Hey everybody, I'm Rick Beato and today's episode is the top 20 rock singers of all time
Okay, how do you actually decide on a list so I thought okay
I need to take the first great rock singer that influenced many of these singers and
base it on that and coming in at number one is
That was a live version from
1964 of Little Richard's singing good golly, Miss
Molly Little Richard was one of the biggest influences on
All early rock singers you talked about the Beatles the stones you name it all the early
Rockers were trying to mimic him. What I want to do is try to find 19 more singers that
Match his intensity coming in at number 2
That was of course Chris Cornell singing Spoonman from the Soundgarden records Superunknown released in 1994
He is an obvious choice for this. He's got that intensity. He sounds like a
Marshal on 10 just incredible tone great phrasing limitless range. You name it coming in at number 3
His voice sounds as good now as it did in 1972, I mean it is
unbelievable, how
Consistently he has sung over all these years. He's maintained the power the range everything coming in at number four
I
Decided but both ac/dc frontman Bon Scott and then a year and a half later
Brian Johnson in spot number four both equally great singers for ac/dc when Bon Scott died
I thought there's no way they can find somebody to replace him and a year later
Back in black came out both of them have such uniquely different voices, but I didn't want to separate them on this list
Coming in at number five
That was of course Maynard James Keenan the singer from tool I thought about putting in the actual video from it
But when I look back at it, it's so disturbing that I decided to overlay them playing live on it coming in at number 6
That was the who's roger daltrey singing a live version of love rain army, which is off the
1973 release Quadrophenia
the actual studio recording is one of my favorite songs of all time the vocal performance the
arrangement everything it was produced by glyn johns and
It is absolutely amazing. You should check it out if you don't know that coming in at number 7
That was of course Mick Jagger with stray cat blues, which is off the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet record, which was released in 1968
Makjang is the epitome of rock and roll singing and I could have used any track of his coming in at number eight
Replace I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I'll keep crying, baby
Baby, please
That was things vocal from the bridge of every breath you take you know
Besides having one of the best voices in rock music sting is also one of the greatest melody writers
He has written some of the most intricate
beautiful melodies of
Any singer I can think of coming in at number nine
That was of course Kurt Cobain singing the chorus of smells like teen spirit off the nevermind record, which was released in 1991
It's really haunting to hear that double-tracked vocal so load like that
You know
I always am talking about what a great melody writer Kurt Cobain is he's very much like sting in that he writes really
intricate melodies, but his delivery is so
Intense his tone is one of my favorite tones of any singer coming in at number 10
You gonna
Burn into the way
that was of course an wilson singing the song Barracuda off the
1977 release little Queen within a two-record span
they had songs like magic man crazy on you Barracuda and
Became one of the biggest bands in the late 70s coming in at number 11
This happens to be a song that's in my greatest bass sound or bassline video that I did as well
This is the chorus of the song wood by Allison chains with Layne Staley singing
This was written by Jerry Cantrell
As I said in the other video as a tribute to Andy wood from Mother Love Bone
That is one of my favorite melodies of the grunge era. It's one of my favorite melodies period
Coming in at number 12, you know today destroys a nice
Night divides a day
Tried to run try to hide break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side. Yeah, that was the doors break on through to the other side with Jim Morrison singing
His voice is really
Unmistakable as a rock singer and his range is really incredible from the weird
Frank Sinatra like touch me to the rock singing of
This tune. It's really amazing how far his range spanned especially for a guy that was so young. This record came out in
1967 even though I haven't mentioned them on the channel yet. The doors are one of my favorite bands ever
Coming in at number 13
When you and
That was a Lana's Morissette. You ought to know from her debut record Jagged Little Pill
I did it what makes this song great on this song probably about 30 episodes ago or so
You'll notice that I believe Taylor Hawkins is actually in the video. He was the drummer at the time
I think he played drums on this tune as a matter of fact, and it's flea playing bass
I think it's really strong melody writing and her performance here is just so it's really almost
Over-the-top, but not quite coming in at number 14
What can you say about the boss this is a no-brainer if you disagree with this
Well, I'm sure some of you will coming in at number 15
You know some people say, well you just pick blue gram because he's another Italian from Rochester, New York
Then my brother John reminded me of this tune of head games
Enough said coming in at number 16. Ah, no, don't you have a beautiful? I know you
Can it be a canopy
That was of course Eddie Vetter off the song black from Pearl Jam's first record 10
This is from the bridge of the song. Now. This is a record that has a lot of great vocal performances even flow once Jeremy
But this particular section of this song is the greatest moment on the record
I believe and there was a lot of great moments that last note that he holds us
It's just so moving to me. This song really made me a huge fan of the band
Coming in at number 17
That was Red Hill mining town off the Joshua Tree with Bono singing
There's a lot of u2 songs that I thought about one of them is drowning man off war
Which has amazingly great and that we do it probably the best
Live singing that I have seen was Bono in
1992 on the Achtung Baby tour at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia
every song
sounded like an album take
they were actually better than the album versions the pitch the rhythm everything the the
emotions of the songs
There I really don't know many singers that can sing as well as Bono
Can and could back then?
Absolutely astoundingly, great singer coming in at number 18, I guess the wins
It's been sail away you leave the day a pie in the sky
Hello, but the wind won't blow
Marina shouldn't go only goes to show that was Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin from the tune
What is and what should never be of suppling to?
Now I could have picked any song from any Led Zeppelin record and used it here. I picked that one. I love that tune
I think it's a great tune
Robert Plant is really the ultimate power singer like Chris Cornell when they go up into that high register the
Distortion and their voice is incredible
It's very similar to Little Richard's. If you go back to the beginning of the video and listen a little Richard
This is where they heard these kind of sounds the early rock and roll singer's and the blues singers. They heard that really
Distorted voice and they mimicked that sound coming in at number 19
we
We
That's about all I dare play of Queen Queen are notorious blockers
And this might take down the video just that one little clip unfortunately, but Freddie Mercury
Is one of the greatest singers of all time think about the vocals on Bohemian Rhapsody
Think about the vocals on this sound all the layering that he did. I mean, it's really amazing every singer that I've played on here
recorded before
Auto-tune almost every single one recorded on tape except for a Linus Morissette which was done and a dad
So you are hearing all
performances that were sung by
human beings and not
manipulated coming in at number 20
With you
That was Paul McCartney doing maybe I'm amazed with wings in the late 70s
Now some people will say well why didn't you put John Lennon on your list? Well, I thought a lot about it
I mean, I named one of my daughters after him, but I also named my son after
Bob Dylan, too. The reason is that they don't fit that criteria
of the power rock singer like Little Richard
They don't have that distorted marshal on ten kind of sound
Okay
so there's a lot of people I left off the list and you guys are gonna put it in the comments all the ones that
I forgot but I'm gonna add some extra ones here
Just some of the people that were in my list some of them to me actually didn't fit the list which is why
but they are nonetheless great singers, but they're not quite
What I defined at the beginning of this video, let's check them out
I see my Marianne walking
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