ICONS: Mojo Magazine lists the 100 greatest music stars of all time!

No one was excluded. They just didn't get enough votes. And who's George Benson? Maybe he's on spot 101.

Thank you.

That'll do just fine, yes.

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Okay, so I'm bored.... I tried to think of 50 other icons not on the list, and here's what I came up with (some have been mentioned here before):

John Bonham
Glenn Danzig
Chet Baker
Miles Davis
Billie Holiday
Trent Reznor
Leadbelly
Marianne Faithfull
G.G. Allin
Chuck D
Flavor Flav
LL Cool J
Afrika Bambaataa
Van Morrison
Beck
Glenn Miller
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Charlie Parker
Cliff Burton
Dave Gahan
Curtis Mayfield
Notorious B.I.G.
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Diana Ross
Lee Perry
Gene Simmons
Paul Stanley
Ace Frehley
Peter Criss
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jennifer Lopez
Little Richard
Tom Jones
Billy Idol
George Clinton
Flea
Townes van Zandt
Aaliyah
The Edge
Ritchie Blackmore
Dr Dre
Timbaland
Phil Spector
Zack De La Rocha
Tony Iommi
Eva Cassidy
Louis Armstrong
Barry White

After looking at your list, it has convinced me even further of how much the original list is screwy. Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Morrison, Beck, Louis Armstrong, Dr. Dre, Trent Reznor? Yes. Yes! YES!

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Britney, 50 cent? That list is bullcrap. I hate MTV.

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Do you have an icon fetish?

It's not---
Oh. Nevermind.

George Benson is a jazz musician (guitar) who is well respected (played with many big names) and had recorded jazz instrumentals in his early career. His album, "Breezin'" in 1976, had him singing for the first time (I think) showing he had a wonderful voice and had a monster song on the album, This Masquerade. It's a nice fusion of jazz, pop and soul. His popular time was late '70's early '80's with other huge songs such as On Broadway, Love Ballad, and Unchained Melody. He released a greatest hits CD earlier this year.


You're very welcome.


By the way, Peter...you made great list.


It's not MTV...read the first post...it's the british music magazine Mojo.

No f***ing Zappa?

P.S. - The way some of you are fighting to prove that Britney Spears isn't an icon, in a way, only goes further to prove what an icon she actually is. It's the sad truth, I'm afraid.

I know it's not MTV and i DON'T CARE. It' because of MTV that those excuses for an artists even have a place on the list whereas hundreds of good artists and bands don't.

Hmmm... That reminds me of another jazz guitarist not on the list but absolutely a legend, at least in the guitar world. The parisian gyspy Django Reinhardt burned his left hand really bad and could only use three fingers on it, which may be one of the reasons to his unique style that influences guitarists still to this day. Maybe the reason to why he isn't on the list is that his first name would cause more commotion in this thread than Britney.

That is a very good observation. I can't believe I didn't think of Zappa myself when making that other list of mine. But apparently I'm not the only one who forgot him...

My two personal Icons would have to be David Bowie and Trent Reznor, I literally worship them.

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Where the hell was Snoop Dog?

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

thanx

im ever so slightly retarded when i havent got my glasses on

i don't "view this list as". i thought we were talking.... music and stuff, talent, influence, celebrity... i don't expect, since childhood, to find a list any public place that would correspond to my tastes.





my list is
Tuxedomoon, there's NO greater and more influential American band than they.
Throwing Muses
Cocteau Twins
Wolfgang Press
Pixies
that for the *historical* bands that influenced each like 200 later bands

and more recent ones,
Radiohead
Catpower
Shannonwright
i still don't know the degree of influence they'll have.

now i know Hendrix and Pink Floyd will always be more famous. at least these ones deserve it, unlike Elton Jones and Phil Collins...

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Well, both Frank Black and Thom Yorke were on the list... And you should listen to Elton Jones' (?) '70s production.