Best Voice
 

Who has or had the best voice?

Jimmy Gnecco gets my vote.

Freddie Mercury of Queen
or
Debbie Harry of Blondie

Who's Jimmy Gnecco first of all?

I like Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw), Daryl Taberski (Snapcase), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), and Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) a lot.... I like weird voices.

Barry White also must be mentioned, he is one of the all-time greats.

Snoop Dogg I appreciate too because his voice aids his delivery and he has one of the best laid-back deliveries ever in rap.

Also, KoKane, who did the back up lyrics on Snoop Dogg's "Tha Last Meal" album. Really strange, but cool.

EDIT: And Brainiac's Tim Thomas (RIP)

EDIT AGAIN: Ah, OK, I know who Jimmy Gnecco is. The guy from Ours. Yeah, he's got a good voice.

Cedric Bixler, The Mars Volta

Jimmy Gnecco sings for Ours. The dude from snapcase has a crazy voice. I saw them once with atreyu, and boysetsfire, and I was expecting his voice to only sound like that on studio produced stuff, but no, it sounds the same live.

1960's Johnny Cash

Jeff Buckley
Morrissey
David Gahan

Anyone ever hear Tim Buckley, Jeff's Dad? His voice is awesome.

Maynard James Keenan from Tool and A Perfect Circle. That motherfucker can sing.

Mikael Åkerfeldt - Opeth

--jaded

mike patton
tom waits

Chino (deftones)

Jay Z

Haha, are you kidding me? That guy can't hold a note live to save his life.


Elton John or Freddie Mercury.

Steve Perry
Brad Delp
Paul McCartney
and just because everyone would expect it from me - Paul Stanley


and another vote for Freddie :thumbsup:

My favorites:

Mark Lanegan: screaming trees
Freddie Mercury
Dolores Mary O'Riordan Burton : the cranberries
Shirley Manson: garbage

I don't listen to these bands\singers regularly. Most of the music I listen to does not have decent singers or non augmented vocals.

Here are some of my favorites:

Tarja Turunen (Nightwish)
Anthony Kedis (RHCP)
Gavin Hayes (Dredg)
Kelli Scarr (Moonraker)
Neal Morse (Spock's Beard)

Couldn't tell you if they are "the best", but if I had a choice of vocalists, they would be at the top of my list.

mike patton

Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory (NO ONE in metal today goes back and forth between singing and growling as well as he does)

Maynard James Keenan of Tool

Johnny Cash in his older years (that grating in his voice is so representative of the life he lived)

Devin Townsend (for sheer brutal volume...I mean, for chrissake, the man SHAT HIS PANTS during a show because he screamed so hard).

Nate from Boyz II Men

Mariah Carey (I hate her, but she has a 5 octave range...I ain't gonna fuck with that)

Ours, the group that Jimmy Gnecco sings for, whom I voted for originally, sings a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. Download it so that you can compare the two singers. He sounds alot like Bono. Download it.

Ditto to that.

Also Chris Cornell, Robert Plant, Bon Scott, Brian Johnson, and Bono. All I got off the top of my head.

This is biased to the type of music I listen of course.

Are you kidding? Chino has perfect pitch. The man can scream with perfect pitch. No joke.

Maynard, Shirley Manson, Reznor, Tracy Chapman, Sarah McLachlan, Tori, PJ Harvey

Another vote for Freddy,
Dennis DeYoung-Styx
Steve Perry-Journey
Paul Rodgers-Bad Co.
Without starting a new thread- most distinctive voice:
Pepi Marcello- Good Rats

Mike Patton

several off the top of my head (a good portion near the end still alive even)-
Male:
Bing Crosby
Nat Cole
Dick Haymes
Eddie Cantor
-cliched answer- Old Blue Eyes
Female:
Peggy Lee
Dinah Shore
Doris Day
Julie Andrews
Keely Smith
Mariah Carey
Toni Braxton

:D lol Tom Waits is great. However an amazing voice I am unsure.
As per usual I will be a geek and vote for both singing members of the RHCP
Anthony Kiedis
John Frusciante
More voices I love
Brandon Boyd of Incubus
Unsure of the name but the lead singer of the Real Mckenzies
And of course Sting.

Jonsi (Sigur Ros)
Maynard (Tool/APC)
Thom (Radiohead)

Although I don't think it's the best voice in music, Beth Gibbons of Portishead's voice is truly remarkable.

Leah Remini (King of Queens) has a pretty neat voice. She is also quite cute.

There are more, but that is the only one comes to mind currently.

I'm a big fan of people that have nice laughs. Kinda sporadic with that comment, but I figured I owed another line of text. :)

EDIT: Heh, I just realized what forum this is in.

Musically, the lead singer of Nickelback has a unique voice. It's kind of raspy (??), but I think his voice certainly adds to the song.

Female-wise, Shania Twain has a great voice. The yelps she does are also very nice.

Also, Elmer Fudd at the beginning of the pre-release version of Master P's, "Them Jeans."

Ok, I'm done.

It's funny being an amateur singer of radio tunes I can imagine singing like all these people. I know the ins and outs of all their voices. It's cool. I can imitate just about anyone. Maybe I'll record myself singing like all these people.

Jeff Buckley...hands down...with Rufus Wainwright as a close second

Will someone just ackwoledge that Jimmy Gnecco is a great singer. That's all I want. I'll ackwnoledge that Jeff Buckley is amazing, he sounds alot like Jim Gnecco at times, their screams are quite similar.

here's my shortened list...

Nat King Cole
Eva Cassidy
Rod Stewart
Freddie Mercury
Barry White
Luther Vandros
Solomon Burke
Dusty Springfield
Luciano Pavarotti
Cecilia Bartoli
Jeff Buckley


and a few personal favs...

Elvis Costello
Michael Hutchence
kd lang
Sade

Hell yeah! Great choice.

Similarly I'd like to add Andy Khachaturian (The Apex Theory, Ontronik, Vokee)

fuck I think I've been missing out on dredg...heard so much about them, but never heard a single song...time to pick an album. Which one should I get?

--jaded

Their two albums, Leitmotif and El Cielo, are completely different.

I couldn't recommend one over the other... however if you wanted to hear how good Gavin Hayes' voice can be, you should pick up El Cielo.

Oh, and another I'm amazed hasn't been mentioned: Ella Fitzgerald.

I second the recommendation of El Cielo. You don't need a special excuse to get both at once - they are great albums and deserve your attention :D

I almost did along with Billie Holiday but was trying to keep the list 'short'
I have never heard of him, but am always open to at least giving something a try musically.

Eva Cassidy. Far and away the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. Its a shame she died so early...