Your Favorite Frontmen... [Archive]

Spatula

01-23-2006, 04:21 AM

I was thinking today how much I admired bands like The Pixies, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, Queen, etc.

And that got me thinking to how they would be a lot less than what they are/were without their frontmen...so, let's list and talk about our favorite frontmen.

Mine are, in no specific order:

Zack De La Rocha - Rage Against the Machine
Bradley Nowell - Sublime
Freddie Mercury - Queen
Frank Black - The Pixies
Jeff Tweedy - Wilco
and Thom Yorke - Radiohead

CavernFest

01-23-2006, 04:23 AM

James Hetfield - Metallica
he's the greatest frontman and rhythm guitar player.

cheeseboy38!

01-23-2006, 02:51 PM

James Hetfield - Metallica
he's the greatest frontman and rhythm guitar player.
wow...
Cedric - At The Drive-In & Mars Volta
Issac Brock - Modest Mouse & Ugly Casanova
Anton Newcombe - The Brian Jonestown Massacre (or maybe just the most fucked up)
Zach is one of the best

Harmony

01-23-2006, 05:09 PM

David Bowie cause he's totally stylish and makes awesome music.
Frank Zappa, all down to the music. There's just no words for how great this guy is...

Mathx

01-23-2006, 05:56 PM

Spatula

01-23-2006, 09:32 PM

John Fogerty- Creedence Clearwater Revival
(though he broke up the band... he made them as well)
Jim Morrison- The Doors
(I heard that the Doors are playing again, i wonder who they replaced Jim with? But still will never be the same...)
Yeah, Queen is playing again, too. I think it's awful that they keep the same name and tour as a different band. You aren't Queen without Freddie Mercury...bullshit. That's like Audioslave calling themselves Rage Against the Machine.

Coded-Dude

01-23-2006, 09:39 PM

Iggy Pop - Iggy Pop (you have to see it to believe it people)
Howard Jones - Killswitch Engage (one of the best live singers period)
Maynard James Keenan - Tool (he's more of a backman than anythign but still....)
Danny Drake - Fragile System (gotta give em props - he is the shit)

Fiend

01-23-2006, 10:35 PM

Davey Havok-AFI. He's so damn awesome, I love his voice, and he's so energetic onstage. He's also very stylish.

Nivek Ogre-Skinny Puppy. He has great stage presence, wears cool costumes, rubs himself down with faux-blood and squirts the crowd with it, and spits green guts from a gas mask on the crowd(he spit on me! yeah baby!) during VX Gas Attack. You gotta love it.

BugenhagenXIII

01-23-2006, 11:14 PM

Freddie Mercury of Queen

I'm not sure who the front man of Symphony X. Michael Romeo and Russel Allen to do a good job of sharing the role. So I guess I'll just say both of them.

John McCrea of Cake.

MONSTER ZERO

01-23-2006, 11:17 PM

Cedric Bixler-Zavala The Mars Volta
John McCrea Cake
Ruben Albarran Cafe Tacuba

Zach Del La Rocha is pretty damn amazing too. isnt he making music with Dj SHadow?

Spatula

01-23-2006, 11:47 PM

Cedric Bixler-Zavala The Mars Volta
John McCrea Cake
Ruben Albarran Cafe Tacuba

Zach Del La Rocha is pretty damn amazing too. isnt he making music with Dj SHadow?
He worked with DJ Shadow and Trent Reznor (NIN fame), though I don't think any of it will be released fully any time soon.

(Refer to Farenheit 9/11 soundtrack)...

Rizon

01-24-2006, 12:35 AM

Dave King - Flogging Molly - Brought together Celtic Music and Punk
Matt Bellamy - He has the same last name as me, plus he's pretty good live from what i can remeber from V2004.
Zach Del La Rocha - Legend
Iggy Pops a freakin damn legend, so funny cringeworthy to see him at Reading Fest 2005.

cheeseboy38!

01-24-2006, 12:45 AM

Cedric Bixler-Zavala The Mars Volta
John McCrea Cake
Ruben Albarran Cafe Tacuba

Zach Del La Rocha is pretty damn amazing too. isnt he making music with Dj SHadow?
Yeah, they've acutally finished the record a couple years ago. Trent Reznor produced it. He said it was fucking amazing. He said zach hasn't released it for personal reasons. I also read he has more material with shadow as well.

Jesus

01-24-2006, 01:23 AM

Bon Scott - Worlds Greatest Everything.
Alexi Laiho - He shreds and sings AT THE SAME TIME
Frank Zappa - The Greatest Virtuoso
Bob Marley - Sung and Played Rhythm. But with his voice you'd think he was concentrating on Singing.
John Fogerty - Worlds Craziest So-Cal.

cheeseboy38!

01-24-2006, 04:09 AM

Cedric Bilxer Zavala, he really is just amazing. At The Drive-In & The Mars Volta honestly wouldn't be the same. His amazing voice with his sensational dance moves brings all the boys to the yard. Or at least he did when I saw Mars Volta live.

