Top 5 Frontmen OF ALL TIME - Listen to the Podcast and Share Your List!

[twinkiebeyond]

James Brown x5.

[Cubecubed]

1. Freddie Mercury...duh.
2. Roger Daltrey
3. Robert Plant
4. David Bowie
5. Dave Grohl

Pretty much your standard cliche list...until THE GROHL.

[MRNINJA]

Freddie Mercury

Elvis Presley

Pat Benatar

David Bowie

Paul Rodgers

And i know ms. benatar is a woman...She really is amazing!

[FujiSkunk]

My current top five, which will probably change in five minutes:

• Freddie Mercury - Yes, obvious.
• David Lee Roth - To me, also obvious.
• Roger Daltry - Maybe not quite as obvious, but he's a performer just like Roth and Mercry. And he knows how to scream.
• Jim Morrison - Another one I had to think about, but not really too much.
• Jeff Lynne - Maybe he's not the showman the others are, but with his ever-present sunglasses and perm, and the fact that he's just as responsible for ELO's sound behind the microphone as in front, he gets my vote.

Alan Parsons is in a special place. In the conventional sense he's not a front man. Across the entire APP and AP-solo catalog, he has sung lead all of twice, and one of those was through a vocoder. He doesn't play any lead instruments either, relegating himself to synth programming and some occasional rhythm guitar. Sometimes he's not in front of the microphone at all! And yet, there are very few producers that create a sound as singularly identifiable as Parsons, and of course he managed to get his name in the band's name. So it's like this: Jack Nicholson was the face of The Shining, but it was the product of Stanley Kubrick. Which one fronted that movie?

And by the way, Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein died, though it was after he left the band.

[seriousbusson]

I dunno, I think if you looked up the word "overrated" in the dictionary, you'd find Freddie Mercury's picture alongside Michael Jackson's. My list would be:

1- Bruce Dickinson
2- Michael Hutchence
3- Prince
4- Chuck Berry
5- Ronnie James Dio

[afterstasis]

Daniel Johnston
Benjamin Smoke
John Darnielle
Fenriz
Ian Curtis

[ClaptonsWig]

Daniel Johnston
Benjamin Smoke
John Darnielle
Fenriz
Ian Curtis

Epileptic dance FTW!

[RosaFloydGuy]

Freddie Mercury
Roger Waters
Bruce Dickinson
David Bowie
Dave Grohl

[Runesmith]

2- Michael Hutchence
3- Prince

Absolutely. They'd both be on the shortlist. Dat male sensuality.

For me, it'd look something like this:

1. Peter Steele (Type O Negative)
2. Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)
3. Roy Orbison
4. Robert Smith (The Cure)
5. Prince (the kitchen sink)

If I had my druthers, I'd try to fit in Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, but she's not nearly as iconic as the others.

Arrrgh can't believe I forgot Eric Sean Nally of Foxy Shazam!

[ClaptonsWig]

GG Allin?