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Q Magazine - 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time

D dtMember
Another of those lists compiled by 25 year-olds for 15 year-olds.

Good to see someone who only made one-and-a-bit albums being listed in the top 10 greatest singers of all time. And of course my own personal bete noir gets way up there too, although I suppose I gotta give them credit for actually being able to name 10 Kurt Cobain songs. I guess it must have really hurt them not being able to force Thom Yorke into the top 10 as well, although they tried their best.


1. Elvis Presley
2. Aretha Franklin
3. Frank Sinatra
4. Otis Redding
5. John Lennon
6. Marvin Gaye
7. Kurt Cobain
8. Robert Plant
9. Mick Jagger
10. Jeff Buckley
11. Liam Gallagher
12. Billie Holiday
13. Thom Yorke
14. Johnny Cash
15. Sam Cooke
16. John Lydon
17. Janis Joplin
18. Bob Dylan
19. Kate Bush
20. Carl Wilson
21. Nina Simone
22. Van Morrison
23. Roy Orbinson
24. Ray Charles
25. Ella Fitzgerald
26. Bono
27. Roger Daltrey
28. David Bowie
29. Dusty Springfield
30. Morrissey
31. Bob Marley
32. Paul McCartney
33. Rod Stewart
34. Stevie Wonder
35. Bj?rk
36. Joni Mitchell
37. James Brown
38. Barry Gibb
39. Scott Walker
40. Jim Morrison
41. Al Green
42. Michael Stipe
43. Bon Scott
44. Joe Strummer
45. Elton John
46. Howlin? Wolf
47. Freddie Mercury
48. Karen Carpenter
49. Patti Smith
50. Jack White
51. Michael Jackson
52. Levi Stubbs
53. Emmylou Harris
54. Leonard Cohen
55. Little Richard
56. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
57. PJ Harvey
58. Tim Buckley
59. Hank Williams
60. Bryan Ferry
61. Prince
62. Bruce Springsteen
63. Iggy Pop
64. Dolly Parton
65. Neil Young
66. Elisabeth Fraser
67. Frank Black
68. Antony Hegarty
69. Sly Stone
70. Beth Gibbsons
71. Tom Jones
72. Lou Reed
73. Dave Gahan
74. George Michael
75. Tom Waits
76. Paul Weller
77. Norah Jones
78. Mary J Blige
79. Dionne Warwick
80. Nico
81. Ray LaMontagne
82. Nick Cave
83. Ian McCulloch
84. Lauryn Hill
85. Don Henley
86. Horace Andy
87. Axl Rose
88. Ian Curtis
89. Richard Ashcroft
90. Meat Loaf
91. Harry Nilsson
92. Jimmy Scott
93. Chris Cornell
94. Laura Nyro
95. Smokey Robinson
96. Rufus Wainwright
97. Stevie Nicks
98. Whitney Houston
99. David Crosby
100. J?n P?r Birgisson
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J joedoakesMember
Originally Posted By: sawyer
Bjork and Lou Reed? and no Margo Timmons or Sally Ellyson? let me be the first to say

HA HA!!

Margo Timmins definitely belongs on this list. She's made the most of what she has.

Aretha!

Putting some of those other clowns ahead of Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash is just a friggin' joke.

Woke up this morning MY house was cold

LondonCallingLondonCallingMember
Originally Posted By: joedoakes
Margo Timmins definitely belongs on this list. She's made the most of what she has.

We saw the Cowboy Junkies perform an acoustic set last week. I haven't listened to them much since their early stuff, and didn't know what to expect of them in concert. I feared they might be too one-paced but they were very good and Timmins knocked me out, both her voice and her presence. Mr LC thought she was a bit melodramatic but I fell in love with her.

The concert was in a church which suits her voice perfectly:



PS joed - they did a three-song Townes Van Zandt section as well. smile

Putting words to your story, all the pain and the glory / How can it be written so real

J joedoakesMember
Union Chapel? Here's what Mike Timmins wrote in the tour diary:
Quote:
A beautiful spring day in London Town, we?ve scored a great hotel and the venue tonight was spectacular. Union Chapel is an active church as well as being a regular concert venue: a beautiful space with exquisite acoustics. This show was sold out a couple of months ago so there was a nice buzz of anticipation in the air. We played a solid show and the audience, once again, was great. London is the one city in the world where I am always nervous before a show and tonight I was never able to completely relax and enjoy the space, but I think Margo and Jeff more than made up for a certain lack of fluidity on my part.

The cynics may say the Junkies have one gear - lugubrious; but still waters run deep.

Margo does get to stretch her range a bit on songs like Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park and Lost My Driving Wheel. There's something almost pathological about Mike's lyrics, which strangely complements his blues guitar style. They do a great cover of State Trooper - available on the live cd 200 More Miles.

Some CJ boots are available here.

Originally Posted By: LondonCalling
PS joed - they did a three-song Townes Van Zandt section as well.

So when can I expect the upload? wink

Woke up this morning MY house was cold

LondonCallingLondonCallingMember
Originally Posted By: joedoakes
Union Chapel?

That's the one. Thanks for the links - glad he appreciated the English audiences! They didn't play State Trooper, but did do You're Missing. The best performance for me was Misguided Angel, which she dedicated to her sister, who was in the audience. The most disturbing performance was Floorboard Blues. Pathological is right.

Originally Posted By: joedoakes

Originally Posted By: LondonCalling
PS joed - they did a three-song Townes Van Zandt section as well.

So when can I expect the upload? wink

I wish!

Putting words to your story, all the pain and the glory / How can it be written so real

J joedoakesMember
Originally Posted By: SwitchbladeLover
Originally Posted By: dt
Originally Posted By: SwitchbladeLover
Hasn't anybody told you that these always suck. And they're never funny, either.

Oh this one's funny, baby!

You mean like Benny Hill?

I just noticed they slotted Smokey Robinson at 95. That's fuckin' hilarious.

Woke up this morning MY house was cold

C CarolJudeMember
They assigned random numbers, right? Or maybe they just wrote them down in the order they were shouted out by the twits now inhabiting the office space of what used to be a pretty cool magazine.

They could do with spending a bit of time with old people, as well - this list is missing Billy Eckstine and yet DOES have Bruce Springsteen, a man I love but... come ON. Obviously, it's not really 'singing' that's being judged here. Lennon where he is? MCCARTNEY where HE is? And on and on...

Lists are so stupid.
J joedoakesMember
Originally Posted By: sawyer
Originally Posted By: joedoakes
here's something almost pathological about Mike's lyrics, which strangely complements his blues guitar style.


Mike? nah...

he sold most of what he cherished
the rest he let them steal
shot his dog out in an open field
the rest he let them steal

Always the dog with you, eh? grin

I don't want to be no patch on no quilt
(I just want to see . . . )
Tear-stained stitching linking memories to guilt
(I just want to see . . . )
I don't want to be no hair on no wall
(I just want to see . . . )
Blood-stained note saying fuck you all
(I just want to see what kills me)

Tommy, are you ready we better head to town
J.D.'s box is waiting to be lowered down
and you know how he hates to be kept waiting 'round.

I don't want to be no chalk line drawing
(I just want to see . . . )
Toe-tagged question mark, until identifying
(I just want to see . . . )
I don't want to fuse with no economy seat
(I just want to see . . . )
fuel some fireball at 30,000 feet
(I just want to see what kills me)

Tommy, did you catch his face
before they closed the lid?
I swear I saw him wink once and flash me that old grin.
Oh, you know, that would be just like him.

Woke up this morning MY house was cold

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