rank these artists II

[Hightea]

To a degree, sure. But this is an old BCB argument - rock and roll should radiate fun/sex vs. rock and roll should be transcendent (which may or may not include notions or artiness or maturity or whatever dirty word you want to associate).

And then you have people like me who doesn't give a sh*t about, radiating fun, sex symbols, rnr should transcend music or does too much noodling crap. An artist/musician makes good or bad music everything else is just gravy. Sure we like lots of female musicians but we try our best not to get the looks get in the way on if the music is good or bad. It goes the opposite way too I'm not going to hate someone because they are an ugly duckling. Although can someone please tell Iggy to put a f*cking shirt on.

[Diamond Dog]

Carole King
Sits considerably in front of the rest. A genius who wrote so many fucking hits, it hurts.

Roger Waters
A disagreeable man mostly, but responsible for the majority of my preferred Pink Floyd.

Stevie Nicks
Noddy Holder
Todd Rundgren
Aretha Franklin
Debbie Harry
Phil Spector
Rod Stewart

Slightly below Roger, but considerably above those below.

Ray Manzarek
Randy Newman
Diana Ross
Ian Curtis
Alan Vega
Joe Strummer
Sky Saxon
Johnny Thunders
Fats Domino
Lydia Lunch
Wilson Pickett
Kevin Ayers
Billy Fury
Ginger Baker
James Murphy
Roky Erickson
Annie Lennox
Adam Ant
Bob Mould


If I never heard a single second of all of the above for the rest of my life, I think I'd feel blessed.

[Minnie the Minx]

To a degree, sure. But this is an old BCB argument - rock and roll should radiate fun/sex vs. rock and roll should be transcendent (which may or may not include notions or artiness or maturity or whatever dirty word you want to associate).

And then you have people like me who doesn't give a sh*t about, radiating fun, sex symbols, rnr should transcend music or does too much noodling crap. An artist/musician makes good or bad music everything else is just gravy. Sure we like lots of female musicians but we try our best not to get the looks get in the way on if the music is good or bad. It goes the opposite way too I'm not going to hate someone because they are an ugly duckling. Although can someone please tell Iggy to put a f*cking shirt on.

For the record, I disagree with just about all of that. I’m not discussing finding someone ‘hot’ as being appalling.
I am talking about comparing one woman artist against another in terms of their physical appearance, something that never, ever happens to chaps.

[toomanyhatz]

I agree with the part about Iggy putting his shirt on.

[naughty boy]

Ray Manzarek
Randy Newman
Diana Ross
Ian Curtis
Alan Vega
Joe Strummer
Sky Saxon
Johnny Thunders
Fats Domino
Lydia Lunch
Wilson Pickett
Kevin Ayers
Billy Fury
Ginger Baker
James Murphy
Roky Erickson
Annie Lennox
Adam Ant
Bob Mould


If I never heard a single second of all of the above for the rest of my life, I think I'd feel blessed.

oh dear

[Fonz]

To a degree, sure. But this is an old BCB argument - rock and roll should radiate fun/sex vs. rock and roll should be transcendent (which may or may not include notions or artiness or maturity or whatever dirty word you want to associate).

And then you have people like me who doesn't give a sh*t about, radiating fun, sex symbols, rnr should transcend music or does too much noodling crap. An artist/musician makes good or bad music everything else is just gravy. Sure we like lots of female musicians but we try our best not to get the looks get in the way on if the music is good or bad. It goes the opposite way too I'm not going to hate someone because they are an ugly duckling. Although can someone please tell Iggy to put a f*cking shirt on.

For the record, I disagree with just about all of that. I’m not discussing finding someone ‘hot’ as being appalling.
I am talking about comparing one woman artist against another in terms of their physical appearance, something that never, ever happens to chaps.

Bollocks.
Maybe not on this male-dominated forum, but in the real world that is exactly what happens.
That’s why Duran Duran were mega, and Thomas Dolby was an also ran.
Repeat ad infinitum with long lists of pretty boys vs credible musicians.

[Hightea]

To a degree, sure. But this is an old BCB argument - rock and roll should radiate fun/sex vs. rock and roll should be transcendent (which may or may not include notions or artiness or maturity or whatever dirty word you want to associate).

And then you have people like me who doesn't give a sh*t about, radiating fun, sex symbols, rnr should transcend music or does too much noodling crap. An artist/musician makes good or bad music everything else is just gravy. Sure we like lots of female musicians but we try our best not to get the looks get in the way on if the music is good or bad. It goes the opposite way too I'm not going to hate someone because they are an ugly duckling. Although can someone please tell Iggy to put a f*cking shirt on.

