Huey Lewis and The News - The heart of rock and roll (live): https://youtu.be/UTf0rMmF-cg

Another bay area group....good sound

Judith Durham, best female lead singer by a mile.

Sandy Denny, a jewel-

Sandy Denny, a jewel-

Nice voice, sounds like Alison Krauss from Union Station, bluegrass band.

Alison Krauss, there you are.

Passion and power

Sandy Denny, a jewel-

Nice voice, sounds like Alison Krauss from Union Station, bluegrass band.

You mean Alison Krauss sounds like Sandy Denny.

Thom Yorke

Pmsl https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QunPPY1fsW4

Alison Krauss, there you are.

Her sister is not too bad either .

https://youtu.be/Qp5dxqpKy4I

She also did an excellent album of Dusty Springfield covers . Worth a listen .

Edited April 3, 201511 yr by xen

What a voice, what a tune

My top five:

Steve Marriott

Robert Plant

Paul Rogers

Steve Perry

Patty Smyth

nick cave.....especially earlier periods, like a demented preacher!

Buddy Holly lead singer with the Crickets.

My top five:

Steve Marriott

Robert Plant

Paul Rogers

Steve Perry

Patty Smyth

Tie for best leader singer of a band (though it's Paul Rodgers).

Edited April 19, 201511 yr by TheAppletons

No one so far has mentioned Jim Morrison of The Doors - unbelievable exclusion!

No one so far has mentioned Jim Morrison of The Doors - unbelievable exclusion!

Probably because he wasn't a very good singer.

No one so far has mentioned Jim Morrison of The Doors - unbelievable exclusion!

You forgot too....?..............

Yip - People are Strange (especially when you're a Stranger)

I mentioned The Lizard King on page 2

Daryl Hall's got to be in the mix somewhere. Top five, maybe.

No one so far has mentioned Jim Morrison of The Doors - unbelievable exclusion!

You forgot too....?..............

Yip - People are Strange (especially when you're a Stranger)

My apologies to Banock - missed his post mentioning The Doors. No apologies to The Appletons tho - surprised he didn't mention that Carpenter chick!

No one so far has mentioned Jim Morrison of The Doors - unbelievable exclusion!

You forgot too....?..............

Yip - People are Strange (especially when you're a Stranger)

My apologies to Banock - missed his post mentioning The Doors. No apologies to The Appletons tho - surprised he didn't mention that Carpenter chick!

"The Lizard King" sounds like a guy who's had one too many drinks at a bad karaoke night.

"Morrison is routinely regaled as a generational spokesman, the supreme rock frontman who had one foot in this world and his cock in the next. But for all his shamanistic posturing, Morrison sang in an exaggerated croon modeled on Elvis and Sinatra. Never quite confident in his own vocal talents, he was smart to aim high, but that approach tends to flatten even the horniest tunes into tepid lounge rock. It’s not hard to imagine Tom Jones covering “Touch Me” or Sinatra singing “Light My Fire” at the Sands. And when the Lizard King took on John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake,” he set the blues back further...."

http://www.nerve.com/music/the-doors-suck-point-counterpoint

"The Lizard King" sounds like a guy who's had one too many drinks at a bad karaoke night.

"Morrison is routinely regaled as a generational spokesman, the supreme rock frontman who had one foot in this world and his cock in the next. But for all his shamanistic posturing, Morrison sang in an exaggerated croon modeled on Elvis and Sinatra. Never quite confident in his own vocal talents, he was smart to aim high, but that approach tends to flatten even the horniest tunes into tepid lounge rock. It’s not hard to imagine Tom Jones covering “Touch Me” or Sinatra singing “Light My Fire” at the Sands. And when the Lizard King took on John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake,” he set the blues back further...."

http://www.nerve.com/music/the-doors-suck-point-counterpoint

If Morrison has been put on a pedestal, then I agree with the article in that he doesn't belong there. But to say he sounds like a drunk on a bad karaoke night is taking it a bit far. I don't think he deserves either the huge amount criticisms or the praises that is awarded to him - he was simply the front-man/singer/songwriter of a great 60's rock band. The sixties was a world-changing era in so many different ways and the music of the time was its epitome. Morrison, for sure, was a huge part of that - as were many of the other die-youngs of the time. I wish I had been around then!

Like 'em or hate'em, but Bono (U2) used to be one of the most charismatic frontmen I have seen ...EVER!

...and don't forget the leader of the fantastic E-Street Band, The Boss....Mr. Bruce Springsteen!

Alex Harvey

Alex Harvey

Yes! A legend!

His rendition of Jaques Brel's Next is Blues as it was never meant to be sung

paul Rogers - Free/Bad Company

Alex Harvey

Yes! A legend!

His rendition of Jaques Brel's Next is Blues as it was never meant to be sung

Old Grey Whistle Test

Robert Plant

Paul Rodgers

Ann Wilson

Axl Rose.