Your top 5 distinctive voices - not necessarily the best - in rock?

Question

Those you know instantly when you hear them.

Answer 1

bob Dylan
elvis
sher
james brown-not necessarily rock..but still...
Michal Jackson...

Answer 2

BOYS: a million. James Lachlan 2. Charlie Atticus 3. Darcy Fletcher 4. Henry Oliver 5. William Avery 6. Hamish Callum 7. Angus Rafferty 8. Hugh Calloway 9. Eamon Lucas 10. Stellan Rafferty (A GP call) females: a million. Charlotte Isobel 2. Annabel Clara 3. Lucy Matilda 4. Eliza Grace 5. Laura Imogen 6. Freya Rosie 7. Madeleine Isla 8. Bronte Sienna - Ella :)

Answer 3

No particular order, just as they occur to me:

Male:
1. Elvis Costello.
2. Tom Waits.
3. Bob Dylan.
4. Brad Roberts [Crash Test Dummies]
5. Roland Gift [Fine Young Cannibals]

Female:
1. Janis Joplin.
2. Patti Smith.
3. Cyndi Lauper.
4. Natalie Merchant.
5. Joni Mitchell.

All of these I could instantly pick up within a few words, whether or not I recognized the song. I'd also like to mention Billy Bragg, John Fogerty, Michael Stipe [REM], Adam Duritz [Counting Crows], Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Joan Armatrading, Annie Lennox, and Emmylou Harris.

And, for the record, the only ones to hit my top 20 vocally, as far as pure singing ability, would be Mitchell, Plant, Mercury, and Armatrading.

Answer 4

Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Robert Plant
Syd Barrett
Geddy Lee

Answer 5

Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
Leonard Cohen
Alice Cooper
Bruce Dickinson

Honorable Mentions:
Neil Young, Fred Schneider, Deborah Harry, Jello Biafra, Dave Mustaine, Jack White, Mick Jagger

I would put Rob Halford, but he's no longer at all distinctive, since so freaking many people have spent so much time attempting to copy his style over the past 3+ decades (not least of which Axl Rose, who several other people mentioned.)

Answer 6

Tom Waits, Tom Waits
Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails,
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith,
Mike, Doughty, Formerly of Soul Coughing,
Rod Stewart!

Answer 7

Chino Moreno of Deftones
Tom Waits
Bob Dylan
Corey Taylor of Slipknot/Stone Sour
Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver

Answer 8

In no particular order:
1. Axl Rose
2. Kurt Cobain
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Geddy Lee
5. Serj Tankian

Answer 9

Stevie Nicks
Tom Petty
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Roger Daltrey

Answer 10

1) Robert Plant
2) Freddie Mercury
3) Bob Dylan (folk not rock though)
4) John Lennon
5) Bon Scott

Answer 11

1. Axl Rose- Guns N Roses
2. Geddy Lee- Rush
3. Ozzy Osbourne- Black Sabbath
4. Barry Gibb- BeeGees (I guess they are rock?)
5. James Hetfield- Metallica

You dont even need to be familiar with the song, you hear one of these, youre immediatley saying "Is that Metallica" or "That sounds like Rush".