male vocolist
 

glenn danzig
bruce dickerson
ozzy
james hetfield

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Michale Graves. He did a great job in Misfits and I really like his newer stuff. Lots of so called "vocalists" of today fail in comparison to Grave's haunting voice. Of course, most of those vocalists are rap artists, which don't need any talent to begin with....

Graves was one of the final nails in the Misfits coffin. The modern incarnations of the Misfits have been totally weak.

Rap artists don't need talent huh? I'd beg to differ on that.

Pimps, money, ho's and bling. If you can make a song that includes any, or all of these themes, then you've got yourself a rap song. The only talent needed is to dumb yourself down so you can appeal to the other masses of idiots. Sorry man, but rap music is on it's way out. Even changing the name of the genre from RAP to HIP- HOP didn't seem to make that type of music sound any better. Sorry for the rant, but as you can tell, I hate anything rap.

A bunch of the generic shit does suck but there's some really decent stuff inbetween it all. I'm not huge on Hip Hop but there's a bunch thats totally fuckin' killer. But yeh if you hate it you hate it.... kinda like me with all the Drum n' Bass/Dance music.

I hate RnB music.


There.... it's out.

I only dig the old Stax kinda stuff. The modern stuff doesn't really do much for me.

There's the ignorant stereotype that I knew you'd say. Not every rap song is about bitches and blunts There alot of great rap with great messages and even the ones that ARE about being gangster are good. Majority of rap does suck but there's alot of gems out there.

I thought Graves was awesome. Live he sucked and didn't have the energy and fire of Danzig but The two Albums Graves did were very good. They defined what the misfits were. Ghoulish horror imagery with catchy songs with fusion of hard rock and oldie's style choruses. Of course the REAL misfits will be the original line-up. A big thank you to Danzig,

Growing up I thought the closest I would get to horror style music was the metal alot of you guys listen to. Danzig is still the only guy that I felt sincerely was legit about horror. Just the sound and lyrics as compraed to metal or goth I never heard anything like it. They were fun and they just rocked. Misfits, Samhain, Danzig, Had great music alot of people don't appreciate(but their fave bands were influenced by danzig).

There's the ignorant stereotype that I knew you'd say. Not every rap song is about bitches and blunts There alot of great rap with great messages and even the ones that ARE about being gangster are good. Majority of rap does suck but there's alot of gems out there.

I thought Graves was awesome. Live he sucked and didn't have the energy and fire of Danzig but The two Albums Graves did were very good. They defined what the misfits were. Ghoulish horror imagery with catchy songs with fusion of hard rock and oldie's style choruses. Of course the REAL misfits will be the original line-up. A big thank you to Danzig,

Growing up I thought the closest I would get to horror style music was the metal alot of you guys listen to. Danzig is still the only guy that I felt sincerely was legit about horror. Misfits, Samhain, Danzig, Had great music alot of people don't appreciate(but their fave bands were influenced by danzig).

Gary LeVox (I have been a huge Rascal Flatts fan for like 9 years now) annnnnd Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco) are my personal picks.

Well, thinking mainly of technique... And considering I'm a metal fan...

Zak Stevens
Jörn Lande
Dio
Bruce Dickinson
Russel Allen
Roy Khan
Andre Mattos
Mats Leven
Fabio Lione
Thomas Vikström

I'm gonna have to go with Mike Patton as well, most definately. Fantomas - The Director's Cut, own it, love it. Movie buffs should seek out this album

I like Layne Staley he was great but best I wanna say more like "Rob Halford" or so.. And as for that Ripper Owens gets no credit at all being he can do all Rob ever could and then some.

Yeap, that sucks... I guess some metal fans can be way more conservative than they'd like to admit... And so, even if Owens is a great vocalist, most just don't dare to say that he can kick some seeeeerious ass just... Just because, you know?

corey taylor

Howard Jones, Killswitch Engage (KsE)

The Ripper was nowhere near as good as Halford.

I'm still going to say Layne Staley.

I also love: Chris Cornell, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Black Francis, Eric Bloom, David Gilmour, Freddie Mercury, Joshua Homme, Anthony Kiedis, Jack White.

no one beats Johnny Cash... ever

but my undying respect will always belong to:

Hank Williams Sr
Big Joe Turner
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Otis Redding
Jackie Wilson
Tom Jones
Roger Daltry
Robert Plant
Eric Burden
Wilson Pickett
Elmore James

LOL @ Tom Jones :D

Seems like we have the same taste in music. :cool:

Most of the opinions in this thread are shitty.

just realized it was best MALE vocalist and had to start over.

David Bowie
Chris Isaak (I feel bad for his band, the silvertones? whatever... ridiculously good voice)
Little Richard
Mike Patton
Frank Sinatra
Jeff Buckley

they are more or less in order.

Pfffffth!!!

YOU suck.

Jeff Buckley can't even sing straight on his records. :rolleyes:

1: Bruce Dickinson
2: Freddie Mercury
3: Burton C Bell

Dude does well for being a corpse :p

Nope, you're wrong. YOU and YOU alone suck, Angra.

EXACTLY


fucktencharacterrule

I'm gonna add Lee Ving of FEAR.

male vocolist
 

ozzy, or andrew wood:p

Nick Cave
Roky Erickson

Peter Steele deserves a mention!

Ummm

Eduardo Falaschi

My 5 favourite singers would be:

-Raine Maida
-Myles Kennedy
-Dave Grohl
-Chad Grey
-David Draiman

for pure power - i'd say Freddie Mercury and Meat Loaf (yes he's cheezy but the boy has some pipes!)

for me - i'm a huge fan of Bon Scott - those early AC/DC records (esp. Powerage) had such great rock/blues tracks

Powerage is the best thing AC/DC put out. Kicked in the Teeth is such a dope tune.

Roky Erickson deserves another mention... powerful raw voice

Been listening to some of Our Lady Peace's older stuff lately - Raine Maida's vocals are fantastic. Love that paranoid edge he has...great stuff.

Shame their new single is so awful...haven't listened to the whole album yet, but "All You Did Was Save My Life" is just generic and boring, didn't even realize it was OLP the first time I heard it. Really too bad.

Muddy Waters

Dave Gahan

Matthew Bellamy and

Layne Staley are my favorites.

I didn't realize that either but it's just a single right? The label probably pushed that one hard and I'm sure it's the worst one on their album. Ed Kowalczyk, Dave Pirner, Ed Roland, and Adam Duritz are all pretty good too and never get much of a mention. Oh, did anybody mention Billy Corgan? He may not be everybody's style but he's got his own style that's been aped non-stop since Smashing Pumpkins came out.