i can't be arsed with it but i do like nina simone.

Again, in no order cos they're all different.

Sandy Denny, Tom Waits, Benjamin Smoke, Maynard James Keenan, Franz Treichler, Ian Mackaye, MES, Kristin Hersh, Gibby Haynes, Skip James.

Today it’s

Burning Spear
Iris Dement
Otis Redding
Sam Cooke
Aretha Franklyn
Dick Gaughan
Mary Margaret O’Hara
Linda Thompson
Steve Marriot and
Billy Bragg

but tomorrow is Anita Day
and Don Covay
as they say.

1) Diamanda Galás

2) Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane)

3) Siouxsie (Siouxsie and the Banshees)

4) Gerry Roslie (The Sonics)

5) Renate Knaup (Amon Düül II)

6) Captain Beefheart

7) Mark E. Smith (The Fall)

8) Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

9) Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow)

10) Damo Suzuki (Can)

tod Rundgren - listen to Liars, his latest
Iggy Pop - just about anything
Bon Scott - Anything
Julian (My True Luv) Cope - Anything B4 Audience
Jane Siberry - listen to The Valley
Stephen Malkmus - Anything from Crooked Rain
Bjork - just about anything
Freddie Mercury - anything B4 The Game
David Lee Roth - 1984 and B4
Roger Daltrey - listen to Quadrophenia
Sir Paul - listen to Oh Darling, dahling
Chet Baker - haunting bliss
Carl Wilson - god only knows
Ben Folds - cuz he sounds like me

Well some of them :

Julian Cope

Rob Tyner

Bobby Liebling

Edgar Breu

Jim Morrison

Kim Fowley

Genesis P-Orridge

Armand Schaubroeck

Franco Battiato

Brian Eno(on warm jets)

Crocus Behemoth

Kid Strange

Von LMO

Mizutani

Eric Bloom

Tim Buckley

Adam Black Savage

OZZY

Mark Stewart

Alan Dubin

Oh yeah and Mick Ronson

In no particular order:

Peter Hammill
Robert Wyatt
Steve Winwood
Joe Cocker
Allan Clarke
Richard Sinclair
James Dewar
Thom Yorke
Roger Taylor
Ronnie James Dio
Van Morrison (pre 1990)
Ian Gillan (up to 1972)
Robert Plant (up to 1976)
Rod Stewart (up to 1974)
Paul Rodgers
Steve Marriott
Kevin Ayers
Tim Buckley
Scott Walker
Roger Daltrey
Mike Harrison
Joni Mitchell
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Lauritz Melchior
Lucia Popp
Ella Fitzgerald
Chet Baker
Louis Armstrong
Tony Bennett

I think Alison Moyet's voice is under rated. Its wonderful.

Always loved Colin Verncombe's voice too.

Yep, agree with many of you, Cathal Cougan.

Mr Cope (though not at present, cough).

Oh and the girly in All About Eve. Lovely voice.

Mel C is "Sporty Spice" right? I totally agree, she had 95% of the talent in that band.

My favorite vocalist bar-none is: TOM JONES!

For pure pop stylings -- I also swear by Micky Dolenz (though Mike is the Monkee I am probably most like myself, my greatest fear is that I might really be a Peter, and I only *dream* that I could aspire to the coolness of Micky!!! I've not much use for David Jones I'm afraid.)

John Garner & Rob Halford are as good as RAWK singing gets. And I'll take Ian Gillan over Percy Plant in the "technically awesome soul-less robot shrieker" category.

Favorite chick singer is probably Grace Slick. And lately I am in awe of Yoko Ono as well, though she's in a class all by herself! (It's almost not fair to call it "singing", which I don't mean as an insult at all. She's Kerry King without the guitar!)

Not much for subtlety am I? I'm really more into the instrumental bits, so I guess I gravitate to singers whose voices have an overwhelming "instrumental presence"!

In no particular order;

Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance)
Ian Curtis
Adrian Belew (I SWOON on Matte Kudasai)
Syd Barrett
David Bowie
Liz Fraser
Petula Clark
Freddie Mercury
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nick Cave
Marvin Gaye

Iggy
Bowie
Scott

(they go without saying really...)

Jacques Brel
Simon Bonney
Jeff Buckley
Terry Reid
Levi Stubbs

...and the two lovely ladies from the B52's who still possess the most sultry & sexy voices known to mankind

For me it's

Nina Simone
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
Johnny Cash
Danny Williams
Billie Holliday
Bettye LaVette
Sia Furler

There's bound to be loads more that I've forgotten.

Lucky 13

Jack Bruce
Tim Buckley
David Byron
Sandy Denny
Peter Hammill
Keith Hudson
Iggy
Ronnie James Dio
John Martyn
Jim Morrison
Joan Jett
Lou Reed
Minnie Riperton

ooh ooh...her from Pentangle n all.

Edit..and Cleveland Watkiss cos I was tryna remember his name. Crops up on a few drum n bass records plus his own Project 23. Prefer instumental drum n bass but if you have to have a singer he's yer man.

Kristin Hersh
Cathal Coughlan
Tanya Donelly
Lemmy
Fay Fife
That bloke from the Teardrop Explodes
Mayumi

I always think there's a difference between a "singer" and a "vocalist"...hard to define, but Elvis Costello is a vocalist somehow...not a singer.

Anyway

I go a bit gooey over female vocalists with cystal clear, intoxicating voices....

Kate Bush
Harriette Wheeler (The Sundays)
Elizabeth Fraser
Kirsten Morell (Goldenhorse...you should have a listen)
Annie Lennox
Lou Dalgleish
Madeleine Peyroux
Mamma Cass
Chrissie Hinds
PY Harvey

And males?
Mark Eitzel
David Bowie
Beck
Elvic Costello
Jeff Buckley
Julian...he's got a great voice!
Jarvis Cocker
Thom Yorke