Here Today... Gone To Hell!

There is a poll running on the home page of http://www.musicradar.com/ (http://www.musicradar.com/) so get over there and cast your votes for Axl!

They did a 'Greatest Drummer' poll recently that received over 100,000 votes and was widely reported on all the news agencies around the world - http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/greatest-drummer-of-the-last-25-years-the-results-are-in-270334#content (http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/greatest-drummer-of-the-last-25-years-the-results-are-in-270334#content)

If we get this posted around all GNR the sites and if anyone (Jarmo) can get it posted from the GNR facebook / Twitter / MySpace etc then we could easily get Axl to number one.  That's how Joey won the Drummer poll - it was all over the Slipknot pages and their label was posting about it everywhere.

Done. : ok:

Always nice to help Axl win these polls, the least we can do really is to spare 3 secs to vote.

Come on people...

It's my fault I know, last on 3Nov music radar asked on twitter to give up our favorite singer, I answered Axl... and looks like I was the only one who replied them...
To my surprise the poll started today and guess what hes leading with 12% along with Robert plant !
Keep voting folks !

The word must be spreading quickly because he was on 3% a couple of hours ago with Freddie Mercury on 14% and Robert Plant on 11%. 

Keep voting and tweeting the heck out of it ;-)

Voted and Axl's at 25% now.  ;D

Voted. 26%. C'mon.  :peace:

Done 28% : ok:

Done x3 - 29%

Hint : Use Multiple Browsers for Multiple Votes

Cant we just play it fair? If all GN'R fans give one vote it will be enough I think... :-)

Come on Zephyr, life isn't fair.  ;D

Lets use every means possible to make Axl win, do you think the other entrants fans care about 'fair'.


Lets do it.  : ok:

Let's hit this hard...Axl is among the best...no doubt about it

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In the last 15 minutes, I have got Axl up from 27% to 32% with alot of help from other people I'm sure. Keep doing this people, we can't do this all day so we need other people to help out as well.

Just voted...Axl is on 32%

well personaly i think axl doesn't give a damn about this polls
i don't give a damn either
we all know how great axl is, and if somebody other than axl wins people are gonna bitch about this poll...
i think its a waste of time to participate in this poll..

and i think there are better singers than axl in this list^^

What makes this important is that it gets the GNR name 'in lights' again.  The drummer poll was talked about on everything from BBC Radio 1 and Radio 6, to entertainment news on the TV in the UK, and NME magazine etc. 

Given the amount of bullshit written about Axl over the past few months in the UK press following Reading Festival / Dublin show etc it would be great to have this talked about in the news.

No one asked you to join the party, but since you are on a GN'R fan board, you must state your opinion. Axl probably don't care about this poll, but we as fans do, funny eh.

And if you don't think Axl is the best singer in the list, fine, but take your opinion elsewhere. This is a GN'R fan board, so don't come into threads just to vent your dislike of the positive aim of the thread.  :P

'Come on guys keep voting, I will start voting again a little later when I have time.'

voted for Axl, cant believe Vedder aint even on the list

Axl at 30%.

IF somebody wanted to cheat a little bit, by removing cookies from the web browser it would be possible to vote as many times a day as you wish.
Of course, I am not suggesting that we do this :)

29% now axl fuckin kicks ass ;D

got my vote!

28%

It's becoming less and less, but I think we are still way ahead.

Keep it up folks, and remember you can dis-connect your internet connection in control panel. And when you reconnect, and press repair connection you will be given a new IP address. Then delete cookies, and you can vote again.

Lets do it for Axl...

And before anyone goes on about fairness, you can bet a few other people are doing that for other artists. You got to fight fire with fire...  ;)

Done
Let?s go...

Cool -- Axl is in the lead w 28%, followed by Freddie Mercury w 16 and Robert Plant w 10. (nice company)
You fuckin' rock, Axl!!!

Done. I'll do it at work, but that's it, I won't change my IP for one of those (useless...) polls.

