Rolling Stone Mag - 100 greatest singers (BW at 52)

[Zach95]

Influenced: Elton John, David Crosby, Ben Folds

What, no Panda Bear?

Rolling Stone is clueless. They did a nice piece on Panda Bear a while back, but I'd imagine the majority of their staff knows little to nothing about him or Animal Collective.

[oldsurferdude]

Suspect they compile them to get folk talking, so other folks buy the mag to see what they're talking about.

Personally I don't rate Jagger as being so technically competent a singer as Brian or Carl, but maybe he injects more character into it.  If there was a list of 100 Technically Great singers, I think Brian, Carl, Bruce and Al would be in there for sure.  If the list was for the 100 Most Characterful Singers, then Dennis and Mike might be in there too.

But who knows? Like you say, it's subjective.

While I'm a bigger Beach Boys fan than I am a Rolling Stones fan, if you look at the Boys on stage and the Stones on stage; Jagger has more charisma and energy than all of them combined, even now or especially now.

Yup, 'fraid so.

[HighOnLife]

It's a shame there's no Al Jardine and Mike Love on that list when Paul McCartney is here and even is ranked much higher than Brian - another Beach Boy. That's imo incorrect and illogical. According to my ears, both Al & Mike have better voices than Paul. I quite like his singing, just think Al and Mike are greater singers.

I'd love to hear Al or Mike sing "Oh! Darling" off of Abbey Road.

Paul is/was much more of a versatile singer than any Beach Boy, even Brian.

[Runaways]

I think Brian would rank higher if he had kept his voice together and shown more stylistic ranges.

[SamMcK]

I think Elvis should be number 1. Also I know this is a rock magazine but where the hell is Frank Sinatra and why isn't he in the top 5?

[Lowbacca]

I think Brian would rank higher if he had kept his voice together and shown more stylistic ranges.

Guess you're right.

And yeah, comparing Macca's voice to Mike's is..... weird.


Arguing (or even discussing) over these dumb RS lists is a waste of time.

[Sie W]

No Allan Clarke or Graham Nash......

[runnersdialzero]

While I'm a bigger Beach Boys fan than I am a Rolling Stones fan, if you look at the Boys on stage and the Stones on stage; Jagger has more charisma and energy than all of them combined, even now or especially now.

You're describing the positive attributes of a good frontman - not a singer.

Influenced: Elton John, David Crosby, Ben Folds

What, no Panda Bear?

And thank God for that. ^_^

[GuyOnTheBeach]

The problem with a lot of these lists is that they have to focus on the more popular musicians, omitting some obscure musicians who are far better than some of the others on the list, John Woloschuk of Klaatu is a fantastic singer and sadly lacking from this list.

[RollPlymouthRock]

Any magazine that lists Bob Dylan as being a better singer than Roy Orbison and does not have Harry Nilsson anywhere on the list does not deserve to be taken seriously.