I dig most of the screams mentioned and also The Phantom on Love Me, Suicide - Frankie Teardrop, Slits - Shoplifting, Patty Waters - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (not r&r i guess but pretty crazy), The Heard - Stop It Baby, Contortions - Contort Yourself, James Brown - Maybe the Last Time, and Monoshock - Let's Hear It for the Singer!

yessss! I was gonna say the same thing! and bunker hill's fantastic shriek at the beginning of "the girl can't dance"!

whatwave dave said:

The female backup screamers on Ralph Nielson and the Chancellors...'Scream'....not only volume, but she (or they) just keep screaming and screaming and screaming....

An INTERESTING one is Iggy Pop's "Pow!" at the start of Loose.

Eric davidson of the new bomb turks has some good ones.

Back From The Grave Vol. 2: NOVAS - The Crusher
...now close this one, hehe

joan jett, shes got great pipes.

The (Dutch) Phantoms' version of "Roadrunner" from '66 is pretty demented, vocal-wise. 1st Elevators LP period Roky (drastically tamed down on subsequent records) gives me that kind of 'lose-touch-with-your-surroundings' wig-out vibe. Gerry Roslie, particularly on 'Psycho'. Dave E from The Electric Eels gets pretty out-there at times, esp. 'Agitated'. Nice scream in the Beaux Jens' 'She Was Mine', prefaced by the dude singing 'ah think ah'm gonna scream'...then he does, and it's a corker!!

Barry Stacks from The Grifs - keep dreaming "keep DREEAAAMMIINNNN!!!!!! just near the end of the song, Quality!

Tonto & The Renegades: Little boy blue, just before the guitar solo!!!!

Intro to T.V. Eye popped into my head first as well, that's wild. Then I scrolled down before I hit "add reply" and saw that this was a common answer. I Got A Right(intro) too.
Dead Boys-Caught with the Meat in your Mouth.

M Jackson in 'Who's Bad' . Nah, another vote for Sonics. How do you do that shit without poping a vein?

I enjoy the gospel screams of Bunker Hill the most. I also like Wayne Cochran. One of my favorite garage rock songs is "Scream" by Ralph Nielson and the Chancellors. I'm not sure who's screaming on the song but man,what a blood curdling scream.

Joan Jett's scream at the beginning of the Runaways "Blackmail" is pretty darned good. Another lady with great pipes for screaming is Kyra LaRubia from Thee Headcoatees, A Lines, etc. Armitage Shanks backed her on a couple of singles one being Siouxsie and the banshees "Love In A Void." Like a dental drill through your brain.

It would have to go to Bunker Hill in my book!!!!

Ha! Good one, Elisa. If only I could be a fly on the wall of your rock n' roll brain!

Thee Ms. Stixx said:

Maybe not "the best", but I'm been partial to those naughty boy, sexed-up, pure havin' fun screams by Marc Bolan....the first one at the beginning of "20th Century Boy" is unadultered "i'm a rock star and i'm going to get some pussy" howler......

Maybe not "the best", but I'm been partial to those naughty boy, sexed-up, pure havin' fun screams by Marc Bolan....the first one at the beginning of "20th Century Boy" is unadultered "i'm a rock star and i'm going to get some pussy" howler......

definetely gerry roslie and then, bunker hill i guess...

ooh, my moneys on Esquerita!

Roky for sure. It just kinda cuts through you when he let's loose

tobi lynne said:

I was wondering when someone was going to get around to Roky Erickson. Buddy Randell (The Knickerbockers) has a great scratchy howl as well.

The Hydeouts said:

Lots of killer screams in rock n roll! Sonics, Wailers, Stooges, Mummies, tons of em! But, here's a list of the most distinguished unusual screamers...Roky Ericson ...

Matt Caughtran from The Bronx has a scream that makes me want to down a bottle of rotgut whisky and set a couch on fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3f8VUZ5xAU
but maybe it's just me

EGO the Living Planet said:

The first two things I thought of:

The screams that start every track of Funhouse

and (this will blow some cred) the scream at the end of the guitar solo before the last chorus of "Won't get Fooled Again"). All these years later, despite all the overplay and the whole CSI thing, it still gets me.

I'm with you there! Cred shmed. It's a great moment in rock music.

The first two things I thought of: The screams that start every track of Funhouse and (this will blow some cred) the scream at the end of the guitar solo before the last chorus of "Won't get Fooled Again"). All these years later, despite all the overplay and the whole CSI thing, it still gets me.

I still think Little Richard is the best screamer of them all.

It's the twisted brain-wrong of a one-off man-mental. Hey, that's a great name for a band; One-Off Man-Mental & The Twisted Brain-Wrongs.

Alex said:

I fucking love that song! So demented!

electrocute your cock said:

Hasil Adkins laughing and screaming and everything in We Got A Date is just plain fucking terrifying.

Those are all great suggestions. I guess, off the top of my head, as far as new-ish bands go these days, the singer from the Konks lets a few good ones rip on their record. http://www.amazon.com/Konks/dp/B0007M42BY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288229220&sr=8-1