Just voted  : ok:

Axl is first with 27% , second is Freddie Mercury with 16%  :peace:

Go Gunners! Vote for Uncle!  ;)

Done... Axl got this poll by the balls...  : ok:

Does anybody know when this poll ends?.

voted

26%

FM 18 %

MusicRadar
 
So, Axl Rose has taken an early lead in our greatest lead singer poll. Agree? Disagree? Jump over to http://musicradar.com now to vote!

 :beer:

At the time of posting it's 28% to Axl.

Come on guys, keep at it.  ;D

voted. 33%  8)

just voted. he is murdering the competition.

Same after he got my vote!   : ok:

Voted! 1 time, 34%

I find this really funny. MusicRadar have taken a swipe at Axl every opportunity they've had, and are very pro Slash. They keep putting messages on facebook trying to get people to vote against Axl.

Maybe now they'll actually have to accept that at least a third of their readers actually like the new Guns n' Roses!

Freddie Mercury 16%

Jim Morrison 3%

Morrissey 2%

Stevie Nicks 0%

Robert Plant 11%

Iggy Pop 1%

Martha Reeves 0%

Smokey Robinson 0%

Axl Rose 35%

If they really didn't want him to win, they could've omitted his name from the list.  So it's on them, if they really care that badly.

I don't think that is true at all.  They report current headline news on GNR positive or negative because it's a news site.  Unfortunately for GNR, most of the headline news recently has been negative (Reading Festival, Dublin etc) - so it's not that they have an anti-Axl or anti-current line-up stance at all.   

Anyway - looking good so far on the poll! 

Jarmo - can you get whoever runs the GNR facebook to put out the link?!?!  With 4,000,000 fans on there it would be a huge boost if a small percentage went and voted.

voted  : ok:

I don't really care for all those polls but what the hell... Voted too.

Axl Rose 43%  :beer:

It was already tweeted on the GN'R Twitter...




/jarmo

GNR no more  Interscope artists on the site.

WTF ?

www.interscope.com

 ;D

http://www.interscope.com/gunsnroses

Oww Sorry! hauhahau..xxxxooxo..

Axl is beating everyone one else by miles, and rightfully so. I want it to end soon, but however long it lasts, we will make sure he wins.  ;D

I was a bit surprised that the merch page only contains stuff from 2006 and before ...
Where can we get official new merch apart from at the gig's?

Cheers

try these

http://www.play.com (http://www.play.com)

http://www.cdon.com (http://www.cdon.com)

http://www.chinesedemocracy.co.uk (http://www.chinesedemocracy.co.uk)  (go to the store section)

1. Axl 38%
2. Freddie Mercury 15 %

:)

good to see still holding his ground  :peace:

Axl at 35% but staying strong.

Any ideas when this poll ends?

No idea, I also asked earlier in the thread.

I think us gunners have done all the hard work at the beginning stages of this poll. I think it will take a hell of alot to catch us up now, and Axl's still way ahead comfortably.  :)

Just found this posted on twit... on Nov16th by MusicRadar

@MusicRadar MusicRadar
So, Axl Rose has taken an early lead in our greatest lead singer poll. Agree? Disagree? Jump over to http://musicradar.com now to vote!

And this one is from today, of topic though but mentions something we all like...

@MusicRadar MusicRadar
Dr Dre's own Chinese Democracy, Detox, is finally coming out in February 2011. Hooray?

Not sure either when it ends @ John and One.In.A.Million , usually it's a week or two I think...

Quicker way to Vote with Google Chrome

For those with the Google Chrome Browser, here's a much faster way to vote.

Copy the http://www.musicradar.com/ address so you can CTRL + V it every time.

Press Shift + Ctrl + N to launch a private window. Paste in the address you copies (CTRL + V), then Vote.

Now close the window (Ctrl + W or using the X in the corner) and then press Shift + Ctrl + N again.

Cookies arent saved in private browsing, so you can just vote and vote without having to clear cookie data.

Why all the cheats? If your name was up there, wouldn't you prefer to win by fair-play?

I think Axl can only come second to Freddie Mercury in a poll like this, anything else just wouldn't be fair.  :smoking:

Axl now at 30%
Freddie Mercury 17%

Still a healthy lead but let`s not get overconfident.

Come on everybody....votes for Axl!

