Great Voices in Music

[sugarandspice]

 Johnny Rotten

Snoop Dog

Jeff Buckely

Anthony (anthony and the johnsons)


Del the  funky homospaine

 Rocky Erickson

xoxo
suga

[Chris D.]

Eating out?

When I have the money I like to.  The drive-thru position is bad because you can hardly hear what they're saying, you know?  So I like to grab a nice, warm, comfortable corner inside and just eat and eat and eat 'til my heart's content.  What do you prefer?

[b.dfzo]

That's messed up.

[Nick T.]

When I have the money I like to.  The drive-thru position is bad because you can hardly hear what they're saying, you know?  So I like to grab a nice, warm, comfortable corner inside and just eat and eat and eat 'til my heart's content.  What do you prefer?

I never pay so I never choose.  I do like the tables with the Victorian LGX ads laminated on top of them.  I like the square patties with onion bits making the arms of Orion in the cheese.  I don't like the Jarry filled Jon Dough Nutz they serve.

[Chris D.]

When I have the money I like to.  The drive-thru position is bad because you can hardly hear what they're saying, you know?  So I like to grab a nice, warm, comfortable corner inside and just eat and eat and eat 'til my heart's content.  What do you prefer?

I never pay so I never choose.  I do like the tables with the Victorian LGX ads laminated on top of them.  I like the square patties with onion bits making the arms of Orion in the cheese.  I don't like the Jarry filled Jon Dough Nutz they serve.

If you're still talking in metaphor, you fucking lost me.  Last time I was in a McDonalds they played classical music.  I laughed.

Great voices: Jarvis Cocker.

[Chance]

Mavis Staples - Aretha or no Aretha, this lady is the living, breathing embodiment of SOUL to me. Swear to god, I'd kiss her feet.
Nina Simone
Beth Orton
Donna Summer
Lauryn Hill
Gladys Knight
Annie Lennox
Liz Frasier
Annie Haslam
Joan Jett
Martha Reeves
Ronnie Spector
Bob Dylan
Michael Stipe
Son House
Jeff Mangum
Howlin' Wolf
Elvis
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Brian Wilson
Mick Jagger
Joe Strummer
Elton John
Smokey Robinson
Otis Redding

[Chris D.]

Have to add David Byrne.

[Chance]

Oh, and David Ruffin!

[sugarandspice]

Kelly Price ( she can sing any day all day whenever she wants too..)

Grace Slick

Bruce  Springsteen

 Micheal  Jackson

Areatha Franklin

Tom Waits
 
Jonny Cash

All the BeeGees

MF DOOM

xoxo
suga

[Boxer Monkey]

The greatest?



"I'm a rocket man! A ROCKET ... MAN ... "

[Chris D.]

You've got that picture framed over your toilet, don't you?

[Boxer Monkey]

You've got that picture framed over your toilet, don't you?

Actually, it's a print within the bowl itself. (They don't call him "The Shat" for nothing ... )

[Chris D.]

>porcelain ringtonez<

[pavlos brenos]

No particular order, ten guys and ten gals that come to mind:

Marty Balin
Vic Damone
Nat King Cole
Lou Rawls
Arthur Brown
Steve Winwood
Jack Bruce
Kurt Elling
Jim Morrison
David Crosby

Annie Lennox
Grace Slick
Janis Joplin
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
Dusty Springfield
Dionne Warwick
Ann Peebles
Julie London
Shirley Bassey
Madonna (no, not really: she's just a smart businesswoman who made a small talent go a very long way...................................)

[NimrodsSon]

Some favourites of mine include:

Mark Mulcahy
Brian Wilson
John Denver
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Margo Guryan

[Boxer Monkey]

[no]

The Association
Iggy Pop
Stevie Wonder
Craig Wedren
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ronnie Spector
Philip Anselmo
Jagger/Richards
Desmond Dekker
The Band
George Jones
Solomon Burke
Kevin Godley
Patti Smith

[Chris D.]

Dude, how could I forget Iggy, my favorite voice...

[I. Spaceman]

Boxer-Man, I've been looking for a good pic of Mary Weiss online forever. Curse you Red Baron!
Brilliant choice. "MAMA!"

Astrud, too.

[halleluwah]

Sandy Denny (everybody's forgotten to mention her, it seems... )
Richard Manuel
Neil Young
Alison Goldfrapp
Thom Yorke
Jeff Mangum
Marvin Gaye
Brian Wilson
Joni Mitchell
Jeff Buckley
Nick Drake
Howlin' Wolf
Beth Gibbons
Bob Dylan
Rick Danko
Skip James
James Brown
Billie Holiday
Jon Thor Birgissen
Levon Helm

etc...

[the captain]

I agree with many said before, but stress:

Freddie Mercury
Tom Waits
Brian Wilson
Jeff Mangum
Don Van Vliet
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan
Michael Jackson
Buddy Holly

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

Steve Malkmus

[Chris D.]

John Linnell.

[MoogDroog]

Sam Cooke
James Carr
Bobbie Gentry
Curtis Mayfield
Gene Clark

[cabinessence]

I'm going to be irritating and mention 'furriners' you've never heard of as a start:

Claudio Villa: Most beautiful pure 'belcanto' pop voice that ever existed. Check out the sound samples on his Greatest Hits at Amazon.

Adriano Celentano: Italy's ongoing answer to American Rock n' Roll from the later fifties onwards (to this day), a totally narcissistic, self-mocking, super-cool joker and message-from-the-mountain delivering libertarian- reactionary, a star of all  media,   equal parts Elvis Presley, Louis Prima, Son of God (a daughter of his played Satan in Passion of the Christ!), and Beatles. He was such a continental fave when the fledgling four were playing Hamburg that they must have picked up on his ironic "Pop Art" cartoonish take on American music, a tribute and caricature and beautiful cinematic fantasy of the 'real thing'. The attitude is Macca, but the voice is Lennonesque: edgy, sarcastic, knowingly humorous, soulful and utopian in the course of any given song. And his band of totally cultishly committed players and collaborators over the first decade or so of his career known as the "Clan" back up the great voice with a James Brown-like great hit delivering machine

Lucio Battisti: Italy's radio-friendly answer to Post-Dylan tendencies, a guy who sounded and looked like a man who did his singing in and around his bed, rumpled hair and cigarette tear, trying to persuade someone into it, sweet nothings, love making, deepest existential fears,  and a call for take-out while dragging on yet another smoke after, and falling out of bed on his head and getting confused, disturbed postively angry the next morning being his perfectly realized range,  the musical Marcello Mastroianni you might say.

That out of the way, some you're acquainted with:

Roger Daltrey: best interpreter of another musical guy's vision, the guy the other guy would sometimes like to be himself. Rog vs. Art Garfunkel, no contest for me

Joni Mitchell: took me years to get totally used to her and fall in love (Blue was when she fully clicked), but that's because she knew no other way than to pursue and find her own voice within its natural oddities and limitations, and she finally truly did! Would that all those who imitate her badly could figure out the same thing.

Paul Westerberg: He can whine and scream in tandem as good as anybody. He's better than Kurt  Cobain at this, I'm positive. "Unsatisfied" is a devastatingly cathartic performance

George Jones is the son of Hank Williams when it comes to Stoic singing, unflappable on the outside but all falling apart inside.