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Title: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Smooth Groove on September 11, 2009, 08:09:52 PM: Have y'all seen this list? What a joke!

LOL @ Elvis and Dylan in the top 10.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/103

The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time

1 | Aretha Franklin by Mary J. Blige

2 | Ray Charles by Billy Joel

3 | Elvis Presley by Robert Plant

4 | Sam Cooke by Van Morrison

5 | John Lennon by Jackson Browne

6 | Marvin Gaye by Alicia Keys

7 | Bob Dylan by Bono

8 | Otis Redding by Booker T. Jones

9 | Stevie Wonder by Cee-Lo

10 | James Brown by Iggy Pop

11 | Paul McCartney

12 | Little Richard

13 | Roy Orbison

14 | Al Green

15 | Robert Plant

16 | Mick Jagger by Lenny Kravitz

17 | Tina Turner

18 | Freddie Mercury

19 | Bob Marley

20 | Smokey Robinson

21 | Johnny Cash

22 | Etta James

23 | David Bowie

24 | Van Morrison

25 | Michael Jackson by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy

26 | Jackie Wilson

27 | Hank Williams

28 | Janis Joplin

29 | Nina Simone

30 | Prince

31 | Howlin' Wolf

32 | Bono by Billie Joe Armstrong

33 | Steve Winwood

34 | Whitney Houston

35 | Dusty Springfield

36 | Bruce Springsteen

37 | Neil Young

38 | Elton John

39 | Jeff Buckley by Chris Cornell

40 | Curtis Mayfield

41 | Chuck Berry

42 | Joni Mitchell

43 | George Jones by James Taylor

44 | Bobby "Blue" Bland

45 | Kurt Cobain

46 | Patsy Cline

47 | Jim Morrison

48 | Buddy Holly

49 | Donny Hathaway

50 | Bonnie Raitt

51 | Gladys Knight

52 | Brian Wilson

53 | Muddy Waters by Ben Harper

54 | Luther Vandross

55 | Paul Rodgers

56 | Mavis Staples

57 | Eric Burdon

58 | Christina Aguilera

59 | Rod Stewart

60 | Björk

61 | Roger Daltrey

62 | Lou Reed

63 | Dion

64 | Axl Rose

65 | David Ruffin

66 | Thom Yorke

67 | Jerry Lee Lewis

68 | Wilson Pickett

69 | Ronnie Spector

70 | Gregg Allman

71 | Toots HIbbert

72 | John Fogerty

73 | Dolly Parton

74 | James Taylor

75 | Iggy Pop

76 | Steve Perry

77 | Merle Haggard

78 | Sly Stone

79 | Mariah Carey

80 | Frankie Valli

81 | John Lee Hooker by Bonnie Raitt

82 | Tom Waits

83 | Patti Smith

84 | Darlene Love

85 | Sam Moore

86 | Art Garfunkel

87 | Don Henley

88 | Willie Nelson

89 | Solomon Burke

90 | The Everly Brothers

91 | Levon Helm by Jim James

92 | Morrissey

93 | Annie Lennox

94 | Karen Carpenter

95 | Patti LaBelle

96 | B.B. King

97 | Joe Cocker

98 | Stevie Nicks

99 | Steven Tyler

100 | Mary J. Blige
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: etiolate on September 11, 2009, 08:16:06 PM: a lot of blues guitarists
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 11, 2009, 08:19:01 PM: Freddie Mercury should be number 2. (number 1 is, well, spot on)
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 08:21:15 PM: What an awful fucking list.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 11, 2009, 08:28:55 PM: Al Green >>> Marvin Gaye and it's not even close.

McCartney and Dylan overrated as usual and Stevie Wonder should always be in the top 5. Forever.

Also, Xtina higher than Mariah Carey? Hahahahah
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 08:37:02 PM: My grandma thinks Frankie Valli should be ranked higher!
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 08:42:09 PM: I have a hard time believing that there were 17 better singers than Freddie Mercury in the 20th century, in any genre. He's top 5.

