For me, it’s the following.
- Maynard James Keenan (vocalist for Tool, A Perfect Circle).
- Kurt Cobain
- Ray Charles
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Jim Morrison
Jimi hendrix
Bob Marley
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I’m a little bummed that I missed out on going to the A Perfect Circle concert in my area. Maynard is not the most dynamic live performer, I’ve videos and he just stands in one place and sings, but it would awesome to watch a genius at work. A Tool concert would be even better.
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Kurt Cobain
Elvis Presley
Michael Jackson
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Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (from A-ha)
Mike Shinoda (from Linkin park)
Trevor Horn (produced Frankie goes to hollywood etc)
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Prince (beautiful voice)
Mahalia Jackson
U2
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Cat Stevens
Paul Simon
Elton John
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Ian Astbury
Jon Crosby ( Vast )
Kurt Cobain
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Jerry garcia - grateful dead
trey Anastasio - phish
janis joplin
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James Maynard Keenan
Chester Bennington
Can’t narrow down a third, but many already listed
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Chester was great
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Leonard Cohen
Judy Collins
Janis Joplan
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johnny marr
danny elfman
john linnell
they’re all only human, among others, i like the sounds they make
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Prince
Kanye West
Thom Yorke
Stealth ad: Shane MacGowan
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Ozzy Osbourne
Freddie Mercury
Johnny Cash
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Coleman Hawkins
Dave Brubeck
Miles Davis
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Franz Schubert
Nobuo Uematsu
Kenji Ito
I do like some musicians that everyone listed here, but think it’s too far stretched to call them geniuses.
Maybe even vulgar. Like trying to compare fine wine to a hot dog.
I like this thread… I need new music!
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Ian Anderson. Jethro Tull. Amazing folk rock that was just so clever!
Frank Black. Anything by the Pixies in the early days was gold. Check out Surfer Rosa. Best album to get horny
too in my honest opinion!
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. Every struggling male adolescent dream! The Wall still was a great comment on post war society!
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Hmmm
If I had to pick three. That haven’t really been named yet.
Well first off
Tupac shakur—just such a poet. Lyrical genius. Great feel for rhythm in music. He was just simply the best rapper for as long as he was doing it so I gotta credit him here
Paul McCartney—I think the Beatles exemplifies genius for how they change musically over the years. And Paul was the best frontman they had. I give him the nod.
And last but not least
Mozart 
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