What singer has the best voice? Best timbre, not best technical

Tom Waits

me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZpEem01MQ

Chino from deftones

Michael Gira is up there for me in terms of more baritone singers
I pretty much listen to his solo work just for the voice

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

darby crash

Chris Cornell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIqIVxUuKs

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best.

>>72557992
>>72558530
they've made great music but they're objectively terrible vocalists

>>72557987
Sufjan Stevens. Speaking voice though, he has a cute lisp

Jarvis Cocker.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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he's up there, but not live
in either sense

>>72558005
I'm better... not nearly the best though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3SHSammQcM

>>72558600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5jV4lHHR0

Technically poor maybe, but great in it's own right. Rough yet comforting

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Obvious choice

Frank ocean.

Joe cocker

>>72558944
This. His voice is like the embodiment of summer and pure bliss

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>>72558006
I like Chino as well. But as far as rock vocalists go, it's Layne Staley imo

>>72558559
When I was a kid I used to think Queen was the unbeatable band, but even today when I'm not terribly impressed by their discography I still can't deny that Freddie is a vocal god when he tries to be.

What do you mean by "best" timbre?

>>72559651
Brian May is up there too

Shame Queen are a meme band here, two huge talents that don't get recognised

TK from Ling Tosite Sigure

>>72559704
Brian May is actually pretty overrated as a guitarist but his vocal delivery is great. Still, he's nowhere near Freddie on a technical level.

>>72559796
>overrated

Maybe, but he's still damn good.

Cool guy too, he's got a PhD in astrophysics.

I love a lot of the vocalists in this thread. Scott Weiland is definitely up there in terms of range, at least before 2010. (STP eponymous is one of my favorite albums, though.)

>>72560060
Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_x5-IfVjs

>>72557987
I'd pick Maynard too. Amazing voice

>>72560110
As long as you ignore the fact that Undertow exists.

>>72558600
>but they're objectively terrible vocalists
This is so wrong it's not even funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIhyQPixAsc

Serj Tankian is one of my favs. His singing not just his screaming.

>>72560477
His solo work highlights this

Brandan Urie.

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Matt Berninger from The National.

just listen to boxer ffs his voice is beautiful

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>>72560657
I listened to boxer and fell asleep
It's like a bland Interpol and Interpol is like a bland Joy Division, and Joy Division is like a bland New Order

>>72558901
>Mike Patton
>Not technically impressive
I hope you're not being serious. Not to mention his timbre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

>>72560911
i hope he dies next

>>72559487
This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKr0DzCX2n8

>>72557987
Grimes

Yoko Ono
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>>72560957
Why?

Ozzy Osbourne

https://youtu.be/JHWdXIEcFNw
Raul Panther III.

>>72562741
I love his sound on the very first Black Sabbath album, somehow very different from later stuff

>>72563193
Well, alcohol and drug addiction does that. Just listen to his vocals on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath:
https://youtu.be/RW68zUxqsqM

>>72560847
He's both

>>72558005
this music is awful

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>>72560776
>Joy Division is like a bland New Order

wew lad

if we are rating JD/NO singers

>1st: Ian
>Joint 2nd Bernard/young Hooky
>literally anyone
>9001. old man Hooky

>>72558556
Nice song to showcase it.

nat king cole?

>>72563906
at least they look like they havin fun

Garm

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prove me wrong

Matt Berninger's whiskey soaked baritone for me

>ctrl+f
>lemmy killmister
>0 results
are you fucking kidding?

>>72557987
Mikael Akerfeldt

>>72565121
his voice is perfect for soapbar hash binges whilst dating 10/10 qts yo

>>72565141
*unintelligible grunting intensifies*

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Listen to his performance of Whiter Shade of Pale in Denmark and you may agree with me.

Devin Townsend

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>>72565285
my favorite too

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Peter Heppner anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7s5fdgbng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8M8xwLQ90

>>72559703
I was about to ask this desu
that's kinda like asking what the best color is

>>72565056
I like, but prefer his metal style

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>>72558901
Patton's timbre is very pleasant, but he is also incredibly talented, one of the most technical and innovative singers out there.

>>72557987
Bob Dylan

>>72565285
>>72565141
agreed

>>72565357
>that's kinda like asking what the best color is
It's obviously green you pleb

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Specifically on pic related, Young Americans, Low, Heroes and so on. He kept trying to imitate Iggy Pop, who is also a pretty good contender.

>>72557987

Florence Foster Jenkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ubiUIxbWE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ6wkOO_MEA

obviously technically gifted too but I like the timbre a lot too. and she sounds great live

>>72560446
What's wrong with Undertow?

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serious as a heart attack

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Sue me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2W50ATBCqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbVpsKdn90

My girl rose melberg

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Too bad he went to space and never came back

Michael Gira has a great timbre
Mike Patton is exceptionally talented
Jim Morrison is the best when it comes to both
Avery Tare does a lot of interesting things with his voice
Tyondai Braxtons early work with battles is really a really good example of blending into the music and adding to it

>>72557987
I'm not into Tool but this dude live vocals are paranormally good

>>72565654
It's orange you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbSSLWNBTQ
Eddie Chedder
>inb4 >pearl jam

the true Pearl Jam hero is Dave Abruzzesse, though.

>>72560657
>I'm in LOVE with Hilary

I can't listen to the National without picturing Marr Berniger fingerblasting Hilary's dried old pussy

I gotta say that I'm a fan of Prince

bjork

>>72567375

>AUUGHHHHHHRRRRAAA

For me it's Neige from Alcest, Just soft and androgynous enough to fit that dreamy sound perfectly, and his screaming is easily the best in metal today
>>72558022
He's one of my favorites because of his slightly weird enunciation of words; I can never put my finger on what his accent is. I could listen to him speak for hours though
>>72565285
Not crazy about a lot of his music but he's an amazing vocalist

>>72567479
Were paranormally good*


These days he half asses the whole set and won't let go of that annoying megaphone.

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>>72557987
Not up for discussion

>>72560776
>Interpol is like a bland Joy Division
Imagine being this wrong and still thinking you know what you're talking about

Rob Halford has lost some range with age, but in the 70s-80s, his vocal abilities were almost inhuman.

>>72568894
>imagine being in this much denial

>>72558559
The a capella of "Under Pressure" is mind-blowing.

>>72558054
Top choice

>>72569198
They're watered-down Chameleons
Their guitar work sounds like Chameleons
PDA sounds exactly like In Shreds
The only things they even remotely share with Joy Division are the bass and the singing, both of which they share with the entire genre of post-punk
Stop parroting RYM's opinions and think for yourself

Beefheart

>>72560776
I'm not sure what National album I've heard, but it didn't remind me of Interpol. Bland is the best descriptor though. Holy fuck was it boring and slow and nothing I mean good lord where are the melodies

>>72568083
came here to say neige, and I mean dueil angossieus screaming his throat out neige

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at times

>>72565285

reminds me of

>>72558559

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How has the one true god, Thommy Yorke, not been mentioned yet?

>>72560446
Undertow has some of his best vocal performances you loon

>>72570294
Trent is pretty godly
I'd let his voice fuck me like an animal