Gopherchux

01-24-2006, 04:59 AM

Howlin' Pelle Alqvist of The Hives. His commentary between songs is mockingly cocky.

James Dewees of Reggie And The Full Effect. Silly. Funny. Energetic.

Andrew WK of Andrew WK. He played shows even while in a wheelchair. He got really pumped at a show and accidentally broke his nose with his knee. He's really approachable. He also tends to let fans crowd the stage.

Jack White of The White Stripes. For shear talent and skill.

Jack Black of Tenacious D. The bootlegs i've downloaded and footage i've seen have proven he is sex supreme. He makes me cream jeans. "Put that sign down. It's mocking me." Besides, he plays the SAXABOOM!

Theres a bunch more, but those are the ones I felt like mentioning now.

Boggy700

01-24-2006, 06:27 AM

Zach Del La Rocha is pretty damn amazing too. isnt he making music with Dj SHadow?

They made about a whole album's worth of material and released one song on the internet.
It's called "March Of Death".
It's been out for years.

...What was the question?

Oh yeah.

My favorite frontmen are:
Thom Yorke of Radiohead.
Mike Patton of Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, General Patton Vs. The X-Ecutioners, Lovage, Faith No More, Peeping Tom (demo), Maldoror, and a Dillinger Escape Plan EP, and more, but a lot of those groups are more 'collaborations' than 'bands that are fronted'.
Dose One of cLOUDDEAD, Boom Bip & Dose One, Subtle, Them, Themselves, 13 & God (I think,) and others, but once again, collaboration type things.
MF Doom of Madvillain, King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn, but then again I'm not sure this counts.
Les Claypool, but I'm only familiar with Primus.
Sun Ra seems like a really cool guy!

And I'll probably remember a few more frontmen, but not enough to warrant a whole new post.
Oh well, I'll post them anyway.

cheeseboy38!

01-24-2006, 01:13 PM

How could I forget! Probably one of the greatest records I've ever heard! Although they're n ot very well known.
Jeff Magnum - Neutral Milk Hotel.
The record I speak of is In an Aeroplane Over the Sea. If you guys get a chance buy this record or download songs from this record. Their other 2 records are good, but In Areoplane is fucking amazing.

Generic Wheaties

01-24-2006, 01:28 PM

You know Freddy Mercury was gay right?

Haha.

Les Claypool of Primus.
Zach De La Rocha of Rage.
Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Alexi Laiho of COB. (haha)

Teh Roxor!

01-24-2006, 10:10 PM

None other than Fred Schneider, from the worlds greatest party band the B-52s. Prove me wrong.

Spatula

01-25-2006, 12:35 AM

cheeseboy38!

01-25-2006, 04:00 AM

Awesome! Somebody else actually knows them. Almost everybody I talk to about them doesn't know who they are and won't bother listening to me on how great of an album In Aero Plane is.

yetilover

01-25-2006, 08:58 AM

my favorite frontman is also my avatar

David

01-25-2006, 10:30 AM

Anthony Kiedis
Chris Cornell
Jim Morrison
Robert Plant
Eddie Vedder
Kurt Cobain
Gord Downie
Mick Jagger

Damnit, there's too many great ones.

Media

01-27-2006, 11:53 PM

A lot of them were already mentioned,
and I can't really think much right now.
But I'm truly surprised that one of the greatest frontmen
from one of the greatest bands ever isn't on here.

Roger Daltrey - The Who

Also, I'd like to make mention to

Claudio Sanchez - Coheed and Cambria.
The guys got talent.

Spatula

01-28-2006, 12:13 AM

Awesome! Somebody else actually knows them. Almost everybody I talk to about them doesn't know who they are and won't bother listening to me on how great of an album In Aero Plane is.
There are millions like us.

cheeseboy38!

01-28-2006, 04:05 AM

There are millions like us.

Thats very comforting to know. I hope NMH greatness will spread even more.

valiek

01-28-2006, 06:37 PM

I listen to too much music to really pick favorites but these are the best ones i can think of.

Zack De La Rocha of RATM - He was just amazing and i really miss hearing new music from him.

Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio - my overall favorite singer

Davey Havok of afi - pre sing the sorrow he was really good to see live.

Matt Embree of Rx Bandit

Stza of Choking Victim/Leftover Crack

Michale Graves from the Misfits, Gotham Road, Graves

Gopherchux

01-29-2006, 12:28 AM

Media, have you seen Claudio play with his teeth? How about his elbow? He's amazing live. Amazing.

cheeseboy38!

01-29-2006, 03:50 AM

He sings into the pickups on Devil in Jersey City.

Gopherchux

01-29-2006, 03:53 AM

ya, when he plays the guitar, he really plays it. To the max.

cheeseboy38!

01-29-2006, 04:14 AM

Yeah, I've been able to sing through the pickups. I've got an explorer, it's really cool.

Mirai

01-30-2006, 12:28 PM

5. Ed Kowalczyk (Live)
4. Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
3. Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses)
2. Bono (U2)
1. Freddy Mercury (Queen)

Those are the greatest frontmen I have witnessed. I personally would put Bono as number one, but that's only because I enjoy the songs he sings more then Queen, but I gotta give it to Freddy, he was the best.

