Worried Man Blues
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NO!!!I could post my 100 favourite singers you've never heard of
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[Music] Rolling Stone 200 best singers of all time
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Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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155 & 157 Robert Smith, pleased to see he made the list twice
I could post my 100 favourite singers you've never heard of
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Thanks Swanny. I have kept the ones I like (or have liked in days gone bye). There were some duplicates in the list, and spelling errors. I suspect the list was assembled by an old journo in his 70s and his middle daughter, with a bit of help from her sulky teenage son. .
jakarta
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Oh Roger Chapman is SUCH a good one - Burlesque is an utter classicOh, go on then. Top five you say? I'll be scrupulously fair and not just list the ones I have been listening to just in the last five years....I'll respect my yoof tastes a bit...
Peter Hammill (Vandergraff Generator)
Donald Fagan (Steely Dan)
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)
Joe Casey (Protomartyr)
Tobi O'Kandi (O Children)
Sorry, no, though. Five? Can't do it.
Dusty Springfield
Jim Morrison (The Doors)
Roger Chapman (Family)
Peter Gabriel (Genesis)
Julie London
Kennedy Ashlyn (the artist known as SRSQ)
Lester Bullock (the artist known as Dillinger)
Steffen Keth (De/Vision)
I have to stop now or I will be here till I have 100. And then I still won't stop
You wouldn't be my intended audience.
First page I opened had Bob Dylan, I kind of assumed it was a Viz page at that point.
I'd expect Steve Marriot to be near the top of the Honky list.
I'd expect Steve Marriot to be near the top of the Honky list.
jakarta
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Superb version of the song, what a great live band Deep Purple were. Ian Gillan on vocals going up 3 registers...
Jam The Man
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Had a chance to read the list on the train last night.
Wish I hadn’t.
Such poor poor potted history research from the combined journalists on so many counts, and some embarrassing placings too.
Wish I hadn’t.
Such poor poor potted history research from the combined journalists on so many counts, and some embarrassing placings too.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Isn’t “best” so subjective as to be pointless? I mean most people won’t have even heard of my favourite singers, because they are less well known/not in a fashionable musical style which would be popular with RS readers. Or NSC ones for that matter.
What they mean is “most popular singers of all time, from a variety of genres, which have musical credibility in the eyes of our brand”.
What they mean is “most popular singers of all time, from a variety of genres, which have musical credibility in the eyes of our brand”.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
There's singers on the list that I don't like but can appreciate their talent (Adele) but the omission of Steve Winwood renders the whole list as bollocks.
AnotherArch
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Good to see David Ruffin there, but no Levi Stubbs?
METALMICKY
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Vote Bruce!
Stato
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Quoting my own post, but I just wanted to add praise for Lou Rawls who sings the backing on this and a lot of Sam's records. Until buying the classic double album compilation 'Sam Cooke - The Man and His Music' in the mid eighties, I only knew Lou from his Barry White type Philly soul recordings in the seventies. I wasn't into that stuff at the time and had dismissed him a bit. Listening to this again reminded me that I've never reallly gone back and listened again to his stuff. I 'll have to rectify that. What a voice.