Band Madness!
Dream Band: Lists Revealed!
Here are the lists for the forthcoming Dream Band tournaments. Leave all complaints, or, if you haven’t figured out how internet feedback works yet, compliments, in the comments!
FRONTMEN
Alice Cooper
Anthony Kiedis - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Axl Rose - Guns n’ Roses
Billie Joe Armstrong - Green Day
Billy Corgan - Smashing Pumpkins
Bon Scott - AC/DC
Bono - U2
Bryan Ferry - Roxy Music
Chris Cornell - Soundgarden, Audioslave
Dave Gahan - Depeche Mode
Dave Matthews
Davey Havok - AFI
David Bowie
David Byrne - Talking Heads
David Lee Roth - Van Halen, solo
Debbie Harry - Blondie
Eddie Argos - Art Brut
Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam
Elvis Costello
Frank Black - Pixies
Freddie Mercury - Queen
Gene Simmons - Kiss
Grace Slick - Jefferson Airplane
Henry Rollins - Black Flag, Rollins Band
Ian Curtis - Joy Division
Iggy Pop
James Brown
James Hetfield - Metallica
Janis Joplin
Jeff Mangum - Neutral Milk Hotel
Jello Biafra - Dead Kennedys
Jim Morrison - The Doors
Joe Strummer - The Clash
Joey Ramone - The Ramones
Johnny Rotten - Sex Pistols
Jon Bon Jovi
Kurt Cobain - Nirvana
Layne Staley - Alice In Chains
Liam Gallagher - Oasis
Meat Loaf
Michael Hutchence - INXS
Michael Stipe - R.E.M.
Mick Jagger - Rolling Stones
Morrissey - The Smiths, solo
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Sabbath, solo
Prince
Rivers Cuomo - Weezer
Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin
Robert Pollard - Guided By Voices
Robert Smith - The Cure
Roger Daltrey - The Who
Ronnie James Dio - Solo, etc.
Scott Weiland - Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver
Shane McGowan - The Pogues
Stephen Malkmus - Pavement, solo
Steve Perry - Journey
Steven Tyler - Aerosmith
Sting - The Police, solo
Ted Leo - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Thom Yorke - Radiohead
Trent Reznor - Nine Inch Nails
Wayne Coyne - Flaming Lips
Zach De La Roche - Rage Against the Machine
Zack Morris - Zack Attack
(Voting will open on Wednesday, June 6th)
DRUMMERS
Alex Van Halen - Van Halen
Animal - Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (Muppets)
Bill Bruford - Yes, King Crimson
Brad Wilk - Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave
Carl Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Carter Beauford - Dave Matthews Band
Charlie Watts - Rolling Stones
Chris Frantz - Talking Heads
Chris Pennie - Dillinger Escape Plan
Clyde Stubblefield - James Brown, rap samples
Danny Carey - Tool
Dave Grohl - Nirvana
Dave Lombardo - Slayer
Ginger Baker - Cream
Ian Paice - Deep Purple
Jimmy Chamberlain - Smashing Pumpkins
John Bonham - Led Zeppelin
Keith Moon - The Who
Larry Mullen Jr. - U2
Lars Ulrich - Metallica
Max Weinberg - E Street Band, Conan
Mick Fleetwood - Fleetwood Mac
Mitch Mitchell - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Neil Peart - Rush
Phil Collins - Genesis
Ringo Starr - Beatles
Steve Gadd - Steely Dan
Steve Smith - Journey
Stewart Copeland - The Police
Terry Bozzio - Frank Zappa
Travis Barker - blink-182
Zak Starkey - Oasis, modern Who
BASSISTS
(Voting will open on Thursday, June 7th)
Adam Clayton - U2
Bootsy Collins - Parliament/Funkadelic
Bruce Thomas - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Charlie from “Lost”
Chris Squire - Yes
Cliff Burton - Metallica
Colin Moulding- XTC
Derek Smalls - Spinal Tap
Flea - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Geddy Lee - Rush
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
Jack Bruce - Cream
Jaco Pastorius - Weather Report, solo
John Entwistle - The Who
John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
Kim Deal - Pixies, Breeders
Krist Novoselic - Nirvana
Les Claypool - Primus
Mark Sandman - Morphine
Mike Gordon - Phish
Mike Watt - Minutemen
Paul McCartney - Wings
Paul Simonon - The Clash
Peter Hook - Joy Division, New Order
Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead
Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy
Roger Waters - Pink Floyd
Sid Vicious - Sex Pistols
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Tony Levin - King Crimson
Victor Wooten - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
William Mysterious - Rezillos
SONGWRITERS
(Voting will open on Monday, June 11)
Ben Folds
Benny Andersson / Bjorn Ulvaeus - Abba
Billy Joel
Bob Dylan
Brian Wilson - Beach Boys
Bruce Springsteen
Cat Stevens
Elliot Smith
Elton John / Bernie Taupin
Harry Nilsson
James Taylor
Jeff Lynne - ELO
John Fogerty - CCR
John Lennon / Paul McCartney - Beatles
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Lou Reed
Marvin Gaye
Neil Young
Nick Cave
Otis Redding
Paul Simon
Randy Newman
Ray Davies - The Kinks
Robbie Robertson - The Band
Roy Orbison
Stevie Nicks - Fleetwood Mac, solo
Stuart Murdoch - Belle & Sebastian
Todd Rundgren
Tom Petty
Tom Waits
Van Morrison
31 May 2007 at 8:28 am Eastern [ quote ]
How do you not have Bruce Dickinson in the top 64 vocalists? His power and range are unmatched other than Freddie Mercury….Thats a big mistake ….
