most captivating vocalists.......Ever

[citizenED]

These singers can often send a shiver down my spine

Guy Garvey

PJ Harvey

Bjork

Anthony Hegarty

Martin Chris - from Playcold. (clue - this is cryptic since I cannot type it directly due to Forum By-laws)

[immaterial]

Lemmy - Motorhead.

[Fear 'n boozin]

keef!

[citizenED]

Yep, seen him in action - how could I forget! He lost out to a bloke singing about a frisky bear in the Wishing Well Karaoke so clearly can't be that good!

[Muley]

Fiona Apple

I might consider abandoning my wife and family for this woman!

[mockney piers]

Seriously, martin chris?!?!

Surely there are about a trillion more inspiring vocalists before getting there. I mean I like Dont Panic, it's a good song, but ....

I'll add Elisabeth Fraser and Kurt Wagner in a random fashion

[Atila Reincarnate]

Marvin Gaye

Sam Cooke

Otis Redding

Levi Stubbs

David Ruffin

Al Green

Tony Bennett

Georgie Fame

Gladys Knight

Chet Baker

Cuba Gooding

Curtis Mayfield

Lamont Dozier

Gil Scott Heron

Esther Phillips

Gene Dozier

Delroy Wilson

Gregory Isaacs

Sonny Boy Williamson

Johnny Taylor

Neil Young

Tim Hardin

Jim Morrison

Aretha Franklin

James Brown

Michael Jackson

Stevie Wonder

Smokie Robinson

Ben E King

Mike McDonald

Donald Fagen

Laura Nyro

[SeanMacGabhann]

Share prices on the SMG index for Muley plummet....

I mean, everyone to their own tastes and all, but anyone who, anytime after the 70s releases an album with the title

"When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king

What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight

And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring

There's no body to batter when your mind is your might

So when you go solo, you hold your own hand

And remember that depth is the greatest of heights

And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land

And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right"

That's the TITLE, not a lyric!

well... not for me.

[Moos]

*imagines SMG's Index of Forumites, carefully updated at all times*

[SeanMacGabhann]

It's real, very real

oh and on-topic

Gail-Ann Dorsey (no fan of her music but a captivating voice? you betcha)

Scott Walker

Holly Palmer

Cathal Coughlan

(the last was described by John Peel as being able to sing the phone book and he would listen)

[bigbadwolf]

Catherine Jenkins. She's really fit as well.

[SeanMacGabhann]

And she has a K in her first name

[Strawbs]

Julie Cruise (same one of the main soundtrack songs to twin peaks)

[bigbadwolf]

Thank you Sean. You've obviously 'noticed' her as well.

[bigbadwolf]

You don't start a sentence with 'And' either, even in Irish.

[sanity girl]

Jeff Buckley

[mockney piers]

Sandy Denny

[Muley]

Fair enough Sean, crap title without a doubt, and when I discovered her on Youtube (only a few weeks ago) I thought she would be an annoying, strident, whiney Yank indie princess. But listen to the album- her ability to write a melody, craft the lyrics and deliver the songs in that voice shows a talent and skill equal to anyone (and light years ahead of most). Can't remember being that excited by an album for years.

Also, does some cracking versions of old jazz standards such as 'You Belong To Me'

I may have plummeted down into the gutter, but I'm looking up at the stars!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Funnily enough I had a bit of a Fiona Apple thing on youtube recently too- and I do quite like some of her cover versions - Elvis's "I want you"

But I never got on with the albums of her own material, But enough.. I don't want to rag on your choice too much - it's not that kind of thread

[bigbadwolf]

Lisa Mitchell

Simone White (she did the 'beeb beeb' Audi R8 advert)

[Muley]

You're a gentleman Sean.

Didn't that Gail-Ann Dorsey do 'Working In A Coal Mine'?

[Mark]

Annie Lennox

[mockney piers]

I was just about to say 'i bet sean will do that crazy Irishman with the unspellable name' when up he posted.

On the flip side I give sean one guess what my next nomination is.

[capt_birdseye]

Mama Cass

[Ted Max]

Boy George.

Try the veal.