great music egos
soulsinging
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you know who i'm talking about... the totally self-obsessed douchebags who think they're god's gift to music. we love to hate them. but when it comes down to it, we cannot resist most of their tunes and have a certain fondness for their nutty antics... "what did he do this time?" it's like a favorite wayward child. a few personal favorites of mine:
liam gallagher- nobody talks more shit than this man. but you can bet your ass you recognize that voice when he comes on the radio, and there's no arguing with their first two albums.
axl rose- the mother of all rock prima donnas. he's moody, he sometimes fucks over his audience. but has anyone ever written a more rock and roll love song than sweet child of mine?
kanye west- he makes wild accusations about the president on national tv and crashes the grammys (or was it mtv) to grab an award he didn't win. he's not even a great wrapper. but his lyrics are a fresh change of pace from the narcissistic thug hip hop and he has a knack for a pop hook and production that nobody can touch.
thom yorke- i think he believes every good thing ever written about him, and thinks that making mediocre ambient albums real electronic artists have been producing for years somehow makes him a revolutionary musician. but let's face facts... everyone wants to hear what they're doing next.
liam gallagher- nobody talks more shit than this man. but you can bet your ass you recognize that voice when he comes on the radio, and there's no arguing with their first two albums.
axl rose- the mother of all rock prima donnas. he's moody, he sometimes fucks over his audience. but has anyone ever written a more rock and roll love song than sweet child of mine?
kanye west- he makes wild accusations about the president on national tv and crashes the grammys (or was it mtv) to grab an award he didn't win. he's not even a great wrapper. but his lyrics are a fresh change of pace from the narcissistic thug hip hop and he has a knack for a pop hook and production that nobody can touch.
thom yorke- i think he believes every good thing ever written about him, and thinks that making mediocre ambient albums real electronic artists have been producing for years somehow makes him a revolutionary musician. but let's face facts... everyone wants to hear what they're doing next.
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I enjoy his music a lot just not his attitude.
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Bono (Thinks he is God)
Liam
Also can I list the following and point out I have no love for either them or their music.
Elton John, Mariah Carey, Victoria 'Posh Spice' Beckham and of course a certain Creed frontman.
Roger Waters-claimed Pink Floyd was his, and he could barely play his instrument?
Paul McCartney-tried to switch Lennon/McCartney on song credits?
Gene Simmons- thinks KISS is absolutely amazing
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez- I think his ego works for his music
Zakk Wylde-what a douche
Anthony Keidis-went and seen them, rest of the band was totally into it, goofin off smilin. Keidis apparently had better things to do
Roger Waters-claimed Pink Floyd was his, and he could barely play his instrument?
Paul McCartney-tried to switch Lennon/McCartney on song credits?
Gene Simmons- thinks KISS is absolutely amazing
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez- I think his ego works for his music
Zakk Wylde-what a douche
Anthony Keidis-went and seen them, rest of the band was totally into it, goofin off smilin. Keidis apparently had better things to do
"If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy."
I think a lot of British musicians are like that. They believe the hype of the UK music press, and then they go over to the States where they're just little fish in a big pond again. Some artists have good management who can sell them to a major US record company, and then with some solid plugging and touring, they'll build up a good US fanbase. The others, the egomaniacs, just flounder. Look at that Robbie Williams, for a classic example.
Yeah, and I found that feud they had with Robbie very surreal. They're calling him all this bull shit, names and over hype and stuff...and they're just part of the exact same scene, completely oblivious to their own ignorrance. And I was reading in Uncut last week about their first US show, at the Whiskey in LA, what a bunch of chancers...drunk, and winging it,...shitting bricks more like without the fuckin NME to blow smoke up their arses the whole time, I just never took to them. Like I said, I'll give em what they're due, which is probably a decent enough greatest hits package, but as for stand alone albums.....sorry, just too patchy.
see, i figured bono was the opposite in some ways. they did two whole tours mocking the ridiculous hype surrounding themselves (zoo tv and popmart). i also don't see his humanitarianism as a symptom of ego so much as trying to put his fame to the best use he can.
that's the point... bono could do absolutely anything with his money. rather than mountains of blow and armies of hookers, he raises awareness for humanitarian issues. i think that's pretty good in my book. i know if i had his money i'd probly not be doing 1/1000th of what he does.
but anyway, this isn't a bono vs bono debate. i see how people perceive him as an egomaniac. carry on... who else have we got?
You know, I met Liam briefly, once, because I know a bloke who has done quite a bit of session work for the band. (Not saying which album he played on, though.) He was very pleasant to me, but then, I don't know what he would have been like in a different context ...
could you understand him? his speech is gibberish to me
Axl's easily the biggest psycho in rock history, but in fainess to the guy, he was molested and beaten as a child. Listen to Chris Jericho talk about how Axl's spiritual advisor sniffs the room out for negative vibes before Axl's allowed to enter.
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"So what happens is he showed up and he had this lady come into the room first. This older lady. She walked in the room. She kind of (sniffing sound) like sniffed the air a bit and kind of held her hand up for a couple seconds. It was like "What, is she casting a spell? What is going on?". And then he came in, and I found out later that she was the Spiritual Advisor. And she reads the room and reads the vibrations in the room to decide whether or not Axl can be there. And she liked all of our vibes and he came in.".-Chris Jericho
oh ive always felt they love hamming it up for the press. im sure they get a kick out of it.
It's funny what cocaine will do for someone's hearing.
hehe, so you could hear what he was thinking too eh?
I could see the fookin' cogs turnin' round, man. Tops. Mad fer it.
See These Bones
oh wait were referring to artists
8/7/08, 6/9/09
I think id be saying '....i can smell a huge pill of ... hhhmm ... i think it may be ... hhhmmm .... shit.....
oh wait - thats just you....'
Surely he cant have that much money left after going thru muso after muso, paying for this non existant cd, and the lastest tour. I dont know about america, but in australia he coped the crapest reviews ive ever seen.
I used to be a pretty big fan around the appitite era, but after they toured here the first time back then, i was so disapointed and disgusted with what i think was the worst performance ive ever seen i hardly listenend to them again.
But actually a giant sized ego probably goes a long way twards becoming a great artist. your average person with an inferiority complex doesn't "generally" achieve superstardom.