Your 5 favorite male singers..

[Deb]

Steve Perry
Sebastian Bach
Prince
Lou Gramm
Sam Cooke

Perry is number 1 always. The rank of the others changes depending on the day and mood.

I can go with Prince,but Bach...SJ your reaching on that one..I would take Jeff Keith over Bach anyday..

Both good, Bach's got more power and range, but I really like Jeff Keith's tone/timbre. One of my faves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2pYCz6hI-I

[Journey69]

Steve Perry
Sebastian Bach
Prince
Lou Gramm
Sam Cooke

Perry is number 1 always. The rank of the others changes depending on the day and mood.

I can go with Prince,but Bach...SJ your reaching on that one..I would take Jeff Keith over Bach anyday..

Both good, Bach's got more power and range, but I really like Jeff Keith's tone/timbre. One of my faves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2pYCz6hI-I

Try this one Debster.. Listen to the whole song.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJEewund ... re=related

[Don]

Glenn Shorrock
Bruce Dickerson
Steve Perry
Justin Hayward
Jeff Lynne

Honorable Mention Paul Carrack

[kgdjpubs]

ok this is hard...some scattered commentary throughout. Note: based on total vocal package, not just clearest voice and highest range.

1. Sam Cooke..listen to the Night Beat album (specifically Lost and Looking) if any questions, mind-blowingly good live also (Harlem Square Club album)

2. Steve Perry (some California-based one hit wonder)...debatedly a better natural voice than Cooke, but you can't beat the original, though it's possible to come VERY close. Some of the mid 80s work was just outstanding from a technique and emotion side.

3. Mark Free (King Kobra, Signal, etc)...if you only heard KK, you have NO IDEA what he could do or what he sounded like later...absolute monster live, and should have been a shoe-in to replace Gramm in Foreigner in the 90s. Solo album has better demo vocals than most could do for a finished product.

4. John Farnham...can be mechanical and oversings in studio, but live, few can touch him

5. Jimmy Barnes (Solo, Cold Chisel)....not a pure singer, but pure, raw power--and that is where very few can touch him. Can go too far into screaming, but restrained slightly, he is extremely effective.


others...in some random order
Bob Catley (Magnum)...first solo album or Magnum's Sleepwalking may be his best
Jackie Wilson....might be close to top 5, but haven't heard enough back catalogue
Rod Stewart...up to late 90s pre-surgery
Phil Collins....can sound very mechanical with vocal effects, but can really let loose--and very unique
Glenn Hughes...best at changing his voice of anybody I have heard, and raw power
Jimi Jamison (Survivor)...find Man Against the World and Across the Miles if any questions
Danny Bowes (Thunder)...amazingly versatile--can sing just about anything, not just blues
Paul Rodgers...for blues rock, there are few better
Dave Bickler (Survivor)...pure rock singer with a raw edge that Jamison could never touch
Kevin Chalfant....Eye of the Storm cd, if questions
Freddy Curci (Sheriff, Alias)....oversings at times, but an incredible voice. Dreamer's Road is outstanding

[Journey69]

ok this is hard...some scattered commentary throughout. Note: based on total vocal package, not just clearest voice and highest range.

1. Sam Cooke..listen to the Night Beat album (specifically Lost and Looking) if any questions, mind-blowingly good live also (Harlem Square Club album)

2. Steve Perry (some California-based one hit wonder)...debatedly a better natural voice than Cooke, but you can't beat the original, though it's possible to come VERY close. Some of the mid 80s work was just outstanding from a technique and emotion side.

3. Mark Free (King Kobra, Signal, etc)...if you only heard KK, you have NO IDEA what he could do or what he sounded like later...absolute monster live, and should have been a shoe-in to replace Gramm in Foreigner in the 90s. Solo album has better demo vocals than most could do for a finished product.

