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best 80s singer

Who is the best 80 singer

  • Michael Jackson

    Votes: 21 24.4%
  • Madonna

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • George Michael

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • David Bowie

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Elton John

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Kate Bush

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Freddie Mercury

    Votes: 37 43.0%
  • Phil Collins

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Tina Turner

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Prince

    Votes: 3 3.5%
  • Luciano Pavarotti

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Sinéad O'Connor

    Votes: 3 3.5%
  • Paul McCartney

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lionel Richie

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Stevie Wonder

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Ozzy Osbourne

    Votes: 5 5.8%
  • Kylie

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    86

mansoor1980

Member
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Soodanim

Member
Best in terms of an analysis of vocal ability or just a preference for the whole package?

If it's overall, it's easy to see why Michael Jackson was the biggest star in the world. In terms of vocal ability... he ranks highly there, too.
 

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins

Pavarotti?! You have Pavarotti in the same poll as fucking pop singers?!

One of the greatest operatic tenors of all time, competing against George Michael and Madonna? Really?

oh, and calling him an 80s singer as well? *smh*

I'm so triggered that I need to take some time out.
 

RedC

Member

Pavarotti?! You have Pavarotti in the same poll as fucking pop singers?!

One of the greatest operatic tenors of all time, competing against George Michael and Madonna? Really?

oh, and calling him an 80s singer as well? *smh*

I'm so triggered that I need to take some time out.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
Where is Geoff Tate?

Anyway, very hard to answer this question because you have a "studio voice", a "live voice" and SO MANY folks from that era were doing the Star Search power vocals versus what passes for singing today. Is it range, mimicry, consistency?

But I'd say Whitney (though she is the tail end of this time period) and Michael Jackson if I was sticking to the list.
 

AJUMP23

Parody of actual AJUMP23
Freddie Mercury's voice was better than any of those others, so by that metric, it's him.

I agree as pure vocals go he is up there.


Performers prior to autotune had to actually be able to sing and perform. Now they just have to perform and the computer handles the vocals. If you can sing, like Whitney or Mercury or Brandingham, or Bowie, Bono, You just have to stand there and you don't need all the other stuff to cover it up.
 

RagnarokIV

Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Too many to pick... Many are vastly underrated...
Peter Cox, Richard Page, Tony Lewis, Kiske, Don Dokken (pre-90s of course).
 

Hudo

Member
Nicholas Bullen of Napalm Death.

My favorite song by the band with him as singer is "You Suffer":
 
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