The Greatest Artist Ever

I have two candidates, both of recent exposure: one, mexican masterband RBD, a group of youngsters full of talent, musical knowledge, professional skills, beauty, sex-appeal, I mean, truly they are above the rest. You should see their vocal approach toward their songs: it´s a mix of baroque-poliphonic singing mixed with dodecaphonic and serial elements learned from Webern, with some grindcore elements thrown in for good. You should pay attention when the two female singers get the spotlight, then the harmonic balance that the masculine singers give to the music is just worthy of a place of honor in modern music theory. The other artist is reggaetton´s master mind Don Omar: before Daddy Yankee, there was Don Omar. His hit "pobre diabla" easily outclasses any music since Guilliame De Machaut.

I don't care what Billboard says. To me the greatest band will always be...um... it depends on my mood, right now it's Art Zoyd.

Why aren't classical composers on here?

Michael Jackson for "Thriller"

    I voted for the Liverpool moptops of course - the Fab Four! but leaving personal preferences aside i would say Elvis, I think even The Beatles would have voted him top artist of all time!

QUEEN: The best band ever for Prog and non Prog listeners.

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 04 2007 at 13:00

Zargus wrote: Bob Dylan, anyone?

The man who influenced the Beatles (when they met him, of course).

Man, that poll sucks! My vote would be Pink Floyd. But where is King Crimson? Genesis? THe only thing closest to prog on that poll is the Beatles, and they only had one song that was even close to prog, and that was A Day in the Life. And quite a few on that poll have sucky music also.

If you really think these are the best ARTISTS ever, then the world has been a much less interesting place than I thought. Say "20th century pop-music artists" or something like that.... ARTIST EVER means from all time, and believe me, all of these put together don't even reach the top 200.

Besides, artists like MAriah...please, she sings, I give you that, and she SELLS, but does she write her music? She's a PERFORMER....

But if we HAVE to pick one just for this poll's sake, let's say Elvis or The Beatles.

martinn wrote: Chus wrote: progadicto wrote: IMHO Elton John... Not just for ranking, hits and that stuff. I really think he's a great composer and a honest pop artist... And he was in Gentle Giant       Really, he was... I read it somewhere Wasn't he rejected from Gentle Giant?

He was rejected by King Crimson (I think he tried out for the Lark's Tongue line-up) and he was with Gentle Giant while they were still Simon Dupre and the Big Sound.