The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time

well Robert Plant would make the list easily with that standarRAB in my opinion

and yes Kurt Cobain is another example to what I'm trying to say,honestly not that good of a singer, but the spokesperson of the 90s grunge scene which was very successful.
 
I want it written somewhere, and this will be the only argument you hear from me on the matter, but I want it written that if you complain about Axl being on the list I think you're invalid, and I have no respec for your musical opinion any longer.

Carry on.
 
Exactly what I was about to say. They're decent enough pointers if you're just looking to get off the ground as a music collector/follower, but that's about the only purpose they serve
 
I'm sorry but if you think that Christina, who performs over the top MTV garbage pop with minimal emotion or interest, is better than Thom then you are wrong.
 
Trust Rolling Stone to omit the vocalist whom the majority of metal singers spend their careers emulating (often less than successfully too).

Then again, Gillan isn't on here either.
 
I'm a bit surprised that so many people question Cobain's inclusion. In the early-90s, I read a lot of articles about how Cobain had the best voice of his generation. I'm not sure I agree with that, but I didn't think his voice being great was a terribly controversial belief.
 
I grew up listening to Faith No More, specifically Patton's output. King for a Day was a huge departure from their previous sound, and doesn't match up to what they did on The Real Thing or Angel Dust. I've listened to it a few odd times and I still can't imagine it's the same band as their earlier recorRAB.

And Chuck Mosely was an atrocious singer.
 
I grew up listening to them too. King for a Day is actually one of the few albums in my life that I bought the day it came out. I can see where you'd say it was a departure but I see it more as just going further in the direction they were already moving in. You can hear precursors to the sound of King for a Day on all the songs on the Easy EP that preceded it, in the song "RV" from Angel Dust, and throughout the scattershot musical approach of The Real Thing. In a way, I just see King for a Day as upping the ante on the eclecticism of The Real Thing.

When you look at their entire output with Mike Patton, I think it's actually Angel Dust that stanRAB out as the oddball album. It's the only one that's not all over the place stylistically and it's a lot darker than their other albums. It's one of my favorite albums, but in a way I think it is much more of a departure from Faith No More's style than any of their other albums.

ETA: Sorry just one more thing. I think one thing to keep in mind about King for a Day also is that Trey Spruance from Mr. Bungle was the guitarist on it, so with two Mr. Bungle merabers in Faith No More there was definitely more of a Bungle influence on the album. Maybe if you approach it as kind of a Faith No More/Mr. Bungle hybrid you might like it more.


Heh. Well you'll get no argument from me there. :D
 
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