Best Grunge Singer

[Audio of Being]

Superunknown is one of my favorite cds of all, and I also agree with the many styles of Eddie as well. He is mellow as can be in Daughter, and then just screams in Blood.

[Some Random]

i'll give everclear this: i had always liked "brown eyed girl" by van morrison, but i absolutely love everclear's cover of it. art's voice and their style suit the song so well.

[Shiri]

Everclear... I haven't heard that name in years. Are they still making music?

[Ryan44]

i'll give everclear this: i had always liked "brown eyed girl" by van morrison, but i absolutely love everclear's cover of it. art's voice and their style suit the song so well.

it is a good cover. i like it very much. they also did a good one of the boys are back in town

 

and shiri, im not to sure if they are still mkaing music, in 2004 they came out with a best of cd. but i havent heard of em since. i hope they make something that sounds like the good old everclear days, not volvo driving soccer mom.

[Shortcut To Moncton]

I'll add this:

 

If we weren't speaking of the grunge era, I would give it to Chris Cornell. Euphoria Morning (Cornell's '99 solo album) has some of the best vocals in my entire cd collection.

 

But if we go by the grunge era only...then Eddie Vedder.

[Shiri]

C'mon, Temple Of The Dog? Chris rocks the vocals there. That's one hell of a grunge album, if you don't have it, you should.

[Some Random]

C'mon, Temple Of The Dog? Chris rocks the vocals there. That's one hell of a grunge album, if you don't have it, you should.

with the exception of it having eddie vedder on it, it is a good album

[Audio of Being]

Temple of the Dog is one of the best grunge/heaviest cds that I own. There are days were I just listen to it over and over.

[heyrabbit]

cornell has an awsome, unique voice. even though he's one of the grandfathers of grunge, I wouldn't pick him as my favorite grunge singer. there's too much of a squeally hair- band influence in his singing.

 

cobain and vedder were true, complete grunge singers. they sang in minors

 

but my personal favorite is still daniel johns', despite coming in late in the game and essentially ripping off cobain's style. frogstomp is one of the best grunge albums in existence

[Shiri]

Frogstomp has to be the worst Silverchair album, it's so juvenile.

 

And if you consider post-grunge bands, then Gavin Rossdale of Bush is my favorite singer. I love his voice.

Edited September 9, 2006 by Designate

[Some Random]

i'm surprised no one's mentioned scott weiland. stone temple pilots got lumped in with 'grunge' in the beginning. he's a phenominal singer and it's too bad he's wasting his voice on shite like velvet revolver.

[Blender]

yea its good to say that Gavin Ross Dale is on the list...

[Ryan44]

i agree gavin rossdale is good shit.

[borntohula]

no one's mentionned mark arm, but i didnt really expect anyone to either. he's cool. no chris cornell or nothin, but he's good.

[heyrabbit]

Frogstomp has to be the worst Silverchair album, it's so juvenile.

 

And if you consider post-grunge bands, then Gavin Rossdale of Bush is my favorite singer. I love his voice.

they were 14 and 15 when frogstomp was written and recorded but it's their best selling album by far. it's also grunge, not post grunge

 

diorama is the worst album. that's reflected in sales and the fact that he can't sing any of those songs live

[Shiri]

Since when sales reflect quality? I think Neon Ballroom was their best.

[heyrabbit]

Since when sales reflect quality? I think Neon Ballroom was their best.

well it means millions of people agree with me. I won't argue with neon though

[Blender]

frogstomp has some damn good songs on it...its funny to think that silverchair are veterans in the music business at the age of what...like 25 now?

[Shiri]

Yeah, it is funny. Frogstomp is good considering they were 15 when they recorded it but it's no my favorite. I kind of stopped listneing to them after Diorama was released but maybe their next album will be a good surprise. Daniel's voice did evolve a lot though, which is great.

[Kenwell]

I voted for Layne Staley basically because of how good Alice in Chains were. Dirt, Jar of Flies, Sap, and their MTV Unplugged albums show how deep the band really was. It is a shame that Layne died the way he did, but I guess that is just the course of nature for Grunge bands.

[Shortcut To Moncton]

Scott Weiland is more versatile than any of the singers here...buuut not really from the Grunge Scene (even though Core does get thrown in).

 

Like I said before, considering age, Frogstomp and Freak Show are pretty solid but the latter two albums just blow them away.

[Some Random]

i've never listened to silverchair. i remember when they came out i heard a soundbite of them and i thought they sounded like a rip off of helmet. then i heard how young they were and couldn't take them seriously. 15 is too young to be singing grunge with any life experience to back it up.

[Blender]

you probably should have listened to some of the songs before you made that judgement...

[Some Random]

nah. snap judgements make things easier.

 

edit: there's no way i woulda given them a chance back then. their first album came out at the ass end of grunge and i'd already moved on to my new love: punk rock.

Edited September 11, 2006 by 13chris13

[heyrabbit]

actually that was probably the perfect time for them to be playing grunge. there were no expectations because, they were 15, so they could go all out. they had an unabated youthful energy and an amateurish playing skills which resulted in an extremely effective grunge album.it was so simple that it was almost ingenius. nobody older than 15 would think to write it, or get away with it