Liam Gallagher Is The Greatest Frontman In Rock History

So say the readers of Q Magazine, anyway. Having never made it through a whole Oasis song, I'm in no position to judge. Any thoughts?

entire british posting contingent to thread

Well I'm British but I wouldn't agree with this at all. Doesn't he just stand still when he's singing? That's no kind of behaviour for a frontman.

s/greatest frontman/most obnoxious member of an overrated fucktarded annoying band in the history of EARS

never made it through a whole Oasis song

Neither does LG nowadays. Anyway, when Peter Kay is calling someone a "knobhead"... ah blah blah blah blah etc etc

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/04/23/lazy-dog.jpg

who reads Q Magazine (drunken britishers >30 presumably?)

The only way this "greatest frontman" vote could be even remotely accurate would be if Q readers hadn't listened to any music after 1994 oh wait...

I am a britisher over 30, and am drunk sometimes. I have not so much looked at a copy of "Q" for over a decade, possibly 15 years.

Liam Gallagher is not the greatest frontman in Rock History, he is a knob. Oasis are a crock of shit.

...is the correct answer

this is absolutely fucking retarded

guys

it's Q

relax

(xxxxpost) also standby for Mojo readers voting for the lead singer from Ocean Colour Scene

http://www.neillcameron.com/images/A_to_Z/A_to_Z-17_Q%20600px.jpg

http://ic.ucsb.edu/~praxis/icnic04/part1/013%20-%20Cooking%20%28The%20horrible%20chum%20bucket%20for%20the%20Fear%20Factor%20game%29.JPG

http://www.neillcameron.com/images/A_to_Z/A_to_Z-09_I%20600px.jpg

hahahahahaha @ these alphabet thingies

I have not so much looked at a copy of "Q" for over a decade, possibly 15 years.

The last issue I read was the 100th edition, which co-incidentally I unearthed during some clearing out today. I have no reason to believe that this month's Q contains any significantly different material.

http://www.neillcameron.com/A_to_Z.html

a load of ole shite, innit?

surely you mean shhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

wasn't Q the thinking mans music mag at some point?
judging by this revelation, i'm guessing it's not anymore.

so what's up with liam? is he still gonna be oasis w/o noel? that will be hilarious!

i don't listen to oasis but i look forward to all their interviews, they're a couple o' cut-ups!

liam gallagher is captain britain. cuddling cerberus.

the only Oasis release worth a shit is Wibbling Rivalry

I bought it for a little while when it first started, I don't recall it ever being "thinking man's" in any way whatsoever, it was more like patrick bateman's music magazine.

Q magazine, that is. I used to have the first five issues, which are apparently worth shitloads of money (TO L4YM0RZ) but the roof leaked, and they got all waterlogged.

Geir love's Q but even he wont agree with its readers.

I also saw Patti Smith tonight, who at 64yo is a better, more compelling frontperson than Liam Gallagher ever has been or ever will be.

she's 64!!!!?!?!?!

i saw her 2 years ago and jesus she did not seem 62. she barely seemed 42

is he still gonna be oasis w/o noel?

Yes - although how a band can continue after splitting with the songwriter who wrote all of their hits?

I witnessed Oasis's Unplugged set that Noel famous sang in place of Liam. While the music still sounded like owlshit, I barely noticed a difference in the quality of vocals. In fact I thought Noel was better.

This apparently=best frontman evar.

I seriously wish Oasis had never existed. Or "Q" magazine.

*buys a hot tub to prevent the Gallaghers' conception, but mistakenly gets rid of the prop comic*

ok then, who's the best frontman?

i don't know right now, bit drunk and sleepy, will decide in the morning.

your choices are genesis p orridge, will sheff or tiny from ultrasound

liam gallagher is a v good frontman. wouldn't say he is 'the greatest' personally but he's not terrible. struggling to think of anyone better from the uk since the 90s.

oh, dude.

Barney Greenway!

don't forget, it's "best in rock history"
when did rock begin btw?

Immediately after the Earth solidified, Immanuel and God created the various forms of mineral, plant and animal life. Then shortly thereafter they created the first physical bodies for human beings on Earth, which means this happened approximately 5 billion years ago.

not "a rock", "the rock"

Actually, I had the phrasing wrong. The official title bestowed on LG is "Greatest Frontman Of All Time." Don't know if that cuts anyone out who was previously in the running (Bing Crosby, maybe? Frank Sinatra fronted a band at one point before going solo...), but there you go.

My candidate for Greatest (UK-Based) Frontman Of All Time is probably Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. The guy is a fucking showman.

his cousin's pretty good too

I seriously wish Oasis had never existed. Or "Q" magazine.

― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Reference to Q readers not listening to anything post-1994, surely it's the other way around? Whatever his dubious qualities he's the obvious ''rock and roll'' choice esp. amongst the UK contingent. Who else, Chris martin? This is kinda the anti-Mojo poll result.

Anyway this is the same myopic bullshit as when Radiohead won the 1998 Greatest Album Ever poll with their 1997 album.

But y'know, Q and all that. Sorry, Q

Q readers even.

Whatever his dubious qualities he's the obvious ''rock and roll'' choice esp. amongst the UK contingent

Not getting this at all. He's boring to watch, surely a frontman should deport himself in an exciting "rock and roll" manner like, I dunno, Roger Daltrey or someone.

CAN'T BELIEVE Q READERS VOTED FOR SOMETHING

THIS IS LIKE WHEN NME JOURNALISTS LIKE SOMETHING

Not getting this at all. He's boring to watch, surely a frontman should deport himself in an exciting "rock and roll" manner like, I dunno, Roger Daltrey or someone

Agreed, but according to this poll Q readers' knowledge of frontmen goes back as far as Ian Brown or something.

