Name your favorite single-song vocal performance

[kidbourbon]

I intentionally used the word "favorite" instead of "best" because I just can't imagine there would be much of a consensus on this question. I'll be surprised if we a see a song get multiple mentions. But we'll see.

The title of this thread was self-explanatory, yes? If not, I can elaborate.

My answer...drumroll please...keep drumming....okay....here goes:

Michael Jackson -- Man in the Mirror

Your turn now. Go!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps[/youtube]

 

[Billy Costigan]

Layne Staley - Nutshell
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[MG1968]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE[/youtube]

and

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kMAQrz107M[/youtube]

 

[hndog609]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE[/youtube]

and

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kMAQrz107M[/youtube]

She doesn't really perform much that interests me but Annette Strean can sure as hell sing.

 

[Muschump]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4HvIwhDRsM[/youtube]

 

[smowkee]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeToweqFd2g[/youtube]

 

[uscgamecocks]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FjkqtK67o[/youtube]

 

[MphsBlues]

Lowell George and Little Feat - Rock 'n Roll Doctor

 

[Co. Aytch]

Hank Williams Sr.--"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
-and-
Blind Willie Johnson--"Dark Was The Night/Cold Was the Ground"

 

[Kingston Vol]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FjkqtK67o[/youtube]

Agreed. Love that song.

 

[Pulscifer]

Layne Staley - Nutshell
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Unplugged, ftw :thumbsup:
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[BigPapaVol]

Civil War - GnR / Axl Rose
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[bleedorange1983]

Robert Plant - Stairway to Heaven ( you could still argue that the instrumental is better than the vocal, but Robert does an incredible job none the less )

 

[altidore17]

Civil War - GnR / Axl Rose
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Axl is a musical genius.. too bad his douche attidude broke up Guns, they were one of the best rock groups ever in my mind.
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[BigPapaVol]

Robert Plant - Stairway to Heaven ( you could still argue that the instrumental is better than the vocal, but Robert does an incredible job none the less )

Good call. Black Dog is good work too.
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[Crew]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2sOqbIcaM[/youtube]

...picking one is pretty damn hard.

 

[hndog609]

I always catch myself really digging Grace Slick's vocals on White Rabbit.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

Me, when I sing the "woo!" in Rocky Top.

 

[bleedorange1983]

Good call. Black Dog is good work too.
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Yessir. Hard to argue that STH is not the best studio song ever

 

[vols_fan_68]

VH1 Rock Honors 2008

Pearl Jam version of Love, Reign O'er me

Eddie Vedder is awesome
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[bleedorange1983]

VH1 Rock Honors 2008

Pearl Jam version of Love, Reign O'er me

Eddie Vedder is awesome
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I do like EV alot minus his politcal views...Off He Goes is one of my favorite songs. He has incredible range

 

[95 Vol Alum]

More of a harmony, but I like Eagles' Seven Bridges Road.
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[GBO18]

Me, when I sing the "woo!" in Rocky Top.

Whoa that is my favorite too.

 

[MphsBlues]

Yessir. Hard to argue that STH is not the best studio song ever

Great vocal performance. I just find it hard to give them much credit since they stole quite a lot of music from old blues artists, although I'm pretty sure that LZ was the best thing to happen to Willie Dixon(whole lotta love). I've heard a few other songs that they outright stole, but I don't think anything ever came of those.

 

[Chris4Vols22]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPH5qpbgro[/youtube]

Anthony Green is one of the most intriguing vocalists out there right now IMO.