Personally for me, Marvin Gaye is #1. And the absence of Nick Drake from the list at all is criminal.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: cool breeze on September 11, 2009, 08:48:57 PM: Why isn't Freddie Mercury #1? who are these clowns?
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Dickie Dee on September 11, 2009, 09:26:45 PM: ctrl+F "Levon Helm"

Well at least he's there...
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2009, 09:31:13 PM: Bowie and Mercury are too low, shit list confirmed.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: OptimoPeach on September 11, 2009, 09:31:59 PM: Axl Rose is on there :lol
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2009, 10:18:42 PM: Quote from: ToxicAdam on September 11, 2009, 08:28:55 PM
Al Green >>> Marvin Gaye and it's not even close.

McCartney and Dylan overrated as usual and Stevie Wonder should always be in the top 5. Forever.

Also, Xtina higher than Mariah Carey? Hahahahah

Gaye was a better pure singer. Green is a crooner

Anyway, Cooke should be #1, or at least the top male singer

:lol :lol :lol @ Lennon in top 10
Dylan :lol
Elvis :lol
white people stealing the black man's creations :usacry
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: EvilBoris on September 11, 2009, 10:21:21 PM: woo orbison! 8)
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Smooth Groove on September 11, 2009, 10:53:12 PM: Just noticed Rod Stewart is part of the list. WTF indeed.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2009, 10:54:31 PM: Michael Jackson by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Robo on September 11, 2009, 11:03:51 PM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on September 11, 2009, 10:53:12 PM
Just noticed Rod Stewart is part of the list. WTF indeed.

Rod Stewart is, or was, an excellent singer, he just happens to also be a jackass and has chosen to have a seriously terrible career for whatever reason (http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=29201.msg808722#msg808722). As I've pointed out several times (http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=16583.msg397359#msg397359), his early stuff is pretty damn good (http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=23870.msg616473#msg616473).
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: DJ_Tet on September 11, 2009, 11:06:45 PM: Freddy Mercury and Roy Orbison are both way too low.

I love Nirvana but I have to :lol @ Cobain being one of the 50 best singers of all time. I wonder how someone can even defend that decision. They must have a different definition of singing than I do.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Robo on September 11, 2009, 11:07:55 PM: This seems to be more of a celebration of excellent front-men/women than singing ability.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 11:12:40 PM: Then Freddie Mercury should still be higher.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 11:16:54 PM: Yeah, if you're talking best front man of all time, Freddie Mercury would be number one and David Lee Roth would be number two. Eat a dick if you disagree.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Robo on September 11, 2009, 11:19:56 PM: Lou Reed is on the list fer chrissakes!
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 11:24:22 PM: Lou Reed in the sixties but no Leonard Cohen? :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 11, 2009, 11:27:05 PM: Quote from: OptimoPeach on September 11, 2009, 09:31:59 PM
Axl Rose is on there :lol

Axl Rose, but not Chris Cornell.

WTF
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 11:29:28 PM: No Chris Cornell is totally fucking distinguished mentally-challenged.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2009, 11:45:48 PM: Quote from: DJ_Tet on September 11, 2009, 11:06:45 PM
I love Nirvana but I have to :lol @ Cobain being one of the 50 best singers of all time. I wonder how someone can even defend that decision. They must have a different definition of singing than I do.

[youtube=560,345]UnuHJZMdako[/youtube]
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Flannel Boy on September 11, 2009, 11:48:43 PM: My top five.

1. John
2. Paul
3. George
4. Ringo
5. Yoko
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 11:49:46 PM: Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 11:29:28 PM
No Chris Cornell is totally fucking distinguished mentally-challenged.

