14. Rob Halford (Judas Priest)
This guy kicks ass. He sings songs about how he's hell bent for leather, breaks the law, and how we've got another thing coming. The song titles alone couldn't get him on though. With a voice like he's gonna eat your face after his minions melt it.
13. Marilyn Manson
Ouch! Time for the creep show. While parents may have been freaked out, if you were a goth kid in the 90's (I mean I wasn't) he was arguably your idol. He was scary and seemed to have this whole damn life thing figured out. Not to mention, if you actually liked to piss your parents off, he once did a show where he was on a podium dressed up like a nazi.
12. Joe Strummer (The Clash)
Punk demands personality, and the leader of the only band that mattered supplied. He was snotty before Johnny Rotten, angry before Rage Against the Machine, and political before Bono. I know a guy who had the honor of seeing him live before his death, and he told me that you really can't describe it.
11. Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
This girl just bleeds NYC all over her crazy outfit. She's got a voice that sounds like she's taken every drug all at once and still not overdosed. But this is one you really need to see live. She humps amps and wears outfits that honestly make her look more Japanese fountain than woman.
10. Flava Flav (Public Enemy)
Before his own reality show, Flava was something. He had awesome sunglasses, a voice that could make the Beastie Boys sound subtle, and he didn't just have bling, he had a friggin' clock. I actually credit him for giving rap music its personality. But that is also what makes him low on the list. Just as rap music's personality has become too overblown for anyone to take it seriously, so did Flava's. Still great personality, just a bit too much of it.
9. Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)
This guy was basically Joe Strummer times ten. He had a great sense of humor, he was pissed off, and he knew everything about current events. He gets here because of two things. His band was probably the most outspoken band so far as politics go. I learned everything you need to know about Cambodia like that, and with humor. It takes guts to tell corrupt police jokes to educate, and he had that.
8. Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
Just listen to Peace Sells and Sweating Bullets and you'll hear my point. This guy has got a voice that sounds like the devil if he were a pissed off teenager and he can still talk after all that snarling. And that voice isn't just all for show. Over the course of his career, he fired 20 members of Megadeth.
7. Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus (Blink 182)
Did someone say snott? Well its dangling out the cow's vomit encrusted anus with these guys. Despite being in their late 20's, these guys now exactly what being a teenager was all about. Their songs were full of toilet jokes, cursing, angry rants about the lame adults in their lives, and whining about how this girl won't notice you. Like Flava Flav, they can get to be a bit too much, but I just remember listening to this stuff as teenager and thinking "tell me about it."
6. Henry Rollins (Black Flag)
I think someone said that Henry Rollins looked like the kind of guy who'd beat you up for bumping into him at a bar. He certainly does. This guy was big, buff, and looked like he meant business. He played in a hardcore punk band, but even brought in spoken word songs. Before NWA, he was the original gangster.
5: Lemmy (Motorhead)
I only need to tell ya three things about this guy.
1. He started thrash metal
2. He rejected the speed metal label, calling his genre "rock n' roll"
3. He's gotten laid 1200 times
4. Michael Huntchence (INXS)
Who didn't wanna be this guy. He was a flat out male fox, so he could have any girl he wanted. He was smoother than his guitarist's riffs. He was irreplaceable as a singer (nothing personal JD). But the thing that we loved about was his voice. When girls hear it they go crazy, and that means that we could move in easily. Thank you Michael (Rock In Peace).
3. Bon Scott (AC/DC)
You could tell in his voice: This guy was born to rock n' roll. He could sing about being a badass, getting into fights, partying like nuts, and how awesome having sex with fat chicks was. He just knew it all, and did it all. Eventually it caught up to him and he died of alcohol poisoning. Even in death, this guy knew how to die like a rockstar
2. Iggy Pop
Talk about living by your music. This guy was before anyone else here and still can best all but one of em. He songs were about his lust for life and seeking and destroying. And he did that one hundred percent. He dove into the crowd, did whacky stunts, and cut himself up with broken bottles. And he's still alive, AT SIXTY!!! AND STILL COOL! That is staying power.
1. David Lee Roth (Van Halen)
If you were an up-and-coming rocker in 1978 (or anytime for that matter), you needed a singer like David Lee Roth. Not only could this guy sing like he had been born a rockstar, but he acted like it. He was buff, looked great, partied all the time, jumped around like a flea, told jokes in interviews, got laid every other hour, and actually managed to get fired for it all by Eddie Van Halen. Now that Van Halen are finally one again, David is back to be the ultimate role model for any rocker: If you're going to rock, make it larger than life. And a cucumber in the pants never hurt.
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