Best rock singer ever?
 

Jim Morrison :bowdown:

i know that name cant remember what he sang!!!

(love the little dude though)

G.G. Allin, Well I dunno about the best, but atleast he is the craziest lol.

Freddie Mercury hands down

*Side note*
Anyone who tries to degrade the man for his sexuality will get a good talking to from me where he chose to put his thing has nothing to do with his voice*

okies I'm done :)

as a singer I think even he would have agreed he wasnt thee best but as a poet a showman a preformer yeah Id go for that

in alot of ways hes like Lennon and Dillion

I agree. He was pretty damn good.

CMON GUYS....

Zach de la Rocha no contest... psh :bringit:

dustin from thrice....he's got a decent/good voice, but the lyrics he comes up with are even better. So he gets my nod as the best.

hell yeah alejo...Dustin for sure...then don henley

oh I kinda agree with Edgil...Rage was such an amazing band...but It wasn't just their singing and lyrics...the guitar was great too.

I always liked Jon Bon Jovi too.
ex: Livin' on a prayer. <- cool song. :)

Definately, I'm sorry but no one now has the integrity, or... balls so to say to speak up with the amazing lyrics that Zach de la Rocha came up with and it definately had a unique sound and style with Rage that worked and was amazing ;)

ZDLR, Thom York, Kurt Cobain, Roger Waters...all very memorable

Cobain was also awesome...

Billy Joe
 

Lots of people may not agree with me but i love the way Billy Joe of Green Day sings his style is very recocnizable and i love it plus i love his lyrics i can really relate to alot of them :band:

still stickin to Zach ;)

He's good too. I like that band.

Zack De La Rocha - Definately...............hail hail!!

Best Singer
 

Dustin from Thrice pisses all over other vocalists lyrically and vocally, his outstanding screaming vocals along with excellent guitar talent jus make him an all round great performer. THRICE ALL THE WAY!

man........ and i know im gonna get linched for even sayin this but i still havent heard Thrice - supost to have seen them in concert lil while ago but missed it...... god! ive gotta try and listen to this band - they seem good

They Are.

Kurt Cobain and Freddy Mercury

My fave deserves a mention
 

Sh*t so many greats, would agree Cobain, Mercury and Morrison have to be up there but if we're talking personal favourites I'm gonna give my honourable mention to Anthony Kiedis.

He can do loud, he can do strong, he can do soft, he can do sexy, he can do rapping, he can do shouting, he can do angry, outraged, and completely in love, he can do dirty, he can do offensive, hell he can even do (amazing) lyrics. Yep I could (and do) listen to him for hours. Don't get me started any more!

Morrison is pretty cool, but not the best.

Axl Rose is my fav frontman. for sure, at least before he became a washed up rehab nightmare.

Billy Corrigan from the Smashing Pumpkins actually gets my vote. I loved that band.

Brandon Boyd-Incubus
and Dustin-Thrice

I would have to agree with the very first person's answer it would have to be Jim Morrison

im gonna get hurt but i dont really like thrice that much i'd go with Aaron Lewis from staind

well, you will all disagree with me but I love Dani Filth's voice.

Kurt Cobain
Layne Staley
Jim Morrisson
Corey Taylor
MikeE.W.Goodman(SikTh)
Greg Puciato(Dillinger Escape Plan)

erm....Most the singers you have all mentioned are good. But you don't rate a singer for the lyrics they sing. Christ if we did that then Jim Steinman (songwriter wrote Bat Out Of Hell!) would be a great singer. But if you've heard him sing, then you will know that he can't. But he is the best songwritter.

Anyway. My fav Rock Singer is MEAT LOAF.
He is the man. He has a very powerful voice, and can pull you into the song.

How could you all forget him?

jim morrison and kurt cobain have been mentioned and thats awsome. they are the best not just because of their vocal abilities, but because they were so revolutionary and different. they broke the mould. other singers of this calibre according to me are...:robert plant(led zeppeling), neil young, cat stevens, mick jagger,singer from yes...(whats his goddamn name?!), bob dylan, phil collinsand all members of the eagles....bar don henley.
these guiys and many more-im too drunk to be specifically specific. but the singers of this day though many are extremely talented dont and cant sing with the....soul? of those men.

Specifically specific!!!!Amazing!!

There will never be another performer like Jim Morrisson.He put his soul into every performance.He was an awesome poet aswell.I suggest to ppl that they read 'No-one here gets out alive'...the bio of the great man himself.
As for Kurt Cobain....he is,for me,the greatest muscian that ever lived.His integrity and honesty will never be matched.Tortured yet brilliant.The John Lennon of our generation.A lot of the press today think Jack White is the nearest thing we have to Kurt Cobain.I dont think The White Stripes are on the same level as Nirvana,but he does seem a special talent.

I would say josh todd from buckcherry, that dude was sex, drugs and rock and roll all the way

i hate the white the white stripes with a passion. specifically specific....hahah makes sense when you drunk.<shrug> kurt cobain...mey he rest in peace. but true he is the lennon of our time. that kids got balls

mother funks u better say Glenn Danzig :ar_15s:

nah

Can I just ask how Kurt Cobain broke the mould? He didn't invent any new movement in rock, just happened to write a cacthy tune that Geffen milked for all it was worth, and still do to this day. There were tons of better vocalists working in Seattle at the time, Wood, Cornell, Staley, Vedder etc, and many of those were around the scene from it's infancy, unlike Cobain who was actually introduced to it by The Melvins. He didn't create a new movement at all, sure he was an important figure in introducing it to a mainstream audience, but I don't see how that makes him a brilliant singer.

For me the best vocalists are Robert Plant, Thom Yorke, Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Layne Staley, Zach de la Rocha and Maynard Keenan from Tool.

Well Kurt never really broke the mold. He simply mass-publicized the breaking of said mold. There were a ton of singers in Seattle in the grunge scene who had sung with that style before he did.

What grunge did was give people the chance to sing in their own voices. All of a sudden you didnt have to be Motley Crue and sing on the same scale as the average opera singer, you could just kind of... grumble..

Freddy Mercury had the most amzing voice I've ever heard. Davey Havok is really good. Geoff Rickly. Marshall Smithson...ah...

hmmm... I definitely have to go with Zack

Anthony Kiedis is very cool :)
I know he isn't to everyones taste, but i love axle roses voice as squeaky and annoying as it is.
Serj Tankian from system of a down has the most amazing voice

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