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The coolest man in rock?

 
  

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Rev. Jesse
00:22 / 02.11.02
Fuck yeah Bengali!

I was scrolling down, realizing no one had mentioned her and there it is. Patti Sonic-Fucking Smith.

Warren Zevon is pretty fucking amazing too. Too bad he is dying.

horses, horses, horses, horses, coming in from all directions...
 
 
Turk
05:00 / 02.11.02
He is the coolest person in rock ever and if we went shopping together we'd have a really fun time. I'd be like real nervous hoping not to say something stupid, like how much I wish I was him. He so cool, imagine not being cool around him! I'd die!
Then we could go to his concert together and we'd just have the best time ever in the party afterward. We'd be the best of friends because I love him so much and he takes everything in his stride, as if he doesn't care but really does, you know?
That's why he's the coolest person in rock, and his hair too.
 
 
Ellis says:
08:59 / 02.11.02
Hmm.

I don't actually know who any of the people on that list are.

Lists are stupid.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:00 / 02.11.02
I promised myself I wouldn't get involved but Patti Smith, how could they leave her out?
 
 
Sid Zero
11:33 / 03.11.02
The coolest people in rock are dead. They became legend. Jimi, Morrisson, Viscious, take whoever dead rockstar against a living one. The living ones don't stand a chance.

Be cool, be dead, baby!
 
 
Axel Lambert
12:43 / 03.11.02
Hmm. Seems to me that nme lists present day stars, while many on the board here want to have old heroes in...
 
 
Axel Lambert
14:26 / 03.11.02
A test on the subject
 
 
uncle retrospective
14:42 / 03.11.02
Wow, It looks like I want to smash in the Streets bloke. Which was only a small surpirse, I though it'd be Nelly.
 
 
videodrome
15:36 / 03.11.02
You sure you're not getting this list mixed up with the dumbest people in rock, Sid?
 
 
rizla mission
08:41 / 04.11.02
Hey, who'd have thought I want to pick a fight with Jack white .. I was angling for the Vines bloke..
 
 
_pin
09:01 / 04.11.02
Yeeh! The Streets!

Wanker.
 
 
The Falcon
13:38 / 04.11.02
I got the Yeah Yeah Yeahs woman. I don't want to beat her up for several reasons, one of which is that her band is actually ok.

The Streets are good. Face it. I've recently performed a complete volte-face on the whole business, having heard the new single on the radio, where it shone like a silver turd. And then I listened to it again, and thought: why not, eh?

Why not?
 
 
Axel Lambert
16:55 / 04.11.02
I also got Karen O. Wonder why; their new suede-like Machine singel is great!
 
 
Yagg
05:06 / 05.11.02
"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?"

Long story short: Warren Zevon found out recently at age 55 that he has terminal lung cancer. He has probably less than a year to live. His first comment was along the lines of "It'll be a shame if I don't last long enough to see the next James Bond movie." On Letterman, Dave says somberly, "We all heard about the diagnosis."

"Oh," says Zevon, chuckling. "You mean the flu."

He goes on to make jokes about making sure his drycleaning is done on time, not seeing his doctor often enough, etc. And leaves us all with this piece of advice: "Enjoy every sandwich."

I'm paraphrasing all of this. He also presented his doctor with his last two albums, entitled "Life Will Kill Ya" and "My Ride's Here."

Warren Zevon wins. Soon to be cooling on a slab, and still cool about it.
 
 
Loomis
08:51 / 05.11.02
Can't argue with that. Thanks for the info.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:47 / 05.11.02
Yeah, much as I get shit for it, I think there's some really nice stuff going on in some Streets' tunes (Though the Twart did describe them as "music for people who thought Renton's little speech at the end of Trainspotting was sooo cool, and who really dig Chas and Dave." The cheapest little reduction I've ever heard, but it was funny at the time).
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:39 / 26.11.03
I am officially one year ahead of my time.

So this year's list looks a lot better, with loads more women in it, apparently. Much as they rarely do anything right, kudos to the NME for their latest show of willingness to piss off their readers. Fuck 'em, we're winning.

