RS 100 - Top Singers

Cornfed Hick

Cornfed Hick

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Rolling Stone has a new "Top 100" list, in which it ranks the 100 best singers in popular music:  http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972

The top 5:

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Ray Charles
3. Elvis Presley
4. Sam Cooke (I would have picked him #1)
5. John Lennon

None of Iron Maiden's singers made the list.  Most ridiculous result: Bob Dylan at #7.  Even assuming he is a great songwriter, he is NOT a great singer.  

Discuss.
 
Aretha and Sam Cooke definitely belong.  Cooke has the greatest male singing voice I've ever heard. 

For you Queen fans out there, Freddie Mercury was #18.  The only "metal" singers on the list were Robert Plant (#15), Axl Rose (#64) and Stephen Tyler (#99) -- and you'd need a pretty broad definition of heavy metal to include Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith.

Tom Waits and Patti Smith made the list; Bruce didn't.  I will now go slam my hand in a car door. 
 
Oh, I completely agree about Aretha and Cooke, but again, the others, even the ones you just mentioned... you need a broad definition of "singing" lol
 
cornfedhick said:
Rolling Stone has a new "Top 100" list, in which it ranks the 100 best singers in popular music:  http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972

The top 5:

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Ray Charles
3. Elvis Presley
4. Sam Cooke (I would have picked him #1)
5. John Lennon

None of Iron Maiden's singers made the list.  Most ridiculous result: Bob Dylan at #7.  Even assuming he is a great songwriter, he is NOT a great singer.  

Discuss.
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If this is a list of great voices, how can they overlook the heavy metal genre so completely? The closest they get is Robert Plant (who is great). In my opinion, Ian Gillan, the Air Raid Siren and the Metal God should not only be in the list, but all of them well inside the top 30. And seriously, Bob Dylan? He couldn't sing to save his life.
 
What did you expect? You only need to see their other "lists" to understand they are not to be taken seriously in any way. And yeah, Dio, Rob, Bruce and Gillan should all be in top thirty. Come on, BB King is on that list!
 
I hate lists. You'll see Kurt Cobain in top20-30 guitarists list. I was more technically capable when i was 16 than he ever showed in his career.
 
cornfedhick said:
Aretha and Sam Cooke definitely belong.  Cooke has the greatest male singing voice I've ever heard. 

For you Queen fans out there, Freddie Mercury was #18.  The only "metal" singers on the list were Robert Plant (#15), Axl Rose (#64) and Stephen Tyler (#99) -- and you'd need a pretty broad definition of heavy metal to include Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith.

Tom Waits and Patti Smith made the list; Bruce didn't.  I will now go slam my hand in a car door. 
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these kinds of lists suck; best guitarists, best albums, best songs -more reliable are the best groups lists but still

in another forum I made some copy paste of list's top20 singers (too lazy to make my proper one), here it is :

1 | Elvis Presley
2 | Aretha Franklin
3 | Robert Plant
4 | Sam Cooke
5 | Marvin Gaye
6 | Stevie Wonder
7 | Freddie Mercury
8 | Bob Marley
9 | Ray Charles
10 | James Brown
11 | Mick Jagger
12 | Little Richard
13 | Tina Turner
14 | Al Green
15 | John Lennon
16 | Otis Redding
17 | Paul McCartney
18 | Roy Orbison
19 | Bob Dylan
20 | Smokey Robinson

with red, the singers that probably would be out of my top20

*John Lennon, Paul McCartney =no! I LOVE their voices, but they were not dedicated singers, so they wouldn't be in my list

Zare said:
I hate lists. You'll see Kurt Cobain in top20-30 guitarists list. I was more technically capable when i was 16 than he ever showed in his career.
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yeah worst than this; you see him ranked around #12 while Blackmore is around #40
pathetic  :mad:
 
cornfedhick said:
For you Queen fans out there, Freddie Mercury was #18.  The only "metal" singers on the list were Robert Plant (#15), Axl Rose (#64) and Stephen Tyler (#99) -- and you'd need a pretty broad definition of heavy metal to include Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith.
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Paul Rogers was there also.

I don't think it's necessary to say who should be in there, but isn't. But saying that, David Bryon, for example, has got one of the most purest voices in rock and would make the top ten of any list I would contribute to.

Bruce is a bloody good vocalist, I'll give you that, but what makes him stand out is the passion he puts behind the song. The way he acts the story of the song. Rarely seen in some vocalists.
 
Rolling Stone is still mainly run by the same aging hippies who started the magazine in the late 60s. They have never liked any form of metal or hard rock. The #1 jerkwad, Jann Wenner (owner and publisher) is also the #1 guy behind the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, which is why they ignore metal over there too.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Rolling Stone is still mainly run by the same aging hippies who started the magazine in the late 60s.
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I think you're right

SinisterMinisterX said:
They have never liked any form of metal or hard rock.
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I think you're wrong here: they seem to like some mainstream (in the means of commercial success) groups like Metallica* and Led Zep
...I'm not sure about Pantera and Black Sabbath but I think they like them too

*take for example their review for St.Anger to see what I mean
 
Rolling Stone clearly appears to respect certain metal acts.  G'n'R, for example, in which the magazine, in the same most recent issue, breathlessly declared "Chinese Democracy" to be the most anticipated album ever.  And, while they initially hated Led Zeppelin, they have been giving them props the last few years.  Black Sabbath, too -- at least a couple of Sabbath albums made RS's list of 500 greatest albums.  They have never given much love to Iron Maiden, though, for reasons I don't fully understand.  Maybe Steve Harris slept with Jann Wenner's girlfriend. 
 
cornfedhick said:
Rolling Stone clearly appears to respect certain metal acts.  G'n'R, for example, in which the magazine, in the same most recent issue, breathlessly declared "Chinese Democracy" to be the most anticipated album ever.  And, while they initially hated Led Zeppelin, they have been giving them props the last few years.  Black Sabbath, too -- at least a couple of Sabbath albums made RS's list of 500 greatest albums.  They have never given much love to Iron Maiden, though, for reasons I don't fully understand.  Maybe Steve Harris slept with Jann Wenner's girlfriend. 
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exactly! basically they hate metal except if it becomes tready. For example Black Sabbath they became tready during 90s
so I am very curious to see a 500 best albums of all time list for an 80s issue
such loosers they are

regarding Maiden is true they were (now they are less) very negative
-maybe because of the beast and the alleged antichrist worship delirium of early 80s

ps : yeah Chinese Democracy, after 15 years in studio, so pathetic
 
cornfedhick said:
G'n'R, for example, in which the magazine, in the same most recent issue, breathlessly declared "Chinese Democracy" to be the most anticipated album ever.
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That may actually be true, you know. When an album requires 13 years to make and is announced then delayed so many times, it does become anticipated by a great many people.
 
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