[QUOTE=Jacaranda]I'm going to come off as an [SIZE="2"]a[/SIZE]ss but...

And Morrison did...? What?[/QUOTE]

Sure he had no range, no training, but as for having a great tone and a unique voice, Morrison is tops save Fogerty. In a way he made a lot out of nothing.

[QUOTE=EightMilesHigh]Here Comes The Sun is a pretty song. It makes me very happy. It's possibly my favorite song on Abbey Road, which is so freakin' awesome.[/QUOTE]
No I don't think there is, I just found a tab transcribed into it.


Meh, I'm going to vote Morrison because I dont care about talent. Aslong as he can sing songs that I like more than the others i'm going to vote for him.

I'm sorry but just having good tone and being sh[SIZE="2"]i[/SIZE]tfaced everytime you go on stage does not merit being the top R&M vocalist of all time.

[QUOTE=aC/dC4lyfe]I'm sorry but just having good tone and being sh[SIZE="2"]i[/SIZE]tfaced everytime you go on stage does not merit being the top R&M vocalist of all time.[/QUOTE]
That's why he's tenth best. ;)

Neil Young-38
Jimi Hendrix-25
Captain Beefheart-12
Mars Volta-12
CSNY-9
Minutemen-9
The Beatles-8
QotSA-7
MC5-7
Grateful Dead-6

It's too bad this poll is only rock/metal vocalists, because probably one of my top five vocalists of all time is Marvin Gaye. Man, Marvin Gaye was just awesome.

[QUOTE]By new car, I mean new to me. Its like a 96(98?) Honde Civic. I think thats it. I'm no good with car names.[/QUOTE]

yee Honda Civics

and I also think it's ridiculous how Jim Morrison and Robert Plant (who both pretty much suck as vocalists) made it this far.

Rock/Metal has the weakest vocalist of most genres honestly. Compare the great Soul singers to the great Rock singers and you'll see what I mean. Ray Charles is easily my favorite. That's what makes Rock so unique, you can have almost no talent but still sound good.

In terms of songwritting:

Paul McCartney < Ray Davies

Ray Davies is the greatest pop songwritter to ever live. There I said it.

[QUOTE=Schyma]Ray Davies is the greatest pop songwritter to ever live. There I said it.[/QUOTE]

Oooh, brave words.

Ray Davies is pretty damn brilliant, though.

Pink Floyd's Echoes is amazing - really really good.

What do you think of this song?

[QUOTE=TheDMV]I semi agree but to be fair, if you look at it vice-versa, none of them could really quite do what Morrison did.[/QUOTE]
lies. cornell could probably match morrisons tone and power pretty easily and still have his enormous range. when the music's over is a very good vocal song though.

look, invasion of the alternate accounts. fun.

I'm not even a big Soundgarden fan, but Cornell has a great voice.

Ha, I was talking with my friend over msn, and the topic of me being single came up, and she said

[QUOTE]somewhere out there is someone who enjoys the classics of rock and roll, who enjoys ska, and enjoys the big lebowski and dogma, wondering where her knight with glasses and wavy/flippy hair is[/QUOTE]

Made me chuckle.

np: Carol Of The Bells - TSO ft. Metallica \m/

the inclusion of ska on that list instantly disqualifies you. haha. she totally wants you. hit that.

and yeah, i dont listen to soundgarden that much but his voice is so blatantly amazing.

[QUOTE=Someweirdsin] haha. she totally wants you. hit that.
[/QUOTE]

No, no, it's not like that at all :smash: We're just friends.

yeah, ok. hit that. anyway.

thin lizzy is cool. live and dangerous is an awesome live album and "still in love with you" is such a good song. the guitarwork is all generally great too.

what cream albums are good?

[QUOTE=Someweirdsin]yeah, ok. hit that. anyway.

thin lizzy is cool. live and dangerous is an awesome live album and "still in love with you" is such a good song. the guitarwork is all generally great too.[/QUOTE]Thin Lizzy is awesome. Saw them live.. but without Phil, obviously.

I like Soundgarden. I got Badmotorfinger recently, it's great.

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]what cream albums are good?[/QUOTE]

Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears.

As for Thin Lizzy, I've only heard "The Boys Are Back In Town." Go figure :smash:

I'm listening to Tom Waits' Rain Dogs album right now. So far, so good.

you sure do like that hammer smiley. haha. tom waits is cool. i like his most recent one a lot, real gone.

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]what cream albums are good?[/QUOTE]

Disraeli Gears, Fresh Cream, Wheels of Fire (Kinda in that order).

goodbye is good too. lets just throw them all in. haha. the live cream compilations.

Thanks for the cream recomendations.

What does everyone think of [b]The piper at the gates of dawn[/b]?

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]Thanks for the cream recomendations.

