Who is the best male singer of the past 100 years?

applehunter

Paul Robeson, Demis Rousous, Paverotti, Frank Paterson, Bono?, Meat Loaf, maybe even Joe Dolan.....?

Who do you think was the best?

Nidge

JEFF BUCKLEY, no argument, me thinks.

FX Meister

Joe Cocker or possibly Jimmy Nail

fade2black

Nat King Cole.

zAbbo

Tony Danza

He was the boss

D!ve^Bomb!

i think Jeff Buckely myself..

Mr. CooL ICE

Im not gonna do my usual plugging of Ashlee Simpson, cos the answer is...

Bruce Dickenson

robbie1876

Tony Bennett, with honourable mentions for Michael McDonald, Tom Jones and Mick Hucknell

Pigman II

Dana International

Jimmy_Jazz

Johnny Rotten

2+2=5

jim morrison, chris cornell, ed vedder, or jeff buckley

Nidge

Cornell WOULD be a good candidate, all-rounded, fantastical range and likeable voice.

Jazzman

joe cocker or nat king cole.

dead air

don't know about best, but here my favourites at least

Maynard [tool/APC]
Otis Redding
Billy Corgan [obviously, this one's a personal preference]
Chris Cornell [soundgarden]

Shrimp

Jim Morrison is great, But how about Bob Dylan, one of a kind in my opinion..

FX Meister

Shrimp wrote:

Jim Morrison is great, But how about Bob Dylan, one of a kind in my opinion..

Well the topic was best singer and Dylan wasn't really a great singer, which he freely admits.

Zombienosh

this is a hard one, im fond of chris cornell though

ferdi

the classics:

freddie mercury
elvis presley
frank sinatra
barry white

my tip:

Jim Adkins (jimmy eat world)

WetDaddy

No-one's mentioned Messr's. Sinatra or Mercury so far?!?

There's a fair other few out there who are meant to be incredible, but I haven't really had a good chance to listen to. I suppose "Best" is a very subjective term, but if you're talking technique, ability, range and versatility, then you can't really include the likes of Jim Morrison or (God help us) Bono / Dylan.

Jeff Buckley did have a fantastic voice, but what about Tim Buckley? He was incredible too.

Still though, my vote remains with Ol' Shut Eyes or Freddie Mercury until someone convinces me otherwise!

Velvet Vocals

FX Meister wrote:

Joe Cocker or possibly Jimmy Nail

JIMMY NAIL???

Phil_321

Stevie Wonder can do some amazing **** with his voice. And Michael Jackson is incredible too, but he never goes overboard on the vocal acrobatics anymore. Check out the Jackson 5 stuff to see what he could when he was only a kid.
When it comes to rock though Brian Johnson has(had) the most powerful voice in the business.

Seed

Isaac Hayes
Eddie Vedder
Chris Cornell

MrJoeSoap

Nidge wrote:

JEFF BUCKLEY, no argument, me thinks.

Here here.

Dr. Loon

Elvis
Sinatra
Freddie Mercury also.

Mick1973

How about all of the Temptations ??? ('Specially David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks & Dennis Edwards). Also Steve Marriott ? And how come no one's mentioned Roger Daltrey ????

Doctor J

Marvin Gaye

Honourable mention for Freddie Mercury

Jimmy_Jazz

James Dean Bradfield is seriously under-rated.

Nidge

deathfunk wrote:

No-one's mentioned Messr's. Sinatra or Mercury so far?!?

Funny how you said that, and in fact sinatra and mercury were mentioned in the very post that you posted after....

Killaqueen!!!

Why Freddie Mercury of course. No competition what-so-ever. Best male singer EVER...EVER!!! E-V-E-R!!! lol...sorry..:)

2+2=5

deathfunk wrote:

No-one's mentioned Messr's. Sinatra or Mercury so far?!?

There's a fair other few out there who are meant to be incredible, but I haven't really had a good chance to listen to. I suppose "Best" is a very subjective term, but if you're talking technique, ability, range and versatility, then you can't really include the likes of Jim Morrison or (God help us) Bono / Dylan.

Jeff Buckley did have a fantastic voice, but what about Tim Buckley? He was incredible too.

