Famous Bands with Good Singers!

[Hifiguy]

Yes
The Who
The Beatles
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Heart
Fairport Convention (w/ Sandy Denny)
Genesis (w/ Peter Gabriel)
Moody Blues (Justin Hayward was/is a superb singer)
Renaissance (the incomparable Annie Haslam)
Jefferson Airplane
Deep Purple (in Ian Gillan's salad days back in the 1970s)
Queen (as much as Freddie was never to my taste)

just off the top of my head.....

 

[pedro]

Off the top of my head -

* The Temptations
* Gladys Knight and the Pips
* Chaka Kahn and Rufus
* Any band with Jack Bruce in it.
* Any band with Steve Winwood in it.
* Any band with John or Paul in it.
* Any band with Steve Marriott in it.
* The Beach Boys
* The Hollies
* The Band
* Sly and the Family Stone
* Little Feat (w/ Lowell)
* Prince and the Revolution
* The Staple Singers
* The Jackson Five

Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, James Brown have been left off simply because I am not aware of them as members of a band. But vocally they are at the top of the heap.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

Mr. Halford is dissapointed in all of you

And so is bruce!​

 

[poorbassist15]

Jon Anderson. You can say whatever you want about the whole trio thing of Squire/Anderson/Howe(Chris isn't a bad singer either), but Jon Anderson has an incredible voice.

 

[Dbassmon]

Eagles - Glen Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit Everyone of them sings his ass off.

BTW... I was in BS&T with David Clayton Thomas... Iconic voice, an amazing honor to work with him for many years.

 

[basscamel 420]

-grateful dead
-black sabbath (ozzy)
-the doors
-Jefferson airplane
-aerosmith
-the incredible string band
-sublime
-rush
-Alice in chains
-the band
-the who
-Johnny cash
-new riders of the purple sage
-marshal Tucker band
- the list goes on and on those are just my favorites

 

[ShredderMaximus]

Also want to add Glenn Danzig, the punk rock Elvis.

 

[Lammchop93]

Shinedown and Alter Bridge. Alter Bridge isn't nearly as mainstream, but both bands have singers with some mean pipes!

 

[bikeplate]

Hi

Kings X. He absolutely kills it

Rob

 

[FilterFunk]

Maurice White and Philip Bailey - EWF
Jeffrey Osborne - LTD
Lionel Richie - Commodores

 

[KevInDaBassment]

Serj Tankian of System of a Down

 

[stratovani]

Morrissey of The Smiths has a great singing voice.

 

[dtsamples]

I was listening to an obscure 2000's band the other day, Mad at Gravity, and I was thinking to myself, this guy is actually pretty good as far as singers go. I wonder what happened to him.

+1 to Wham

 

[Manolius]

Not so famous but Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming from Wild beasts do some of the best singing I've ever heard.

+1, Hayden plays the bass and sings; representing the bass comunity right there

 

[brane]

Tea Party
Finger Eleven
Big Wreck/Thornley
Muse
Iron Maiden
Pain of Salvation (yeah, I know they aren't popular, but all the vocals are performed to perfection live)

 

[tdub0199]

Axle Rose? He's about the ONLY thing I don't like about GnR....

My choices would be Tool, A Perfect Circle, Deftones, Pearl Jam, STP, Soundgarden, Staind, Pink Floyd and the list goes on.....

 

[dtsamples]

Pain of Salvation (yeah, I know they aren't popular, but all the vocals are performed to perfection live)

A big +1000 to Pain of Salvation. Gildenlow turned into an egomaniac though. Anything off of the first four albums is amazing, but my favorite vocal performances are either "Beyond the Pale," or "Mrs. Modern Mother Mary."

 

[Richland123]

In addition to many good ones listed so far.

Triumph - not 1 but 2 great singers with Rik Emmett & Gil Moore
King's X
Kansas - multiple great singers
Foreigner - Lou Gramm
Queensryche - Geoff Tate
Petra - both the Greg X. Volz era and John Schlitt era
Saga - Michael Sadler

 

[LongJim]

Robin Zander of Cheap Trick is for my money, the best singer in rock.

Others I thought were/are good:

Lou Gramm
Rob Halford
Steve Walsh
Ann Wilson
Paul Rodgers

 

[mellowgerman]

this says it all