</font><blockquote><font>quote:</font><hr><font>Originally posted by Javro:
<strong>If it’s screamers yer after, surely a place for
Mark Lonnegan (was he screaming trees dude? dollar bill and nearly lost you are great screamers)
Alice in Chains chappy (wanna say Jerry Cantrel, but thought he may have been guitarist)
</strong></font><hr></blockquote><font>Mark Lanegan was the singer of the Screaming Trees and Jerry Cantrell was the AiC-singer, so you’re right on both!
One of the most frightening screams ever: Ian Curtis (Joy Division) on ‘She’s lost control’ (as it appeared on the BBC-recordings)
I always thought that Chris Cornell from Soundgarden could scream with the best of them.
Nick Cave could scream pretty good to, mainly when he was with the Birthday Party.
I don’t know his name, but the singer from At The Drive In screams pretty good too.
I agree with Kweezy, those 80’s heavy metal singers like Halford & Dickinson are in a class of their own.
Thanx for the concurrence Chris and sorry Bean, I didn’t know the topic was emotional screamers. Thanx for clearing that up for me. In that case, I nominate my wife as the greatest of all time. That list was not meant to represent my favorite vocalists or my picks for best singer. I was just listing vocalists I think scream really well. I gotta agree with the references to Plant & Daltrey- major influences on the whole evolution of the rock’n’roll scream. And for the females, I forgot to mention Janis Joplin (I wouldn’t want to be percieved as some type of chauvinist). She had both emotion & power.
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