Look, I had a hard time accepting grunge back in the 90s.

STOP CONFUSING ME.

Tabatha Static: Subby's favorite rocknroll frontman

That's totally not fair.

You can clearly see that Thor CackHammer VonMan-o-War or whoever that magnificent clown is, was crying on the inside.

Rock is dead.

shanrick: Rock is dead.

Probably.

Anyway, I dunno--maybe it's a good thing that the lead singer as we know it is going the way of the dodo. I mean, bands are more than their lead singers. There really are only a handful of bands whose members I can accurately name, but I know their lead singers, and that's sad. Music should be a collaboration, after all.

brap: That's totally not fair.

You can clearly see that Thor CackHammer VonMan-o-War or whoever that magnificent clown is, was crying overcompensating for feeling like an asexual, inscrutable self-conscious worrywart on the inside.

Fine-tuned that for you

Not everybody can be David Lee Roth.

/probably a good thing

shanrickRock is dead.

I saw Clutch again just the other day. Trust me, the rumors of rock's demise have been greatly exaggerated

Freddie Mercury we could really use your talent right about now.

/R.I.P.

^^ Thread over.

Who the hell is Wilco and the fark if Coldplay is a rock band.

/soft rock, alt, whatever bull they call that, is not rock.

SoothinglyDeranged: Who the hell is Wilco and the fark if Coldplay is a rock band.

/soft rock, alt, whatever bull they call that, is not rock.

Just subgenre madness, that's all. On some days I want my early 70's, drug-addled, sound-of-the-world-coming-unglued Rolling Stones. On others I grab a book and fire up some Death Cab For Cutie. Either way, it's all rock and roll. Some is just more cocksure than others.

/yes, Virginia. The Stones *did* rock, at some point.

i'm guessing whoever claims rock is dead are the same people that read rolling stone.

/rolling stone is the suck
//seriously

/one of my favorite front men

NeedlesslyCanadian: ^^ Thread over.



I lol'd.

yeah looking at Thom Yorke and the Coldplay guy isn't really looking "rock" at all. Some sweeping survey of music. When was Coldplay rock? It is adult contemporary at best.

the dude should watch a dillinger escape plan show.. rewrite the article.

That Guy from Tokio Hotel giggling with glee:





yes... guy...

The author is an idiot. Those aren't rock bands and who the fark thinks Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, or Jim Morrison are/were heroes?

FeedTheCollapse: That Guy from Tokio Hotel giggling with glee:


[pic of the guy from Tokio Hotel, who looks like a chick with a ginourmous afro]


yes... guy...

Ummm.... Bridget surrenders?

Where's G.G. Allin when you need him?

ten thousand miles that way: Where's G.G. Allin when you need him?

Dead in hell where the talentless retard belongs?

some people find androgyny and intelligence more interesting and artistic than muscles and pyrotechnics... only some, i guess.


/also, the way that article was written made me want to poke my eyes out

I long for a simpler time, a simpler less gender-confused time. A time when men were men and Jane County would punch your teeth in and make you spit bloody Chicklets for disparaging her cha-cha heels.

Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger couldn't carry the jockstraps of Thom Yorke, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Alex Harvey, or Perry Ferrell.

/And a shiatload of others that this slashie is too small to contain.

Dinty Moore's Law: Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger couldn't carry the jockstraps of Thom Yorke, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Alex Harvey, or Perry Ferrell.
/And a shiatload of others that this slashie is too small to contain.

You're a confused homo. Really. Put down the cock and meth pipe and take a nap.

PascalsGhost: Dinty Moore's Law: Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger, Roger Dalrtry, and Damn near every other musician. couldn't carry the jockstraps of Thom Yorke, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Alex Harvey, or Perry Ferrell.
/And a shiatload of others that this slashie is too small to contain.

You're a confused homo. Really. Put down the cock and meth pipe and take a nap.

SO MUCH OF THIS.

clod9: some people find androgyny and intelligence more interesting and artistic than muscles and pyrotechnics... only some, i guess.

Watch Beavis & Butthead's music video commentaries and you'll eventually grasp what Rock is supposed to be. You sound like their hippie teacher.

skeeterjennings: shanrickRock is dead.

I saw Clutch again just the other day. Trust me, the rumors of rock's demise have been greatly exaggerated

Hell yea! Clutch is the shiat. Seen them a few times and Neil rocks the fark out. Just saw Ministry and anyone who say's that rock is dead hasn't seen Al Jourgensen on stage.

PascalsGhost: Dinty Moore's Law: Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger couldn't carry the jockstraps of Thom Yorke, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Alex Harvey, or Perry Ferrell.
/And a shiatload of others that this slashie is too small to contain.

