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The coolest man in rock?

 
  

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uncle retrospective
15:00 / 29.10.02
From the NME
So Jack White is the coolest man in rock? God what sort of a music scene are we left with. The list is here:

1. Jack White (The White Stripes)

2. Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes)

3. Dolf De Datsun (The Datsuns)

4. Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

5. Mike Skinner (The Streets)

6. Meg White (The White Stripes)

7. Marcie Bolen (The Von Bondies)

8. Craig Nicholls (The Vines)

9. Nelly

10. Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist (The Hives)

I'm kinda worried that I don't listen to any of the coolest people in the music biz.
Any way Jack Black should have won the coolest man in music. He's classicly trained to rock your fucking socks off.

So what do you think of this? Who is the Lith's coolest person in Music?
 
 
rizla mission
15:07 / 29.10.02
Hey, I don't actually hate any of the people on that list. ('Part from the Vines bloke). Yow!

Certainly makes a change from the endless lists of bass players from Mansun and stuff that used to make up these lists when I read the filthy rag..
 
 
Rage
15:33 / 29.10.02
The Stripes, The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes, The Streets...

Something is -wrong- here.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
15:43 / 29.10.02
Isn't the mainstream definition of cool all about vacuous image? Surface w/o regard to depth? Not to dis the bands in question (some of whom I like), but that definition seems to fit the list like a snug sweater.
 
 
bio k9
19:26 / 29.10.02
Karen O is a man?
 
 
that
19:47 / 29.10.02
Exactly what I was thinking...

I too don't listen to any of the coolest 'men' in rock. Strangely, this perturbs me not a bit.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
20:26 / 29.10.02
NME can never get anything right. If Thurston and SM ain't at the top of that list, it's invalid. That's what I say.
 
 
Yagg
05:10 / 30.10.02
Warren Zevon. Anyone who can joke that much about his own impending demise gets the fucking award. I fucking dare anyone to outcool that. And he isn't even TRYING to be cool. He just IS.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:59 / 30.10.02
Where's Nick fucking Cave?
Or Alec Empire?

OR FUCKING LEMMY???
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
11:14 / 30.10.02
Oh come the fuck on, these things are purely written so that they have a load of 'why isn't Paul Weller in your list' letters in a fortnights time, why else would they include Pink, Kelly Osbourne, Courtney Love or any of The Strokes? Half the people mentioned in the list are so cool because their music doesn't sell, and aren't the 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' the ones that don't actually make music, but sleep with rock stars? The only really surprise is the sudden fall of 'Fischerspooner' from NME's favour, so they don't appear. And as for their write-up for Peaches, '... she's not actually attractive' or words to that effect.
 
 
The Falcon
12:52 / 30.10.02
Casey Spooner is pretty fuckin' cool. But he's not rock.

Mike Patton on the other hand... avant-garde, police uniform-wearing, former beach bum, piss-drinking (from a tennis shoe), shitting in hairdryers in hotels to leave it for the next guest, being in: Faith No More, Tomahawk, collaborating with (HEAVY) Dillinger Escape Plan, and some weird-ass Japanese guys...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:41 / 30.10.02
aren't the 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' the ones that don't actually make music, but sleep with rock stars?

In a word: no.
 
 
Pepsi Max
14:17 / 30.10.02
Your quest is at an end. The answer you yearn for is here. Simple. And true.

I am the Coolest Man in Rock (TM).

And when I'm on vacation, Ryan Adams looks after the shop for me.

But he's not allowed to touch anything.
 
 
Rev. Jesse
15:05 / 30.10.02
I just say Karen O and Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Sleater-Kinney, fucking incredible.

The coolest man in is was and shall always be David Bowie.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:31 / 30.10.02
I will tell you the truth, but you can't handle the truth:

Colin. Greenwood.
 
 
Saint Keggers
15:50 / 30.10.02
Must agree with the Rev. David Bowie is. was and will always be THE coolest man in rock. Just like Johnny Cash will be the coolest man in country.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:32 / 30.10.02
OK, I just want to say here that I was wrong about the 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' I was thinking about someone else.

And Dunc- Drinking piss is cool? On which planet?
 
 
uncle retrospective
16:36 / 30.10.02
Drinking piss is cool? On which planet?
Mike Patton is cool enough to get away with almost anything. The incident was preformed at a gig at the goading of the crowd and any man willing to go that far for rock n' roll gets my vote.
Anyway there's one or two people on this site may disagree with you.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:35 / 30.10.02
The typically phallocentric title and selections are one thing, but how on earth can the NME justify the absence of this man?



Although I haven't seen the full fifty yet, maybe he made it. But seriously, the coolest person with a Y chromosone in music is clearly Pharell Williams. I think I'd also have to include Princess Superstar, Peaches, Karen O, Missy Elliot, and Stephin Merritt for starters... Hmmm, let me come back to this.