I’m not discussing finding someone ‘hot’ as being appalling.
I am talking about comparing one woman artist against another in terms of their physical appearance, something that never, ever happens to chaps.

funny I agree with your comment, maybe I didn't express it that way but I do agree.

[Minnie the Minx]

And then you have people like me who doesn't give a sh*t about, radiating fun, sex symbols, rnr should transcend music or does too much noodling crap. An artist/musician makes good or bad music everything else is just gravy. Sure we like lots of female musicians but we try our best not to get the looks get in the way on if the music is good or bad. It goes the opposite way too I'm not going to hate someone because they are an ugly duckling. Although can someone please tell Iggy to put a f*cking shirt on.

For the record, I disagree with just about all of that. I’m not discussing finding someone ‘hot’ as being appalling.
I am talking about comparing one woman artist against another in terms of their physical appearance, something that never, ever happens to chaps.

Bollocks.
Maybe not on this male-dominated forum, but in the real world that is exactly what happens.
That’s why Duran Duran were mega, and Thomas Dolby was an also ran.
Repeat ad infinitum with long lists of pretty boys vs credible musicians.

Are you deliberately not getting my point?

[Diamond Dog]

Ray Manzarek
Randy Newman
Diana Ross
Ian Curtis
Alan Vega
Joe Strummer
Sky Saxon
Johnny Thunders
Fats Domino
Lydia Lunch
Wilson Pickett
Kevin Ayers
Billy Fury
Ginger Baker
James Murphy
Roky Erickson
Annie Lennox
Adam Ant
Bob Mould


If I never heard a single second of all of the above for the rest of my life, I think I'd feel blessed.

oh dear

By that I assume you like quite a few of them.

Which takes my blessedness to levels previously considered unachievable
.

[naughty boy]

vaguely amusing

[Davey the Fat Boy]

I’m certainly not arguing that y’all can’t look back fondly on your nights spent alone with a Blondie poster. Sex was part of their act, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that. With apologies to Minnie, I don’t even think a comparison between the sexual appeal of Debbie Harry and Patti Smith is such a bad thing. But does it have to be such a stupid comparison?

Thinking back to their prime years, how about acknowledging that Harry was a conventionally exceptional-looking woman who gained power by knowing what everyone in the room was thinking about her and using it to her advantage? But if we do that, can we also acknowledge the sexuality inherent in Patti Smith’s incredible confidence and complete indifference to her audience’s preconceived ideas around beauty and gender?

She didn’t give a fuck - and she commanded her stage and her space like a force of nature. I don’t even love a lot of the tropes she employed...but it didn’t matter. She was always at the center of it. Lending it power and humanity. I liked her...even when I didn’t love the song. She was in complete control...and in music, that is always sexy.

I thought for a bit about complying with Coan’s request for a list of twenty songs. But with her it isn’t about the songs. It’s about these isolated moments within the songs. Hearing her caterwaul and careen between emotions in ways I generally wouldn’t buy from anyone else.

So yeah...In Davey’s Book Of Rock Done Right (foreword by Hatz) both Debbie Harry and Patti Smith were sexy in their own ways. Patti’s thing went far beyond that for me. That’s why I prefer her.

Shall we now compare Van Morrison’s and Jon Bon Jovi’s respective sex appeal?

[clive gash]

Van Morrison ‘68 or ‘18 (with those nice new teeth)?

[naughty boy]

I thought for a bit about complying with Coan’s request for a list of twenty songs. But with her it isn’t about the songs. It’s about these isolated moments within the songs.

We never did set up that Pseuds Corner, did we?

[Davey the Fat Boy]

It would be nice for you. Like a clubhouse.

[toomanyhatz]

No Horses:

Piss Factory
My Generation
Ask the Angels
Pissing in a River
Till Victory
Babelogue
Ghost Dance
So You Want To Be a Rock 'n Roll Star
Revenge
Dancing Barefoot
Seven Ways of Going
Gone Again
About a Boy
Waiting Underground
Farewell Reel
1969
Memento Mori
Boy Cried Wolf
Changing of the Guard
Seneca

[naughty boy]

It would be nice for you. Like a clubhouse.

Unsavory!

[naughty boy]

No Horses:

Piss Factory
My Generation
Ask the Angels
Pissing in a River
Till Victory
Babelogue
Ghost Dance
So You Want To Be a Rock 'n Roll Star
Revenge
Dancing Barefoot
Seven Ways of Going
Gone Again
About a Boy
Waiting Underground
Farewell Reel
1969
Memento Mori
Boy Cried Wolf
Changing of the Guard
Seneca

Thanks. I'll listen to the first few (at least) later.

[Goat Boy]

It would be nice for you. Like a clubhouse.

Unsavory!

Semi truth though

[naughty boy]

Go easy with the misappropriation of others' cultural identities there D!

[naughty boy]

Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh