Judging from some of the comments (including my own) at Top 200 Male Vocalists which was started yesterday by Cicero and which has received 32 replies as I post this, the source list of singers isn’t what most at SDMB would have chosen.
Rather than insert this in the ongoing thread, I thought the topic ought to be developed by individual choices followed by a poll of some sort. It might require more than one category since the majority of names in the other list are Rock vocalists.
If this notion is something you are interested in as an alternative to commenting further about what’s wrong with that other list, here are some ways to help develop names for an SDMB poll:
without regard for musical category, list your Top Ten Male Vocalists
using some genre categorizing, list your Top Five by genre
something else that allows your favorite male singers to be added to some sort of poll listing
Other options for how to get a meaningfule list to vote on would be helpful.
My apologies to Cicero for responding in this way to his thread.
Thanks for the names submitted so far, but it seems a little early to be thinking a poll is in order. We ought to have a better sampling of the SDMB’s choices before asking for votes.
I am amazed he doesn’t make more “Top 100” lists and the like. Burton’s voice is one of the great all-time instruments in pop / rock. (I saw him this month at the Keswick in Glenside–what a great show.)