TOP 20 GREATEST ROCK SINGERS OF ALL TIME

Hello everyone, I'm Rick Beato and today's episode is about the 20

greatest

rock

singers

of all

time

. Well, how do you actually decide on a list? So I thought, "Well, I've got to take the first great

rock

singer who influenced a lot of these

singers

and base it on that and go to number one. That was a live version from 1964 of Little Richard singing Good Golly, Miss Molly." .Little Richard was one of the biggest influences on All the early rock singers. You talked about the Beatles, the stones, whatever. All the early Rockers were trying to imitate him.

What I want to do is try to find 19 more singers who match his. intensity and get to number 2. That was, of course, Chris Cornell singing Spoonman from Soundgarden Records, Superunknown, released in 1994. He's an obvious choice for this. He sounds like a marshal with 10 incredible tones, great phrasing. and unlimited range. You name it, it hits number 3. His voice sounds as good now as it did in 1972, I mean, it's amazing how consistently he's sung all these years. He's maintained the power and the range, everything. hit number four, I Decided, but both AC/DC frontman Bon Scott and a year and a half later Brian Johnson at number four, both equally great singers for AC/DC when Bon Scott died, I thought .

There's no way they can find someone to replace him and a year later Back in Black came out. They both have such uniquely different voices, but I didn't want to separate them on this list. Coming to number five. That was, of course, Maynard. James Keenan, the singer of Tool. I thought I'd put up the actual video. But when I look at it, it's so haunting that I decided to layer them playing live and getting to number 6. That was Roger Daltrey, who was singing. Live version of Love Rain Army, which comes from the 1973 release Quadrophenia, the actual studio recording is one of my favorite songs of all

time

, the vocal performance, the arrangements, it was all produced by Glyn Johns and is absolutely incredible .

You should check it out if you don't know that at number 7 was, of course, Mick Jagger with stray cat blues, which is off the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet album, which was released in 1968. Makjang is the epitome of rock and roll singing and any song from his arrival at number eight would have been good for me. Replace. I feel so cold and long for your hug. I'll keep crying, darling. Baby please. That was the vocal stuff from the bridge of every breath you take. Do you know? In addition to having one of the best voices in rock music, Sting is also one of the best composers of melodies.

He has written some of the most beautiful and intricate melodies of any singer I can think of reaching number nine. That was, of course, Kurt Cobain singing the song. chorus smells like teen spirit from the album Nevermind, which was released in 1991. It's really disturbing to hear that double-tracked voice with so much charge. You know, I always talk about what a great songwriter Kurt Cobain is, he's a lot like Sting. in the sense that he writes really intricate melodies, but his playing is so intense that his tone is one of my favorite tones of any singer who makes it to number 10.

You're going to burn in the way that, of course, a singing Wilson was the song Barracuda from the 1977 release. Little Queen in a span of two albums had songs like Magic Man Crazy On You Barracuda and became one of the most important bands of the late 70s, reaching number 11. This is a song which is in my best bass sound or bass line video that I did it too This is the chorus of the song wood by Allison Chains with Layne Staley singing This was written by Jerry Cantrell As I said in the other video as a tribute to Andy Wood from Mother Love Bone That's one of my favorite tunes from The Grunge Era.

It's one of my favorite melodies. Coming to number 12, you know, today destroys a beautiful night that divides the day. I tried to run, try to hide. Move forward to the other side. Move forward to the other side. Move forward to the other side. . Yes, those were the doors that opened to the other side with Jim Morrison singing. His voice is truly unmistakable as a rock singer and his range is truly incredible, from the weird Frank Sinatra like Touch Me to the rocking croon of this tune. It's really surprising how far his scope spanned, especially for a guy who was so young.

This album came out in 1967 although I haven't mentioned them on the channel yet. The Doors are one of my favorite bands. It got to number 13 when you and that was Lana's Morissette. You should know from their debut album, Jagged Little Pill, that I did what makes this song great probably about 30 episodes ago. You'll notice that I think Taylor Hawkins is in the video. He was the drummer at the time. I think he played drums on this song, actually, and it's Flea playing bass. I think it's a very strong melody composition and his performance here is almost over the top, but it doesn't make it to number 14.

What can you say about the boss? This is a no-brainer if you don't agree with this. Well, I'm sure some of you will get to number 15. You know some people say, well, you just choose. blue gram because he's another Italian from Rochester, New York. Then my brother John reminded me of this mind game tune. I already said, reaching number 16. Oh, no, don't you have a beautiful one? I know. Could it be a canopy? That was, of course, Eddie Vetter from the song Black from the first Pearl Jam album. 10 This is from the bridge of the song.

Now. This is a record that has a lot of great vocal performances, they even flow once Jeremy But I think this particular section of this song is the best moment on the record and there were a lot of great moments in the last note that he holds us back. moving towards me. This song really made me a big fan of the band. Coming in at number 17. It was the mining town of Red Hill across from the Joshua Tree with Bono singing. There are a lot of U2 songs that I thought of, one of them is "Ahoging Man Off War." Great and let's do it, probably the best live singing I've ever seen was Bono in 1992 on the Achtung Baby tour at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.

Every song sounded like an album take. They were actually better than the album versions. The tone, the rhythm, everything. the emotions of the songs I really don't know many singers who can sing as well as Bono Can and who could do it back then. Absolutely amazing, a great singer came in at number 18, wins I guess. He sailed away, you leave the day like a pie in the sky. Hello, but the wind is not blowing. Marina shouldn't go, it just goes to show that she was Robert Plant. by Led Zeppelin from the song What is and what should never be substituted?

Now I could have picked any song from any Led Zeppelin album and used it here. I chose that one. I love that song. I think it's a great song. Robert Plant is really a powerful singer like Chris Cornell when they go up to that high register, the Distortion, and his voice is incredible. It is very similar to Little Richard's. If you go back to the beginning of the video and listen a little bit, Richard. This is where early rock and roll singers and blues singers heard these types of sounds. They heard that really distorted voice and imitated that sound that came in number 19.

Us. That's all I dare play about Queen. Queen are notorious blockers. And this might delete the video, just that little clip unfortunately, but Freddie Mercury is one of the

greatest

singers of all time think of Bohemian Rhapsody vocals. They think about the voices of this sound, all the layers he made. I mean, it's really surprising that all the singers I've played with here have recorded before. It automatically tunes almost everything recorded on tape, except Linus Morissette, which was already done, and a father. So you are hearing all the interpretations that were sung by human beings. and not manipulated reaching number 20 With You That was what Paul McCartney did maybe I'm amazed with wings in the late 70s Now some people will say, well, why didn't you put John Lennon on your list?

Well, I thought about it a lot, I mean, I named one of my daughters after him, but I also named my son after Bob Dylan. The reason is that they don't fit the criteria of the power rock singer like Little Richard. They don't have that kind of distorted marshal-on-ten sound. Well, there are many people that I left off the list and you are going to put them on. in the comments all the ones I forgot, but I'll add some additional ones here. Just some of the people that were on my list, some of them to me didn't really fit on the list, that's why, but they're great anyway. singers, but they are not exactly what I defined at the beginning of this video, let's see them I see my Marianne walking Leave your comments like the video and subscribe if you are interested in Beato's book go to my website at wwlp .com or you can further support the channel by becoming a member of the Beato club, which you can also find on my website.

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