in The Boiler by the Special AKA will stay with me till the end of my days.

Man, that's a terrifying hit single.

Can anyone else not think of Daltrey's scream without picturing David Caruso, a dodgy one-liner and a pair of sunglasses?

There are moments in Schatten aus der Alexander Welt by German Dark Metallers - Bethlehem - that sound like the high-pitched screams of a man begging to be put out of his misery as his entrails are pulled out with white hot hooks.

But Percy's wail at the start of the Immigrant Song is very fine.

Anyway the second best scream is the first one that Daltrey does in Won't Get Fooled Again. The second scream is 'the one'.

some pretty useful ones in the Doors' "When the Music's Over"

and indeed "The End" (though not Daltrey-beaters I'd admit). I guess it's all down to when a scream is instead a shout or a wail. Clearly we need some hard and fast rules here ;-)

Werewolves of London

moans, yelps, groans, yells, screeches, squeals, grunts

The hardet working larynx in show business - Mr James Brown

As displayed approx 57 secs into this gem:

Lennons screams and moans are quite painful stuff here - which must be why I like it. The above by the way is the original 1969 promo clip that I happened across on utube recently. Quite wonderful avant garde stuff perhaps all the more so because, as John says at the begining, it was shot and cut for Give Peace A Chance.

Actually seeing as how we Massive seem to have all come out in Deep Purple rash lately, perhaps I should nominate Gillan's scream at the end of Strange Kinda Woman on Made in Japan for this illustious second best title...

I mean, take your pick; but, off the top of my head, I'll go for Land Of 1,000 Dances, at 0.54 and 1.41. I love the way Rick Hall's FAME records sound a little bit distorted, as if certain things are too mighty to be captured on tape.

EDIT: I've changed my mind. The answer is everything after 2.44 in this. Pickett and Duane Allman, both screaming in their way:

Wilson Pickett – Hey Jude - LP Version: http://open.spotify.com/track/4jwRutyUCcyM9oyW5nfrHL

Has given many excellent wails and screams but his best is on the encore track for Maiden, Run to the hills. The build up to it coupled with a live crowd is amazing, with the audience setting up the ahhh ahhh's from 2:40.

The Beautiful Ones features some great screaming vocals.

Careful With That Axe Eugene. Don't know who the screamer was, too lazy to find out.
I agree that Daltrey is the best. I saw The Who at Wembley Stadium in 1979. As Daltrey screamed at the climax of "Wont Get Fooled Again", the sky exploded with fireworks. YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH!
AC/DC (with Bon Scott) were one of the support acts and really gave The Who a run for their money. The Stranglers came over as fairly anaemic and weedy, like chancers who's been found out.
I seem to remember that there scrumpy was the only refreshment on sale and that many were unconscious before the event got going, but maybe that was just me.

Edwin Starr, War? That's a scream from the heart.

That white boy sure can holler (as a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra once said of him).

The infamous Frankie Teardrop by Suicide. It's a fair few minutes before the screams kick in (if you can stand it), but it's some good screaming.

a scream ?

gets sheepskin coat ...

more seriously, Clare Torry on DSOTM would seem to qualify

from The Cult was a wonderful screamer.

an ex glaswegian who fronted Oz rock icons cold chisel is one hell of a screamer in fact all he does is scream it seems

one worth tracking down is dave larkin from a band called dallas crane

screaming at the beginning of 'Man Out Of Time' is scary enough to make people crash cars into walls to get away from it.

can kill a brown dog at 40 paces

Say what you like about Nirvana but Cobain was the master of the scream - particularly at the end of Where Did You Sleep Last Night and in the chorus of Scentless Apprentice.

Even Daltrey would have to bow down to this masterclass

And this

A Selection of Screamage:

Husker Du: Grant Hart on "Every Everything".
(There'll be other HD examples, obviously!)

Little Richard: wot, no-one mentioned him already? Single-handedly renders most subsequent rock music (esp metal) redundant

The Jim Jones Revue: a version of LR's "Hey Hey Hey" on a freebie CD with "Shindig" (the 60s psych magazine), a very convincing repro indeed

Lennon: on The Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy")

Thom Yorke has a pretty impressive cathartic outburst on 'Climbing Up The Walls' - toward the end of the track.

Blood-curdling & one my favourite ever tracks.