You're a confused homo. Really. Put down the cock and meth pipe and take a nap.

Sorry, been a non-meth using hetero for all of my life.
Sorry to burst your bubble, Chief, but Morrison and Jagger both smoked their fair share of poles in their day. You're probably a big Rob Halford fan, and may have enjoyed a song or two by Queen.

/Time for you to flip your "Freedom Rock" album over, and dust off that dream catcher in your living room.

zunkus: PascalsGhost: Dinty Moore's Law: Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger, Roger Dalrtry, and Damn near every other musician. couldn't carry the jockstraps of Thom Yorke, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Alex Harvey, or Perry Ferrell.
/And a shiatload of others that this slashie is too small to contain.

You're a confused homo. Really. Put down the cock and meth pipe and take a nap.

SO MUCH OF THIS.

1) Sorry, how stupid do you have to be to fark up a quote?

2) See reply to PascalsGhost, rinse, repeat.

/Rock on, morans.

They don't make'em like this anymore.

As long as crazy women write long and overly interpretive articles about rock frontmen, absolutely nothing has changed.

Well there are alot more female lead singers now also. Isn't the lead singer of every emo band female? Or do they just dress, sing and act like it or something?

Whoever wrote that article wouldn't be able to find a frontman if they went looking for them because they'd get their merkin rocked off by the sheer force of the music. See above.

Also, Tweedy is a frontman. Drug addled, punches fans on stage, can sing damn well, will take requests from fans, oh - and can play an instrument while singing.

All frontmen make me think of this winner. Huuuuuurrrrr.

These men have no heart, no soul. This pseudo-intellectual indy rock stuff is just a facade for bland whiney crapola. It's for coffee shop, just switched majors again, 'cerebral' types who are just trying way to hard to look smart. It reeks of snobishness. The great music of the last decade is right where is should be. Living, breathing, and bleeding in underground clubs and free low fidelity demos.

shanrick: Rock is dead.

Impossible. Mastodon is still in the game.

redface: shanrick: Rock is dead.

Impossible. Mastodon is still in the game.

And I just came in here to post this picture to prove your point.

jesus christ. i just heard a sample of Wilco. made me wanna shoot myself twice in each ear.
/to each his own i guess.

robocat: i'm guessing whoever claims rock is dead are the same people that read rolling stone.

/rolling stone is the suck
//seriously

Second. I'd comment, but I can't say it any better than Zappa did ...

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

Dinty Moore's Law: Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger couldn't carry ...

You should be ashamed of the self-indulgent nonsense you just wrote. I won't stoop to trashing the generational icons you happen to laud, but if you are going to dismiss the touchstones of other eras, don't try to do it on "merit". It's bias you are selling, pure and simple. The men you insulted were cultural revolutionaries, regardless of your ability to step outside of your arbitrary perception.

redface: shanrick: Rock is dead.

Impossible. Mastodon is still in the game.

QFT.

ten thousand miles that way
redface: shanrick: Rock is dead.

Impossible. Mastodon is still in the game.

And I just came in here to post this picture to prove your point.

Did he recover from the head injury he received after the beatdown he got from System of a Down's scrawny bass player yet?

/just kiddin'
//loves me some Mastodon
///Although getting beat up by Shavo is pretty funny

Thread REALLY over

El Chode: Whoever wrote that article wouldn't be able to find a frontman if they went looking for them because they'd get their merkin rocked off by the sheer force of the music. See above.

Also, Tweedy is a frontman. Drug addled, punches fans on stage, can sing damn well, will take requests from fans, oh - and can play an instrument while singing.

this, and this (also both actually write their music)

shanrick: Rock is dead.

They say...
Long live Rock

/Be it dead or alive

/the front man
//butch walker

toddism: /the front man
//butch walker

Looks more like K.D. Lang.

I'm pretty happy we've got rid of the swaggering, drooling, mentally subnormal fark-haired macho-tranny coonts you got in 80s 'rock' music.

But inevitably they'll be around again, once retro nostalgia's gnawed the 80s to the bone otherwise and that crap is the only thing that's left.

I dunno... i'm kind of split between liking two camps, frontmen wise. [i like both camps, btw, but for different reasons]

1. the 70's 'real'/'cool'/'rock god' rock n' roll front men like
Mick Jaggar, Roger Daltry, Robert Plant, Bryan Ferry (wait, what? ... yeah i said it!), etc.

2. the Intellectual more artsy lead singer/frontment/songwriter type
like
David Byrne, David Bowie, Mark Knopfler, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Colin Meloy (Decemberists). etc.

/less KD lang?