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Re: Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top Ten Frontmen
1. Robert Plant
2. Freddie Mercury
3. Bono
4. Mick Jagger
5. Jim Morrison
6. Roger Daltrey
7. Eddie Vedder
8. John Lennon
9. Chris Cornell
10. Kurt Cobain
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Nice to see the grunge era finally getting some love from people on these lists.
Re: Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top Ten Frontmen
lol
terrible list
or rather, just another terrible RS list
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I remember "Black Hole Sun" and sometimes "Spoonman" getting played on Kerrang TV when I was a kid.
...But outside that brief period when The James Bond theme was played on the radio, I've never meet many in the UK who knows who Chris Cornell is.
Re: Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top Ten Frontmen
Vocally speaking, Cornell would be tops. Going by stage presence and that sort of thing, does not belong on the list. He usually plays guitar and just stands there and when not playing guitar, doesn't move around much and even does that crouching down thing that Axl used to do during certain songs.
Axl should have been in the top 5.
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#1-6 deserve to be in the Top-10 in some form, all were iconic for their generation.
#7-10 are a fucking joke. I know it seems lately that i'm bagging on Eddie Vedder - I love the guy. But he's not a Top-10 frontman. Vocally, nor is he one of the legendary forces on stage. He's great, but Top-10 great? No.
Lennon was revered for his writing and voice. Frontman? WTF? I'd go so far to say Paul & George were more spirited on stage than John. He just shouldn't be there.
Chris Cornell is a great vocalist that influenced a generation. Layne Staley influenced far more, and he wasn't a vocally talented as Chris, and he's not there. The point is Cornell is known for his writing & voice (kind of like Lennon), but stage prescence - no fuckin' way. To be completely honest, Chris is probably #4 in stage prescence, behind Cobain, Staley, & Vedder of the "big four Seattle", in terms of actual stage performance.
And of course... the most overrated, overvalued, overhyped, overloved, beat into the god damn ground frontman of all-time - Kurt fuckin' Cobain.
I get it. I loved Nirvana (well, Nevermind & In Utero at least), and Kurt for the grunge scene was the iconic frontman, because he was a fucking force on stage, even if it was in a punk-ish, junkie-out-of-control sort of way. Total rock n' roll there, no different than Jim Morrison or Iggy Pop before him. Get it.
Top-10? No, not even Top-20. Personally, any of the grunge guys shouldn't be in the Top-20.
Where's Axl Rose? Where's Steven "The Man" Tyler who's still blowin' & rollin' in 2011? Ozzy Osbourne is still kicking tons of ass at 450 years old. All are glaring omissions.
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Problem is, this was voted on by readers. So they are even bigger idiots than the RS writers.
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^^
Just wait, in five years, we're gonna have these lists and Scott Stapp, Chad Kroeger, Brent Smith, Billie Joe Armstrong, that douche from Coheed & Cambria, the lead Jonas Brother is all going to be making the Top-10.
Rock n' roll baby 
