hammill Geddy Lee Annie Haslam John Wetton Greg Lake Freddie Mercury Dave Gilmour Adrian Belew Fish Jon Anderson Sonja Kristina Non prog: Bjork David Coverdale Ian Gillan Robert Plant Bruce Dickinson Ronnie James Dio Stevie Nicks Siouxsie Sioux David Sylvian Liz Fraser Nick Drake Tom Jones Scott Walker Robert Smith Minnie Ripperton Marvin Gaye David Bowie |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Ruby900
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This is my list; Greg Lake John Wetton Sandy Denny Gary Brooker Ella Fitzgerald Kate Bush Annie Haslam Peter Gabriel Beth Gibbons I'm sure I have missed a few
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"I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman
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I know this is a prog site but I cannot believe that John Lennon hasn't been mentioned once. "John had an inborn dislike of his own voice, which I could never understand, as it was one of the best voices I've heard" George Martin Listen to the 1963 version of Twist and Shout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RicaUqd9Hg Incredible. The album, Please Please Me was recorded on 1 day in ~13 hours........ from Wikipedia....... at 10:00 am on Monday, 11 February 1963, the Beatles began
working their way through their live set song by song, the number of
takes varying on each, and finished at 10:45 pm – less than 13 hours
later – capturing in essence an authentic representation of the band's
Cavern Club-era sound. The day ended with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because John Lennon had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal would ruin Lennon's voice for the day....... There are other numerous examples of his rock vocal qualities
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^The real lol moment is that someone above has put Yoko Ono in at No. 20 and excluded John from the list! Irony is underrated.
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BarryGlibb
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Oh, I see it was a list of female singers. I thought Yoko only spoke or screamed. I must check out her back catalogue.
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Posted: January 21 2020 at 02:03 |
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^You can always been macho man, that can´t stand any woman´s primitivity (or course for man it has been allowed a long time), but to me Lennon hasn´t ever been fav singer. He has quite weak voice, he just made really many great songs. Or course Lennon, McCartney & Harrison sounded really great together.
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Mortte
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Well, I find Yoko´s "her-expessing" just great, but she can also sing:
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Whoah, lots of replies this week :)
I'd love to squeeze Ian's name somewhere because he is a wonderful stage performer, composer, a huge talent; but he killed his voice a long time ago, while Bruce is playing for 3 hours a gig singing with 90% of his old power.
- Sammy Hagar > David Lee Roth vocally, although I prefer earlier VH releases; - Layne Staley is my favorite name you mentioned! Should've included him as an honorable mention; - Jack Russell, I'll check him out some day; - Brian Johnson was impressive in the 80s, agreed, but I felt two AC/DC singers is a bit much, so I picked Scott, he spewed vitriol and was a definition of savage! - now for Ozzy...
Sabbath as a Rock band: - debut in 1970, in the heart of Rock era - lots of blues rock solos, licks and riffs - Geezer Butler always said Black Sabbath was a heavy, raw blues rock band - they toured with hard rock bands a lot and were seen as part of the movement then - at first they were much closer to Zeppelin, Purple, Heep, Sir Lord Baltimore etc. than heavy metal of late 70s (Judas, Saxon, Quartz) - their traditional sound had very little to do with extreme metal esthetics of the 80s (thrash+ ) Sabbath as a Metal band: - dark, horror imagery followed by gloomy lyrics - seemingly interested in the occult (well that was a schtick, I believe Jimmy Page had much more real interest and knowledge on this than anyone on Sabbath) - pretty much every single metal performer names Black Sabbath as an influence (but they also name Zeppelin and others!) - some songs really sound like templates for future genres, i.e. "Symptom of the Universe" with a thrashy riff, "Sweet Leaf" as a stoner anthem - Ronnie James Dio era wasn't that different from NWOBHM acts of the time - imho the most important argument: they created original Doom Metal sounds without knowing it, and they deserve credit for this For me, they are OVERARCHING both genres and calling them a Metal Band is oversimplification :) That's why I feel Ozzy can be included on rock lists (same thing with Tony, Geezer and Bill!!!)
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I agree with that summary of Sabbath, but while Ozzy had a significant role in shaping that sound, he wasn't the sole driving force. In terms of VOCAL influence, it is Ian Gillian and Ronnie himself who proved more influential, with only stoner singers following Ozzy's lead. Speaking of Dio, yes, the Door Sabbath albums are like NWOBHM but that was essentially Due carrying on from where he left at Rainbow. Rainbow and JP were massive influences on NWOBHM. Rather, I should say they had already shaped that sound, particularly Priest, before Maiden came along. Of course Maiden became more successful than the other two and we know that history is written by the victors. Just like Eddie VH claiming for the longest time that he invented tapping.
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:
We arrived at an understanding many years ago.