4. John Farnham...can be mechanical and oversings in studio, but live, few can touch him

5. Jimmy Barnes (Solo, Cold Chisel)....not a pure singer, but pure, raw power--and that is where very few can touch him. Can go too far into screaming, but restrained slightly, he is extremely effective.


others...in some random order
Bob Catley (Magnum)...first solo album or Magnum's Sleepwalking may be his best
Jackie Wilson....might be close to top 5, but haven't heard enough back catalogue
Rod Stewart...up to late 90s pre-surgery
Phil Collins....can sound very mechanical with vocal effects, but can really let loose--and very unique
Glenn Hughes...best at changing his voice of anybody I have heard, and raw power
Jimi Jamison (Survivor)...find Man Against the World and Across the Miles if any questions
Danny Bowes (Thunder)...amazingly versatile--can sing just about anything, not just blues
Paul Rodgers...for blues rock, there are few better
Dave Bickler (Survivor)...pure rock singer with a raw edge that Jamison could never touch
Kevin Chalfant....Eye of the Storm cd, if questions
Freddy Curci (Sheriff, Alias)....oversings at times, but an incredible voice. Dreamer's Road is outstanding

Very nice.. Do you have any Mark Free youtubes to post..I would love to hear what he sounds like..Being I'm a huge Foreigner fan,now I'm curious.. Never heard of him..

[tammy]

The top one is easy...Steve Perry. There are two other singers I really like that have that same passion & emotion in their amazing voices...Tom Chaplin and John West. Those would be my top three. I love the voices of a lot of singers, (Phil Collins, Van Morrison, Michael Stipe, F. Mercury, Donny Hathaway, Seal, Elton John, the Counting Crows singer, Sam Cooke) but these top three have something special.

[ProgRocker53]

No particular order (after the first one, at least):

Steve Perry
Gregg Rolie
Sammy Hagar
Steven Wilson
Bob Seger

Honorable Mentions: Brad Delp, Lou Gramm, Dennis DeYoung, Matthew Bellamy, Don Dokken, Robert Plant, Thom Yorke, Jeff Scott Soto

[stevew2]

No particular order (after the first one, at least):

Steve Perry
Gregg Rolie
Sammy Hagar
Steven Wilson
Bob Seger

Honorable Mentions: Brad Delp, Lou Gramm, Dennis DeYoung, Matthew Bellamy, Don Dokken, Robert Plant, Thom Yorke, Jeff Scott Soto

You forgot to mention my favorite Steve Augeri, shame on you

[cyndy!]

steve perry
eric martin
jeff scott soto
prince
chris cornell

[Squidward24]

Only five? Man, talk about tough. Ok the 5 vocalists that I enjoy listening to:


Bruce Dickinson
Marvin Gaye
Steve Hogarth
Steve Perry
Paul Rodgers

[Moon Beam]

Steve Perry
Elton John
Van Morrison
John Mayer
Peter Cetera

5 more just because........

Brad Delp
Jeff Healey
Gino Vanelli
Alan Doyle (Great Big Sea)
Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies)

[conversationpc]

Steve Perry
Lou Gramm
Geoff Tate
D.C. Cooper
Brad Delp

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

Alice Cooper (it counts- as the Alice Cooper band was originally a group)
Steve Perry
Jeff Scott Soto
Jimi Jamison
Steven Tyler

honorable menton Lou Gramm

[FinnFreak]

Steve Perry
Steve Hogarth
Steve Winwood
Stevie Wonder
Steve Walsh

(I guess Stevie Nicks doesn't belong on the list... too bad. heh.)

[Just Mindy]

Steve Perry
Jeff Scott Soto
Don Henley
Ronnie James Dio
Sammy Hagar

[mistiejourney]

The singer has to have been part of a group..You can have 1 honorable mention..And no Deb,you can't do this...
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Steve Perry..

LOLOL!

1. Steve Perry
2. Jeff Scott Soto
3. Robin Gibb
4. Chuck Negron - the whole reason I fell into Steve Perry! He can still hit the high notes, too!
5. Lindsey Buckingham

[youkeepmewaiting]

Not exactly breaking the mold but mine are,

Perry
Jamison
Chalfaunt
Bruce Dickinson
Bob Catley (Magnum)

[Angiekay]

Chirs Isaak
Sammy Hagar
Lou Gramm
David Coverdale
Frank Sinatra

[conversationpc]

Forgot to mention Steve Walsh...Dude had it going back in the day.

