David Bowie strictly as a singer

He's a legend, no debating that.

WTF

^^ those WTF stand for Whowants Tolive Forever ?

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

WTF[/QUOTE]

What are you trying too say?

Dysan, you're at the fecking wind-up. We don't agree on Elton, that's fine...no WTF's needed :p

Queenzone is so full of .... these days.

Elton John` s superb vocals on Album "Victim of Love" not mentioned yet ?

Love the album for somewhat reasons. It`s a sleeper :)

Queenzone, land of the idiots! Actually, the Internet in general.

Wait, does dysan actually think that Elton John was a bad singer?

I think you need to distinguish between two things: the quality of his voice itself (timbre, volume, balance of harmonics - the same things that make a high C sound different on a trumpet than on a violin) and the technical skills (range, clarity, smooth transition between registers, phrasing and delivery, etc. - the things that distinguish, say, Eruption played by Eddie van Halen and Eruption played by me). Put together those two different sets of factors make a singer great, terrible or anything in between.

I think David Bowie would score very high on the technical skills aspects, and extremely high on the smooth transition between registers and range in general. The quality of his voice itself seems to be another story - I don't think he had a 'good' voice by classical standards, but the way he made use of what he had was simply phenomenal. In many ways, I think his technical skills were superior to Freddie's, although the quality of his voice itself was undoubtedly inferior.

[QUOTE] [b]Sheer Brass Neck wrote:[/b]

Roger Taylor once said that he was pissed off that it was easy to pass Freddie off as the guy going "day oh" in stadiums, whilst forgetting that he was a fabulous musician whose piano playing was inimitable in the rock world. [/QUOTE]

So true. Freddie's piano playing has been underrated, perhaps because he himself underrated it.

But I always found that, as a rock musician, he was very talented on the piano. Maybe because I have a soft spot for rock songs which start out with a piano segment. E.g. G n'R's November Rain - the live in Toyko version from 1992 is phenomenal, although Axl didn't do all the piano bits himself.

[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]

although Axl didn't do all the piano bits himself.

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Didn't he?

Freddie was the best frontman of them all and had the best voice. I find Bowie personally very hit and miss and at times takes himself wayyy to seriously....George was good but not on the same level as those two, although he had a better voice than Bowie.. And as for Elton John.....well he did beat all three of them put together in his prime when you look at record sales alone, especially in the US, and in the 70s he was also a great entertainer with a decent voice. All of them will be remembered as up there with the best.

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[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]

 although Axl didn't do all the piano bits himself.

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Didn't he?[/QUOTE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J314VGG8KnI at 3:35 isn't that someone else playing?

Dizzy's playing synthesisers, not piano. Axl did all the piano bits.

Ah, got it.