Yeah your right, but I think there's no need to worry. As it used to be Axl - 26% at one point, and I was comfortable with that. I still think Axl will win this comfortably, as we did all the hard work at the beginning.  ;)

But we do need to keep an eye on it, as it slipped down the forum recently, because we was so ahead. I would like to know when this ends, it can't be long now surely.

Axl 25%
Freddie Mercury now 18%.

Still a good lead, BUT shrinking each day.

Come on....votes for Axl!!!!

it doesnt let me vote anymore.

When the hell is this going to end, we should have won like 2 weeks ago.  :P

As I have said before, it seems as if Music radar has a problem with Axl. I wouldn't be surprised the poll will be closed when Axl drops into 2nd place. But then I'm a cynic.

In any case, NOW would be a good time to get Axl`s lead up a bit, as that would to discourage Freddy Mercury`s voters and Musicradar will probably also end the poll when they see Axl`s lead widening again.

The homepage polls usually run for one month

I am a big Axl fan, but as far as greatest lead singer of all time, I don?t think Axl would get the top spot. He just has not done enough in his career as some of the other great lead singers of all time.   

So here would be my short list:

1.   Freddy Mercury
2.   Mick Jagger
3.   Steven Tyler
4.   Robert Plant
5.   Axl Rose

Rose will make my top five, but I think the 4 people in front of him on my list have all had greater careers and have all done more for rock n roll. There is no doubting the influence that Axl and GNR had on RNR history, but when you compare Axl?s work to that of those other lead singers ahead of him on my list, he fall just short.

In my mind, you can?t have just one great album. Don?t get me wrong, ?Appetite? was more than just a great album, it was a phenomenon, but when judging greatest of all time, you have to look at body of work. All of the singers in front of Axl on my list have not only had multiple years of success, but multiple decades of success, unlike Axl who was only really relevant in the late 80?s and early to mid 90?s.

Let?s face it, Chinese Democracy was a disappointment sales wise compared to the other GNR albums, and I think it only sold as well as it did, because of the long waited anticipation of CD.

Let?s hope the next GNR album will be better, (pun intended) and maybe Axl can move up on my list.

Go ahead; you can start yelling at me now.

Ben

I'll start the yelling I guess.

I agree with a lot of your opinion, but I dont understand your reasoning regarding CD.

Your not only comparing CD to AFD/UYI 1&2 here, but your comparing a rock-focused music scene to one which is drastically different some 15+ years later.

Show me albums from hard rock bands from the late 80s/early 90s that have had sales close to that of CD.

That aside, it seems you believe Axl needs to "make a better album" because of these sales figures. That's not what makes an album "good".

You must understand, there are lots of people out there, some on these boards, some not, that love Chinese Democracy. There are people, myself included, who actually listen to it on a daily basis. For us, it is the very album we always hoped it would be. And that's not blind faith -- I first heard CD around the time of its release and half expected to hate it. How wrong I was.

Also, who buys albums these days with so much piracy? It's not fair to compare sales from the '80s and '90s with something current. It will never be the same again.

And I feel very sorry for those of you who think a great album needs to be in the top of the charts. You're probably missing a lot, not only from GNR.

That's the main issue when it comes to sales. Most of the people would rather save their money and download it online, since there's like a million ways to get music for free on the internet these days. No matter how many copies it sold Chinese Democracy did draw a lot more attention than other albums which were released in the years before. And the myspace record thing proved that, CD got more than 3 million listens on the day when it was put on GN'Rs myspace page and that says a lot. I think if there wasn't so much piracy as in the 80s-90s it would probably sell 4-5 times more than it did. But numbers don't really mean a lot to them I think, the most important thing is they are happy with the final product if you ask me.

Don't forget that CD did break a MySpace record the night it was released, remember? In fact, MySpace was temporarily shut down that night because of the flood of people trying to access the album on their MySpace page. In modern Internet era terms, that is equivalent to masses of people lining up on a sidewalk outside a Tower Records; it was just a cyberspace stampede.