[kgdjpubs]

Very nice.. Do you have any Mark Free youtubes to post..I would love to hear what he sounds like..Being I'm a huge Foreigner fan,now I'm curious.. Never heard of him..

unfortunately, what is on youtube isn't exactly the best out there. Better option is to go to a couple of myspace sites, which have several songs on display...Signal and the solo album were the recordings that used Free's voice to it's full advantage.


http://www.myspace.com/longwayfromloveaormasterpiece .....solo album. Listen to Coming Back for More

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =161981273 ...Signal. Listen to Could This Be Love and Run Into the Night

Apparently, Free was contacted about Foreigner when Gramm left the first time, but it went nowhere. Then, by 1994, Free was permanently out of the music industry for personal reasons, unlikely ever to record again. The details are very complicated. Very sad story to a talented singer who, like countless others, never got the big break.

[finalfight]

Currently...

Steve Perry
Tim Owens
Brett Anderson
Rob Halford
Peter Gabriel

[venomnation]

Freddie Mercury
Steve Perry
Jeff Scott Soto
Jimi Jamison
Meat Loaf

[Rockindeano]

Vince Neil
Jimi Jamison
Phil Collins
Gary Cherone
Sammy Hagar

Honorable Mention: Elton John, Michael Hutchence, Jon Stevens, Jeff Scott Soto, Johnny Edwards, Ray Wilson, Pat Benatar, Brad Delp, Ann Wilson, Steve Augeri, Mickey Thomas.

You should be banned. You are refuckingdiculous.

[Angiekay]

Vince Neil
Jimi Jamison
Phil Collins
Gary Cherone
Sammy Hagar

Honorable Mention: Elton John, Michael Hutchence, Jon Stevens, Jeff Scott Soto, Johnny Edwards, Ray Wilson, Pat Benatar, Brad Delp, Ann Wilson, Steve Augeri, Mickey Thomas.

You should be banned. You are refuckingdiculous.

I just want to know why Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson are included on a MALE singer list?!

[brywool]

Not necessarily the best, but my favorites:

Steve Perry
Sam Cooke
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Robin Zander

Honorable mention: Tommy Shaw, Dennis DeYoung, Brad Delp, Freddie Mercury (recorded not live), Rik Emmett, Steve Augeri (recorded not live), James Brown, Prince, Smokey Robinson, Creeping into the list quickly: Arnel!

VINCE NEIL?? Gawd... I remember the first time I heard him, flat as a pancake. Terrible singer. BUT, the category was favorite I guess.

... But... MICHAEL STIPE?!?!?!? C'mon.... ugh...

[kgdjpubs]

Vince Neil
Jimi Jamison
Phil Collins
Gary Cherone
Sammy Hagar

Honorable Mention: Elton John, Michael Hutchence, Jon Stevens, Jeff Scott Soto, Johnny Edwards, Ray Wilson, Pat Benatar, Brad Delp, Ann Wilson, Steve Augeri, Mickey Thomas.

You should be banned. You are refuckingdiculous.

I just want to know why Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson are included on a MALE singer list?!

Does Red know something we dont?!? hmm...controversy!

[Johnny Mohawk]

Steve Perry
Freddie Mercury
Steve Walsh
Robin Zander
Lou Gramm
Robert Plant
Steven Tyler
David Lee Roth
Bon Scott
Ronnie James Dio
Rob Halford
Mickey Thomas
Geoff Tate
etc.

[SF-Dano]

5 is tough.

Steve Perry
Eric Martin
Geoff Tate
Jeff Keith
Ronnie James Dio

Honorable mention - David Coverdale

(Others - Dave Meneketti, Sammy Hagar, Steve Augeri, Greg Rollie, Phil Lynott, Don Dokken, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickenson, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Sam Cook, Rod Stewart, Rik Emmet, Huey Lewis, ..........)

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

what I cant figure out is why the worlds two most talented singers in the world haven't been listed there:


Neil Young

Bob Dylan

boy can they hit all the notes and carry a tune.

[kgdjpubs]

what I cant figure out is why the worlds two most talented singers in the world haven't been listed there:


Neil Young

Bob Dylan

boy can they hit all the notes and carry a tune.

Personally, I think my dogs sing better than Dylan . Write better? no, but sing better. Dylan is one of several who makes me really consider a career as a singer, regardless of how off-key and tone deaf I might be.