31 May 2007 at 9:04 am Eastern [ quote ]
Really…what the hell were you thinking leaving Dickinson out? I don’t get it. I know he wouldn’t have won anyway. People on this poll are going to vote for artists they hear on hot hits 106 or the equivalent. Dickinson is never on the radio so people don’t know him. I’m surprised you didn’t enter eminen and Justin F-ing Timberlake in the vocalists poll…they prob actually would have received votes…good god
31 May 2007 at 9:32 am Eastern [ quote ]
I agree! What’s with Emily Dickinson not being in the songwriter bracket? It’s a TRAVESTY! Give me five!
31 May 2007 at 10:00 am Eastern [ quote ]
Suck Balls…
31 May 2007 at 10:03 am Eastern [ quote ]
Fuck we forgot “Weird Al” for frontman
31 May 2007 at 10:07 am Eastern [ quote ]
Good call…he’d fit right in
31 May 2007 at 2:36 pm Eastern [ quote ]
My (off the top of my head) #1 missing person in each category:
Frontman: Bjork (yes - i know - loved as much as hated. I happen to love her). Also the lack of any rappers is striking, but how do you compare them to singers?
Bassist: Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station). This is the biggest ommission. Ask Bootsy how important Larry Graham was.
Drummer: uhhh… Meg White??? Nah, just kidding. Oh, I know! Darren Robinson a.k.a. The Human Beat Box (The Fat Boys).
Songwriter: Beck Hansen.
Guitarist: I’m not a guitarhead, so I’m just gonna say the guitarist (and unofficial leader) from my favorite band not on the original madness list: Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals).
31 May 2007 at 5:00 pm Eastern [ quote ]
My Biggest Misses
Frontman - Jeff Buckley (even though I’m neither female nor a navel gazer)
Drummer - Eric “Stumpy Joe” Childs
Songritter - Elvis Costello, Finn Brothers, Acuff/Rose, Jeff Tweedy
Bassist - I think i used all my votes up on songritter, seriously, do we always have to revere the dinosaurs?
1 June 2007 at 11:42 pm Eastern [ quote ]
Definitely something wrong here.
Frontmen: Maynard James Keenan. Tool and A Perfect Circle - the former being arguably the most successful progressive rock band of the past decade, and the latter being one of the most respected modern supergroups. Also, where’s Perry Farrel? He created Lollapalooza and fronted one of the most important bands of the early 90s.
Drummer: Josh Freese. Come on! He’s frigging omnipresent! You miss him yet include Travis Barker?
2 June 2007 at 12:51 pm Eastern [ quote ]
songwriter-john lennon/paul mccartney
drummer- carter beauford/mitch mitchell/ringo starr in that order
guitar player -jimi hendrix/trey anastasio/clapton in that order
bass player - bootsy collins/paul mccartney
frontman- john lennon/dave matthews/eddie vedder/jim morrison in that order
2 June 2007 at 7:21 pm Eastern [ quote ]
I’m glad that you have Davey Havok as a dream lead singer but i’m kinda disapointed that he’s not in the songwriters as well, he writes all of AFI’s lyrics and if you ever like just read them they are absolutly amazing
2 June 2007 at 8:43 pm Eastern [ quote ]
Ringo? Really? All he did was keep the beat and not fuck up.
2 June 2007 at 11:30 pm Eastern [ quote ]
‘You don’t know I am so,
you can not get close to me
and I don’t know who you are,
so just leave me alone.
I know you can’t believe
the anxiety you’re causing me
and I know you can’t believe
your fake compassion I don’t need.
Get away from me, You’re standing too close.
Keep your hands off of me.
Keep away from me, Just leave me alone,
who said you could touch me anyway?’
Damn, that’s just brilliant.
3 June 2007 at 9:45 am Eastern [ quote ]
Zack Morris Really should be in guitarist and not front man if that clip shows the regular role he played in the band.
5 June 2007 at 6:28 pm Eastern [ quote ]
‘You don’t know I am so,
you can not get close to me
and I don’t know who you are,
so just leave me alone.
I know you can’t believe
the anxiety you’re causing me
and I know you can’t believe
your fake compassion I don’t need.
Get away from me, You’re standing too close.
Keep your hands off of me.
Keep away from me, Just leave me alone,
who said you could touch me anyway?’
Damn, that’s just brilliant.
———-
(s)he’s refering to something more like this
“…but home is nowhere”
Twenty-six years and
seems like I’ve just begun
To understand my, my intimate is no one
When the director sold the show,
who bought its last rites?
They cut the cast,
the music, and the lights
This is my line, this is eternal
How did I ever end up here?
