Rolling Stone Readers' Poll: Which Singer Has the Most Unique Voice?

[FunkyMonkey]

Readers' Poll: Which Singer Has the Most Unique Voice?

Selections include Tom Waits, Axl Rose, Robert Plant and Geddy Lee

18 Hours ago

American Idol started up again last week, and The Voice is about to begin its second season. Add The X Factor and The Sing Off and it's quite obvious that America loves singing competitions. Not all great singers have conventionally great voices, however. How do you think that Bob Dylan would have fared on one of these shows? How about Geddy Lee? With this in mind, we asked our readers to select their favorite "unique voiced" singers. Click through to see the results.

1. Bob Dylan
2. Tom Waits
3. Robert Plant
4. Freddie Mercury
5. Eddie Vedder

6. Axl Rose

Slash still remembers the first time he heard Axl Rose's singing voice. It was on a low-fidelity cassette tape that he heard shortly before joining Guns N' Roses. "His squeal was so high-pitched that I thought it might be a technical flaw on the tape," he wrote in his memoir, Slash. "It sounded like the squeak that a cassette makes just before the tape snaps ? except it was in key." When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman. Few other men on earth could sing material like "You Could Be Mine", maybe that's why Velvet Revolver has had such a hard time finding a new singer.

7. Janis Joplin
8. David Bowie
9. Neil Young
10. Geddy Lee

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-which-singer-has-the-most-unique-voice-20120125

[LIGuns]

Bob Dylan? Really? Anyone who can't sing can mimick Dylan...Eddie Veddar yes, but soooo many clones..In the 80's, before GN'R, there were several Rober Plant immataters..But there has never been another Axl!!!

[BangoSkank]

Bob Dylan? Really? Anyone who can't sing can mimick Dylan...

Mimic, yes, but actually sing like him in the exact manner, in such a defined way that also works, no.

Axl is actually pretty similar.  He has a completely defined and original voice that a lot of people try to mimic, but ultimately fail. 

[wight gunner]

Readers' Poll: Which Singer Has the Most Unique Voice?

Selections include Tom Waits, Axl Rose, Robert Plant and Geddy Lee

18 Hours ago

American Idol started up again last week, and The Voice is about to begin its second season. Add The X Factor and The Sing Off and it's quite obvious that America loves singing competitions. Not all great singers have conventionally great voices, however. How do you think that Bob Dylan would have fared on one of these shows? How about Geddy Lee? With this in mind, we asked our readers to select their favorite "unique voiced" singers. Click through to see the results.

1. Bob Dylan
2. Tom Waits
3. Robert Plant
4. Freddie Mercury
5. Eddie Vedder

6. Axl Rose

Slash still remembers the first time he heard Axl Rose's singing voice. It was on a low-fidelity cassette tape that he heard shortly before joining Guns N' Roses. "His squeal was so high-pitched that I thought it might be a technical flaw on the tape," he wrote in his memoir, Slash. "It sounded like the squeak that a cassette makes just before the tape snaps ? except it was in key." When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman. Few other men on earth could sing material like "You Could Be Mine", maybe that's why Velvet Revolver has had such a hard time finding a new singer.

7. Janis Joplin
8. David Bowie
9. Neil Young
10. Geddy Lee

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-which-singer-has-the-most-unique-voice-20120125

That kinda sounds "I want him in MY band" where as he could of said " Wow, I want join this/his band"  Axl did say there was a power struggle from the get-go.

[One.In.A.Million]

I think Axl has the most unique voice, it's something that is now part of culture. From people imitating Axl in movies, or the whole wave of Axl regerences and comments about his vocal technique.

I know that others may have a different view, but I really do think Axl has the most unique voice out of that list. 

Just my quick 2 cents...

[LongGoneDay]

hmmm, Axl is probably my favorite frontman but I think Freddie Mercury would get my vote.

Who else sings like him?

Bob Dylan is far and away the best lyricist on the list, and his voice is unique, but I'm not sure in a good way.
His voice doesn't bother my like it does a lot of people, but it's not what he's known for.

Geddy Lee has a unigue voice too, which is a great thing, because that voice is like nails on a fucking chalk board to me.
Hell of a bassist and band though.

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[GW2]

No Bon Scott?

[D]

Dylan could fart on a snare drum for an hour and RS would give it 5 stars.

[Bridge]

Where the hell is Ozzy Osbourne on that list?   

When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman.

That kinda sounds "I want him in MY band" where as he could of said " Wow, I want join this/his band"  Axl did say there was a power struggle from the get-go.

Ha, very clever correlation, and very dramatic too, enlarging the text size!  Only problem is fella, Slash didn't say that.  The bit that "Slash knew he had his frontman" was NOT in quotes, meaning that Rolling Stone wrote it -- and created their own context for it.

Dylan could fart on a snare drum for an hour and RS would give it 5 stars.

You're not kidding.  Their magazine is named after his song, so they feel they have to suck his dick, even though Dylan has never been able to (or tried to) sing worth a happy hog shit.

[SirTed]

I can actually live with this list...except for Eddie Vedder.


And don't get me wrong - I love Pearl Jam (or at least the old stuff). But Eddie more unique than Axl? Me no think so. I would take Layne Staley and Chris Cornell over Vedder, as a matter of fact - and the only Staley is in Axl's league.

[BangoSkank]

Dylan could fart on a snare drum for an hour and RS would give it 5 stars.

dude, I would give that five stars.

[Bodhi]

Dylan could fart on a snare drum for an hour and RS would give it 5 stars.

hahah the truest thing ever said by anyone...ever.