Personal top 10 vocalists; no judging or criteria

[Foxholer]

Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Judie Tzuke
Tori Amos
John Martyn
Cat Stevens
Joan Baez
Patricia Kaas
Nina Simone

Wow! You must really like eating sandpaper! And no apology to the 2nd part of the thread title!

Great song-writers/songsters by all means. But surely the likes of James Taylor, Carole King and Carly Simon have to be in amongst several of those!
Did/Does Bob Dylan actually sing?
Joan Baez, Nina Simone and John Martyn are excluded from the above comments btw, though Martyn's guitar work is better than his vocals imo!
Btw. I'm still contemplating my list as it's quite difficult to separate 'Vocalist' from 'Songster'! If it was just the latter, Jimmy Buffett would occupy pretty much all 10 places!

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Wow! You must really like eating sandpaper! And no apology to the 2nd part of the thread title!

Great song-writers/songsters by all means. But surely the likes of James Taylor, Carole King and Carly Simon have to be in amongst several of those!
Did/Does Bob Dylan actually sing?
Joan Baez, Nina Simone and John Martyn are excluded from the above comments btw, though Martyn's guitar work is better than his vocals imo!
Btw. I'm still contemplating my list as it's quite difficult to separate 'Vocalist' from 'Songster'! If it was just the latter, Jimmy Buffett would occupy pretty much all 10 places!

Good to see that the forums biggest pedant couldn’t abide by the thread’s title ??

 

[Pin-seeker]

Liam Gallagher

 

[tugglesf239]

In no order.

Levi Stubbs
Robert Plant
Chris Cornell
Roy Orbinson
Robin Pecknold (fleet foxes)
Freddie - naturally..
Kurt cobain
Joanna Newsom
Liz Fraser
Bowie

 

[tugglesf239]

Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Judie Tzuke
Tori Amos
John Martyn
Cat Stevens
Joan Baez
Patricia Kaas
Nina Simone

Massive Cohen fan here.
Love Dylan and Baez too.

 

[rulefan]

Erika Lewis

 

[Orikoru]

Wow! You must really like eating sandpaper! And no apology to the 2nd part of the thread title!

Great song-writers/songsters by all means. But surely the likes of James Taylor, Carole King and Carly Simon have to be in amongst several of those!
Did/Does Bob Dylan actually sing?
Joan Baez, Nina Simone and John Martyn are excluded from the above comments btw, though Martyn's guitar work is better than his vocals imo!
Btw. I'm still contemplating my list as it's quite difficult to separate 'Vocalist' from 'Songster'! If it was just the latter, Jimmy Buffett would occupy pretty much all 10 places!

Aside from the second part of the title, the first part says 'vocalist' rather than singer. You don't have to be an incredible singer to be a great vocalist, or frontman of a band for example.

 

[need_my_wedge]

Annie Lennox
Nina Simone
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir
Chris Rea
Chris martin
Freddie Mercury
Jim Kerr
George Ezra
J J Cale
Tunde Baiyewu

 

[njc1973]

Rob Thomas
Adam Duritz
Axel Rose
John Fogerty
Anne Wilson
Freddie Mercury
Joe Cocker
Bruce Springsteen
Jennifer Nettles
Bono

 

[Crazyface]

All 5 Spice Girls; Milli Vanilli; Yoko Ono; Margarita Pracatan; Justin Bieber.

WHAT!???????????????

 

[Crazyface]

Freddie Mercury

Elvis
Bon Scott
Bon Jovi
James Brown
Paulo Gonzo
Rob Halford
Annie Lennox
Britney Spears
Carrie Underwood

 

[Blue in Munich]

Jennifer Nettles

good shout.