Oh, and Deric:

Isn't the mainstream definition of cool all about vacuous image? Surface w/o regard to depth? Not to dis the bands in question (some of whom I like), but that definition seems to fit the list like a snug sweater.

You serious? If anything that list is too infected by lumpen everyblokes... Not *enough* panache and and style and shiny pop sheen... I mean the sodding gimp from The Streets... ack. Nevermind, I'm sure we can cobble together a 'Realest, Most Authentic, Integrity-Holding People In Rock' for ya.
 
 
uncle retrospective
18:45 / 30.10.02
Fly.

SLAP!
How dare you put a picture of that tosser in the Music! Dear god man what were you thinking? Put a picture of Pharell up but never that Timberlake tosser.
I feel sick.
 
 
Jack Fear
18:46 / 30.10.02
Yeah. The Beatles--they had some proper choons.

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
18:47 / 30.10.02
Justin Timberlake- Who he? Is this -The Village People- The Next Generation as imagined by Goths?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:17 / 30.10.02
The rest of the list is:

Julian Casablancas
VV
Miss kittin
Conor Oberst
Erol Alkan
Nick Jago
James Skelly
Kelly Osbourne
Albert Hammond Jr
Pink
Josh Homme
Pharell Williams
Nick Pankhurst
Courtney Love
David Holmes
James Murphy
Daniel Kessler
Carl Barat
DJ Rubbish
Serj Tankian
Robert Harvey
DJ Hell
Alesha Dixon
Didz
Peaches
Felix Da Housecat
Ryan Adams
Nick Oliveri
Arthur Lee
Dre (Outkast)
Richard D James
Richard Fearless
Dave Grohl
Jay-Z
Liam Gallagher
Mark Lanegan
Roots Manuva
Romeo
Dr Dre
Gwen Stefani


Their 'coolest bands ever' list goes:

The Stone Roses
The Velvet Underground
The Rolling Stones (circa '68)
Iggy and the Stooges
The Strokes
The Clash
Bob Marley and the Wailers
NWA
Nirvana
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars


If anyone honestly gives a fuck, that is.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:19 / 30.10.02
Oh, and it's actually 'coolest people' - the thread title's wrong.
 
 
The Falcon
00:18 / 31.10.02
Piss-drinking is super-cool, if done by compus mentis rockstars.

Hello?
 
 
Utopia
01:27 / 31.10.02
Beacuse, I mean, The Strokes did so much more for punk rock than The Clash, and like, Ziggy Stardust, isn't he that guy who dresses up like a girl or something? I think my mom listens to him.

But seriously though, it's funny. My friend and I were just discussing the merits of The Stone Roses over The Velvet Underground... Then we decided to rupture our skulls with ball pean hammers...
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
04:00 / 31.10.02
I agree on Warren Zevon. He was just on Letterman, and if anyone is cooler than him, I haven't seen it.

Damn but it's not fair that he's not with us much longer.
 
 
rizla mission
09:26 / 31.10.02
The typically phallocentric title and selections are one thing,

Actually, on past NME form, I think three women in the top 10 isn't bad going.. still an undoubted exercise in crapness, but at least a few of those people are pretty fucking good for once, yes?

And on a completely different note, who's 'DJ Rubbish'? That's a brilliant name.. (not as good as 'DJ Hell' though .. I guess I've missed something, but since when did he become a household name? But anyway, 'DJ Bastard' clearly puts them both in the shade name-wise..)
 
 
rizla mission
09:28 / 31.10.02
Oh, and if that 'coolest bands' list is s'posed to be in order, some heads is gonna be cracked..
 
 
Axel Lambert
10:07 / 31.10.02
My Misgendered Lord of the Flowers:
It's funny: Two of Yeah yeah yeahs actually do sleep with rock stars: Karen O with the singer in The Liars, and Brian Chase with The first lady of Cuntry. But of course it's the other way around, no?
 
 
Loomis
17:46 / 31.10.02
Let's get back to Warren Zevon.

Ever since I saw the video for Werewolves in London, I've thought him to be the coolest person evah. What's all this about him dying and cracking jokes? Can someone give me a rundown or a link?
 
 
Billy Corgan
19:57 / 31.10.02
I am quite insulted that I wasn't named on that list. For fuck's sake, Aphex Twin is on the list, and he's a washed up 90s has-been.

I'm sure I'll be on it next year, after I reinvent rock and roll with the new Zwan album.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:02 / 31.10.02
They left me off the fucking list again.
 
 
Count Zero
22:19 / 01.11.02
Johnny Rotten was the coolest fucking person in rock for a while, but now hes kinda lame and sad. Kurt was awesome as well. So is (was?) Richard Hell.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
00:12 / 02.11.02
Patti Smith?

PATTI SMITH?

Hello?
 
  

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