Favorite Rock Singers of All Time

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Wow, you too???

Tell me, are you also 6'3", 240, rich, buff and handsome?

Because we should totally hang out

It's actually true. Don't care who believes it.

 

[desert heat]

Elvis didn’t have music, he had hip thrusts and other people’s songs. When all you have to fall back on when arguing someone’s musical greatness is popularity, you lost.

the thread's about singers, not song writers.

aside from him being in about 20 hall of fames, you can't argue with his success.

 

[desert heat]

No, copied music is correct.

he didn't copy them, they were supplied to him.

 

[TheDayMan]

the thread's about singers, not song writers.

aside from him being in about 20 hall of fames, you can't argue with his success.

Well, we’ve been over how considering him one of the best singers is a joke, and that’s not what you’ve been arguing anyway. Don’t try to move those posts now.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

The only instrument you ever played was the crotch bugle...

Hardly. I've played dozens of others.

 

[kburjr]

Elvis didn’t have music, he had hip thrusts and other people’s songs. When all you have to fall back on when arguing someone’s musical greatness is popularity, you lost.

I don't think anybody thinks Elvis was a great musician. What he had was a voice that came from southern church choir origins, a style that met the sunami that became rock'n'roll and a helluva marketing program behind hum. Since this thread is about singers, he can be on someone's favorite list. I for one would love to here Like a Stone with Elvis singing it. It's Cornell's song but I think Elvis could rock the shit out of it.

 

[TheDayMan]

he didn't copy them, they were supplied to him.

Yeah... and if you were lucky, the label made you give him a partial writing credit upon delivery. Demanding partial writing credits for work they had no part in creating is definitely what you look for in a music icon...

 

[Chewbaccer]

RAY F CHARLES!!!

I was more or less sticking with rock of the day. I did forget Little Richard.

 

[desert heat]

Yeah... and if you were lucky, the label made you give him a partial writing credit upon delivery. Demanding partial writing credits for work they had no part in creating is definitely what you look for in a music icon...

i don't think elvis ever claimed to be a songwriter.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

I think Kanye West has something like the third most grammys of all time.

All that shit is a joke.

Yew sayin' Kanya ain't no musical genius???

 

[TheDayMan]

I don't think anybody thinks Elvis was a great musician. What he had was a voice that came from southern church choir origins, a style that met the sunami that became rock'n'roll and a helluva marketing program behind hum. Since this thread is about singers, he can be on someone's favorite list. I for one would love to here Like a Stone with Elvis singing it. It's Cornell's song but I think Elvis could rock the shit out of it.

Nothing wrong with that take, but no, there are a couple throughout this thread who are definitely arguing he was a great musician.

 

[TheDayMan]

i don't think elvis ever claimed to be a songwriter.

Of course you don’t, it’d knock that magical pedestal you have him on down a notch.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Hardly. I've played dozens of others.

HOW MANY crotch bugles have you played???

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

HOW MANY crotch bugles have you played???

Today?

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

so who in the 50's are you referring to that deserved more notoriety than elvis?

Churck Berry
Carl Perkins
Buddy Holly
Jerry Lee Lewis
Eddie Cochran
Fats Domino
Bo Diddleu
Johnny Cash
Etc

Can't forget Little Richard Penniman

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Today?

That's how you do it

 

[Chewbaccer]

I will say that I give Elvis more credit than Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby.

 

[GNG]

I think Kanye West has something like the third most grammys of all time.

Is he a favorite of yours?

 

[Mannyrules]

I started a thread where everyone could list their favorite singers but not to criticize other folk's opinions.

This opinion sucks.

 

[craigk217]

judging by his haters, he must be great. people who have mega popularity always have haters.

everybody who's anybody acknowledges his greatness.

I don't think "haters" mean what you want it to mean.

I gave the dewd his credit for his time and the influence he had … stop bein such a fng hugger. He, really, wasn't all that in comparison to many that have been listed.