Still though, my vote remains with Ol' Shut Eyes or Freddie Mercury until someone convinces me otherwise!

well if we're gonna go in terms of technique, ability, range and versatility, its gonna be an opera singer

oneofakind32

Frank Sinatra
Jeff Buckly
Sly Stone

Jim

In his own genre of singing, Al Stewart.

Perfect diction everytime.

littlejay

i was never really a lover of jazz and crooner music but... i got me mammy a cd for xmas michael buble. holy sh_it this canidian guy can sing .
if any one is on msn i can send a piece of his music to ya for a listen really awesome . so good i bought ,,dont laugh . his new album called its time. theres a track on it called song for you.

i swear to god im 36 years old. and i have no quams bout telling people this guy is up there with the best..
normaly i like oasis jacko. george michael .and coldplay beatles . all that kinda stuff.

if i had to pick my top singer .mmmmmm?
michael jackson would be in the top three anyway.

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Rosser

JEFF BUCKLEY an absolute God

funk-you

robert plant, james brown, frank sinatra, marvin gaye, jim morrison, bb king(in the bluesy sense of singing), john lennon..............

tj-music.com

The Mighty Brothers Gibb have the best voices ever and I am not talking about that falsetto - ****e. They r around for a good while and never seized to amaze me. Especially Robins voice is amazing.

Honourable mentions: George Michael, Paul Stanley and Michael Bolton.

NeMiSiS

Marvin Gaye all the way I'm with Doctor J.
Ryhmes too!
Tom

Gandolf

Bradley Nowell from Sublime...get some of their live stuff or with just him and his gat. Expression and soul...he could sing on his own quietly and have you really feeling it.

Pity bout the O/D

idontknowmyname

Freddie Mercury!!!!! Eddie Vedder, or Dave Grohl

yeah joe dolan gets my vote!! and we can't forget out darling daniel o'donnell!!! haha :cool:

idontknowmyname

oh yeah forgot about Stevie Wonder, so my final two would be him and Freddie

Photi

Tom Waits

deedee lepoopoo

yeah, marvin gaye
Sinatra
Nat king cole (aka old chocolate voice)
David Bowie
Al Jolson

jinxed

John Lennon,
Marvin Gaye,
Robert Plant,
Freddie Mercury,
Chris Cornell,
Mark Lanegan,
Eric Clapton,
and Jim Morrison.

........ quite a few but i just couldn't choose.

tibilt

kurt cobain

logonapr

Roy Orbison without a doubt and I'm not alone in this view,

Elvis Presley described Roy Orbison as The greatest singer in the world."

Bruce Springsteen inducted Orbison into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and recalled how he always "wanted to sing like Roy Orbison. Now everybody knows that nobody sings like Roy Orbison.”

"His great gift was to turn the pain and bad luck that he experienced into ground breaking songs" - Bono/U2 ( who wrote 'She's a Mystery to me' for Orbison

WetDaddy

well if we're gonna go in terms of technique, ability, range and versatility, its gonna be an opera singer

2+2=5, I see where you're coming from, but that's not necessarily true. In particular, versatility... I have a few friends who are professionaly opera singers, but it's not very easy for them to sing something rocking, you know?

Besides, the thread was "Best male vocalist..." - It says nothing about excluding opera singers.

Funny how you said that, and in fact sinatra and mercury were mentioned in the very post that you posted after....

Nidge, I don't know what you mean. Is that sarcasm? Or do you just mean I reminded people? (And no, I'm not being sarcastic myself... )

edson

Layne Stayley...f***kin' brilliant, better than cobain, cornell, vedder..all those..

Giblet

edson wrote:

Layne Stayley...f***kin' brilliant, better than cobain, cornell, vedder..all those..

He's not better than Cornell. No way.

humbleCounty

Jim Morrison hands down, the man had it all

also Robert Smith (The Cure) he was pretty original and came up with some amazing melodies

edson

Giblet wrote:

He's not better than Cornell. No way.

well.....IMO he is but we all have our opinions....

Nidge

Nidge, I don't know what you mean. Is that sarcasm? Or do you just mean I reminded people? (And no, I'm not being sarcastic myself... )[/QUOTE]


No i wasn't being sarcastic. It's just you said that none of those names had yet been mentioned, when strangely enough the very post before you had mentioned two of them. No sarcasm intended.