[youtube=560,345]AEM-1kKcg7g[/youtube]

:rock :rock :rock
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Robo on September 11, 2009, 11:52:12 PM: Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 11:29:28 PM
No, Chris Cornell is totally fucking distinguished mentally-challenged.

fixed, haw haw
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 11:54:14 PM: Quote from: The Card Cheat on September 11, 2009, 11:49:46 PM
Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 11:29:28 PM
No Chris Cornell is totally fucking distinguished mentally-challenged.

[youtube=560,345]AEM-1kKcg7g[/youtube]

:rock :rock :rock

YES

:bow :bow

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-yjee-RWkA[/youtube]
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: DJ_Tet on September 12, 2009, 12:23:52 AM: Quote from: ToxicAdam on September 11, 2009, 11:27:05 PM
Quote from: OptimoPeach on September 11, 2009, 09:31:59 PM
Axl Rose is on there :lol

Axl Rose, but not Chris Cornell.

WTF

I love GNR and am not a huge fan of Soundgarden but that fact alone renders this list moot and fucking stupid.

Anyone with an ear that works knows that Cornell can sing his fucking ass off. I like Axl's 'singing' too but damn, how can they leave Cornell off this list?
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 12, 2009, 12:42:01 AM: No Matt Barlow. not unexpected tbh.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Raban on September 12, 2009, 04:51:15 PM: smh @ top anything lists
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: BlueTsunami on September 12, 2009, 05:18:43 PM: No Chris Cornell is definitely a travesty
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: WrikaWrek on September 12, 2009, 05:28:48 PM: Freddie Mercury at 18?

....
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 12, 2009, 06:36:44 PM: This is so insulting that Freddie Mercury got AIDS all over again.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: BlueTsunami on September 12, 2009, 06:48:54 PM: BrandNew vindicated
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: CurseoftheGods on September 13, 2009, 12:28:22 AM: No Matt Bellamy? :teehee
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Robo on September 13, 2009, 12:30:55 AM: Quote from: CurseoftheGods on September 13, 2009, 12:28:22 AM
No Matt Bellamy? :teehee

He's on there.

Quote
66 | Thom Yorke
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: E-DuB on September 13, 2009, 01:11:08 AM: Quote from: The Card Cheat on September 11, 2009, 08:42:09 PM
And the absence of Nick Drake from the list at all is criminal.

Nice to see another fan of Nick.

And Johnny Cash should have been higher
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: pilonv1 on September 13, 2009, 02:36:09 AM: 58 | Christina Aguilera

lol wut

Where is Rivers Cuomo? 8)
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 13, 2009, 03:22:36 AM: Christina Aguilera is a fucking amazing singer though

[youtube=560,345]rh2Yxp6q2h0[/youtube]
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Powerslave on September 13, 2009, 08:16:47 PM: Bruce Dickinson is one of the best male singers ever, he should have been on the list. But fuck Rolling Stone anyway. That magazine is gay. It's too bad it's extremely popular.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on September 13, 2009, 09:04:37 PM: Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2009, 10:54:31 PM
Michael Jackson by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
They should have gotten Weird Al Yankovic to talk about Jacko.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on September 13, 2009, 09:05:18 PM: Quote from: pilonv1 on September 13, 2009, 02:36:09 AM
58 | Christina Aguilera

lol wut

Where is Rivers Cuomo? 8)
Out of this list, because Rolling Stone has taste. 8)
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Third on September 13, 2009, 09:26:03 PM: Mariah Carey is waaay too low. And where's Beyonce?

Shit list.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Bloodwake on September 14, 2009, 02:27:05 PM: The list might have been more accurate if it was a list of the most memorable singers rather than the greatest.
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Himu on September 19, 2009, 12:03:12 PM: How the fuck is Whitney Houston 34?
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 19, 2009, 12:16:51 PM: Quote from: Himuro on September 19, 2009, 12:03:12 PM
How the fuck is Whitney Houston 34?

Crack is a helluva drug!
Title: Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers
Post by: Don Flamenco on September 19, 2009, 12:33:04 PM: OMG ____ got robbed! I can't believe _____ isn't in the top 20.