Best male vocalist.

To me only one name comes to mind and it only takes one word to say it.


SINATRA

Dean Martin Forever

Frank Sinatra

Da man!

(Gawain, which are your favorites? For me, it's Stars Fell on Alabama, One More for my Baby, Witchcraft, and so many others...)

Dean Martin 4EVA

My favorite Sinatra is "It was a very good year" , Thats life and witchraft. Hell just about anything he sings is great, Yes Cappo Dean is also great. The best is when they are together with their favorite itallian friend Sammy Davis Jr.

Try this link to sample some Sinatra. I hope it works as mine havent been lately.

Sinatra? My ears think he's always slightly off tune. :dizzy2:

I'd certainly go for the 1980s Bruce Dickinson voice. That's a real vocalist. ~D

Nice choices, I love Sinatra's Very good year and Dean Martin's Little old wine drinker me always gets me singing along.
Don't forget Mr Golden tonsils Nat 'King' Cole and Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World has to be one of the finest songs

.....Orda

Freddy Mercury

Chris Cornell

Since someone already dropped Frankie S' name I'll throw another Italian onto the pile...

Luciano Pavarotti - He really is the greatest male opera singer since the invention of sound recording devices. Simply exceptional.

If you're invoking Frankie, Dean & Nat then don't forget Bing Crosby, baritone crooner extraordinaire.

Placido Domingo

Roy Orbison

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Freddy Mercury

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here here!!! ~:cheers:

How the heck would you pick a best vocalist? Best voalist for what? Crooner? Probably Sinatra, although I'm not familiar enough with the '30s and '40s jazz singers to be certain.

R&B? Probably Ray Charles. You could argue for Stevie Wonder, too. You could also make a compelling case for Marvin Gaye.

Rock? Take your pick from the usual suspects -- Freddie Mercury certainly taking a very queenly place near the top of the heap. Nobody mentioned Jim Morrison, who crossed the line between crooner and rocker pretty well.

Country? Probably Lyle Lovett, although you could make a seriously twisted case for Willie Nelson.

Opera? Everybody's probably going to say Pavarotti. But I'm sure a real opera buff could reel off five more in the same league.

Okay, so put Luciano, Ray, Frank, Marvin and Lyle in a room, give them all chainsaws. Who's the best vocalist? The one who emerges alive?

This is why I have a hard time with things like the Academy Awards. Genius is singular and unique, impossible to compare. Mediocrity is common and easily measured. It follows that terms like "best" are better applied to the average than the brilliant.

I'm pretty sure it was Mozart who said, "Artists are not horses to be run against each other." Having said that, can well all agree that Wolfgang was the "best" classical composer? :dizzy2:

umm probably the lead singer of Korn although i think there some editing it sounds great!

Tiny Tim ~:eek:

James Le brie from dreamtheatre
and then Freddy Mercury
thanks,
dessa

Paul Rogers..........Free and Bad Comapany

.........Orda

Neil Hannon form the Divine comedy and without a doubt the man with a voice as smooth as silk the great Al Green ~D

Also the great Luke Kelly(RIP) the most lovely and emotional voice i have ever heard.

Grizzly, why Jonathan Davis?
KoRn's awesome, but many are better than they are.

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Sinatra? My ears think he's always slightly off tune. :dizzy2:

I'd certainly go for the 1980s Bruce Dickinson voice. That's a real vocalist. ~D

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Could not agree more, bang on.

Grizzly, why Jonathan Davis?
KoRn's awesome, but many are better than they are.

well the voice is great, Korn would probably be my favourite band. great music, great singing and great lyrics..... well imo

Bob Dylan

Andrea Bocelli...his 'Ombra Mai Fu' takes the best (omho)

Sinatra is second, but Dean is better IMHO.

BTW I did it my way (Sinatra) is definatly one of the greateest songs of all time

I really like David Bowie's voice.

Bowie and Reed are both excellent voices, yeah!

My vote goes to Kurt Cobain (RIP Kurt)

Mostly because of the emotion he puts into every song, not down to vocal talent because theres far better vocalists skill wise than Kurt but give me the emtion of kurt over them anyday!

Freddy Mercury has a great voice too, but the only really other voices I can think of are female.

My faves that come to mind...in no particular order.

Frank Sinatra
Thom Yorke
Kurt Cobain
Liam Gallagher
Prince
Patrick Morrisey
Freddie Mercury
David Bowie
Stevie Wonder
Syd Barrett
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Luciano Pavarotti
Andrea Bocelli

I really could not pick one individual from that list!

:help:

Bruce Dickinson

Ronnie Van Zant was really great too.