Best Singer of All Time is...

[JoeWhip]

Chris needs bathroom breaks just like rest of us!

[photonman]

Best Female Singer:  Karen Carpenter

Best printmaker:  Albrecht Durer

Best Car:   1980 Ford Escort

Best Concert:  Bobby Sherman 1974 Saratoga Racing Grounds

Best Watch:  Zenith El Primero

Best NFL QB:  Tom Brady

Best Toilet Paper:  None (get a Hello Tushy retrofit bidet)

 

[sphinxsix]

8 minutes ago, photonman said:

Best printmaker:  Albrecht Durer

He wasn't bad for sure, maybe a little old fashioned 

 

8 minutes ago, photonman said:

Best Car:   1980 Ford Escort

...? C'mon this was AFAIK one of the least reliable cars in history..

 

8 minutes ago, photonman said:

Best Toilet Paper:  None (get a Hello Tushy retrofit bidet)

+1 !  

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

54 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

If it wasn't for some art critics and historians some names in art which have really deserved a wide recognition might have passed unnoticed..

Imagine how many people they missed who were “better.”

[sphinxsix]

47 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Imagine how many people they missed who were “better.”

Chris, c'mon face the facts, you've run out of the arguments, join the objectivist camp!

You are really welcome!  

 

BTW I've just began thinking quite seriously about the fact that as for art I'm mostly an objectivist and OTOH with audio gear I'm in the subjectivist camp.., cars - no way - i am a subjectivist (handling!), women - also, does the other possibility exist at all (?!)

 

What about you guys (inclusions of other fields are welome!)?

 

 

[PYP]

13 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

BTW I've just began thinking quite seriously about the fact that as for art I'm mostly an objectivist

 

Interesting.  To me, the objectivist part is, for example, the artist's place in history, artistic movement, styles over time, etc.  But when looking at art, all of that can fall away and it becomes just pure perception.

[JoeWhip]

1 hour ago, photonman said:

Best Female Singer:  Karen Carpenter

Best printmaker:  Albrecht Durer

Best Car:   1980 Ford Escort

Best Concert:  Bobby Sherman 1974 Saratoga Racing Grounds

Best Watch:  Zenith El Primero

Best NFL QB:  Tom Brady

Best Toilet Paper:  None (get a Hello Tushy retrofit bidet)

 

Not the Ford Pinto? How about the AMC Gremlin?

[sphinxsix]

45 minutes ago, PYP said:

 

Interesting.  To me, the objectivist part is, for example, the artist's place in history, artistic movement, styles over time, etc.  But when looking at art, all of that can fall away and it becomes just pure perception.

Same here - a personal perception of art is something different from judging it which IMO at least to some degree can be done (well..quite ) objectively. 

I actually had mixed these two things in my previous post..😕 Thanks for pointing to it! 

[Summit]

On 8/23/2020 at 6:01 AM, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

What's your vote for the best singer or vocalist of all time, and why? One male, one female.

 

It could be from any time or any genre. Doesn't have to be an audiophile quality recording.

 

It’s impossible to say best (of course) with so many excellent singers with great voices and different music genres. Anyway here are some of my favourites:  

 

Male - Johnny Cash

Female - Ella Fitzgerald

Vocal instrumentalists - Bobby McFerrin

Raspy voice - Tom Waits

Sensual voice - Sade

[Confused]

I have a general observation.

 

In the UK, the more highbrow the art form, the more likely it is to receive, and indeed require, government funding. 

 

The lowbrow stuff tends to fund itself, quite handsomely too in some areas.

[PYP]

31 minutes ago, Summit said:

Vocal instrumentalists - Bobby McFerrin

 

+1.    ethereal voice.   Met him on the Amtrak when he was going to a recording session.   Wonderful person.  A gentle soul.    

[Richard Dale]

42 minutes ago, Summit said:

 

It’s impossible to say best (of course) with so many excellent singers with great voices and different music genres. Anyway here are some of my favourites:  

 

Male - Johnny Cash

Female - Ella Fitzgerald

Vocal instrumentalists - Bobby McFerrin

Raspy voice - Tom Waits

Sensual voice - Sade

I agree that there is no such thing as the best singer. But I thought about the best 'raspy voice', and I think it has to be Howlin' Wolf for me. Although Captain Beefhart does rasp with best.

[botrytis]

5 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

 

I would agree with that. The biggest one was probably Dali.

 

 

He was odd but Andy Warhol and now Banksy really are taking it to a whole 'nother level.

 

If you saw some of Picasso's pencil sketches, which are just so beautiful and almost life-like, one would not be so quick to judge.

 

Then there is the play ' Picasso at the Lapin Argile' by Steve Martin - it is hysterical.

 

 

[PYP]

Best castrati:  The Bee Gees

 

 

[botrytis]

or Prince....

[MarkS]

On 8/23/2020 at 7:19 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

Saw many Singers at the Concours d'elegance last year :~)

 

Best singer - Eddie Vedder. 

Gosh, what a surprising answer 😂😂😂

[sphinxsix]

1 hour ago, botrytis said:

He was odd but Andy Warhol and now Banksy really are taking it to a whole 'nother level.

 

I'm a huge fan of Banksy.

 

[lucretius]

 

6 hours ago, photonman said:

Best Watch:  Zenith El Primer

 

 

I prefer an Omega Speedmaster Pro. Good enough for NASA's extravehicular activity, good enough for me.

 

 

[kumakuma]

43 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

 

I'm a huge fan of Banksy.

 

 

What kind of music does he sing?

[sphinxsix]

1 minute ago, kumakuma said:

 

What kind of music does he sing?

 

How much serious are you?

 

[kumakuma]

Just now, sphinxsix said:

 

How much serious are you?

 

 

Not much...

[sphinxsix]

2 minutes ago, kumakuma said:

 

Not much...

 

I really hoped so..

If you don't accept the fact that there are moments when this thread is waaay OT, I'm afraid you may have a problem..

I'm quite serious..

[fas42]

16 hours ago, gmgraves said:

Indeed there are...

 

 

Thanks for pointing to that, George - some very spiffy bodywork done for that chassis,

 

 

 

[sphinxsix]

In case of this more contemporary one a rear spoiler was IMO an optical must, after adding it the car looked pretty cool, IMHO looking better from the back and the side than from the front though.

 

 

Its interior looked interesting too (this photo shows some non-standard elements).

 

 

And it handled (and sounded) really good 

 

[JoeWhip]

More OT. Love this car.