The greatest musician of all time?

Question

I'm trying to expand my music collection. Who do you think are the greatest musicians ever? All categories. Except for country. I apologize to you country fans but it just aint my cup of tea.

Answer 1

All these answers are great! That was an excellent question.

Answer 2

By Genre:

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan

Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Mel Torme
Tony Bennett

Andres Sergovia
Graham Horowitz

Paul Simon
Woody Guthrie

Scott Joplin

Eric Clapton
Al Jerreau

Benny Goodman
Glenn Miller
Artie Shaw
Tommy Dorsey
Louis Armstrong

Answer 3

Stevie Wonder
The Eagles
Miles Davis
Louis Armstrong
Ray Charles

Answer 4

You got to go out and listen. There's just too much to categorize. Rock goes back into the 50's, jazz back into the 20's. Just those two genres alone are broken into dozens of different categories.

If you start with rock, just start with the Beatles and listen to them and everything that came after them, the Stones , the Who, the Kinks, Cream, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Yes, Jethro Tull and on and on and on.

Answer 5

Jimmy Hendrix
Peter Frampton
Stevie Wonder
Prince
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Jim Morrison
Frank Sinatra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Beethoven
Bach
Vivaldi
Ray Charles
Elvis
There is so many different quality people who can sing,play instruments etc...but I agree with you on choice of excluding country or western from my chioces...and Im not much for the rap crap either.....I do mean the crap ones...stupid & thugish...the good ones are fine!!

Answer 6

it somewhat is risk-free to anticipate that great composers of any variety in song are great composers . We additionally would desire to tell apart the form of song we are alluding too. Classical. Jazz Pop and particularly some others yet we are able to apply those 3 as a vast well-known substantial kinds as everyone seems to be separate. . In Classical i visit contain each and all of the years from 1650 to 1920 . This replaced right into a time long in the previous recorded song and the total composers flourished in particular in Europe and particular maximum have been very precocious at youthful an prolonged time . All great composers have been experienced at a minimum of a million tool and maximum composers in this era have been additionally virtuosos , no longer all great instrumentalists have been great composers yet all have been musically knowledgeable and knew a thank you to study and write song this is a hundred% . those great composers wrote each little thing down as they have been composing many times variations have been made however the written word replaced into each little thing , some composers weren't so neat and wrote rapidly so copyists have been born . song replaced into written to be revealed and available for others to play and learn. If those composers did no longer write it down . Gershwin considered to be a million of Americas best composers replaced into no longer a real classic composer. He replaced into in semiclassical Jazz and dad . His Rhapsody in Blue replaced into written in orchestral score via Ferdie Grofe as Gershwin ought to no longer

Answer 7

It's hard to say "the best of all time" but I'll narrow it down....
Heartless Bastards,The Clash, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, The 5,6,7,8's ....is that enough? and that's all rock music by the way :)

Answer 8

The Andrew Sisters. haha i know i sound like i'm 70 but in reality i'm a sophmore in high school...they're pretty awsome.
Also any kind of 80's pop, techno, rap, and rock is freaking mind blowing

All time favorite though is Parliment Funkadelic
heck yeah!!!! FLASH LIGHT!

Answer 9

personally i like Led Zeppelin, not the 3 or 4 popular songs most kids are digging these days, but the real deep stuff. and of course the Beatles but that goes without saying.

Neil Young is my favorite song writer. highly reccomended.

Answer 10

Try Jimi Hendrix or Frank Zappa.

Answer 11

I don't know if you like female singers but Celine Dion she is "The Top Selling Female Artist Of All Time", I guess it don't get any greater then that.