How would you like to be able to sing like?

[LatsMcGee]

Mike Patton is awesome,  Robert Smith is great.  Halford is probably my favorite traditional metal vocalist,  Sad Wings and Screaming are my two favorite Priest albums.  For death metal vocals I like Matti Way.  Lee Dorrian rules also. 

[outby43]

Tony Harnell from the band TNT.  I would be shocked if anyone knew who he was here.

Devin Townsend is a great singer.  I had no idea that he was the Strapping Young Lad vocalist.  I started listening to him on the Steve Vai CD  Sex and Religion around 1992 I think.  

[Skeeter]

Bruce Dickinson

[Petrucci]

Tony Harnell from the band TNT.  I would be shocked if anyone knew who he was here.

Devin Townsend is a great singer.  I had no idea that he was the Strapping Young Lad vocalist.  I started listening to him on the Steve Vai CD  Sex and Religion around 1992 I think.  

great choice...i also discovered in the Steve Vai cd...He has a lot of side projects and solo albuns, the guy is a genius

[njflex]

BONO as mentioned and old school king of cool dean martin ....

[DroppingPlates]

Oh so what you're saying is that alot of them have the ability to sing nice and project their voice without hurting the vocal chords and slowly destroying their throats, but they choose not to and would rather scream and growl like fucking barbaric morons?

Trying to start a matter-of-taste discussion? 
Getbig is one of the few places where most folks prefer metal over (s)hit music. You must have a hard time here 

[DroppingPlates]

No no, don't want a discussion. I know for a fact that you have to have some underlying mental issues if you like listening to angry violent growling and screaming.

You don't want a serious discussion but would only judge   Judging this way is the typical behaviour of a narrow minded person who thinks to know what's a good voice or not (pathetic, haha!). In fact you don't know a shit. For example the facts that many metalheads have a higher IQ than the average, are more respectfull and social people and like other styles of music as well like pop, classic, jazz and others. Again, educate yourself before making yourself a fool.

[The Ugly]

I know for a fact that you have to have some underlying mental issues if you like listening to angry violent growling and screaming.

Take your psychoanalysis bullshit to the MMA thread:

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=304931.0;topicseen

[DroppingPlates]

Oh so I'm the one who's judging? What about your automatic assumption that I listen to "(s)hit" music? You metalheads always have this delusional thing about how you are not mainstream and special and that "other people" listen to mainstream crap when I enter every music discussion on any board without exception. All the while your listening to heavy distorted gitar and voices that sound like air filtering through sandpaper.

Honestly I'm sick of your metal-arrogance. I cannot take it seriously, believe me I tried, I even bought "Kill Em All" and tried listening to some Atreyu or whatever. Without exception, the songs I liked were the ones that had the least screaming and excuse me for saying it "noisy" arrangement.

Want a napkin for that drooling? In fact you're the one started judging after a lot of us just showed their love for loud & heavy music. If you talk shit about others, they talk like shit about you as well, simple is that. That '(s)hit music' assumption was like a mean bitch huh, so I understand your 'feelings' 

BTW, it's 'guitar' not 'gitar' (is this an indication of your knowledge of music?)

[DroppingPlates]

I live in norway (isn't that your metal-mecca or something?), we write gitar here and I made a mistake so what. How original is that commenting on spelling errors, is that an indication of your debating skills?

You're a pretty serious dude, aren't you? Please read my personal quote    

This one is for you, hope you like it (I liked it, but that was a very long time ago)

 

[DroppingPlates]

Nah dude, I was just in the mood for arguing. I don't actually mind some heavy music as long as the vocalist isn't growling.

I'm not either into growling/grunting style, but more the nu-metal style.

My final words in this 'discussion': It's just human behaviour to respond with disgust when something is provocative/extreme like a big bodybuilder, heavy metal or a pornstar with big tits.