Your Top 3
That most lovable of contest mascots - Q (or should that be Freddie Mer-Q-ry as he appears to be in the photo above 🙄) - is back with another new topic for this month's @yourtop3 contest as he wants to know who are your top 3 Favourite Lead Singers!
This is a fun monthly contest that @plantstoplanks, @foxyspirit, @cheese4ead and myself organise for Q whilst he's in the shower bellowing his lungs out to various chart topping hits from Queen!
BUT, whilst he's in there warming up the vocal Qords, it gives the rest of us a chance to get a post written and enter our nominations for his contest before he closes the entries with a savage flick from his rolled up towel!
How To Enter
Here's the basics of what you need to do to enter - full info on the contest post here:
1 - Create A Blog Post By The 9th July
Tell us all your top 3 nominations along with your reasoning behind them. Entry posts must have:
- A minimum of 250 words total and
- The #yourtop3 tag MUST be in the first 5 tags used
- Set your post payout To 50/50
- The deadline for submitting entries is the 9th July 2020
2 - Send In Your Entry Fee By The 19th July
Once the post has paid out, you keep the HP half to power up and grow your own account. Then transfer the HIVE and/or HBD half (whichever is paid out at the time) to @yourtop3 with a link to your blog post entry in the transfer memo. This is the minimum entry fee required but you can add as much as you like.
The entry fees contribute to the prize pools for the monthly, quarterly and yearly prizes, which you automatically get enrolled in by virtue of entering each month!
Most importantly though, we encourage you to check out other folks posts and rip in to their choices stop by and comment, have a bit of banter and meet new people!
So without any further ado, I'll crack on with my choices.
My Top 3 Lead Singers
1 - Keith Flint RIP (The Prodigy)
Thanks to my brother, I was introduced to the Prodigy and eventually the underground music/rave scene which ultimately shaped my fascination and journey in to Drum & Bass that has me firmly in its grip!
Although I discovered one iconic Prodigy tune called Firestarter on a game called Wipeout 2097, it was the instrumental version that lacked the the curious and very "out there" vocal hooks provided by Keith Flint! That made the difference! It was his iconic vocal input in Breathe and to an extent on Poison that makes this absolute legend in the electronic music scene make my Top 3.
In fact, as I was driving back from the bank yesterday, Breathe came on the radio as I was parking up and I didn't leave the car until I had finished blaring this one out, singing along to Keith with a little tear in my eye! RIP
Breathe the pressure, come play my game I'll test ya! Psychosomatic ADDICT INSANE 😜
2 - Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
Alright, so you're probably wondering how I've gone from the underground rave scene to classic pop Rock 'n' Roll from the 70s and 80s... Don't worry, I really do have a wide variety of tastes with music! The fact is, if it's good, it transcends genres and generations!
In any case, I have my parents to thank for the next two choices as they introduced me to sounds from the 60s through to the 80s as I was growing up that I probably never would have heard otherwise. Starting off with Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie. Her distinctive and powerful vocals lead the way in two of my favourite songs from them - Little Lies and "Everywhere".
In fact, I have heard Little Lies pretty much every time I've gone away travelling and on road trips! Funny thing is, the most distinctive time I remember hearing it (likely the first) was when I was on a road trip in 1999 with my parents going through the Rocky Mountains in the USA. So it really does seem that the mysterious workings of the Universe juju are in full effect - maybe I should go on road trips more often!
3 - Jim Kerr (Simple Minds)
My final choice is the ever present lead singer of legendary rock band Simple Minds, Jim Kerr who has been the voice of some truly epic tracks from the 80s.
I mentioned this song in my road trips post from this time last year with @yourtop3 but the iconic "Don't You Forget About Me" may have not materialised at all had Simple Minds not caved in to the pressure of recording it for the film The Breakfast Club. Legend has it that they recorded the track in 3 hours and "promptly forgot about it". Ironic.
Then the tune that was around the year I was born - Promised You A Miracle - was quite clearly sung live because they knew I was on the way hey hey 😉 👉
But I definitely sung along when I was able to speak comprehensibly (about 3 weeks ago) and the other is "Someone, Somewhere in Summertime" which I often find myself bellowing out to, scaring all the cats in the neighbourhood and causing dogs to howl along too in some sort of bizarre street choir!
Who Are Your Top 3 Lead Singers?
Let me know and looking forward to/bracing myself for the onslaught in the comments - let's have it haha!
Nicky
P.S. Don't forget to write a post if you want to enter - open to everyone on HIVE - here's the intro post and follow @yourtop3 for the latest news!