We are not judging on how prolific the singer was or how much volume of material he or she has produced. We are judging on raw talent, soul, versatility, vocal range, style, and the ability to communicate feeling and transfer emotion. "this ol'world is full of singers, but just a few are chosen to tear our hearts out when they sing" as the old country song goes. There are many "great" vocalists (range, octaves, technicality, tone, pitch, timber, etc.), but truthfully they are a dime a dozen. Many people are talented. Amazing singers are those that have the ability to transfer emotion to the listener. They can communicate deep, inner feelings through their style of singing.

Gnr did not just create a great album, Appetite is thee greatest rock album. That alone makes Axl the "voice" behind the greatest hard rock album of all time. True, Axl has not been prolific in his output, but it is a simple matter of quality over quantity here.

Tottally agree. Great post mate.

Axl 24, Freddy 19

Axl's is starting to lose this

c'mon guys ! let's vote!

There's a saying in football that apply here, "points on the board, are better than imagined points won"  : ok:

Axl 23%
Freddie 18%

I have just voted for Axl like 30 times, and it still hasn't moved from 23%. But this may not be a bad thing, because it means that loads of votes have been cast. And more importantly, although it seems judging by the percentages that we are just ahead, in terms of votes, I imagine the difference is huge.

Freddie Mercury might require a substantial amount of votes to claw this back, and I doubt it will happen. I just hope the folks at music radar give up and just call Axl Rose the rightful winner.  ;)

Keep voting people, it will count, and it can't be long now.

The greatest drummer poll had over 100,000 votes!  So hopefully you're right.

Axl`s lead seems to be holding......still 23% vs Freddie 18%.

Good job, friends!

Axl will take this! Cannot be much longer now......keep voting!

Well last night I managed to get him up to 24%, so it has slipped abit. And the bad news is that Freddie is now on 19% instead of just 18%.

People need to vote, there is alot of people who are not and that's cool but it really wouldn't wreck your day to take 3 seconds to vote.

On the main page, there's now another poll. Does it mean it's done? Does it mean Axl has won?

Well he was in the lead, we should expect a article about the voting just as the one about the best drummer.

Stay tuned.  : ok:

Yes!!!!
The score was Axl 23%, Freddie 18% just a few hours ago when I checked it the last time.

And the winner is....

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-30-greatest-lead-singers-of-all-time-315448/30#content

The public have spoken, and we can?t think of a more contentious choice for the greatest lead singer of all time. Forget the moustachioed, cornrowed croaking caricature of recent years and think back to the late 1980s. Axl Rose: dangerous, lean, angry, confrontational, controversial; the hotheaded, horny ginger stepchild of Steven Tyler and Robert Plant, a born rock star who made being fashionably late a lifestyle choice and started riots in the process.

In his autobiography, Slash recounts his first encounter with that legendary voice: ?Izzy brought me a tape of his band? it sounded like they were playing deep inside a jet engine. But through the static din, way in the background, I heard something intriguing, that I believed to be their singer?s voice. It was hard to make out and his squeal was so high-pitched that I thought it might be a technical flaw in the tape. It sounded like the squeak that a cassette makes just before the tape snaps ? except it was in key.?

Listen: Guns N? Roses ? Rocket Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TnL-LJKWE0

Your votes:
"Controversial, but if your looking for someone you just can't ignore for the voice, presence, song writing, and just plain prima donna frontman persona, then Axl Rose. Or for the nice guy, less of a voice, harder to hear but still intriguing vote, Michael Stipe." (From MrGawain, thanks)

"Axl Rose." (From Sondre and Chester via Facebook, thanks)

"Axl Rose." (From @MojoBak, @Joseevita via Twitter, thanks)

"Who is the greatest lead singer of all time? Axl Rose of course! Ronnie James Dio and Tom Jones deserve the mention as well." (From @___Zephyr___ via Twitter, thanks)



Told you- they really don't like that Axl is still popular in the Chinese Democracy era! I think that this poll prooves people still want to see him perform whoever his bandmates are. And who's this bloke who suggested Axl in the first place?

"Forget the moustachioed, cornrowed croaking caricature of recent years"

Fuck 'em. They HAD to say something negative about him. A caricature? Yeah, sure, that's why he has fuckin' WON that contest...oh wait, maybe only people who like Axl from 1987 to 1994 have voted for him, nobody who still likes him has voted.

