My candidates would be:

1] Ronnie James Dio

2] Bruce Dickinson

3] Robert Plant

4] Ian Gillan

My candidates are
Freddy Mercury,
Doro Pesch (the definitive metal woman in my view) ,
Johnny Rotten ,
Peter Steel,
Steven Tyler,
Mick Jagger ,
and Robert Plant too.

Oh shit!

I forgot to include Rob Halford! How could I have done that?!?!

Tyler and Jagger are good choices too....

-- Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:44 am --



Absolutely correct on Doro Pesch!

1. John Lennon

2. David Gilmour

2. Jim Morisson

Freddie, definitely.

Can't go with Morrison as a frontman, I heard outside the studio, he was a terrible frontman.

I'm liking the guy from Sabaton, he seems to really work a crowd.

I love that Doro was mentioned. I love the stuff she did with Warlock, especially the near perfection of an album called Triumph and Agony.

I'd add Roger Daltrey to the list.

Andrew Eldritch.
Peter Murphy
Mike Patton
Geddy Lee

For sheer showmanship, Freddy Mercury is the dogs bollocks[1], my mate saw him and was mightily impressed. I saw Doro Pesch recently and she was on form (I would not say no). Blue Öyster Cult were the funniest band I have seen: "Next: Godzilla! Oh god, not this again!" (Lead singer facepalms while saying this). Oh yes, Geddy Lee (I saw the 'roll the bones' tour)

-LS

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... s+bollocks

David Bowie.
That is all.

Though maybe he doesn't count, it seems unfair to compare mere mortals to him.

Don't we have a thread for this already? o_O

1. Freddie Mercury

2. Peter Steele

3. Rozz Williams

4. Rob Halford

5. Anna Varney(what? she runs the whole show!)

6. Till Lindeman

Just a quick list as I could probably list a whole lot more if I put more thought into it.

Is this just what we consider our favorite frontmen to be? Or ones that made the most impact or the biggest influence? Cause I know there are tons of frontmen I love but I wouldn't label them as "best"

The term 'best' is subjective so I would say you can list your favorites. If 'best' = what mainstream society thinks of my favorites list and their influence, then I would have a real problem with that seeing all the crappy artists people heap praise on that don't even write their own music.

Dunno if these would all count as "rock", but close enough......

Nivek Ogre
David Bowie
Blixa Bargeld
Peter Murphy
Rozz Williams
Glenn Danzig
Diamanda Galas (most definitely NOT rock!!)
Anna Varney Cantodea (also, NOT rock, but one hell of a frontwoman!!)
Tilo Wolff
Stefan Ackermann
Michael Gira
Jarboe
Genesis P. Orridge
Nico
Michael Monroe
Dave Sylvian
David Tibet
Attila Csihar

I forgot about Danzig. Shame on me!

Till Lindemann
Dave Gahan