List Your Favorite Male Vocalists of All-Time
courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists
Editor’s Note: Please forgive the length, but really, this was near impossible to narrow down. Also, this is not necessarily in order of favorite, but just how they came to me.
1. Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah (live)
2. Ryan Adams
La Cienega Just Smiled (live)
3. Elliott Smith
Waltz #2 (live)
4. Bryan Ferry
Slave to Love
5. Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue (live)
6. Pete Yorn
Life on a Chain (live)
7. Billy Joel
You May Be Right (live)
8. Damien Rice
Rootless Tree (live)
9. Dave Grohl
Best of You :: Foo Fighters
10. John Lennon
Jealous Guy
11. Jack White
I’m Shakin’ (live)
12. Ryan Bingham
Bread and Water (live)
13. Sam Cooke
A Change is Gonna Come
14. Ben Gibbard
Tiny Vessels (live)
15. Lenny Kravitz
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
16. Conor Oberst
Cape Canaveral (live)
17. Adam Duritz
Round Here (live) :: Counting Crows
18. Elton John
Tiny Dancer (live)
19. Cee Lo Green
Crazy (live)
20. Ben Folds
Still Fighting It
21. Nat King Cole
Nature Boy (live)
22. Eddie Vedder
Rise
23. Grant Lee Phillips
Honey Don’t Think (live) :: Grant Lee Buffalo
24. Bono
Red Hill Mining Town :: U2
25. Robert Smith
Pictures of You (live) :: The Cure
26. Duncan Sheik
She Runs Away
27. Michael Penn
No Myth (live)
28. Paul McCartney
Maybe I’m Amazed :: Wings
29. Kurt Cobain
All Apologies (live) :: Nirvana
30. Jeff Buckley
Last Goodbye (live)
31. Ben Lee
Catch My Disease (live)
32. Otis Redding
These Arms of Mine
33. Andrew McMahon
Swim :: Jack’s Mannequin
34. Billy Idol
Eyes Without a Face
35. Brandon Flowers
Romeo and Juliet (live) :: The Killers
36. Glen Hansard
Say It To Me Now (live)
37. Rod Stewart
Stay With Me (live) :: Rod Stewart and The Faces
38. Mick Jagger
Wild Horses :: Rolling Stones
39. John Mayer
Queen of California (live)
40. Johnny Cash
A Boy Named Sue (live)
41. Steven Tyler
Dream On (live) :: Aerosmith
42. Beck
Lost Cause
43. Charlie Sexton
Impressed
44. Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run (live)
45. Langhorne Slim
I Love You, But Goodbye (live)
46. David Bowie
Starman (live)
47. Marvin Gaye
Let’s Get It On
48. Peter Murphy
All Night Long
49. Trent Reznor
Something I Can Never Have (live)
50. Freddie Mercury
Don’t Stop Me Now :: Queen
51. Adam Levine
Sunday Morning (live) :: Maroon 5
52. Rick Springfield
I’ve Done Everything For You
53. Matthew Sweet
Girlfriend (live)
54. Brian Fallon
She Loves You (live)
55. Jim Morrison
Riders On the Storm
56. Lou Reed
Perfect Day (live)
57. Simon Le Bon
Ordinary World (live)
58. Michael Stipe
Daysleeper
59. Tim Booth
Sit Down :: James
60. Paul Westerberg
Dyslexic Heart
