25 page slideshow? No clicks for you.

jj325: Neil and the Shocking Pinks

heh heh heh....shocking pinks

Paul Ramone.
Rocky Mountain Oysters.
Vic and the Rattleheads.

Not clicking through the retarded slideshow. Did Dr. Octagon -- or any of Kool Keith's alters, really -- make the cut?

poot_rootbeer: Not clicking through the retarded slideshow. Did Dr. Octagon -- or any of Kool Keith's alters, really -- make the cut?

Seeing as how this is NME, probably not likely, and I ain't clickin' to find out.

Obnox: Robin Williams?

Looks more like Al "Grandpa" Lewis from The Munsters.

Well, fellas, I did click through that godforsaken slideshow just to make sure that Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon/Black Elvis, but alas, they must've missed him.

/five colors-yellow, black, blue, green, purple

Peter Hammill as "Riki Nadir" [for one album, anyway.... "Nadir's big chance", 1975]

Ziggy freakin Stardust

Glitchwerks: 25 page slideshow? No clicks for you.

This.


Someone kind and generous want to post the list?

Mike Patton.

That is all.

Hoopy Frood: Obnox: Robin Williams?

Looks more like Al "Grandpa" Lewis from The Munsters.

Dear god, it does!

Dr John, The Night Tripper

Paul McCartney produced a song under the name "Apollo C. Vermouth", which kicks all kinds of ass.

Merry FSMas, farkers. Bite me, subby for a 25 click slideshow.

1. Gorillaz grace the cover of this week's NME. In the issue, Damon Albarn grills one of his cartoon bandmates. To mark this fusion of fictional and real, we're looking at other artists who've employed alter egos over the years.

2. On the 1992-3 Zoo TV Tour, U2's Bono - already an alter ego of sorts (he was born Paul Hewson) - employed three onstage characters: The Fly, Mirrorball Man and MacPhisto. This last one, a leering lounge singer with devil horns, was an arch statement on rock excess (or something), but most of us were too busy going, "Hur hur, sounds a bit like 'fister'."

3.Tupac Shakur wasn't going to let the small matter of dying get in the way of a long and fruitful recording career. His Boobieshumous album, 'The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory', was released under the pseudonym Makaveli - a tribute to 16th century Italian writer Niccolò Machiavelli, whose book The Prince Shakur had read while serving a prison sentence

4. In the early '70s, John Lennon acted as producer for singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson - although they spent more time drinking and taking drugs than they did on the music. On the records themselves, Lennon was credited not as himself but as a mysterious Dr Winston O'Boogie. Hilarious!

5. Of Montreal singer Kevin Barnes doubles as Georgie Fruit, a 40-something-year-old black man who has undergone multiple sex changes and starred in a funk-rock band in the '70s called Arousal. The second half of the band's eighth album, 'Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?', is dedicated to this elaborate persona.

6. Green Day are fond of a good wheeze. In addition to their masked electro side-project The Network, in 2008 they released an album of upbeat garage rock numbers, 'Stop Drop and Roll!!!', under the name Foxboro Hot Tubs. Confusingly, the record sounded a lot like Jack Penate.

7. Hard to imagine it now, but back in 2004 Madonna was positioning herself as a matronly, English Rose-type figure. She did this by banging on about Kabbalah and adopting a new persona, Esther, after the Biblical Jewish queen. We're sure it made sense at the time.

8. We hate to break this to you, but Marilyn Manson is not the 'shock' rocker's real name. No, he's really Brian Warner, a former music journalist who once made money on the side flogging watercolours to drug dealers (so he claims). More recently, he put his name to a line of absinthe that one critic described as being "as bad as piss".

9. Kings Of Leon's Caleb Followill admits to having a cruel, drunken alter ego called Rooster. "Rooster is a dick. I hate him," he once confessed.

10. In 2006, Mariah Carey revealed another side to her multi-faceted personality. Her album of that year, 'The Emancipation Of Mimi,' introduced us to what was supposed to be her true, free self. Turns out she has more than one mammoth ego.

1. The man born Marshall Mathers has not one but two pseudonyms: Eminem (formerly M&M, after his initials) - and Slim Shady, which he came up with while having a shiat (apparently), and describes as "just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about... I got a warped sense of humour I guess."

