To me only one name comes to mind and it only takes one word to say it.
SINATRA
Best male vocalist.
To me only one name comes to mind and it only takes one word to say it.
SINATRA
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Re: Best male vocalist.
Dean Martin Forever
Why do you hate Freedom?
The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.
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Frank Sinatra
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Last edited by Beirut; 10-26-2004 at 04:01.
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Dean Martin 4EVA
Why do you hate Freedom?
The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.
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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.
Last edited by Gawain of Orkeny; 10-26-2004 at 04:25.
Fighting for Truth , Justice and the American way
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Sinatra? My ears think he's always slightly off tune.
I'd certainly go for the 1980s Bruce Dickinson voice. That's a real vocalist.
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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
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Freddy Mercury
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Chris Cornell
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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.
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Placido Domingo
Roy Orbison
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here here!!!
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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?
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umm probably the lead singer of Korn although i think there some editing it sounds great!
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Tiny Tim
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James Le brie from dreamtheatre
and then Freddy Mercury
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Paul Rogers..........Free and Bad Comapany
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Neil Hannon form the Divine comedy and without a doubt the man with a voice as smooth as silk the great Al Green
Also the great Luke Kelly(RIP) the most lovely and emotional voice i have ever heard.
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Grizzly, why Jonathan Davis?
KoRn's awesome, but many are better than they are.
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Could not agree more, bang on.Sinatra? My ears think he's always slightly off tune.
I'd certainly go for the 1980s Bruce Dickinson voice. That's a real vocalist.
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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
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Bob Dylan
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Andrea Bocelli...his 'Ombra Mai Fu' takes the best (omho)
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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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
Why do you hate Freedom?
The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.
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I really like David Bowie's voice.
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Bowie and Reed are both excellent voices, yeah!
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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.
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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!
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Bruce Dickinson
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Ronnie Van Zant was really great too.
Why do you hate Freedom?
The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.
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