Will try to post top ten here when I can. I predict it will piss people here off just as much, due to the absence of crusty old former punks. Surprise me!
 
 
doctorbeck
14:17 / 26.11.03
would never have imagined it but after last nights awesome performance at the brixton academy i have to say bob dylan has to be up there

up close, he was mean and cantancerous, sideways on to the audience for the whole night, playing piano, didn't touch a guitar, when he came out for brief moments he swayed and dodged like an old prize fighter dressed in a pink teddy boy jacket with black cuffs and collar, played a set that was just under 2 hours, his voice a glorious ruin, spitting out 40 years of acid wit and brilliance,

i'll tell you how cool bob was, years ago when he was asked who americas greatest poet was, he said smokey robinson and meant it.

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A
03:41 / 28.11.03
Justin Timberlake? Man! That's too kooky and post-ironic even for me. I don't think I know anyone who is LESS cool than him. Yikes.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
06:55 / 28.11.03
Okay, so as I understand it the term "post-ironic" must essentially mean "what comes after irony" where 'irony' has been corrupted to mean "a cultural tendency to pretend to like things when you don't really like them, in order to seem clever", so in other words you become 'post-ironic' when you stop doing that and just admit the things you like no matter how credible or otherwise that may seem.

So yeah, I think Justin's a pretty 'post-ironic' choice.

If anyone's interested second and third place went to Brody from The Distillers and Meg White Stripe respectively...
 
 
_Boboss
07:52 / 28.11.03
man rock's changed since i was a nipper, being a mcdonalds puppy never would've got you to the top o the cool in my day
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
11:26 / 28.11.03
I read an article basically moaning about this on teletext the other day. Basically it moaned about how this was going to provoke people - because the only thing that made Timberlake "cool" was the producers and cool people he surrounded himself. How basically he was what these people made him, and had nothing to say himself.... and how it could very well be jon from S-Club...

...and then went on to point out that "real cool" was liam gallagher circa '94, and that the Libertines (actually because of their drunken, druggy, wild, robbing each others houses) were cool. Using the phrase that's cool, in reference to that behaviour.

Now, I know I've given this some thought - but if you knew them - they'd be twats. And this guy is completely completely rock and roll = cool. But the reality is the people he describes as being cool, are people who would actually annoy you in their living out of rock and roll cliches.

So I guess it all depends on where your definition of cool lies. Let's just make sure we aren't all quite as sad as the man who wrote that article. Personally I don't care about the list, I just got annoyed reading about it.
 
 
suds
13:11 / 28.11.03
whats up with the sexist title of this thread?

ok so i bought nme for the first time in a long time today and i was actually (for once) happy with their cool list. lots of girls in there, & no sign of courtney love (she's usually the token female in male journalists lists).
 
 
suds
13:14 / 28.11.03
oh yeah & they put my crush du jour, dizzee rascal, on the cover too. he's sweet like tropicana.
 
 
uncle retrospective
17:30 / 28.11.03
The sexist title comes from me not paying enough attention cause I wasn't to give out about Jack White. I didn't change it cause too many people have mentioned it. Sorry.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
19:58 / 28.11.03
Making lists of cool people in rock isn't very fucking cool, is it?

The NME are cocks. Uncool cocks. If Carl from the Libertines so much as passed them in the street they'd shit themselves and write an editorial about it.
 
 
Gabby Jay
19:35 / 30.11.03
Lemmy isn't just the coolest person in rock, He is the living embodiment of rock and roll. He's pushing 60 and still living in total defiance of all authority -- government, religion, girlfriends, anyone else whose ever tried to tell him what to do. He's out there right now, as I type this, still snorting speed, guzzling whiskey and banging teenage girls. And He can somehow manage to look cool in a fringed, black leather jacket and white cowboy boots -- the outfit He's been wearing ever since the last time he bathed, sometime in the late '60s when he was a roadie for Hendrix. Like Jesus, He's a He with a capital H.

Some bands impress you with the diversity of their music. But you have to have a certain amount of respect for a band like Motorhead that can release 20-something albums over a 30 year period that all sound EXACTLY THE SAME. Death is for the weak. Lemmy will outlive us all.
 
 
Not Here Still
18:32 / 01.12.03
Conor McNicholas, editor of the NME, said: "The NME Cool List is a reflection of how exciting the music scene is right now. Whether it is wearing the right clothes, being magnetically charismatic or deliberately trashing their talent for the sake of it, all of the entries in this years list have one thing in common - the X factor."

Because it's cool to wear Nike Air Sweatshop and spend six months in chokey for smashing yourself up on crack, kids; everybody knows that. Fuck the tunes...

Where's Gruff Rhys in this year's list?
 
  

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