10. The End - The Doors
9. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
8. Runnin With The Devil - Van Halen
7. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
6. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
5. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
4. Because - The Beatles
3. Child In Time - Deep Purple
2. Dream On - Aerosmith
1. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Because the Night - Patti Smith
I would submit, as an addition to the list, Brian Connolly of The Sweet. He had a voice like no other that I’ve ever heard before or since. Liked two songs in particular — (1) Set Me Free (from their Desolation Boulevard release) and (2) Action (from their Give Us a Wink release).
Not sure if it was Creem, Crawdaddy, or another rock magazine — but there was a poll of Best Voice, and Connolly beat out Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. His life tragically ended way too soon, due to chronic alcoholism.
Chris Isaak, Wicked Game
I loved him singing Fooled Around and Fell in Love by Elvin Bishop the first time I heard it all those years ago and every time since.
What fun that must be to be able to sing like that.
Steve Perry, (Journey) Wheel in the Sky
I don’t really care for vocals in general, but Robert Lamm with Chicago is one of a few exceptions. Peter Cetera, not so much.
Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
Greg Allman – Whipping Post
Joe Cocker –Unchain My Heart
David Clayton-Thomas – God Bless the Child
Jim Morrison – Roadhouse Blues
Eric Burdon – House of the Rising Sun
Van Morrison – Into the Mystic
Grace Slick - Somebody to Love
Kate Bush – Running up that Hill
Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart
IN A GADDA DA VIDA - IRON BUTTERFLY
Three Dog Night - Try a Little Tenderness
or anything by Eric Clapton if we are doing only males.
Janis Joplin and Bonnie Bramlett best female vocalists IMO
No love for Steve Marriott?
Thirty Days in the Hole
Just check him out also with the Small Faces.
What? No Janis? No Grace Slick?
White Rabbit is THE NUMBER 1 greatest vocal in classic rock
Piece of My Heart is right up there too.
Feh to this list!
Disappointed not to see something by Heart, such as Barracuda, or Magic Man.
No Lynyrd Skynyrd in the top 10? Invalid list!
Gun and Roses at the RITZ is the best rock-n-roll performance ever held ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6bpPUPsNU
It’s very hard to beat Ronnie James Dio, Rainbow in the Dark, Live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmSt1oEIshE
How about something by Robert Palmer (Everyday People), Rod Stewart (Mandolin Wind), Bob Seger (Night Moves) or Greg Lake (Lend Your Love to Me Tonight)?
Graham Bonnet, late 70s, early 80s
IMNSHO, the greatest voices in rock are:
1. Bob Dylan
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Tom Waits
4. Marianne Faithfull (old, world weary Marianne, not the young sappy soprano)
5. Patti Smith
Flame away!
The linked version of Aerosmith doing Dream On live has got to be the worse performance Tyler has ever done of the song!!!
Who picked out what vids to show? Often they’re awful. For example, Sinatra. Frank’s voice from the 1950s was smooth like silk, but from the last few years of his life, let’s face it, he was awful, raspy, and he often couldn’t remember all the lyrics. I saw him in Frankfurt, Germany in 1995. I was dismayed, as I had bragged to my German friends about his pipes.
I don’t listen to old Sinatra. Just the younger one. Much better.