What does everyone think of [b]The piper at the gates of dawn[/b]?[/QUOTE]

I like it. It isn't my favorite Floyd album because I prefer the lengty, spacy songs to the shorter psychadelic ones, but Syd's writing is very creative and it creates some very interesting scenes when listening to it.

And yea, I didn't include [I]Goodbye[/I] because it appeared to me that there were only a few good tracks on it, but if you were looking for consistency you could throw that in and say Cream's entire discography (the four mentioned albums) is good.

[QUOTE=Someweirdsin]you sure do like that hammer smiley. haha. tom waits is cool. i like his most recent one a lot, real gone.[/QUOTE]

You sure do, uh, like Jeff Buckley! Oh, I went there.

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]Thanks for the cream recomendations.

What does everyone think of [b]The piper at the gates of dawn[/b]?[/QUOTE]

I like it quite a bit. I like raw psychedelia in there, which I think Pink Floyd lost when they lost Syd Barrett. Lucifer Sam is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs.

[QUOTE]What does everyone think of The piper at the gates of dawn?[/QUOTE]Meh...it's ok. :p

I've heard a few songs off Piper at the gates of dawn, and what i've heard is genius. I love syd barret's voice and the childlike lyrics and melodies yet they are so psychadelic.

What do you think of my ratings for magical mystery tour?
[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10876325&postcount=5440[/url]

[QUOTE=EightMilesHigh]You sure do, uh, like Jeff Buckley! Oh, I went there.[/QUOTE]
:amaze: this is true. haha.

piper at the gates of dawn was the second pink floyd album i ever bought. i remember that. i think its great.

I really don't see what's so special about Cornell either, if people are going to bash Morrison and Plant about talent. His voice is very unique though.

his range is gigantic. possibly the largest on the list and his power cant be touched. he could do it well live too in his prime. too bad he smoked and had bad technique. i still like the vocals on audioslave, however, i seem to be alone on that.

basically, morrison and plant both fall way short of conell.

I don't think his range is that great...maybe I've heard too much Audioslave and not enough Sound Garden.

EDIT: Buckley and Freddie's ranges are FAR superior to Cornell's.

incorrect. freddie sang high but i would say that cornell could actually sing higher. and lower without a doubt. buckley is a harder case. he could hit notes that women found hard to sing and he was much more versatile. cornell could sing real high and low though, while having crazy power at each end.

recommended listening:
say hello 2 heaven
jesus christ pose
beyond the wheel
when i'm down
hunger strike
slaves and bulldozers

in hunger strike, he sings backup but still shows his range. all of those are him in his prime, singing his brains out. download them. mindblowing stuff.

will do.

Hunger Strike is awesome. He sang the first verse too. At the Audioslave concert, Tim Commerford sang the back up part that Cornell usually does and he did well.

from Wikipedia:"Mercury possessed an exceedingly slight tenor voice capable of producing both very biting and very gravelly tones. His recorded vocal range spanned nearly four octaves, with his lowest recorded note being the F1 and his highest recorded being the D5 [1]. Because he maintained such an excellent tone over a three octave range, it could be argued that Mercury was simultaneously both a baritone and a tenor."

I couldn't find any technical stuff on Cornell's range.

EDIT: Wikipedia about Buckley: "Known for his beatific voice of at least three-and-a-half octaves, critics considered Buckley to be one of the most promising artists of his generation after the release of his 1994 debut album Grace."

From Wiki about Cornell: His ability to soar into falsetto and through head voice effortlessly[1] often defies many a normal singers natural timbre, giving him a high harmonic overtone or (timbre) to his voice. Indeed, his ability to "belt" a note, almost screaming it is also well utilised, giving his Baritonal range an often much louder, or "higher" sound than is actually tonally present. This is shown to much effect on Badmotorfinger's "Slaves & Bulldozers-". [2]

He fooled us all!:eek: :p

You read wikipedia way too much..

Hehe well clownphobia got me started so I started looking up everything.

[QUOTE=blue3]You read wikipedia way too much..[/QUOTE]

It can define anything.

Even this: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster[/url]

[QUOTE=leppermessiah]Hehe well clownphobia got me started so I started looking up everything.[/QUOTE]

hehe, it's good stuff :thumb:

eh. i wouldnt trust it completely on the range things, solely because of reader editing. a little bit ago they listed buckley's range at over 4 octaves which is absurd.

I recently got a pretty cool Grateful Dead poster! It is for there concert on New Years Eve at the winterland '78. It has a picutre of Jerry, Bob and Phil all playing then it says N.R.P.S and The Blues Brothers underneath indictating that they opened. It also sayd that breakfast is served at dawn.

I just put it on my wall, over a little plaque that has my [I]real[/I] name on it.