they are so much more awful than rush.

who said god isn't a woman? if there was such a thing.

Pagans.

anyway if people are sticking to males only then here's the ultimate rock god

fuck those assholes.

Hell no they can't. Women are sex objects. Don't you pay attention to the media?

Hardly anyone has an ounce of fucking charisma anymore...
I mean have you seen fucking vampire weekend? Shit..
I know they are a particularyly awful example but it seems like having no cahrisma and exactly no danger factor is a trend in modern rock.
I mean shit... modern indie rock isn't gonna scare anyone's parents.
And none of the metal people have any rockstar qauality..

Safe is the new dangerous.

modern indie rock scares me cause it's so awful.

j/k

they're not trying to be, though. it's harmless, entertaining pop and vampire weekend from what i know are sweethearts and put on a hell of a fun live show.

much as i love Mr Svenonious and his emissions I don't think he has enough laughter lines to be a rock god, not really dionysian/odin oriented enough. Too articulate, a true hero no doubt but an auslander in the "rock god" domain (and gratefully so I'd imagine)

(curses, no umlaut!)

I do suspect that one of the legacies of the nineties really is that the generic notion of a rock god is somewhat redundant unless indulged in with a hefty dose of irony (ie the darkness/dragonforce/kid rock).

I'd say Beth Ditto is doing a pretty decent job of contemporising rock godliness these days but, y'know, a lot's riding on how that next album comes off.

svenonious is rad. soft focus is such a cool show.

I loved this response.

I've met Buckethead and seen him without the mask and talked about monster movies with the guy. I can't think of him as a rock god. He is pretty awesome, though.

He's not an 00's guy. I'm looking for someone modern.
That's why Corgan and Cobain are out too. they're not modern.

thom yorke lol

Marnie Stern

I can definitely see a time soon when the saturation of bands like Coldplay, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, etc, creates a massive critical backlash that will pave the way for a new Guns n Roses type outfit to once again clean up - which will, in itself, lead to yet another Radiohead-of-sorts, and so on. The depressing predictability of Rock is how it never seems able (at least in terms of its more commercial A-List) to break out of this cycle. There's always another Slash waiting in the wings, just as there's always another Jonny Greenwood.

this thread needs an offshoot