Axl's best year vocally? Your opinion :)

[HeartbreakerWoman]

What year or period of time is your favorite for Axl's vocals, which do you feel was/is his best?

[Eric Cantona]

85-93 (with the exception of 91 & 92)

06 & 10

[RexRoyal]

He, without a doubt, has the most control and best range in 2006-2007. I also think that's the best he's ever looked.

[GNR 1991]

2006-7

[nonok]

Tough one between 1988 and 1992 but I'd have to give it to the latter simply because he had more control and was being a real show-off with his voice. The best year of the UYI period for his voice, 1991 it was mostly shot, 1993 it had changed drastically from the AFD era thanks to the endless touring.  I find his voice a bit too squeaky and lacking control in the AFD era, so while it was a powerhouse, it wasn't a polished machine (but that's exactly what Appetite was all about anyway so it's perfect in that context). 

Lies was beautiful, probably the only reason I didn't pick it is because we don't have that much studio material to really see how great he sounded in 1988. Bluesy, raspy, low, in control, and his style was his best ever - still a rebellious rocker, but one who has complete certainty in his instrument and who knows he can only get better from there.

His voice had changed way too much for the Live Era and CD Era, so they're a nah for me.

2010 was a wonderful thing for a while, but he obviously didn't have enough control over his voice and it got shot to scarily disasterous levels.

2011-2015 lol 

2016 is great, especially Axl/DC, and he can probably reach 2010 level full time if he takes it slow and preserves his voice. 

Edited July 10, 2016 by nonok

[onurbayrak03]

5 hours ago, nonok said:

Tough one between 1988 and 1992 but I'd have to give it to the latter simply because he had more control and was being a real show-off with his voice. The best year of the UYI period for his voice, 1991 it was mostly shot, 1993 it had changed drastically from the AFD era thanks to the endless touring.  I find his voice a bit too squeaky and lacking control in the AFD era, so while it was a powerhouse, it wasn't a polished machine (but that's exactly what Appetite was all about anyway so it's perfect in that context). 

Lies was beautiful, probably the only reason I didn't pick it is because we don't have that much studio material to really see how great he sounded in 1988. Bluesy, raspy, low, in control, and his style was his best ever - still a rebellious rocker, but one who has complete certainty in his instrument and who knows he can only get better from there.

His voice had changed way too much for the Live Era and CD Era, so they're a nah for me.

2010 was a wonderful thing for a while, but he obviously didn't have enough control over his voice and it got shot to scarily disasterous levels.

2011-2015 lol 

2016 is great, especially Axl/DC, and he can probably reach 2010 level full time if he takes it slow and preserves his voice. 

Is there a way to get back to 2010 shape in voice  ? Everyone says that he lost his mid range vocals, can he return what he had lost ? 

[IncitingChaos]

Obviously 85-88 but disregarding his vocal work in 06 would be a mistake. He was incredible that year also.

[Gibbo]

1993

[F*ck Fear]

1986- 1988. I'm sorry but he never sounded better than that time period.

 

[Twinaleblood]

I voted 2002 for the LOL, but now I want to know who's the other one who picked 2002 and if he did it for my same reason. 

EDIT: just found out that if i click on that small icon at the end of each bar i can see who voted what 

Edited July 10, 2016 by Twinaleblood

[AFGnR]

CLEARLY:

1) 86-89

2) 1993

3) 2010

[SWINGTRADER]

This is tough. I will just say 86-93. There was some great vocals during that time period. He had his bad spots, but nothing consistently awful. 

2010 is the only year that came close. 

[Słash]

1985 to 1990 was the best year, everything was perfect.

2006 and 2010 were good too but the band sucked

2016 is a really good year too, everything sounds how it should sound. 

[SWINGTRADER]

50 minutes ago, Wagszilla said:

Anyone who says anything after the 90s

 

 

2010 was good, but nothing close to what it was during his heyday.

Anyone who says 00's has awful taste or needs their ears checked.

[Live Like a Suicide]

Undoubtedly, he sounded the best during the LLAS/AFD era, however i do believe he currently possesses a far greater range of control and technical proficiency than he ever has.

[F*ck Fear]

10 hours ago, SWINGTRADER said:

 

 

2010 was good, but nothing close to what it was during his heyday.

Anyone who says 00's has awful taste or needs their ears checked.

I perfer 2006- 2007 to how he sounded in 1993 in all honesty.

[GivenToFly]

It's hard to say because it tended to change within these periods. For example on the Skin N Bones tour in my opinion he sounded bad for the U.S. shows in the spring then got better and he ended up sounding amazing in Europe and Argentina in the summer. In 1992 it was the other way around - started really well, then got worse. 

[estranged_85]

hard one.. But i voted 93-94. But also 2006 qualify, Strong voice that almost had no limit in vocal range.

[Requiem16]

The best color of his voice was in 1986-1987. In 1988 Axl`s voice was damaged, he said that his voice in Lies was the worst. 1989-1990 he wasn`t in a good shape. 1991 was a hard year for Axl because he rushed his voice to the limits. In 1992 he had some better sounding but it seems too flat for me. In 1993 his voice became too sharp and he lost some size of the voice.1994 - funny thing because if you listen to Come together perfomance you can hear that Axl had a very weak power in voice. Absolutely powerless. IMHO, Live era overdubs are the best Axl perfomance in years. 2000-2002 clean voice was too boring. 2006-2007 era - strong perfomances. 2009 - 2010 too disastrous for his voice. 2011 - 2013 the lowest point of Axl`s voice. Breathloss and powerless are his sisters in that time. 2014 had some great moments but there are too few of them. 2016 seems to be better than 2011-2013.

As for AC-Dc Axl made some great perfomances. Voice is powefull and touches your rock-n-roll soul.

If some have interest in deeper diving through Axl voice i can do some review ( i`m a singer and can give some tips)

[Tom2112]

2006 was the best of both worlds. Besides 2006 and obviously the early days 86-93, he sounds pretty good these days.

[NicoRourke]

2010, but closely followed by SFTD & NITL

[Underhardy]

1998-99 voice is soo under rated.. Listen to rocket queen or you could be mine from live era. IRS and street of dreams voices. He hits the most powerful high notes of his career and he has perfect rasp.

[Bumblefeet]

For Guns I'd have to go with 2006-2007. I was amazed by what he pulled off vocally with Axl/DC this year and the recent Guns shows are back to 2010-2013 consistency. 2014 was horrible and one year too long for that tour.

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

From the recordings I've heard I think 1988 was the best year for Axl's voice.

The 90's according to Duff's book were the drug induced years, so I find that depressing and also that's when Axl started showing up late for shows or not at all.

I think 1988 was a great year for all the guys until stardom got the best of them.

[Jw224]

On 10/07/2016 at 7:54 PM, SWINGTRADER said:

 

 

2010 was good, but nothing close to what it was during his heyday.

Anyone who says 00's has awful taste or needs their ears checked.

Yes, anyone who has a different opinion than you is clearly deaf. 

I thought his voice was really good in '88,' 06 and 2010. His voice in the 90's I honestly didn't like as much, sounded like he had glass In his throat or something. I'm speaking strictly live performances.