Discarnate, preternatural
My prayers to disappear
Absent of grace, marked as infernal
Ungranted in dead time left me disowned
To this nature, so unnatural
I remain alone
Twenty-six years end,
still speaking in these tongues
Such revelations
while understood by no one
When the new actor stole the show,
who questioned his grace?
Please clear the house of ill-aquired taste
I lay strewn across the floor,
can’t solve this puzzle
Everyday another small piece
can’t be found
I lay strewn across the floor,
pieced up in sorrow
The pieces are lost,
these pieces don’t fit
Pieced together incomplete and empty
5 June 2007 at 6:40 pm Eastern [ quote ]
or these BLAQKAUDIO lyrics
“Black-Ink Style”
So she found him in a sprawl, collapsed and glowing pale
on the ground. His hair spread like a melting angel
like a fire crawling across the floor.
In this moment, in this still inchoate
she loves him.
In this moment, in this light she loves him like no one has.
He held onto elegance easily.
She’d never seen him this way.
She holds on to this picture lit perfectly
and she holds the dust forever.
So he finds her in a sprawl, woven deep in memories revisited and reworked.
The scars get covered up with cherry blossoms that never felt
as soft as this
He held onto elegance easily.
She’d never seen him this way.
She holds on to this picture lit perfectly
and she holds the dust forever.
Freeze the frame right here he found the perfect pose.
It comes to him naturally.
Surely you must remember him?
5 June 2007 at 7:46 pm Eastern [ quote ]
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don’t steal, don’t lift
Twenty years of schoolin’
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don’t wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don’t wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don’t work
‘Cause the vandals took the handles
5 June 2007 at 10:41 pm Eastern [ quote ]
Mick Jagger-Front man
Stewart Copeland-Drummer
Phil Lesh-Bassist
Lennon/McCartney-Songwriter
7 June 2007 at 11:48 am Eastern [ quote ]
Just a couple of things… Why is Gene Simmons in the front man category instead of the bassist category? Paul Stanley was the front man for Kiss. Secondly Where was John 5 in the guitarist category? Not only was he the lead guitarist for two of the more heavier bands of our time (Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie), but his solo work is mind numbing! He is the closest thing to Hendirx our generation has.
8 June 2007 at 5:39 am Eastern [ quote ]
I tend to admire some of Davey Havok’s newer , less known lyrics…
and I quote…
” I suck balls, I’m a fake…
I suck Balls, vote for me, it’s not to late…
I suck balls, I shouldn’t be on this list…
I suck balls, AFI fans are gonna be pissed…
I suck balls, I shouldn’t be in this competition..
I suck balls, maybe I’ll just go fishin…
I suck balls, why am I in this poll…
I suck balls, Me, AFI and all our fans should just crawl into a hole!!”
as u can see…unique, drama filled and overflowing with emotion..
8 June 2007 at 1:07 pm Eastern [ quote ]
*oozing with sarcasm* Wow! You should be in the competition too, because you know how to rhyme!
Oh and I don’t think it’s necessary to put quotation marks around your own lyrics
8 June 2007 at 3:25 pm Eastern [ quote ]
*oozing with sarcasm* Wow! You should be in the competition too, because you know how to rhyme!
Oh and I don’t think it’s necessary to put quotation marks around your own lyrics
They aren’t my lyrics…I was quoting Davey
Also, I wasn’t trying to be in the competition…
I was just trying to piss off AFI fans, which, obviuosly, I have accomplished
9 June 2007 at 10:31 am Eastern [ quote ]
WHERE THE BLOODY HELL IS TWIGGY RAMEREZ?
9 June 2007 at 2:08 pm Eastern [ quote ]
*oozing with sarcasm* Wow! You should be in the competition too, because you know how to rhyme!
Oh and I don’t think it’s necessary to put quotation marks around your own lyrics
They aren’t my lyrics…I was quoting Davey
Also, I wasn’t trying to be in the competition…
I was just trying to piss off AFI fans, which, obviuosly, I have accomplished
i’m not pissed. i’m amused at your weak attempt to piss us off.
9 June 2007 at 2:30 pm Eastern [ quote ]
You responded..so it obviously worked my friend * oozing with sarcasm*
12 June 2007 at 6:50 pm Eastern [ quote ]
No Dave Matthews in songwriting? You have to admit he is one of the best songwriters of our time. Lyrically and musically….
13 June 2007 at 9:55 pm Eastern [ quote ]
You guys stole my fucking idea. After my buds and I filled out your brackets, and made some of our own, we were about to make one for individual categories. Thanks for ruining what would have been a great night of partying and shit-talking for us!
18 June 2007 at 11:00 am Eastern [ quote ]
Yea I am not a huge fan of his(although I do love Beauford’s drumming)but I think he def does deserve to at least be on here.
28 August 2007 at 11:15 am Eastern [ quote ]
frontman-Iggy Pop or possibly Patti Smith
Drummer-mitch mitchell
bassist-Kim Deal
songwriter-maybe Elvis Costello, or Patti Smith could write the songs too.
guitarist-totally random but Rick Miller from Southern Culture On The Skids. He’s a freaking awesome guitar player.