5 Best continued

[AP515]

After the 5 best guitarists thread, how about the 5 best rock and roll vocalists?

As usual, in no particular order...

Don Henley
Paul Rodgers
Tommy Shaw
Brad Delp
Robert Plant

 

[Kynlore]

Ann Wilson
Freddie Mercury
Robert Plant
Sebastian Bach
David Coverdale

Voted on vocal ability and not as a frontman, though there would be some overlap if I were to list those.

 

[Tosca]

Paul Rodgers
Paul McCartney
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott
David Bowie
Janis Joplin

(Mercury, Plant, Daltrey, Van Morrison, and Bob Marley round out my top ten)

 

[bodia]

Freddie Mercury
Ronnie James Dio
Robert Plant
Paul Rodgers
Ian Gillan

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Jello Biafra
HR
John Lydon
Tom Araya
Robert Plant

 

[veinbuster]

Much harder for me because I don't know as many names. I'll toss out
Burton Cummings (first guy to make me wish I was a singer)
Robert Plant
Freddie Mercury
the Heart ladies (not sure which Wilson to credit for what)
Janis Joplin

I love Bowie's voice and how he uses it, but never really considered him rock & roll - maybe just because I liked him beyond whatever genre he might have been tagged with at the moment.

 

[11top]

Joe Lynn Turner
Eric Martin
Steve Perry
Sammy Hagar
Paul Rodgers
Lou Graham

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Chris Hamlet Thompson
I don't know who else, I don't usually listen to vocals, but he's always been one of my favourite vocalists.
Rush are my favourite Rock'n'roll band, so I'd probably have to add Geddy Lee
Also the guys in Golden Earring and New Model Army.

the Heart ladies (not sure which Wilson to credit for what)

Ann sung lead vocals on 95% of the songs. I always had a crush on Nancy because musician, but in hindsight, Ann was a fantastic vocalist. I even tried to interview her (Nancy) at the impressionable, pheromone-laden age of 16. I have never heard anything louder than the audience in Capital Center in Landover, MD when I saw them. Nothing. So you'd probably be not too surprised to find out that I did not land said interview. They were at their absolute peak. I think it was the Dog & Butterfly tour.

 

[LJD]

Freddy Mercury. I could list 4 other of my favorite rock singers but they all sound like they're taking a **** compared to Freddie Mercury.

 

[Jmartin]

In no particular order:

Freddy Mercury
Grace Slick
Robert Plant
Rob Halford
Steve Perry

If I could add one more it would be Janis Joplin

 

[11top]

Joe Lynn Turner
Eric Martin
Steve Perry
Sammy Hagar
Paul Rodgers
Lou Graham

^ Starting 6, and while I was listening to my music during my massage (yeah, life's a b*tch ) I picked the reserve squad:

Robin Zander
Pat Monahan
Steve Walsh
Glenn Hughes
Chris Cornell
David Coverdale
And how the hell did I forget Myles Kennedy?!!

 

[veinbuster]

He hasn't got the history of a lot of the people mentioned, but Ian Thornley has a strong voice well suited to rock.

 

[AP515]

^ Starting 6, and while I was listening to my music during my massage (yeah, life's a b*tch ) I picked the reserve squad:

...And how the hell did I forget Myles Kennedy?!!

Yeah, I wanted to put in Myles, and Ann, and Coverdale, and Perry, but like the guitarist thread, you only get 5. Any one of the five I did mention could be replaced by these, but what ya gonna do?

 

[Alan Manning]

David Bowie,Freddie Mercury,Robert Plant,Chuck Berry,Brian Johnson.

 

[gball]

Ozzy
Nash Kato
Robert Plant
Keith Gibbs
Brann Dailor

 

[The Fight]

Steve Perry
Miles Kennedy
Sebastian Bach
Ozzy Osbourne
Definitely - Robert Plant
I really like Trevor Rabin of YES

 

[ElrytNamrogo]

No particular order....

Robert Plant
Steven Tyler
Glenn Hughes
Axle Rose - Even if he is/was a complete diva (which is kinda rockstar anyway)
Freddie Mercury

I gotta throw out some 90's love, too..
Layne Staley
Chris Cornell
Eddie Vedder
Scott Weiland
Billy Corgan

 

[drdoom8793]

Some of my favorites (yes, I'm a youngin')

Miles Kennedy
Spencer Sotelo (Periphery)
Hayley Williams (Paramore)
Chris Robertson (Black Stone Cherry)
Schuylar Croom (He Is Legend)

 

[Bill SAS 513]

Freddie, Geddy, Rik Emmit, Robert Plant...Steve Walsh...subject to change...?!

 

[Dusty Chalk]

... but like the guitarist thread, you only get 5...

But not in real life, not no way, not no how. That's one of my favourite things about music (and real life, for that matter) -- you don't really have to choose.