100 Greatest Singers of All Time

[El Presidente]

Surprisingly Springsteen made the top 50 at 36 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/bruce-springsteen-20101202

Solid list. 

[Fuzz]

Awww... all those Beliebers will be so unhappy.

[Islandboy]

Janis Joplin made the list.....at #28 

Looks a bit like a CA top 25 cigars list. Agree with some...puzzled by others.

 

[PapaDisco]

2 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Surprisingly Springsteen made the top 50 at 36 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/bruce-springsteen-20101202

Solid list. 

Who's Springsteen? 

Ken's back right?  

[Ken Gargett]

2 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Surprisingly Springsteen made the top 50 at 36 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/bruce-springsteen-20101202

Solid list. 

first, you loved the concert.

next, a month away and the first post i see on coming back is this insult to bruce? 36? the ignominy. i started to look at who was ahead of him and got to 34. whitney houston. so it is a joke list?

honestly, if i had insulted anyone as badly as this does bruce, i'd have had ten years in the naughty corner and not a month for truth!

[ayepatz]

As with all these lists, it is, of course, heavily subjective, and entirely reflective of the personal tastes of the compiler(s).

For me, that's a list of Unique and Distinctive Voices of 20th Century Popular Music, rather than a representative list of The Greatest Singers of All Time, which, one would hope, might feature more than a few classically trained singers.

It being Rolling Stone magazine, however, and taking it as a given that such a list would never feature opera singers and recitalists, surely only one question remains - Where the hell is Frank Sinatra?

[Fuzz]

50 minutes ago, ayepatz said:

Where the hell is Frank Sinatra?

Hopefully in the same place they left him.

Otherwise those upstart singer wannabees had better watch out. Ol' Blue Eyes is coming for ya!

[99call]

I love the fact that when Bob Dylan went to visit Woody Guthrie on his death bed, and played him a few songs. Guthrie's thoughts were 

"That boy’s got a voice. Maybe he won’t make it with his writing"

[BrightonCorgi]

Another Rolling Stones fail IMO.  Putting Paul Rogers at number 55?  Bjork ahead of Axl Rose?  This magazine hasn't been worth the paper it's printed on in decades.  Hasn't been a good magazine since they stopped including roach clips in the magazine, lol...

Considering how wide a net they are casting, where is Pavarotti?  Did Rob Halford make the list?

[canadianbeaver]

Fascinating list. And from so many genres of music. Thanks! Come to love Nina Simone and glad to find her here.

CB

*wait, this article was 2010 lol

[Puros Y Vino]

3 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Another Rolling Stones fail IMO.  Putting Paul Rogers at number 55?  Bjork ahead of Axl Rose?  This magazine hasn't been worth the paper it's printed on in decades.  Hasn't been a good magazine since they stopped including roach clips in the magazine, lol...

Considering how wide a net they are casting, where is Pavarotti?  Did Rob Halford make the list?

Axl should be higher. No Rob Halford. No Phil Mogg of UFO (seriously underrated).  Robert Plant is present, but should be in the top 20 at least.  Bob Dylan? Great songwriter, horrible singer.  Freddie Mercury should be in the top 5 too.  

[BrightonCorgi]

No wonder no one reads Rolling Stone any more...  Been a failing fish wrapper for a while.

[Isaac]

I cant see how Freddie Mercury wouldnt crack the top 10, but John Lennon would?  Stupid lists.  

[Colt45]

I understand subjective lists, and that this was originally from 2008 - it is interesting. Given the styles represented, I might have had Stevie Ray Vaughn on there somewhere. Perhaps Scott Weiland as well. Grace Slick.

[RijkdeGooier]

Karen Carpenter should be higher than 94 imo

[Tave1225]

Whitney at 36? Steve Perry at 76? Both amazing voices rated too low. Always fun debating these lists and always subjective by the ones who create these lists. So many should be higher and so many should be rated lower. 

[foursite12]

This list was published nearly 10 years ago. Anyone that you think should be included whose work in the intervening years warrants their inclusion? Adele comes to mind.

[Dimmers]

its a bit like asking folk here what their top 15 cigars are. But no Eddie Vedder?? No Chris Cornell??

 and....welcome back Ken!

 

[dobbs]

Roy Orbison should be in the top 10, but at least they got Otis Redding right.

[BrightonCorgi]

13 hours ago, foursite12 said:

This list was published nearly 10 years ago. Anyone that you think should be included whose work in the intervening years warrants their inclusion? Adele comes to mind.

How about George Michael?

[wabashcr]

14 hours ago, foursite12 said:

This list was published nearly 10 years ago. Anyone that you think should be included whose work in the intervening years warrants their inclusion? Adele comes to mind.

Adele for sure.  I was thinking Amy Winehouse.  Maybe she didn't perform enough to merit inclusion on an all time list like this, but her singing was as stunning and mesmerizing as it was unique.

[joeypots]

I like these lists , even though they are click bait for Rolling Stone, but quibble with the number 1 and 2 choices. I'll take Ray over Arethia any day.

[autoloader]

When I didn't see Nat King Cole in the top 35 and Bono there I quit looking.

[JR Kipling]

No Yoko Ono ?

[Puros Y Vino]

1 hour ago, JR Kipling said:

No Yoko Ono ?

She occupies slots 1 - 100 on the World's Worst Singers Ever list.