Vocalists that I think are pretty cool
These are some vocalists that I like quite a bit. I'm a vocalist myself, so as a hazard of the trade, I often find a lot of singers that inspire me and influence me. Now, there's a really huge grey area on what exactly makes a "good" vocalist. Not every vocalist on this list can actually "sing" per say, but I enjoy the quality (or lack of) of their voice and their delivery and performance is also incredibly important for me. In the descriptions I've included some of my personal favourite performances of theirs and their vocal range where I was able to find it cause that can be interesting to look at (keep in mind that vocal range is not an accurate measure of penis size, and having a big range doesn't necessarily make you a good singer or mean I enjoy their music. Example: Steven Tyler, bite me). No particular order, just whenever they popped into my head. |
1 | | Bjork Debut
“Crying” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJFWGpgS5gU
“Hyperballad” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Pv-UkoRC4
“All is Full of Love” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cS1FaKPWY
Voice type: Soprano
Melodic range: D3 - D6
Full range: D3 - E8 |
2 | | David Bowie Hunky Dory
“Life on Mars?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ
“Five Years” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ceR9az3dk
“Heroes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g
Voice type: Baritone
range: G1 - Bb5 |
3 | | Japan Quiet Life
David Sylvian
“Fall in Love with Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to-e3eFcHgg
“Ghosts” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ruj8qgkV9k
“When Poets Dreamed of Angels” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gHjjisKxzs
“Forbidden Colours” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_Eklk-syk
“For the Love of Life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhPGbr51jfc
Voice type: Baritone
range: C2 - G#4 |
4 | | Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
David Gilmour
“Wish You Were Here” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic
“Comfortably Numb” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEog
“Lost for Words” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kd_Do4AFhY
voice type: Baritone
Range: C#2 - A5 |
5 | | Pink Floyd The Wall
Roger Waters
“Run Like Hell” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c
“Pigs (Three Different Ones)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PitrE5uoV_M
“Careful with that Axe Eugene” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72I7TwsvBE
Voice type: Tenor
Melodic Range: B1 - Bb6
full range: B1 - C7 |
6 | | Dir En Grey Uroboros
Kyo
“Reiketsu Nariseba” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exiwfXi5jYs
“Ware, Yami Tote” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZQwZE6t-yo
“BUGABOO” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-gjjASgcE
“Vanitas” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5PCRZYvZFY
“Rinkaku” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFbTsOrR_yM
Voice type: Tenor
Melodic range: G1 - E6
full range: F#1 - G#7 |
7 | | BUCK-TICK Kurutta Taiyou
Atsushi Sakurai
“Sakura” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5iBlzJzXk
“Muma -The Nightmare-” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMuYw1NK5Y
“Gessekai” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Kkmkch-TE
Voice type: Baritone
melodic range: E2 - G5
full range: C2 - F#6(research in progress) |
8 | | Diamanda Galas The Litanies of Satan
“The Litanies of Satan” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpfhuYby2E
“Panoptikon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEa1hzl12Y
“I Put a Spell on You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91lgRi1tTrA
Voice type: Mezzo-soprano
Range (god knows how much of this is the melodic part): F2 - C#8 |
9 | | Swans Holy Money
Michael Gira
“Coward” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q16SSuOD2w
“God Damn the Sun” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jpVtYQIols
“Blind” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OK1kDLj8MM
“Sex God Sex” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH3-Koc0QHQ
“A Screw (Holy Money)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHES9YAGGkU
Voice type: Baritone
range: A1 - A4 |
10 | | Nirvana In Utero
Kurt Cobain
“Milk It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in58wtVI9sI
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
“Something in the Way” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDyvClUsCJU
“Hairspray Queen” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNjQD7FNXQ
“Heart-Shaped Box” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8
Voice type: Baritone
(Melodic lol) range: C#2 - F5
full range: B1 - C6 |
11 | | Anathema Alternative 4
Vincent Cavanagh
“Fragile Dreams” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHYSvlsDWw
“One Last Goodbye” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-emvLUY20
“Dreaming Light” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IED7Vu3AsY
“Anathema” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-80LdBCDXc
Voice type: Baritone
Range: D2 - G#5 |
12 | | Gackt Mizerable
“Leeca” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1xr3VPIY3o
“Le Ciel” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh-UPRIjxQc
