Greastest artist in the world of all time

[Guest Midnight Express83]

In the same vain of the greatest US band of all time. Lets pick the greastest artist of all time:

 

My top 5 would be...

 

5: "The Boss" Bruce Springstein - I am not a great fan of his songs. But if any artist changed rock for the better would be him. He singlehandedly took the boring pop out of rock music and came a hero to Middle America.

 

4: Tupac- Greatest rapper of all time. A poet and a person ahead of his time. His music was great. Nobody stayed in the studio like him. He was misjudge but too bad it took his death for people to see that he was a great. Biggie has nothing on Tupac.

 

3: Prince - Since 1978, he has made such great music. I can't think of many artist who stayed so far ahead of the crub. He is one of the grestest arst of all time, and Purple Rain is one of my favorite albums.

 

2: Michael Jackson- Weather in the Jackson 5 or solo. He is the best. I know UYL is going to agree with him being a greatest. Can anyone top Off the Walls or Thriller?

 

1: Stevie Wonder- Who has had a longer career than him? He is the geastest of time. Stevie started off poppy(Motown), then grew up as he got older and kept getting better and better and we get music that is just untoppable.

[Guest ant_7000]

Well, I disagree with the Pac better than BIG, I think Big is better slightly than Pac. Prince is so underrated its not funny, the man can do it all: Sing, Dance, and play alot of intstruments. Since he rejected mainstream he gets rediculed and basically considered an after thought now.

[Guest Gamengiri2002]

I'm going to have to say Bob Dylan here. Not only the greatest lyricist ever and writer of the most true "anthems" of rock n' roll, but he lacks that pretentious self-promotion that most great solo artists indulge in.

 

For my money, no solo artists really comes close.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Go to the best solo/performance artists of all time thread and copy and paste my list.

 

 

What to lazy? Fine, I'll do it for you.

 

1) Elvis Presley

2) Frank Sinatra

3) Johnny Cash

4) Bob Dylan

5) Dean Martin

6) Marvin Gaye

7) Sammy Davis, Jr.

8) B.B. King

9) Bob Marley

10) Roy Orbison

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

It still blows my mind that Prince did EVERYTHING on Sign O' The Times by himself, with the exception of maybe 3 or 4 percussion bits, the saxophone parts, and "Gonna Be A Beautiful Night," the live track with the Revolution. Vocals, guitar, bass, keys, synth, strings, and so many layers.

 

80 minutes of music, 16 songs across all genres, the most complex music he ever made, and he did it ALL BY HIMSELF. Frickin' amazing.

[Guest swan]

In the same vain of the greatest US band of all time. Lets pick the greastest artist of all time:

 

My top 5 would be...

 

5: "The Boss" Bruce Springstein - I am not a great fan of his songs. But if any artist changed rock for the better would be him. He singlehandedly took the boring pop out of rock music and came a hero to Middle America.

 

4: Tupac- Greatest rapper of all time. A poet and a person ahead of his time. His music was great. Nobody stayed in the studio like him. He was misjudge but too bad it took his death for people to see that he was a great. Biggie has nothing on Tupac.

 

3: Prince - Since 1978, he has made such great music. I can't think of many artist who stayed so far ahead of the crub. He is one of the grestest arst of all time, and Purple Rain is one of my favorite albums.

 

2: Michael Jackson- Weather in the Jackson 5 or solo. He is the best. I know UYL is going to agree with him being a greatest. Can anyone top Off the Walls or Thriller?

 

1: Stevie Wonder- Who has had a longer career than him? He is the geastest of time. Stevie started off poppy(Motown), then grew up as he got older and kept getting better and better and we get music that is just untoppable.

5 greatest artists in the world and you pick 5 from the US? HUH?

[Guest Eyeball Kid]

I'm going to have to say Bob Dylan here. Not only the greatest lyricist ever and writer of the most true "anthems" of rock n' roll, but he lacks that pretentious self-promotion that most great solo artists indulge in.

 

For my money, no solo artists really comes close.

Have you seen the documentary Don't Look Back? He may've mellowed with age, but during his golden period of the 60s, Bob Dylan was as full of shit and high on himself as anyone you can imagine.

 

Oh, and did anyone else wanna vomit when you first read the liner notes to Blood On the Tracks? Dylan may not have written them, but what putrid asskissing.

[Guest LooseCannon]

I pretty much just skimmed the liner notes from Blood on the Tracks, but I do recall a lot of fawning over that album's alleged cultural significance. I haven't encountered a lot of Dylan interviews, but I don't see him escaping claims of pretentiousness.

[Guest TheGregWitul]

Hmn, I'll try and sort this out by era, and I'm only including singular artists, not groups...

 

 

Pre 60's: Miles Davis

60's: Bob Dylan

70's: David Bowie

80's: Prince

90's: Too little time has passed for me to make a safe pick, and really it doesn't matter as much, as the greatest artist of alltime was not making music in the 90's (Actually, he was, but he was already a vet. of the business by several years.)

 

 

You could really pick from that list of four. Miles Davis was doing it all, from the late 40's until the late 80's (Although his 80's music was like a victory lap of sorts, with Miles playing to the mainstream and resting on his laurels.), Dylan injected rock music with the vital lyricism that it needed, and raised rock and roll to something more than 'flavor of the week' singles and helped make an album count for something other than the popular single or two and eight other reject songs. David Bowie ruled the 70's. No one singular artist could touch him, in terms of excellent and creative albums he was releasing. He did it all, from folk rock, to glam, to concept albums, to R&B, and when punk came to the forefront and caused any other veteran artist to look like a poser, he vanished to Berlin and put out a trio of icy cool electronic rock albums that spawned a genre of clones, some able to chart and achieve commercial success, but none able to come close to him in terms of artistic merit. Prince came along and picked up where Bowie left off, and created many mindblowing albums, and doing the bulk of the work alone. He also penned many hit singles for other acts, and really recorded a disturbing amount of material, much of which is still locked away in his vaults...

 

The funny part is, you can play these four off of each other. Miles was an inspiration to Prince, who was very much like David Bowie in terms of his diverse creativity, and they all received that push from Dylan's work in the 60's. So, pick one of the four, they all can interchange spots on your list, it really just comes down to personal taste...However, as singular figures of music, they were basically untouchable...

 

 

j.

[Guest snuffbox]

Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Billy Corgan, Barry Gibb, Kurt Cobain, Robert Johnson.