Best Rock Vocalist of All-Time?

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I think it's Chris Cornell. He can sing and scream with the best of them - he just kicks ass. He's also had a great career - Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, solo and Audioslave - not too shabby.
 
are you for real?

Iggy Pop
David Bowie
Mick Jagger
Robert Plant
Ozzie Osborne
Corin Tucker (yup, a woman)
Henry Rollins
Joe Strummer
Ian McKaye

that's like saying, "what's the best ice cream flavor," or "who's the worst terrorist ever"
 
[quote name='Sleepkyng']are you for real?

that's like saying, "what's the best ice cream flavor," or "who's the worst terrorist ever"[/quote]

Mint Chocolate Chip and James Dolan. :D

EDIT: I know everyone has their own opinions but it's interesting to read what people think. Freddie Mercury is a great call - I'm not a huge Queen fan but he was awesome.
 
[quote name='Buster Rod G']Freddie Mercury

No one else comes close.[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna have to agree and say he's the best, although Steven Tyler is my favorite.
 
[quote name='javeryh']Well?

I think it's Chris Cornell. He can sing and scream with the best of them - he just kicks ass. He's also had a great career - Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, solo and Audioslave - not too shabby.[/quote]
No offense, but he hasn't been all that great since Soundgarden

My list, in no order:
David Coverdale
Robert Plant
Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth)
Rob Halford
Liv Kristine (ex-Theater of Tragedy)
Christinia Scabia (Lacuna Coil)
Bono
Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory)
King Diamond
Michael Sweet (both him and King D have incredible vocal ranges)
Eric Clapton
Bjorn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork)
Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity)
David Byrne(sp?)
Lou Gramm
Robin Zander
Roger Daltry
Johnny Rotten
Joey Ramone
Bon Scott/Brian Johnson
Layne Staley
Steven Tyler
Mick Jagger
Stevey Ray Vaughn
Steve Perry
And from my personal favorite band of all time: John Lennon and Paul McCartney

And thats pretty much off the top of my head. Most of the others I was gonna put down were listed by Sleepkyng and Buster
 
[quote name='Buster Rod G']Freddie Mercury

No one else comes close.[/QUOTE]

Exactly what I was thinking.

There are others I like but it's just no contest.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']Cornell is the shit. He can sing, and he can scream. Seriously, he's the reason I love Audioslave.

David Bowie sucks.[/QUOTE]


Don't worry, I fixed it for you.
 
fuck you, Cornell is the worst thing to happen to grunge (yes, even more so than Nirvana), and an all around shitty vocalist. I swear, it's like the vocalist for My Chemical Romance took up smoking.
 
[quote name='HumanSnatcher']If you're serious, I really go back to what I said in the OTT lol[/QUOTE]


What would that be?

And Cornell has never been grunge. David Bowie, I could squeeze more emotion out of my shoe.
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']What would that be?

And Cornell has never been grunge. David Bowie, I could squeeze more emotion out of my shoe.[/quote]

Shit, I totally take that back, I was thinking of subbie when he called Aerosmith washed up hacks...I was saying that he doesn't have any taste in rock music because of it. Sorry about that man...
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']Soundgarden spawned from the same shitty Seattle Grunge scene as Nirvana.

Hell, Varg Vikernes is a better vocalist, and he's fucking terrible.[/QUOTE]

Soundgarden formed well before Nirvana, and is considered metal. If you had listened to their first albums, that would be painfully obvious.

Andy Wood was good, as was Scott Weiland before he turned himself into a human pincushion. Most of the people I've talked to that hate Cornell never listened to the stuff MTV or your local radio wouldn't play. 4th of July, Sunshower (solo), Tighter & Tighter, Like Suicide, Let Me Drown and Limo Wreck are good tracks to hear his range.

As far as the BEST evar rock singer? Jeez, I don't think there is one. An upper echelon? Sure. Steven Tyler, if I HAD to rank someone as best rock, would probably be him. Outfuckingstanding range, and he's been doing it for about 80 years now? Hell, if it wasn't rock only, I'd say Lajon Witherspoon has one of the best today (the album version of Angel's Son is a good indication)
 
Plant, Tyler, etc all obvious answers.

WTF has no one mentioned Maynard?

You dirty low down cocksuckers?!

(sorry watching Deadwood and every other word is cocksucker and fuck)
 
Soundgarden was never grunge, no matter what MTV or VH1 tell you, Sneaky.

As for my choices:

Robert Plant

Jim Morrison

Maynard


And to add a little fuel to the fire, two choices for worst ever:

Steven Tyler

Bono
 
Geddy Lee




*Employing last place Mario Kart spoiler strategy at this point: Turn head on into traffic and laugh maniacally!*
 
Mercury is a given though Mecury was the man.....Man I miss mercury.....Did anyone see them when they came through on the last tour? It was cool just to see Brian May but that man is no Freddie Mercury.
 
Quite possibly Freddie Mercury. There's never been anyone like him, and there will never be anyone like him. Queen just isn't the same without him.
 
You guys missed a few good ones:

Ian Gillian (from Deep Purple)

Ann Wilson (from Heart)

King Diamond (from Mercyful Fate, King Diamond)
 
[quote name='Buster Rod G']Freddie Mercury

No one else comes close.[/QUOTE]

Yep. Close this thread at once.

Guy had everything...there were some who were better singers (not many), some who were better showmen, some who wrote better songs...but no one put the whole package together like he did.

Hilarious teeth, on top of that.




Props to Xevious for mentioning King Diamond, the Outer Space Satanic Twilight Zone version of Freddie Mercury.
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']Hilarious teeth, on top of that.[/quote]

You know why he never had them fixed right? He thought it would change the inflection of his singing and such. I just think its fucking retarded that the US pretty much turned their back on Queen all together after he came out that he was bi. Thats why they didn't really tour the states that much soon after he did.
 
No one mentiones Axl Rose? He used to have an amazing voice but he has absolutely destroyed it now from years of cigarette smoking.
 
[quote name='Tybee']Duh. Jeff Buckley.[/QUOTE]

Someone else knows of the greatness that was Jeff Buckley.

While I do have to give Freddie Mercury the vote for best frontman of all time, Jeff Buckley has by far the greatest voice of anyone posted in this thread. Grace is the greatest album of all time.

You automatically kick ass in my book Tybee for being a fellow fan of Jeff Buckley.
 
Jorn Lande
Russell Allen
Joe Lynn Turner
Ronnie James Dio
Tony Harnell
Goran Edman
David DeFeis
Bruce Dickinson
the unnamed girl from Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Doogie White (hear him live...amazing)
Eric Adams
Jeff Scott Soto
Tony Martin
Anne Wilson (Heart)
 
Freddy Mercury for the win.

If we are talking vocalists, I say the runner up is Meat Loaf even though I stopped listening to him after I stopped being a teenager.
 
[quote name='crazytalkx']Freddy Mercury
Robert Plant

and a more recent oneee Cedrix Bixler-Zavala[/QUOTE]

These would be my choices as well.. awesome.
 
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