Lists

The other day I was at Borders picking up some books with my handy gift card that I got as a gift, it happen to be the beginning of the Flood of ’10, after checking out it started to really pour, so while I waited I browsed the magazines to see if there was any photography mag’s I wanted to see, and happen across a magazine that had that guy from U2 on the front, it read “The top 100 front men”.  Naturally I was intrigued, because I have an opinion.  So I started reading the article, reading from 100 down to number 1, as I read through the list, there were people on the list that debunked who I thought would be number 1, John Lennon (10) Paul McCartney (9) Elvis, he was somewhere in the 30′s I believe, that shocked me simply because everybody seems to think he was amazing, I was surprised to see people like Iggy Pop on the list, Matt Ballamy, again surprised me, usually when reading these articals they leave out the people that are actually good, and list the legends or pop icons, like steven tyler, Mic Jagger etc. they’re all good and deserve the title legend, but I was just surprised.

Anyway what really shocked me was who was at number 1, Liam Gallagher that guy that always sings looking up at his mic.  Now here’s the deal, I’ve posted the top 20 underneath so you can look at them and have an opinion ( I would love to hear it), but I have only seen two of the listed below live, Bono and Matt Ballamy.  And I saw them from really… really far away, and most of the others were dead before I was born, so for me to say anything about this list would just be wasted air, I have seen most all of them in some form of live concert video.  Still, don’t have anything to say about it.  Just thought I would share what I found out, without an opinion, if you google this list you’ll find a bunch of mostly angry opinions about the list, I don’t know if these people have seen the whole list live, but it would be hard for me to say without seeing them.

1) Liam Gallagher
2) Bono
3) Freddie Mercury
4) Damon Albarn
5) Chris Martin
6) Matt Bellamy
7) Jim Morrison
Bob Marley
9) Paul McCartney
10) John Lennon
11) Robbie Williams
12) Debbie Harry
13) Mick Jagger
14) Morrissey
15) John Lydon
16) James Brown
17) Bruce Springsteen
18) Robert Plant
19) Tom Meighan
20) Joe Strummer

If you’re wondering about Bob Marley’s smiley face, it’s not because I really like his music (it’s good) it’s because I have no idea how to get rid of it, it just shows up.