12. One alter ego wasn't enough for Tori Amos. She created five distinct personalities for her 2007 'American Doll Posse' alum and tour. They were called Isabel, Clyde, Pip, Santa and Tori and each was based around archetypes from Greek mythology. She also created five blogs for them. Weird.

13. One for our older readers, this. An homage to the psychedelic pop music of the '60s, XTC's alter ego act, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, released two albums ('25 O'Clock' and 'Psonic Psunspot'), which were later compiled into one CD titled 'Chips From The Chocolate Fireball: An Anthology'. None of it was remotely pretentious, oh no.

14. Not content with selling 70million albums as Garth Brooks, the country superstar reinvented himself as brooding alt-rocker Chris Gaines in 1999. Unfortunately, his fans were unconvinced and the album bombed, forcing a swift return to arena-friendly country anthems.

15. Britney Spears' 2004 track 'Mona Lisa' served notice of a new persona, apparently a vehicle for when she's in a really shiatty mood: "Whenever I feel like being mean or bustin' people around to get stuff right, it's kinda easier to be called 'Mona Lisa' instead of Britney." Wish we could do that.

16. The Beatles created 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' as a way of freeing them up to experiment. Interestingly, the original plan was to write a concept album about childhood - that's why they wrote 'Penny Lane' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' - but when those tracks were released as singles instead, the childhood plan was shelved, and Sgt Pepper was born.

17. A persona born for album 'I Am... Sasha Fierce', Beyoncé's short-lived alter ego of Sasha Fierce was, as the singer described, the "fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side" for the stage. However, she recently announced that "Sasha Fierce is done... I killed her."

18. Her hips might not lie, but Shakira happily took on a separate identity for her latest album. Being She-Wolf apparently helps her to capture the passion and energy of her more 'animalistic' and 'primitive' side.

19. In 1972, David Bowie emerged as flamboyantly androgynous space-age superstar Ziggy Stardust to release hit song 'Starman' and album 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars'. After breaking up with The Spiders, he moved on from this red-mullet-donning act, but rumours have recently circulated about a possible Ziggy return.

20. If you thought Norah Jones was an insipid jazz singer, you'd be wrong. Kind of. She created her alter ego Maddie, lead singer and guitarist of punk band El Madmo, for an eponymous album in 2008. It contained the track 'Rock Yer Balls Off' which is yet to be heard in wine bars across the UK.

21. In 2008, Courtney Love wrote on her blog that she was taking on the "bananas" alter ego of Cherry Kookoo. Why? Erm, apparently it's so that "if /when im overcome and blog again wich i wont do i took a picture of a friend looking at me rather sternly to remind me not to - well know it was Cherry Kookoo, but i think I've killed her off." Got that?

22. Mary J Blige masquerades as Brook-Lynn from time to time. The alter ego debuted in the Busta Rhymes video for 'Touch It'. "I had to separate the two because Mary is nice, you know, intelligent," explained Blige, "Brook is crazy and ignorant, and she don't care

23.American country music star Hank Williams began recording as Luke The Drifter in 1950. A name given to him for his religious-driven tunes, he hoped to disguise his identity from DJs for radio play.

24. During her 'Stripped' era in 2002, Christina Aguilera introduced her alter ego of Xtina, even getting the nickname tattooed on her back. Now that's dedication.

25.An eight-track album recorded by Prince in 1986, 'Camille' was to be released anonymously without a cover photo, casting doubts over the artist's gender. However, the album was cancelled two weeks before its release date in favour of the more ambitious 'Sign O'The Times'.

Jerseylina: Lennon was credited not as himself but as a mysterious Dr Winston O'Boogie. Hilarious!

"Winston" was Lennon's middle name before he legally changed it to "Ono". But it doesn't surprise me that no one in the NME offices knew that.

Rockwell, aka Berry Gordy jr.

Jerseylina: 9. Kings Of Leon's Caleb Followill admits to having a cruel, drunken alter ego called Rooster. "Rooster is a dick. I hate him," he once confessed.

kings of leon suck turds.. they aren't cool enough to have an alterego...

and bowie can kick everyones ass on this list. bowie is love :) oh.. and i think someone mentioned mike patton? +2 fer you.

from Wikipedia one I find particularly amusing

Cloud2Ground was an American Christian electronic dance music production duo, consisting of Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree. Dawson and Petree grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and met when they were teenagers.......

