Tom DeLonge


Mark Hoppus


The guys from blink-182, those guys are great. Other than Smashing Pumpkins, blink-182 is my favorite band. There last album is amazing!!! I wish they wouldn't have broken up...

The guys from Jimmy Eat World are really down to earth too...

Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand


and of course John Lennon

Ahh yes, don't forget the Beatles! All those guys are great.

suprised someone else didn't think of them by now


or Led Zeppelin


both influential bands

you guys have to listen to an australian band called "something for kate", they are seriously awsome. check out the tracks, "3 dimensions, stunt show, whatever you want". such a great australian band.

Crystal Castles

i always love to hear interviews with lead singers of different bands that are actually intelectual. I'm not a fan of Marilyn Manson but he's very intelligent, or so he seems in interviews. Others include David Draiman of Disturbed and the lead singer of Third Eye Blind. (Something Jenkins, maybe Steve? haha)

most of the names that have come up here are surprisingly bland to me....interesting.

guess I'm just getting old.

Bloc Party is a great band and I think their lead singer Kele Okereke is more of an intellectual type from the way he talks. He is also a great song writer.

HeavyMetalMachine wrote:
no, but seriously

Beck


Robert Smith


i love robert smith

he looks like edward scissor hands sometimes haha

the cure are great



matt Bellamy is awesome, hes from muse just so you know

blueczarina wrote:
Bloc Party is a great band and I think their lead singer Kele Okereke is more of an intellectual type from the way he talks. He is also a great song writer.



*pets the band* I think they are the prettiest group of men out there today. YUM.

Also a hearty thumbs up to the people who posted Bowie, Bellamy and Beatles pics.

I vote another person: Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill/Le Tigre. Feisty, feminist, brilliant lyrics, never afraid to be herself.

he looks like edward scissor hands sometimes haha

haha, yeah he does

I used to be a HYOOGE fan of blink-182, but then I discovered real music.



I still like them, just not as much. I wouldn't go so far as to say that they are great personalities in music.

Used to be the same with Green Day. Except now they irritate me very much.

I will stab the next person that posts a picture of anyone from My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, or Panic! at the Disco.

You got lucky with blink.


Now HERE are some great influential people who haven't (afaicr) been mentioned.

SYD BARRET!!!

(is it Sid or Syd?)

JOHNNY ROTTEN and SID VICIOUS!

BONO!!!

BOB DYLAN!

JIM MORRISON!

ELTON JOHN!

DAVE GROHL!

JIMI HENDRIX!!!

JOHNNY CASH!

MICHAEL JACKSON!

EVERYONE FROM METALLICA!

LIAM and NOEL GALLAGHER!

EVERYONE FROM RAMONES!

EVERYONE FROM RHCP!

CHRIS CORNELL!

JACK and MEG WHITE!

EVERYONE FROM THE WHO!

ME!!!

Geek NZ, surprised you didn't mention Crowded House, they're a great aussie band lol (had to haha), but as Robertedge said, Something FOr Kate are an amazing band with unique voice, great guitar riffs and the bassist is a girl too! So many comparisons to SP, except they're unique in their own way

Another few great bands from Australia include:
- The Living End who are sort of jangly technical punk with talented and down-to-earth musicians ... the singer plays awesome solos on his Gretsch while standing on their bass players double bass they're really cool ... check out Wake Up, elements of Floyd, Cure, and Clash

- Silverchair, great band live their song Freak is mad, best album to me is Diorama, one of my fav's ... there new one Young Modern is a bit so so...

- Grinspoon - hard rock band with an occasional acoustic side also sometimes along the lines of Blink 182
- John Butler Trio - hippy-lookin (and you could say sounding) environmentalist with cool laid-back tunes, bit funky, Ben Harperish

Can't go without plugging myself haha

i should start getting into aussie music, i don't hear much in the U.S. what's some good bands?