Those people make me angry and sad... I wish I could just ignore them, but such a level of stupidity just has to be noticed!

so happy that Axl won

fuck musicradar - that's a bitter pill for them to swallow

it buggs them that Axl doesn't give the fuck about the media, and somehow is still so popular today...

Oops, just noticed the results as well via there tweet...

I'm not really sure why they mention us to forget the present and get back to the past though.
The past was great but I find the presence even more exciting, I'm sure it is for lots of us here on the forums and out there wherever that maybe.

Not sure if we should respond on there tweet or not... poke em with videos of the last few day's or so to convince themselves @ getting a little bit more positive... there is way to much negativity in the world already !

None the less Congratz to Axl, you are the real deal !!!

@MrGawain


Nobody, just a few fans... Though after rereading I noticed you where the first to be mentioned, nicely put btw !

Cheers

Fuck yeah. Congrats guys. Fuck musicradar.  ;D

Yes, the public has spoken and instead of respecting that, these clowns have to try to mock the result.

Nowhere in the poll did it specify that we were voting for a certain era.

What a bunch of ass clowns.



Congratulations to Axl. The public has spoken. And he won. ;D



/jarmo

Same old shit...the media has to take their cheap shots, and refuse to give credit where credit is do.  Yet they wonder why Axl doesn't do more interviews.  ::)

It's final here is some of the list:

1) Axl Rose
2) Freddy Mercury   
3) Robert Plant
4) Ronnie James Dio
5) John Lennon
6) Bruce Dickinson
7) Tom Yorke
8  Kurt Cobain
9) Matt Bellamy
10) Paul McCartney
11) Jim Morrison
12) James Hetfield
13) Maynard James Keenan
14) Mick Jaggar
15) James LaBrie
16) Bon Scott
17) Steven Tyler
18) Roger Daltrey
19) Getty Lee
20) Morrissey...

View the thumbnails of the rest here:

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-30-greatest-lead-singers-of-all-time-315448

Everyone who`s on twitter should tweet musicradar, i have, and pointed out that most guns n roses fans live in the present not the past. I have a theory that the media are worried that Axl is actually being successful without any of there influence( it must really annoy them) lol what a shame congrats Axl you`re the best by far  :smoking:

Hey, that's my tweet!  :):)

Congrats to Axl! :)

Congrats to Axl! Well deserved - past or present, nobody can beat him  :beer:

A well deserved win....and by a good margin (as I earlier mentioned it was 23% Axl vs 18 % Freddie just before the voting ended).

Btw, Axl is actually peaking right now in 2010.....a fact that stuped bullshit from musicradar (or anybody else) can`t change.

Haha! Congratulations Axl!  :beer: Totally fkn true.
FK musicradar for living in the past - great idea to tweet them clips from, well, ANY show this year! wake up to GnR 2010 - you'll be sorry you missed it in time to come. 

YES, thank god it has ended finally, thought it was going to go on forever.  ;D

A big thank you to the people in this thread who have been updating it regularly with myself, it finally paid off. Axl deserves the top spot, and I truely believe he is the best singer on that list.

A good quote by Zephyr too, well done.  : ok:

We did it Gunners, Axl on top yet again, and rightfully so.  :)

its in Norwegian media also: http://www.nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.7416571

Congrats Axl well deserved  : ok:

Lots so legends on this list...however, nice to see Axl take the very top spot for a change
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A big nation wide radio station here in Finland just reported musicradar`s poll result and Axl`s 1st place in their broadcast news!

It went something like this: "The all-time greatest singers (editor`s note: yep, they missed the "lead singer in a band" -part :) ) have now been put in order by a poll organized by musicradar.com. And the winner is.........(a few secs Axl singing "Sweet child o mine")......Axl Rose from Guns n roses!"
Freddie Mercury, Ronnie James Dio, John Lennon and a few other big names were also mentioned.

It was all positive and I think will bring good positive attention and recognition to Axl.

This musicradar`s poll result seems to be turning into much bigger news than I ever thought it will. At least many tens of thousands of radio listeners in Finland will hear this news. Earlier somebody here wrote that the result was reported in Norwegian media also.  And these are just 2 examples that we have heard of.
So what we seem to have here is world wide news which is announcing Axl as "all-time greatest (lead) singer)"!!!!

