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Title: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Martinus on September 04, 2011, 12:14:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZRssq7UlM

'nuff said.

Move over Lady Gaga or Madonna.  :bowler:

Edit: There is no particular reason for this thread, other than to share some beauty in the world that many recently here feel to be shitty.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 04, 2011, 12:27:08 PM
So is this the thread where you pretend to be a sophisticate instead of a twinkybopper-at-heart?  :P
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: The Brain on September 04, 2011, 12:32:47 PM
Don't care much for opera singing. I prefer voices that sound like voices and not like instruments.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: grumbler on September 04, 2011, 12:38:07 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 04, 2011, 12:32:47 PM
Don't care much for opera singing. I prefer voices that sound like voices and not like instruments.
:yes:  Cass Elliot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqOMuR5Z530
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 12:47:07 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Ideologue on September 04, 2011, 01:31:14 PM
That's not David Bowie, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, or Steve Perry.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 01:33:08 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 04, 2011, 01:31:14 PM
That's not , Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen,.

I want to punch you in the balls.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Ideologue on September 04, 2011, 01:39:31 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 01:33:08 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 04, 2011, 01:31:14 PM
That's not , Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen,.

I want to punch you in the balls.

The hell do you have against Bruce Springsteen? :lol:
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 01:45:47 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 04, 2011, 01:39:31 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 01:33:08 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 04, 2011, 01:31:14 PM
That's not , Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen,.

I want to punch you in the balls.

The hell do you have against Bruce Springsteen? :lol:

He has one good song.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: 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.


Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 02:35:41 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.

I'd fuck her in the ass.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: The Brain on September 04, 2011, 02:36:17 PM
 :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdRo2NJJcUU
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: The Brain on September 04, 2011, 02:38:44 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 04, 2011, 02:35:41 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.

I'd fuck her in the ass.

Why don't you like her vagina?
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Lucidor on September 04, 2011, 02:49:41 PM
Of the classical singers, I like Emma Kirkby and Joan Sutherland a lot.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: mongers on 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:
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Razgovory on September 04, 2011, 06:13:47 PM
Maybe I'm a philistine, but I always liked Freddie Mercury.  The guy had range.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: mongers on 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:
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Slargos on 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 (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.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Scipio on 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).
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Habsburg on 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.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Monoriu on September 04, 2011, 11:25:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC3vm4_2ung
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: MadImmortalMan on September 05, 2011, 12:47:13 AM
If you listen to fools...

The mob rules.  :punk:
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Lucidor on 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.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 05, 2011, 01:51:08 AM
No question about the answer to this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: MadImmortalMan on 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.
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 05, 2011, 02:01:05 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9gMpxZtKg8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9gMpxZtKg8)

Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: Lucidor on September 05, 2011, 02:37:35 AM
This one (Philippe Jarrousky) is impressive as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQX2XqAE8c
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: jimmy olsen on 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!
Title: Re: The best singing artist in the history of recorded music
Post by: MadImmortalMan on September 05, 2011, 03:40:53 PM
Freddie = awesome.