The best singing artist in the history of recorded music

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mongers

#15
September 04, 2011, 05:53:48 PM
Such a title is largely meaningless.

However I do think it's worthwhile to acknowledge singers and/or songwriters who've been innovative in their own genre of music, so I'd say at the time Kate Bush made a significant contribution to pop music and her work has stood the test of time rather well.    :bowler:
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Razgovory

#16
September 04, 2011, 06:13:47 PM
Maybe I'm a philistine, but I always liked Freddie Mercury.  The guy had range.
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mongers

#17
September 04, 2011, 06:15:22 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 04, 2011, 06:13:47 PM
Maybe I'm a philistine, but I always liked Freddie Mercury.  The guy had range.

And the consummate showman to boot.  :cool:
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Slargos

#18
September 04, 2011, 06:18:20 PM
Quote from: grumbler on September 04, 2011, 04:12:19 PM
Quote from: Slargos on September 04, 2011, 02:29:26 PM
No.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_R7CBmDAE

And she's barely out of her teens.
Very good voice control, but not as good as the artist whose song she is covering.  When you are the second-best at a given song, you aren't the best singing artist in the history of recorded music.

You are right that she could get here, though.

Disagree. Enya is good, but she doesn't do as good a job live as Westenra.

Paris Hilton also sounds good in a recording studio.

Scipio

#19
September 04, 2011, 08:19:19 PM
Mario Lanza, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Edith Piaf, Fyodor Chaliapin, Placido Domingo, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone.... I mean, come on.  Callas was good, but she's not even the best soprano of all time (which I would award to Price, Battle, or Sutherland).
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Habsburg

#20
September 04, 2011, 08:24:01 PM
Quote from: Lucidor on September 04, 2011, 02:49:41 PM
Of the classical singers, I like Emma Kirkby and Joan Sutherland a lot.

She was THE quintessential Turandot.

I like Dawn Upshaw as well.  Performs a beautiful Gorecki No. 3.

MadImmortalMan

#22
September 05, 2011, 12:47:13 AM
If you listen to fools...

The mob rules.  :punk:
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Lucidor

#23
September 05, 2011, 01:40:58 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on September 04, 2011, 11:25:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC3vm4_2ung
José Carreras easiloy out-sings Sissel in that piece. It's not even funny. He has the tone, the dynamics and the passion, she just has the voice of a pop singer with hybris.

jimmy olsen

#24
September 05, 2011, 01:51:08 AM
No question about the answer to this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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MadImmortalMan

#25
September 05, 2011, 01:56:58 AM
Fuck you Timmy.  :P

I'd post a lot of awesome stuff with Russell Allen, Bruce Dickinson and Roy Khan, but you don't deserve it.
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Eddie Teach

#26
September 05, 2011, 02:01:05 AM
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Lucidor

#27
September 05, 2011, 02:37:35 AM
This one (Philippe Jarrousky) is impressive as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQX2XqAE8c

jimmy olsen

#28
September 05, 2011, 03:03:44 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 04, 2011, 06:13:47 PM
Maybe I'm a philistine, but I always liked Freddie Mercury.  The guy had range.
The google doodle they did for his birthday today is amazing!
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

MadImmortalMan

#29
September 05, 2011, 03:40:53 PM
Freddie = awesome.
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"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers
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