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Rolling Stone 200 All Time Best Singers list

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Blue 1 said:
Possibly my age but I've always seen Layne Staley as having had as high a profile as Eddie Vedder and AIC as a far more influential band than Pearl Jam, despite selling fewer records. He was more charismatic as well, I'd argue, and he'd make plenty of people's top lists.

He was absolutely light years ahead of any other rock singer from that era except Chris Cornell and the aforementioned Mark Lanegan.

Lanegan was a wonderful singer with a vast and varied catalogue, but I can see the argument against, if profile, recognition and charisma are the criteria.

I loved Kurt Cobain's voice, but Eddie Vedder pretty much yodels.
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Layne sold a huge amount of records in a short period - facelift 1990, Sap and EP, Dirt, then Jar of flies in 94. With Alice in Chains in 96.

Plus the mad season record in 1995. I am not sure anyone would match what he did under the circumstances. Just incredible.
 
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Heavily opinionated lists like this are kinda dumb, they make some sense for subjective things like “best frontman”, “best band” etc but for specific skill sets its just a bit weird.

For example on what planet is Bob Dylan a good let alone great singer, he’s an objectively terrible singer with very little singing ability. Yes it kinda works within the context of his music but It’s his songwriting and lyrics that make him a great not his actual singing ability.

If you do a list about who the greatest at a specific skill is then you should base it on actual technical ability rather than “feels” or whatever. The list is still going to have a certain amount of opinion to it but no one is going to putting joke entries like Bob Dylan in.

imagine actually trying to tell someone with a straight face that Bob Dylan is a better singer than Bjork.
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You know instantly that it's Bob Dylan when he starts singing though.
 
Theres a few missing for sure… No Sting? Barry Manilow? Kylie FFS. Is Billy Joel on there? Biggest name missing for me tho is Michael Mcdonald.

Top 10 on my list. Amazing voice.
 

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