Axl In NME's 50 Rock Icons List!

[Mr Rage]

the info on pete doherty:

Was a member of The libertines (over-rated in my opinon)
Dated kate moss on and off
Started a new band babyshambles
Spends more time in court then in the studio
numerous visits to rehab but still can't get clean!
has a dedicated following who will not have a bad word said against him (mainly students)

like i said student mag, voted by students, man i've nearly got into punch up's with students trying to tell me doherty is a genies!

[Thorned Rose]

Cobain deserves to be up there... the guy was a pure ICON.

[Mattattack]

Liam is a bad ass mofo like Axl but the rest of the top four are a bunch of faggots.

[Eeebs]

Good to hear that Axl made the list. 

Nice to see his name in the press once again

[Elrothiel]

IMO Axl shoulda been number 1!

Kurt Cobain... he was alright I guess... number 16 or something...

Pete Doherty... NOT ON THE LIST!

NME: A piece of shit rag that I would rather wipe my ass with than actually waste time reading.

[bumblerocks]

IMO Axl shoulda been number 1!

Kurt Cobain... he was alright I guess... number 16 or something...

Pete Doherty... NOT ON THE LIST!

NME: A piece of shit rag that I would rather wipe my ass with than actually waste time reading.

nono, tell us how you really feel nice to see a girl who speaks her mind
i agree tho! axl should be number one fa sho!

[Pied_piper]

it is quite infuriating hearing berate pete doherty. a fair few hypocrites here...you have completely lapped up the press image of him, without a real insight into hus true being, and yet you all go off on your high horse if the media slate axl. Doherty is an exceptional poet, and very very good song writer, i am certainy not defending his latest antics, but it is clear to see drugs have suspended any sense of normality. ?and if anyone is in doubt of his ability:

In his passion, only a passion for life, he would, with deliberation, never hurrying, deliberately get words wrong.

'I don't' - when he did

'I will' - when he clearly won't

The careers officer, a plumping cheerless soul and a superb liar in his own right, surveyed the sorry specimen before him. This murky eyed bundle of hair and shabby blue suit. Mr Egg breathed a sigh of despair.

'So Spaniel... what are your interests or hobbies?'

'My answer, sir, here: I am quiet and lonesome and full of heavy mercury, industrial melancholy. I have patience without insight and insight without care for coherence. I make music in my head and wish that I was dead.'

The careers officer, Mr. Egg, nodded with false wisdom, discarded the Territorial Army brochures, and gazed with intent at the top of Spaniel O'Spaniel's head.

'Is there anything you want from life?'

Dangerous question, Egg.

'The answer to that, sir, is that I want Death On The Stairs.'

Laughter billowed at a most unnatural frequency, shocking the small office.

'When? When do you want Death On The Stairs?'

'When? The same time as all the fucking others - when I've been down in Albion in a Hackney Cabriolet. When all my domesticated heroes have died, when I've lied to my loved ones. When I've become immune to my own instincts, when I'm in so much debt I smash up telephone boxes and little old people in order to keep up my periodical subscriptions, and Jack McNasty, north west London's most bloodthirsty black hearted loan shark runs away from me in pity and fear.
When I lie between cold stone walls breathing gaseous fag ash, alone with the dust mites in this piteous vision.
When the night is worlds away from the day.'

A pause. Mr Egg, the Careers Officer, twirls his finger round a rubber plant leaf. Spaniel stands, in crescendo,

'When I know for a fact that the days in the sun were illusions.
When I see the tears and tears in my proud father's coat,
When my saviour, my lord, the one who promised me life
Is drinking in Stepney with his soon to be wife,
Then, sure as McFuckety,
It's time for Death On The Stairs.' ?

Peter Doherty

(sure this is not a literature contest but...) ?

..and great to see axl back in the limelight


and sorry for this sensational response

[Elrothiel]

Bumblerocks, of course I speak my mind! Like I'm gunna NOT say what I'm thinking!!!?

Fo' shizzle ma nizzle!!

[bumblerocks]

Bumblerocks, of course I speak my mind! Like I'm gunna NOT say what I'm thinking!!!?

Fo' shizzle ma nizzle!!

you know it!

ps. doherty has personality but icon? not yet.

[Elrothiel]

Ya he ain't an icon yet. I feel sorry for the shit he's been through, but he should NO WAY be above Axl on that list! He doesn't even come close!

[Tomorrows]

Thats a pretty shit list IMO. They could really do with some more of the "live fast, die young" icons like Jim Morrison.

And Johnny Marr? Hello? I like the Smiths but one of the 50 great rock icons?

[bumblerocks]

that list ain't objective for shit. bullshit list.

[Elrothiel]

They put Johnny Marr in there to sound "musically intellectual".
If they were REALLY musically intellectual they would have put Dimebag, Marilyn Manson, Freddy Mercury, John Lennon, Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, John Frusciante and/or Anthony Kiedis, Max Cavalera, Mick Jagger and/or Keith Richards, Angus Young, Robert Smith, Jack White, Eddie Van Halen, Nuno Bettencourt, and people like that.

[Tomorrows]

Yea - its usually the frontman who is the icon. Not always, but how many people could identify Johnny Marr from a photo? Or even by name?

[jimmythegent]

NME is a very British focused industry mag - not known for it's incisive journalism

[Mr Rage]

They put Johnny Marr in there to sound "musically intellectual".
If they were REALLY musically intellectual they would have put Dimebag, Marilyn Manson, Freddy Mercury, John Lennon, Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, John Frusciante and/or Anthony Kiedis, Max Cavalera, Mick Jagger and/or Keith Richards, Angus Young, Robert Smith, Jack White, Eddie Van Halen, Nuno Bettencourt, and people like that.

Jagger, jack white, were in
one thing that shocked me is they also did a list of who shouldn't be in their, kiedis was in that list n sid vishcos,
I was totally shocked, esecially as a bassist, sid is a icon for most bassists

[Evolution]

It's a pretty up itself magazine. 


Still, least the man made the list.

[Mr Rage]

Cobain is always gonna top the list coz of the way he died, if axl killed himself tomorrow, they would change there tune and say what a tourched genies he is!

[Minneapolisnewsman]

Axl came number 13 in the list, and typical NME student cock-sucking fasion couldn't even pay him a complament,
"with his whisky soaked, sunset strip voice, he is as famous for his pre-madonna ways as well as his songs, but rock would have been a much duller place without him"

Cobain came number 1, with pete doherty second which says everything about the NME and the people who read it!

Jesus Christ, at least provide a link.

[bumblerocks]

like i said student mag, voted by students, man i've nearly got into punch up's with students trying to tell me doherty is a genies!

Cobain is always gonna top the list coz of the way he died, if axl killed himself tomorrow, they would change there tune and say what a tourched genies he is!

you need to learn how to spell "genius".