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Today’s Topic
While Coffee Talk is always your free chat space for Thursdays, today we could use some discussion about our old friends at Rolling Stone who ranked the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time…
*For some reason this sparks a flashback to the "banished words" list, and wonder how this is possible to list the GOAT when we will never experience all of time? But I digress....
Let me offer some samples:
- #185 – Alicia Keys
- #181 – Bob Seger
- #156 – George Strait
- #134 – Axl Rose
- #121 – Jackie Wilson
- #118 – John Fogerty
- #112 – Ozzy Osbourne
- #105 – Eddie Vedder
- #102 – Taylor Swift
- #98 – Bob Marley
- #89 – Selena
- #87 – Diana Ross
- #83 – Amy Winehouse
- #78 – Janis Joplin
- #71 – Roy Orbison
- #65 – Minnie Riperton
- #56 – Barry White
- #51 – Sade
- #36 – Kurt Cobain
- #31 – Luther Vandross
- #27 – Dolly Parton
- #23 – Smokey Robinson
- #21 – Nina Simone
- #16 – Prince
- #13 – Patsy Cline
- #8 – Byonce
- #5 – Mariah Carey
- #4 – Billie Holiday
- #3 – Sam Cooke
- #2 – Whitney Houston
- #1 – Aretha Franklin
Rolling Stone made the case like this:
…what mattered most to us was originality, influence, the depth of an artist’s catalog, and the breadth of their musical legacy. A voice can be gorgeous like Mariah Carey’s, rugged like Toots Hibbert’s, understated like Willie Nelson’s, slippery and sumptuous like D’Angelo’s, or bracing like Bob Dylan’s. But in the end, the singers behind it are here for one reason: They can remake the world just by opening their mouths.
What did Rolling Stone get right, and wrong?
We at NV hesitate to give free rein to post videos on an every day basis, but we like to give our readers an occasional chance to go hog wild, especially when it comes to music threads.
Today, we want you to go for it.
Have fun! — but still, it’s free chat, so let us know what’s on your mind, and feel free to share with us what Rolling Stone’s list has inspired.
Have a great Thursday!