best of the shrieky rock vocalists POLL

I want to be a contrarian and I honestly feel like lawless pretty much rules but this is Tyler by a billion miles let's be fair.

is that lady from sleater kinney shrieky? i think she might qualify

nah Corin is more of a wailing warbler like Grace Slick

ok

wailing warblers v shriekers

The bloke that sings backing vocal on "Morning Milky" by Splodgenessabounds.

Him.

King Diamond, Udo Dirkschneider? wrong kind of shriek?

Rob Halford?

would take any of those 3 over any of these

Udo does kinda fit yea.

i can appreciate the difference with the other 2 now i think about it but yeah, Udo, he's my guy

Tyler, of the options available.

Feel like Steve Marriott should be option as the progenitor of said style

The uh Nazareth dude, I'm pretty sure no one knows his name though

Axl is a fan tho as I bet Tom K is

Nazareth dude is Dan McCafferty, and yeah, he's fucking awesome. I wish AC/DC had picked him instead of Brian Johnson to step in when Bon Scott died, honestly.

Other good options: Angry Anderson from Rose Tattoo, Joel O'Keeffe from Airbourne, Lydia Lunch (at least in her Teenage Jesus and the Jerks days).

Amazing photo of McCafferty:

http://statics.photodom.com/photos/2007/12/05/578276.jpg

Goddamn

Yeah Angry Anderson fits this group for sure

Also Little Richard, Janis Joplin, young Robert Plant, Roger Chapman,

Julie Christmas (at least w Made Out Of Babies), Kevin Coyne sometimes,

this is not an exhaustive list, just wanted to compile a quintet of shrieky, throaty ice cream headache vocalists and have everybody debate which one was best.

Geddy Lee

Joplin is my favorite: ritual emotional displays and struggles that draw me in, rather than driving me back to art appreciation (not exclusively, although that can be part of it), though I can't claim them as personally "cathartic" to the same degree, same kind of experience as her kind romantic could, and especially the way she spoke from and to the experience of many women (though not exclusively). And the way she can start intensely, or build to it even in the midst of, say, "Me and Bobby McGee." Seems to be prefiguring shrieky protometal etc. guys, incl. young Plant, and even, on some of the live boots, the pitch adventures of free jazz saxophonists--free jazz vocalists too, thinking of Linda Sharrock on Sonny S.'s Black Woman, prefiguring the avant vocal sounds of Diamanda Galas, with LaDonna Smith as a link between JJ and DG. Also her choice of material, and (usually) musical companions, not that she and they made perfect albums.

James Brown sometimes, like "This Is A Man's World": He's lost! in the wilderness...He's lost! in the bitterness..." Wilson Pickett, for instance on "Hey Jude", as Duane Allman eggs him on---not that he needed much encouragement; there was often at least a little shriekiness in there, like "Land of 1000 Dances."

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