Dawson and Petree were also known as Slyder, a side project through which they released harder, techno-oriented music. Other aliases included R.R.D.S. and Right Bros. Two Slyder tracks - "Neo (The One)" and "Score (Original Mix)" - and the R.R.D.S. track "Innerbattle" featured in the 2001 video game Grand Theft Auto III. Dawson and Petree are currently members of the band Shiny Toy Guns, which they formed in 2002.

I love Orange Claw Hammer.

damn, that was just stupid...it would be one thing if it was...i dunno, maybe like TEN artists or something, but between shiat we already knew about(what? marilyn manson's not his REAL name? omgwtf?!), and those that were just stupid(everyone's got a drunken alter-ego named rooster. you're just a douchebag, caleb followill), and those that weren't even noteworthy(Chris Gaines? Really?) this list comes awfully short.

Third_Uncle_Eno: Peter Hammill as "Riki Nadir" [for one album, anyway.... "Nadir's big chance", 1975]

Jesus Freakin' Christ, I love that album!
I didn't think anyone else had ever heard it

No Elvis Costello (aka Napoleon Dynamite)? Really?

"One for our older readers, this. An homage to the psychedelic pop music of the '60s, XTC's alter ego act, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, released two albums ('25 O'Clock' and 'Psonic Psunspot'), which were later compiled into one CD titled 'Chips From The Chocolate Fireball: An Anthology'. None of it was remotely pretentious, oh no."

Dear article-writer asshat: EABOD. The Dukes Of Stratosphear was a brilliant project from a brilliant band. Andy Partridge is some kind of mutant music super-genius.

Lipspinach

Third_Uncle_Eno: Peter Hammill as "Riki Nadir" [for one album, anyway.... "Nadir's big chance", 1975]

Jesus Freakin' Christ, I love that album!
I didn't think anyone else had ever heard it

I must admit, I only know about it from wikipedia, and having heard clips of it on Amazon [and maybe youtube]. I don't actually own it.
However, I still think that the clips I've heard from it are great, so hopefully that counts for something lol

I still find it dumbfoundingly awesomely wicked at how productive P.H. was song-writing-wise in that period of
1974 - 1976.... [SIX FREAKIN' ALBUMS!!! :-O ]

Van Der Graaf:
Godbluff (Oct 1975)
Still Life (April 1976)
World Record (Oct 1976)

P.H. solo:
The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (Feb 1974)
In Camera (July 1974)
Nadir's Big Chance (Feb 1975)

Obnox: Robin Williams?

I thought it was Ray Davies.

is very disappointed in the article and wants the author to get off his lawn.

/still rocks his arse off
//yeah, I know it was the name of the original band
///he still refers to "Alice" in the 3rd person
////School's out for slashies!

Bobby Bobby Bobby Digi Digi Digi

Kool Keith should have been five of these entries.

I'm pretty sure at least have of these personae were invented as excuses for the musician's bad behavior.

Mr. Mojo Risin?? anyone?

Danny Vermin: is very disappointed in the article and wants the author to get off his lawn.

/still rocks his arse off
//yeah, I know it was the name of the original band
///he still refers to "Alice" in the 3rd person
////School's out for slashies!

No Alice Cooper was the Band name, but people started calling him that and he went with it. But yeah if Marilyn Manson counts as an alter ego then AC deserves a spot easily.

I mean, I've never heard about this Britney alter ego BS and Xtina is a nickname, not a real alter ego. You might as well have listed "Babs" as an alter ego for Barbara Streisand. the Kings of Leon one is just as dumb, hes never recorded as Rooster, its just how he justifies his drunken or drugged asshole behaviour apparently. Same with Madonna, Esther was just how she writes off her Kaballa phase, it wasnt a musical alter ego.

And while they at least recorded as their alter egos the Sash Fierce, Chris Gaines, Mimi ones sucked and dissapeared as soon as they were invented. hardly "greatest ever" material.

And Marshal Mathers/Eminem/Slim Shady arent alter egos, just different nicknames he uses.

Bernard Webb?

David Seville?