But Bono and Freddy, man can they work a crowd.

C.J.

01-31-2006, 09:12 PM

Definitely Davey from A.F.I. for this generation. I guess Chris from Audioslave/Soundgarden counts as this gen too.

All time greats:
Bono
Hetfield
Freddy

And my personal all-time favorite ever of all time best:
Anthony Kiedis

Crow

02-01-2006, 04:06 PM

Justin Casablancas
Jack White

proref20

02-01-2006, 05:08 PM

Cool Thread !!!

Playing in a cover band you see and hear so much . . .
In no particular order . . .

David Lee Roth (Live with Van Halen he's amazing . . . Now he's just live)
Bon Scott or Brian Johnson (Both make that band what it is)
Jim Morrison (How he didn't die sooner we'll never know . . .)
Bono (No theatrics, but just so solid)
Bruce Dickenson (For those of you who have ever seen Iron Maiden Live . . .You know what I mean)

cheeseboy38!

02-02-2006, 04:16 AM

Speaking of Jim Morrison. Somebody came into the record store and asked if the Doors were on. I was playing Modest Mouse - Everywhere and his nasty parlor tricks. I thought it was funny.

Gopherchux

02-02-2006, 05:10 AM

you work in a record store? damn, I'm so jealous. It's my dream to one day own one.

and proref20, it's been rumored lately that diamond dave may reunite with van halen. that would be awesome.

Jesus

02-02-2006, 07:03 AM

I'm pretty sure thats confirmed.

Also Dickinson has some classic Live Quotes like

" The Moral Of this story, what Not to do When a Bird Shits on you " - Rime of the Ancient Mariner

" If theres a Problem! Clint Eastwood will Fix it! " - Where Eagles Dare

He says really weird shit before songs.

cheeseboy38!

02-02-2006, 03:54 PM

Justin Casablancas
Jack White

Did you mean Julian Casablancas (The Strokes)?

Crow

02-02-2006, 04:26 PM

yes, moment of stupidity...

WinterBorn

02-02-2006, 10:54 PM

Rozz Williams: Christian Death and Shadow Project (two of my favorite bands/ projects by him)

Peter Steele: Type O Negative and Carnovore

Bruce Dickenson: Iron Maiden

Dio: Black Sabbath (I loved him better then I did Ozzy)

David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Lou Reed: The Velvet Underground

Gavin Friday and Guggi: The Virgin Prunes

Andrew Eldrich (though a big jerk): Sisters of Mercy

Robert Smith: The Cure

etc....

Gilly

02-02-2006, 11:06 PM

Freddy Mercury.
Most defintely.

I was just listening to Queen Live Killers, and it reminded me of how much he kicked ass.

Mirai

02-04-2006, 03:16 PM

Bono (No theatrics, but just so solid)
No theatrics?

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/433/415_zootv-bono-03.jpg

http://ahktoong-baybi.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/macphisto-05-09-93-rotterdam-loveisblindness-favoritepic-b.jpg.w300h502.jpg

http://suprmchaos.com/bono-111801_full.jpg

That's all I could really convey in images.

Negativity

02-04-2006, 07:36 PM

Zach De La Rocha - Rage Against the Machine.*
Joey Ramone - The Ramones.
Iggy Pop - The Stooges.*

* I do not like this band, I mearly think the frontman does his job well.

Crow

02-04-2006, 10:00 PM

Richard Ashcroft...nuff said

Spatula

02-04-2006, 11:38 PM

I fucking hate Bono.

I'm going to have a kid one day and name it Bono and then slaughter it.

Don't hold me to that. But I hate Bono.

Jesus

02-04-2006, 11:43 PM

Wanna start a Political Party based around our hate for Bono?

Crow

02-04-2006, 11:45 PM

^^^+rep....

Mirai

02-05-2006, 03:57 AM

Lol, he is pretty easy to hate, but he does his job.

cheeseboy38!

02-05-2006, 04:04 AM

I don't really give a shit about U2. I can't say I hate Bono.

WinterBorn

02-05-2006, 05:34 AM

I love Bono but then again I agree with a lot of what he stands for. That is probably the big reason why I like him.

cheeseboy38!

02-05-2006, 04:19 PM

Bjork, but she really doesn'thave a "band". She's fucking amazing, so yeah. Bjork.

WinterBorn

02-06-2006, 03:06 AM

Bjork is way out there. I think she is creative but she is "too" creative. I know how can anyone be "too" creative? Well simple... When you do things all the time out of the ordinary it gets boring. I have a few of her albums but find a lot of her music boring.

Media

02-07-2006, 03:49 AM

@Gopher

Sorry for the laaaate response, but no, never seen him play with his teeth, although I've heard stories about all his crazy things he does. I honestly think Claudio is one of the most talented guitarists we've seen in a decade and/or a half.

I love how when they play live, Coheed go at a faster pace for "Everything Evil". It's exhilirating, dude. He interacts with the audience well, too. So yeah, Claudio is definately one of the best frontmen EVER.