Most unique voice in rock?

Freddie Mercury. No question for me.

 

someone a bit similar to perry farrell was the lead singer for LOVE ON ICE

 

Dominic Appleton from Breathless and a few songs in This Mortal Coil.

 

Well, if you don't care, then there's no point in continuing the discussion. Facts be damned.

 

I think you're missing my point. The reason these newer bands copied Ozzy and Dio and others is because they were unique.

 

It's gotta be Axl Rose. I know someone already mentioned him. Miss the old Guns n' Roses stuff.

 

IMO, Axl Rose sounds like the coked up Ozzy (of the late 70's). I bet young William (a.k.a. Axl) played those Sabbath records growing up.

 

Paul Stanley

 

I recently came across a four disc Black Sabbath box (Castle '96) and the final disc had a number of different singers, and ALL of them after Ian Gillan sounded like Dio knockoffs with that awful Heavy Metal Broadway style....apart from Glenn Hughes who frankly sounded tired and blue. I also noticed that none of the singers sounded like Ian Gillan. Doesn't that make him truly unique or is his style too tricky to emulate?

By the way, that 1996 box was awful sounding. Too bright.

 

No, I got that, but there is the possibility that these singers just naturally sound like that and it's not a matter of them copying.

 

here is a video of the band LOVE ON ICE btw. you'll hear a bit of perry farrell in the singing




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FECfqb6M0N8

 

Matthew Barlow (ex-Iced Earth) is a dead ringer for Paul.

 

yep.

 

but his voice is really kinda similar to later period john lennon.

cheers,
rob

 

NOT Robin Zander. He sounds like everybody.

 

he sounds like a bass range paul stanley

 

Wow, I remember them now. I had an album of them. Edwin from I Mother Earth sounded like Perry, too, sometimes now that I think about it.

 

that was their only album i believe. they were one of those bands in the early 90's that no one knew how to market

 

Not on The Dark Saga. There are times on that album when I swear it could be Paul even in the upper registers.

 

Ozzy is my favorite unique vocalist, and Layne Staley's vocal harmonies with Jerry Cantrell are unbelievable

 

Dave Thomas of Pere Ubu.

 

Those two sound absolutely nothing alike. Good job on the listening.

 

Buddy Guy

 

That guy from Tea Party sounds exactly like him.

 

Anna Meek of Catapilla. Punkish vocals were commonplace in the late seventies — but in 1971?