Rolling Stone's top 100 singers list

[U2girl]

Bono on list of Rolling Stone magazine's best singers of all time

Bono writes up on Dylan, and makes the cut himself (Billie Joe Armstrong writes on Bono).

Mercury and Orbison should have been top 10.

 

[U2DMfan]

Wow, Billie Joe had a nice write-up on him.

Here's the direct link.
The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time : Rolling Stone

 

[Rob33]

Bob Dylan #7? Are you kidding me...

 

[U2girl]

Maybe I'm missing something but is Sinatra not on that list ?

 

[bathiu]

Mick Jager or even Bob Dylan better singers than... well I'm gonna say Bono, but I should say most of the people on that list below them

 

[U2girl]

And Lennon&McCartney. Fantastic writers but not someone I would think of in terms of greatest singers ever.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Bob Dylan #7? Are you kidding me...

I don't think we are talking strictly vocal ability here...

 

[phillyfan26]

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Ray Charles
3. Elvis Presley
4. Sam Cooke
5. John Lennon
6. Marvin Gaye
7. Bob Dylan
8. Otis Redding
9. Stevie Wonder
10. James Brown
11. Paul McCartney
12. Little Richard
13. Roy Orbison
14. Al Green
15. Robert Plant
16. Mick Jagger
17. Tina Turner
18. Freddie Mercury
19. Bob Marley
20. Smokey Robinson
21. Johnny Cash
22. Etta James
23. David Bowie
24. Van Morrison
25. Michael Jackson
26. Jackie Wilson
27. Hank Williams
28. Janis Joplin
29. Nina Simone
30. Prince
31. Howlin' Wolf
32. Bono
33. Steve Winwood
34. Whitney Houston
35. Dusty Springfield
36. Bruce Springsteen
37. Neil Young
38. Elton John
39. Jeff Buckley
40. Curtis Mayfield
41. Chuck Berry
42. Joni Mitchell
43. George Jones
44. Bobby "Blue" Bland
45. Kurt Cobain
46. Patsy Cline
47. Jim Morrison
48. Buddy Holly
49. Donny Hathaway
50. Bonnie Raitt
51. Gladys Knight
52. Brian Wilson
53. Muddy Waters
54. Luther Vandross
55. Paul Rodgers
56. Mavis Staples
57. Eric Burdon
58. Christina Aguilera
59. Rod Stewart
60. Björk
61. Roger Daltrey
62. Lou Reed
63. Dion
64. Axl Rose
65. David Ruffin
66. Thom Yorke
67. Jerry Lee Lewis
68. Wilson Pickett
69. Ronnie Spector
70. Gregg Allman
71. Toots Hibbert
72. John Fogerty
73. Dolly Parton
74. James Taylor
75. Iggy Pop
76. Steve Perry
77. Merle Haggard
78. Sly Stone
79. Mariah Carey
80. Frankie Valli
81. John Lee Hooker
82. Tom Waits
83. Patti Smith
84. Darlene Love
85. Sam Moore
86. Art Garfunkel
87. Don Henley
88. Willie Nelson
89. Solomon Burke
90. The Everly Brothers
91. Levon Helm
92. Morrissey
93. Annie Lennox
94. Karen Carpenter
95. Patti LaBelle
96. B.B. King
97. Joe Cocker
98. Stevie Nicks
99. Steven Tyler
100. Mary J. Blige

 

[Chill Mike D]

Yet another completely useless Rolling Stone list.

 

[Purplereign]

Yet another completely useless Rolling Stone list.

 

[Gonna Run 2 U]

Rolling Stone is just always a popularity contest....no sarah mclachlan I always wanted her and Bono to do a duet.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_jCNchJSyI

 

[scottyT]

Yup just like their election coverage.

 

[Irishteen]

Why do people target Rolling Stone and hate them so much for lists? The list is complied of opinions of dozens of people most of them have nothing to do with Rolling Stones

The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time : Rolling Stone

 

[MikeyJB]

I hate these lists, they mean shit all. How are Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Johnny Cash classed as higher than Bono or Jeff Buckley, such a joke. And where the hell is Liam Gallagher?? Circa 1995-1997 he had one of the best rock voices of all time in my opinion.

 

[Varitek]

Yeah, this list clearly isn't entirely based on quality of voice. But it's Rolling Stone, it's kinda fun, take it or leave it, no need to get your panties in a bunch.

I also think, having written the above sentence after skimming the list but before reading Bono's write-up, that Bono did an excellent job of making the case for Dylan.

 

[Varitek]

Why do people target Rolling Stone and hate them so much for lists? The list is complied of opinions of dozens of people most of them have nothing to do with Rolling Stones

The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time : Rolling Stone

hahaha Paul McGuinness was one of them. Actually that is a much more entertaining list than the top 100 in some ways.

 

[dal975]

the facts that eddie vedder is not on the list and morrissey is buried at 92 removes any hint of credibility from this list.

 

[Peterrrrr]

Ok, there where alot of good singers on this list.

But wheres David Coverdale? Tom Jones?

Don't get me wrong, I am not a guy who like cheesey music, but Micheal Bolton may not write and sing the most deep things. But he got a voice

 

[LemonMelon]

I don't think we are talking strictly vocal ability here...

What then, uniqueness? Or is this another veiled "greatest music-related people on earth" list?

Bob Dylan > Otis Redding cracks me up.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Fucking Paul McCartney ahead of Freddie Mercury?! WHAT THE HELL?

Paul McCartney sings like a basset hound.

 

[Zoots]

No Eddie Vedder... *flushes list down the toilet*

 

[LemonMelon]

On behalf of Axver, who probably won't bother with this thread:

Where the fuck is Steven Wilson??? Americans let me down once again. UGH. I need to do some railfanning, but I should probably go to Uni...eh...I'll just stay here. Fuck Rolling Stone.

 

[Catman]

Rolling Stone is just always a popularity contest....no sarah mclachlan I always wanted her and Bono to do a duet.


YouTube - Sarah Mclachlan - I Love You

YOU are my new best friend

 

[angelordevil]

No Eddie Vedder... *flushes list down the toilet*

Get the plunger...it's quite the load!

Maybe Eddie gets to keep some punk cred by not making this list. I think he gets unfairly stereotyped as just being a howler. When he slows it down, his voice is simply golden and truly something special--completely infused with character and originality.

WHERE IS JAMES BLUNT?

 

[pepokiss]

how to know that this list is crap?

45. Kurt Cobain

He's in it...




Freddie Mercury should be Top 5

where's Frank Sinatra, Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford?



and where's Poochie?

 

[BVS]

I heard William Hung was #101

 

[Irishteen]

WHERE IS JAMES BLUNT?

He was one of the judges

 

[Bono's shades]

Armstrong did a nice write-up for Bono.

But the list itself is kind of crappy.

I like that Aretha made #1, but there is no way the technically gifted but completely souless Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston should have been chosen when Billie Holiday was left out. I think Ozzy Osbourne should have been on the list too. And no love for Ann Wilson? Joan Jett? Eddie Vedder? And as someone posted earlier, how do Freddie Mercury and Roy Orbison not make the Top 10?

 

[u2rulesmyworld]

haha james taylor just nosed out iggy pop

 

[david]

They need to make a list of the top 100 lists that people have complained about.