Greatest Solo Artist of All Time

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

I don't think you quite understand the effort I personally put into trying to like Tin Machine II because of how much I liked the song "baby universal"

FT · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:34 pm

Spade Kitty Wrote:

I don't think you quite understand the effort I personally put into trying to like Tin Machine II because of how much I liked the song "baby universal"

That is a great song. I also spent much longer than advisable trying to like that album, but ended up wishing Soupy Sales had worn a condom.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:35 pm

I am sure that if you compiled the songs from Dylan's "Suck" period, you could get a good album.

oh yeah, they kinda already did

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

so why was miles davis ruled out?

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:57 pm

the redworm Wrote:

so why was miles davis ruled out?

He's two decades short.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

his output in the 80s was no worse than Dylan's. OR Bowie's in the 90s for that matter.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:06 pm

the redworm Wrote:

so why was miles davis ruled out?

FT and Jazz kinda clash.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

besides, shouldn't the Tin Machine stuff be totally disqualified from discussion anyway as this thread is about the SOLO artists?

zeke the moody drifter · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:24 pm **Posts:** 557

Dylan from the list, but Tom Waits fits much of the criteria too.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:59 pm

I'm not reading this thread, just on the off chance some numbnuts voted for Bowie.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:10 pm

the redworm Wrote:

his output in the 80s was no worse than Dylan's. OR Bowie's in the 90s for that matter.

Rule number one was actively recording or performing in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. Seeing as he died in 1991, that's where I came up with two decades.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

FT® Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

And Juice, you must be joking.

The fact that it isn't obvious leads me to believe I need to redouble my efforts at being ridiculous.

sorry but I thought I remembered multiple Juice Newton posts from you in the past which maybe I mistook cumulatively as a sign of seriousness when they were all in fact jokes.

Where you f'd up is in not including a stooge pick (not referring to Iggy) so that none of these would come in last. It really seems wrong esp. with Dylan in last place.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

billy g Wrote:

FT® Wrote:

katie, a princess Wrote:

why do you hate women.

Still no one would have voted for her so you did fine in descriminating.

I would have.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Lou Reed?

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

bob dylan may have sucked for 10 years...but i vote dylan

neil young 2nd

never got into bowie

Buck_Wild · **Joined:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:28 am **Posts:** 232

others who fit the criteria:
James Brown
Al Green
Randy Newman

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

I voted for Lightning Bolt

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alive · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 352

Leonard Cohen.

He has top 5 of the decade albums for the 60's, 70's, and 80's, and good stuff in the 90's and 00's.

south pacific · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:42 am

Voted for Bowie, would have liked to have chosen Prince though.

Also think that Let's Dance is such a great, fun album. If you hate this, there is clearly something wrong with you.

Never ever cared for Young or Dylan, at all.

Buck_Wild · **Joined:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:28 am **Posts:** 232

<<Also think that Let's Dance is such a great, fun album. If you hate this, there is clearly something wrong with you. >>

Don;t hate it but I'll take Lodger for fun. Seemed like David had more the mindset of a 'Coffee Achiever' during the Let's Dance phase.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Tin Machine II is certainly more refined than the first album, but it's solid, nonetheless. "One Shot" is as ferocious as anything on the first album, and "Goodbye Mr. Ed" and "Baby Universal" are two of the better songs of the early nineties. Hunt's vocals on "Sorry" are surprisingly poignant, and the Roxy Music cover is dynamite. They were also a better live act after "II".

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:19 pm

I don't think any of these dudes has been tremendous in the 80's and 90's. Some highlights but no conisistency. I'll still take Dylan at his worse over almost everyone else. And it's hard to fault Dylan as an artist when his voice just blew out.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:20 pm

south pacific Wrote:

Also think that Let's Dance is such a great, fun album. If you hate this, there is clearly something wrong with you.

south pacific Wrote:

Never ever cared for Young or Dylan, at all.

SOMETHING WRONG WITH US?!!

I feel sorry for you if you can't dig on Neil Young or Bob Dylan.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Sen. Lost Highway LooGAR Wrote:

south pacific Wrote:

Also think that Let's Dance is such a great, fun album. If you hate this, there is clearly something wrong with you.

south pacific Wrote:

Never ever cared for Young or Dylan, at all.

SOMETHING WRONG WITH US?!!

I feel sorry for you if you can't dig on Neil Young or Bob Dylan.

I don't. I don't particularly care for Young nor Dylan. I like it better when someone's covering them. Great songwriters, not my cuppa as performers. That said, it's impossible for catalogues as extensive as theirs not to have a handful of tunes I absolutely dig, but on the whole, you can keep 'em.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:37 pm

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