And I could not think of a better timing for this, with so many thing going great with GNR lately...........the momentum just keeps on building.

Thats's exactly what I meant when I said it's worth doing, what harm can it do. If anything, it will create positive news for GN'R for a change. I can't believe some people came into this thread to (1) state they can't be arsed to vote, or (2) to state they are voting for another candidate.

I would always vote for Axl because he is my favourite singer ever, and that's never going to change.  : ok:

VRArmy: The 30 greatest singers of all time - MusicRadar.com Kinda Dissapointed

and then my reply

Johncahilton:@VRArmy Truth is the truth hurts, don't you agree?

 :)

Congratulations to Axl and everyone who helped remind people who the best ever frontman is!!!!!!!!!!!  ;D


Some people will always find something to bitch about.

Looks like they should have their asses kicked properly since they've missed it so much.  ::)

Actually, they just did (get their asses kicked)...........Axl won!!!!
This poll culminates in that single fact, and that is the 1 thing that people will remember about this. Everything else is just meaningless sour whining!!!

The message lots and lots of people will hear it on the radio or read it in web-pages or magazines is: "Axl Rose, the all-time greatest (lead) singer".

I am quite happy about this :)

 

This was mentioned on the news of Planet Rock radio here in the UK. It's also one of the headlines on their website, here is a link to the actual news article they posted - http://www.planetrock.co.uk/Article.asp?id=2050086&spid=35830
(below that are some stupid comments from people who don't agree with Axl winning!)
Ian

Amazing news coverage, Planet Rock is a major music editorial.  : ok:

The people below are just the usual stupid idiots you find everywhere. The fact is Axl is the greatest lead singer ever, after a poll, which ran for a month. People had the opportunity to vote worldwide, and Axl came out winner, so fuck all the haters.  :yes:

Absolutely One.In.A.Million, people had a month !
A whole month to vote, after doing some SEO research I figured the site has a good amount of daily traffic...

Cheers

I always said that this was a huge poll, and it is no surprise that so many media outlets have picked it up.  The greatest drummer poll was even discussed on BBC Radio 5 during the drive time slot - and they interviewed other musicians and magazine editors about the results.

I think some people don't realise how big MusicRadar is - so here are some insider official official November stats for the site:

Global page views - 5,122,364
Global unique users - 763,616

UK page views - 1,959,907
UK unique users -173,203

It's pretty much one of the biggest 'music makers' website in the world. 

In Music Radar.com Axl was voted like The best frontmen and women in music....

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-30-greatest-lead-singers-of-all-time-315448/30#content

It was posted about 20 days ago.  : ok:

Yes, we had a thread going for over a month and all of the users and myself helped make Axl the winner rightfully so. Maybe you remember, or?.  :D

Seriously, it makes me angry when someone tries to take credit for posting a news story about Axl. When we as a forum, helped make that news headline happen, whilst this same user was not seen for dust.  :rant:

Maybe it's just me, but hey.  : ok:

It actually made radio news yesterday and the sun newspaper today so even the media are a little behind the times but at least it`s publicity : ok:

Mexico had an article about it on one of the largest news papers "EL Mural" same news but seems like lots of media picked on it this end of year

 ;D ;D ;D ;D Its hard for them to see a guy whos not being around for 14 years Top de list again.He is the last of the rock stars.

I think Bruce Dickisnon deserve no2 or no3.At his age and still running,jumping and singing better than ever.

At first I didn't really know what where the results would lead to, since musicradar didn't really put it very positively in words...
Though a month later other media seems to be picking it up and it seems to be getting positive after all.

Hell even MTV mentioned GN'R again and are not bitching the usual crap we get to hear and read.

Here's the article...  they couldn't resist to put the curly top hat dude first though...


Link http://www.mtv.com.au/news/caf7be95-Gigs-That-Rocked-In-2010-MTV-Classic/

Why you say he's not been around for 14 years? What about 1999, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2010 ! Did you missed out on something?
Very much agree on Bruce though !

Cheers

Don't forget 2007. They did the Versaci Show, Mexico, Japan, and Australia.