“dears (Love Letter Version)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFFGDickDMI
“Papa lapped a pap lopped” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SsY3Tz6YjE
“Tsuki no Uta” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11uI5i2GDiY
Voice type: Baritone
Range: C#2 - D6 |
13 | | Tool Aenima
Maynard James Keenan
“Forty Six and Two” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTxMO8Ei_4Y
“The Grudge” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiR1hmpk-x4
“Parabol/Parabola” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2O289Jemo
“When the Levee Breaks” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoMmq-Hw9k
Voice type: Baritenor
range: G1 - A5 |
14 | | Gorillaz D-Sides
Damon Albarn
“Hong Kong” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1RzxBBAQzA
“El Manana” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hji4gBuOvIQ
“The Universal” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Papa_qi7evU
Voice type: Baritone
range: B1 - F5 |
15 | | They Might Be Giants Join Us
John Linnell
“Can’t Keep Johnny Down” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fr2e4KY714
“Ana Ng” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Papa_qi7evU
“Whistling in the Dark” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhGtKAkNTo
“They Might Be Giants” (at least i think this is Linnell lol) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHWeViFmA8
Voice type: Bass-baritone
Range: C2 - C#5 |
16 | | Luna Sea Eden
Ryuichi Kawamura
“LASTLY” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYjKsj1qiEw
“Image” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_pvebGYQ74
“Mechanical Dance” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxeCXqKOSiU
“MOTHER” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l51Jgaa9mB0
“IN SILENCE” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK72KLh1ng4
Voice type: Tenor
Melodic Range: D2 - E5
Full range: D2 - G5 |
17 | | L'arc-en-Ciel Ark
Hideto "Hyde" Takarai
“forbidden lover” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drTSMBVF9i4
“fate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afsR0R2c3mg
“Hitomi no Juunin” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG8Eflz2dL4
Voice type: Tenor
range: F#2 - G#5 |
18 | | Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Art Garfunkel
“The Boxer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY
“Bridge Over Troubled Water” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA
“Bright Eyes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGyTGP5q_q4
“April Come She Will” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMm3mIlb2tQ
Voice type: Tenor
range: G2 - F5 |
19 | | Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Bruce Dickinson
“Run to the Hills” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86URGgqONvA
“The Trooper” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bgXH3sJ2Q
“The Number of the Beast” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM
Voice type: Tenor
range: E2 - C6 |
20 | | Radiohead Amnesiac
Thom Yorke
“Pyramid Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKQPqs-cqc
“Climbing Up the Walls” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtZyuOMdHI
“Paranoid Android” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLEbAVjiLA
“Fake Plastic Trees” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5h0qHwNrHk
Voice type: Tenor
melodic range: D2 - B5
total range: D2 - G#6 |
21 | | System of a Down Hypnotize
Serj Tankian
“Vicinity of Obscenity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-If2r9ENQfA
“Toxicity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64FrYGRrKVY
“Aerials” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iepu3EtyE
Voice type: Baritone
range: D2 - E6 |
22 | | Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
Elizabeth Fraser
“Heaven or Las Vegas” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65v7OqlW6I
“Primitive Heart” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygfIljOf7k
“Lorelei” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3diz8I0AVVk
“Seekers Who are Lovers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf1tEMlViLY
Voice type: Soprano
range: C3 - D6 |
23 | | Kate Bush The Kick Inside
“Wuthering Heights” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4
“The Big Sky” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaDUFC8nigM
“Heads We’re Dancing” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9NaEOoOLU4
Voice type: Soprano
range: B2 - F6 |
24 | | Michael Jackson Bad
“Smooth Criminal” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFvENQBc-F8
“Billie Jean” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y
“Man in the Mirror” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps
“Off the Wall” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MFbhwfEXU
“Thriller” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6oy46qKE4
Voice type: Tenor
F2 - Eb6 |
25 | | Nightmare The WORLD Ruler
Jun "Yomi" Chiba
“Alumina” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhgwSyRmAb8
“Fly Me to the Zenith” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2lzW-g21s
“crevasse” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfKppnog15Q
“Wasurena Kusa” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3fgSuxmrz4
Voice type: Tenor
range: F#2 - G#5 |
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