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Re: The Whiniest Rock Stars
Everybody needs to vent now and then, but some musicians whine way more than others. That doesn’t mean we hate their tunes, it just means we think they need to chill out and maybe crack a smile now and then. Heck, perhaps they should pen some songs about sunshine and lollipops.
So here they are, the men we think are some of the whiniest stars of the music world:
1. Morrissey
This Brit singer songwriter can give heartbreak, ennui and misery a catchy falsetto spin. Make no mistake though, if you catch yourself humming along to a Morrissey chorus, stop and thing about the words. Depressing aren't they? Yep, heaven knows I'm miserable now.
2. Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke is a cross between a choir boy soloist and a miserable being who shuns the light. Repeated listening of Radiohead's In Rainbows will leave you heavy-hearted and longing for a soft pillow in which to weep.
3. Chris Martin
Coldplay's front man is slightly less talented than Thom Yorke, but similar in the way he uses his Brit accent, high notes and scrawny structure to create a melancholy image. Some Coldplay songs are cheerful, but many find Chris whining about lost love and so on. Buck up buttercup.
4. My Chemical Romance
These folks are whiny in a way that differs from the Brit crankiness we've already gone through. They're whiny in a "we wear eyeliner and go on at length about how dramatic and different we are." Case in point? Listen to the way Gerard Way was quoted as describing the band's music: "It's the most pure, intense thing we've ever been involved in," ugh.
5. Snow Patrol
When your entire body of work sounds like the soundtrack for a particularly tear-jerking episode of Grey's Anatomy, in which couples break up and loved ones die, you're whiny.
6. Sting
The Police were cool. Sting, as a single entity, is both lame and whiny. He's way too self-important and his warbling and new-found facial hair are irksome.
7. Bono
I admire Bono's dedication to fighting for the greater good, I really do. I, however, find his constant prattling on about world debt and so on a little tough to take when he's wearing sunglasses that cost more than everything I own put together. His preaching is becoming whiny. Enough. Oh and that high pitched wail that used to be his trademark? Also just plain whiny now.
8. Eddie Vedder
Eddie was at the climax of Complainville during his 1990s grunge music phase. To be fair to Eddie, it's not really his fault that the timbre of his voice is straight-up throaty angst. That being said, he's still on this list.
9. Pete Wentz
I think Fall Out Boy and emo in general needs to go far far away and quit with the sneaker-wearing, eyeliner over-doing, "nobody has as much inner frustration as me" already. We're singling Pete out just because you can't crack open a magazine these days without seeing his mug. So, new trend please! A happier one this time!
- tejastech08
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Re: The Whiniest Rock Stars
How the hell did Axl not make the list? LOL, he's gotta be one of the biggest egomaniac crybabies in the history of pop music.
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