Your top 5 rock (or other genres if you want) vocalists

Last edited by Ironhide on Sat Jul 15, 2023 8:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Fairly self explanatory really.

Mine, in no particular order

- Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)
- Layne Staley (Alice in Chains)
- Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees)
- Maynard James Keenan (Tool)
- Chino Moreno (Deftones)

Notable mentions: Eddy Vedder (Pearl Jam), Geddy Lee (Rush), Ian Gillen (Deep Purple), Einar Solberg (Leprous)

This was a harder list to make than I thought but in no order:

Bret Michaels (Poison)
Nick Holmes (Paradise Lost)
Su-metal (Babymetal)
Danny Vaughn (Tyketto)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)

That's one hell of an ecclectic list, Freddy was indeed incredible but I can't say I've really heard the rest of them, might have to listen to them now.

I like all the bands mentioned so far, but I wouldn’t say Bret Michaels is that great. Nick Holmes is, though probably still not top five for me, but Paradise Lost would be in my top ten bands.

Layne and Freddie are likely to make my list. I need to think on this. First names that come to mind are Geoff Tate of Queensryche, Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria, and the combined harmonies of Dug, Ty and Jerry of King’s X.

Last edited by Moggy on Sat Jul 15, 2023 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Male vocalists:

Stevie Wonder
Axl Rose (80s and early 90s)
Freddy Mercury
Paul McCartney (late 60s & 70s)
Marvin Gaye

Halford (Defenders to Painkiller)
Tim Aymar (late 90's onwards)
Hansi Kursch (Imaginations to ANATO)
Dio (early 90's)
Bruce Dickinson (late 90's)

Honourable mentions, Britney Slayes, Michael Seifert, Devin Townsend. Kai Hansen.

John Fogarty
Kurt Cobain
Bruce Springsteen
Elton John
James Taylor

Hayley Williams
Florence Welsh
Kate Bush
Susanna Hoffs
Stevie Nicks

Robert Plant
Ian Gillan
Freddie Mercury
Noddy Holder
Janis Joplin

Now I want to add Stevie Nicks....

Tomous wrote:Now I want to add Stevie Nicks....

You've done a male list, do a female one as well.

Female vocalists:

Aretha Franklin
Nina Simone
Stevie Nicks
Kate Bush
Dolores O'Riordan

Female list

- Karin Dreijer (The Knife/Fever Ray)
- Alison Goldfrapp
- Alison Mossheart (The Kills, Dead Weather)
- Skin (Skunk Anansie)
- Brody Dalle (Distillers)

strawberry float, how did I forget Skin :fp:

Moggy wrote:
Tomous wrote:Now I want to add Stevie Nicks....

You've done a male list, do a female one as well.

Good point!

Stevie Nicks
Dusty Springfield
Aretha Franklin
Gladys Knight
Adele

Roddy Woomble (Idlewild)
Frank Turner
Ryan Key (Yellowcard)
Tom Delonge (Angels and Airwaves)
David Eff (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop)

(Nearly made the cut: Stan Bush, Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches) and Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World))

Axl Rose (original G'n'R)
Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
Mike Patton (Faith No More)
Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Cowboys from Hell)

Dio, Ozzy, Geoff Tate, Todd la torre, Joey Tempest, Michael Kiske and Taime Downe all deserve a mention.

Carlos wrote:Roddy Woomble (Idlewild)

Really? I used to love me a bit of Idlewild (the early stuff, before they went a bit MOR) but that man has one of the most monotone vocals I've ever heard.

more heat than light wrote:
Carlos wrote:Roddy Woomble (Idlewild)

Really? I used to love me a bit of Idlewild (the early stuff, before they went a bit MOR) but that man has one of the most monotone vocals I've ever heard.

These things are always highly subjective. I love his way of singing harmonies and can happily listen to Idlewild all day long. They’ve gone to some interesting places since the old days.

I’m a bit lover of folk so I quite like his solo stuff as well, although his recent push into a more jazz-inspired sound isn’t for me.

I always like Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) when he did his solo stuff.

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