Top 5 Male Voices
Posted by: Chillkram on 20 July 2008
Just to balance things out!
Robert Plant
Tom Jones
Ray Charles
Roy Orbison
Nat King Cole
Mark
Posted on: 20 July 2008 by droodzilla
Aaargh! How could I have forgottten Donald Fagen?! Revised list:
Al Green
Mark E Smith
Tim Buckley
Leonard Cohen
Donald Fagen
Apologies to Ian Curtis(!)
Posted on: 20 July 2008 by Chris Kelly
Carl Wilson
Brian Wilson
Billy Gibbons
Howlin' Wolf
John Fogerty
Posted on: 20 July 2008 by Whizzkid
Jon Anderson
Mark Hollis
Robert Smith
Dave Gahan
Ian McCulloch
Now only one of them really has impressive range, but the others are instantly recognisable unlike most of the mainstream Pop offerings.
Dean..
Posted on: 20 July 2008 by DenisA
When they put their mind to it; a Power Quintet
Steve Marriott
Roger Daltry
Richard Thompson
Steve Earle
Ray Davies
Posted on: 20 July 2008 by kuma
Frank Sinatra
Lew Rawls
James Taylor
Art Garfunkel
Mel Torme
Runner ups:
Nat King Cole
James Ingram
Philip Baily
Tony Bennet
Posted on: 20 July 2008 by Bruce Woodhouse
I'm not much of a one for classical singers so mine are
Paul Buchanan
Van Morrison
Robert Plant
Leonard Cohen
Billy Bragg (yes-really)
Bruce
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by Bruce Woodhouse
quote:
Originally posted by Bruce Woodhouse:
I'm not much of a one for classical singers so mine are
Paul Buchanan
Van Morrison
Robert Plant
Leonard Cohen
Billy Bragg (yes-really)
Bruce
Delete Plant and add Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. How on earthe could I have forgotten him.
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by Chris Kelly
And a B list from me:
John Hiatt
Jack Bruce
John Mellencamp
Gary Brooker
Stephen Stills
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by Ewan Aye
Des O'Connor
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by Huwge
B List:
Rick Danko
Richard Manuel
Levon Helm
Otis Redding
Terry Evans
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by Jaseamondo
ok so maybe these not the the greatest of time,however they are some of my current fav's.
Ray Lamontagne
Jason Mraz
Josh Groban
James Morrison
Newton Faulkner
Jason Mraz has a acoustic version of the first pinky and perky song by the ramones (blitzcrieg bop) on youtube. not sure how to post a link or i would.
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by u5227470736789439
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by u5227470736789439
And for balance and decorum may I introduce Mr Aksel Schiøtz, performing the Aria,
Il mio tesoro intanto from Mozart's Opera
Don Giovanni. Those of you with a comic sense of the ridiculous and a long memory for old British Black and White films may recall that this Aria is simply murdered [as also is a whole Aristocratic family] in
Kind Hearts, and Coronets.The serial murderer of the Ducal family was the son of the tenor who did the musical murdering, and the disowned daughter of the family was the serial murder's mother...
It is a hoot!
Naturally, Mr Aksel Schiøtz is more than simply exemplary as to how it should be done. He was a curiosity among tenors, in that he was not the usual puffed up little man, but a rather kind person who always thought of others. As Gerald Moore [the great accompanist at the piano of almost every singer of note in the mid-twentieth] century noted, "He was one of only two tenors I ever worked with who did bring the subject of
himself up!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90rj2eOWCxs&feature=relatedEnjoy! ATB from George
Posted on: 21 July 2008 by Exiled Highlander
Frank Sinatra
Bob Dylan
Gram Parsons
Johnny Cash
Mick Jagger
That was tough and so tempting to add a B list....
Jim
Posted on: 22 July 2008 by Luxen
Robert Plant
James Hetfield
Adam Duritz
Wayne Hussey
Roy Orbison
Posted on: 22 July 2008 by Luxen
2nd 5:
Phil Anselmo
Phil Lynott
Roger Waters
Johann Hegg
Tom Araya
Posted on: 22 July 2008 by hungryhalibut
Another tricky one. I'd go for, off the top of my head....
Elvis Costello
Nick Drake
Frank Sinatra (up to 1960)
Morrissey
Joe Jackson
Nigel
Posted on: 22 July 2008 by droodzilla
As good a place to post this as any, I guess:
GodNigel
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by Luxen
Al Green is surely NOT GOD....
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by fentontfox
Frank Sinatra - For style and making a song his.
Al Green - The ultimate soul singer.
Tim Buckley - A truly pure voice.
Fritz Wunderlich - A fantastic tenor who actually makes a sung that is French originally or any other language for that matter still sound fantastic in German,try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZspT2zM-w0Giuseppe di stefano - Passion and in the early days such liquid tone
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by JamieL
1. Peter Hammill
2. Robert Plant
3. Eddie Vedder
4. Michael Stype
5. Mark Kozelek
And the next five are right on their heels.
David Sylvian, Mark Hollis (Talk Talk), Maynard James Keenan (Tool, APC), Jeff Buckley (sad we have so little by him).
Also for such a great range, and one of the most amazing live performers Freddie Mercury, again sadly missed.
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by droodzilla
quote:
Originally posted by Luxen:
Al Green is surely NOT GOD....
Right you are Luxen!
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Top fifty ?
Wow munch
Top 50? this is male singers thread, not the female singers thread
I had trouble thinking of 5 - though I can now by using the suggestions of other forum members: Paul Rogers, Peter Hammill and Jeff Buckley for example.
ATB Rotf
BTW who is Al Green?
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by JamieL
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
quote:
Top fifty ?
Wow munch
Top 50? this is male singers thread, not the female singers thread
I had trouble thinking of 5 - though I can now by using the suggestions of other forum members: Paul Rogers, Peter Hammill and Jeff Buckley for example.
ATB Rotf
BTW who is Al Green?
The Reverend Al Green, soul singer, who I know best for 'Take Me to the River'.
Good to see another Peter Hammill fan here too.
Jamie
Posted on: 23 July 2008 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Take Me to the River
Thanks Jamie
I searched for it and just found and listened to it on YouTube - sounds pretty good - feel I should have known him, but didn't.
ATB Rotf