They've obviously forgotten Ian Brown...

I dunno, I remember going to see Badly Drawn Boy at the albert hall, he played for 3 hours plus and not once did I check my watch during it.

But then 1) That's just me (and possibly other people who were there), 2) It comes down to the gig you are at anyway...

Absolutely not. His brother is a great songwriter though.

correct answer = Iggy Stooge

OK, I know that you lot are just going to write this off as "angry feminist complaining again" but I'm actually LOL-ing over this.

1) Liam Gallagher
2) Bono
3) Freddie Mercury
4) Damon Albarn
5) Chris Martin
6) Matt Bellamy
7) Jim Morrison
8) Bob Marley
9) Paul McCartney
10) John Lennon
11) Robbie Williams
12) Debbie Harry
13) Mick Jagger
14) Morrissey
15) John Lydon
16) James Brown
17) Bruce Springsteen
18) Robert Plant
19) Tom Meighan
20) Joe Strummer

Debbie Harry is a man?

I mean, seriously, I'm just LOL-ing so hard over this because it proves something I've thought for quite some time.

19 men, 1 woman, in a list of frontMEN. Like, did someone in a panic notice that the list was all-male and rush to insert a token woman, without realising that it was actually a LIST OF MEN by its very definition?

I mean, yeah, the list is o_0 on so many levels, but that did actually make me laugh quite hard yesterday.

Tom Meighan

Who he?

LOL

surprised they went for him over Alex Turner

http://www.kinkerbelle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/davidleeroth.jpg

WOW that list

Tom Meighan

Who he?

Lead singer of Kasabian AKA the band that has so little stage presence, replacing them with Weebles would be an improvement.

I can understand the Q readership voting for LG but I think I've misjudged what their readership is given that I've just seen Robbie Williams above a whole bunch of what I thought were legendary Q rock dudes (and that Harry Debbie bloke).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/images/artists/542x305/e135d690-9c53-4333-8f11-98aec8c9f434.jpg

^ bit of a Paul McCartney thing going on there!

did someone in a panic notice that the list was all-male and rush to insert a token woman,

Also, did someone in a panic notice that everyone on the list was white and rush to insert a token reggae artist and a token R&B/funk/soul artist?

"united.. WOOO!!!"

(xpost natch)

can't wait for Rock Band: TG

"Hamburger Lady, Hamburger Lady/ Now stick your hands in the air like you just don't care!"

everybody gonna dance tonight
everybody gonna feel uni
-ted

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/We_All_Stand_Together.jpg
What a day
What a day
what...
what, what a day

(actually that pic has got me thinking of a live action Rupert reboot starring Tim Westwood)

"We all live in a Zyklon B Zombie,
Zyklon B Zombie, Zyklon B Zombie"

"I Wanna Hold You Hand" in the style of "Persuasion"

Holy fucking shit, this list:

1) Liam Gallagher
2) Bono
3) Freddie Mercury
4) Damon Albarn
5) Chris Martin
6) Matt Bellamy
7) Jim Morrison
8) Bob Marley
9) Paul McCartney
10) John Lennon
11) Robbie Williams
12) Debbie Harry
13) Mick Jagger
14) Morrissey
15) John Lydon
16) James Brown
17) Bruce Springsteen
18) Robert Plant
19) Tom Meighan
20) Joe Strummer

Somehow I thought you wouldn't approve, Bill

Chris Martin - regardless of whether you like his music - is...I don't even know where to start

Well, the bits I've seen of him, he's a frontman fair enough.

Still, though

Chris Martin - regardless of whether you like his music - is...

Not quite Lux Interior?

Lux Interior fronting Coldplay would have been pretty much the best thing ever

I-huh-I-uh neverrrrrrrr meant to *leans up right close to an audience member* cause ya TRROUBLLLEEEEEE

6) Matt Bellamy

10) John Lennon

I don't think John Lennon was a "great frontman"

Too slow-moving and easy to hit

apparently he wasn't the greatest front man in The Beatles.

They didn't have a frontman!

Ian Dury?

He wasn't in the Beatles

People be in a bad mood today, I've noticed.

lol@ the list. Chris Martin? you're having a laugh, readership of "Q" magazine. Also, yeah as per k st c 19m/1f is ridiculous.

Usual tedious cultural myopia as well "all time" puts moron Liam up against some tough competition, eh. Liam Gallagher versus, say, Cab Calloway. Or Carmen Miranda. Uh, a tough one to choose...

this is dumb, but he was pretty mesmerizing the 2 times I saw them.

Debbie Harry is not a frontman, and Liam Gallagher is a stupid whining idiot with an IQ or less than 30. Other than that, the list is pretty much nice enough. Except it would have been much better without James Brown, but that goes without saying....

Maybe, maybe Greatest Interview in Live Forever, but Greatest Frontman in Rock History gtfo

Noel was great in "Live Forever", Liam just showed the world hos incredibly stupid he is.

liam gallagher can suck my dick after its been dipped in garlic and cocoa butter. he's no more a good frontman than I am a Tibetan monk

Mick Jagger at 13 is hilarious.

Also, BON FUCKING SCOTT.

Also, Lemmy.

rooming with an english dude and an american anglophile girl in my short life has kind of ruined me for anything british ever. like talking about music and movies with those people were the rare times i felt patriotic.

(tongue halfway in cheek. you have some cool shit.)

[mainly Amebix]

Just when I think I'm past being astonished by Geir's views on black music he says something retarded like this:

"Except it would have been much better without James Brown, but that goes without saying..."

Well, he says that all the time.

Better in what sense, Geir? Music you like? It's not a list of that.

You surely acknowledge he's a great frontman, right?

Master of Reality is pretty sick too.

You surely acknowledge he's a great frontman, right?

Better as a frontman than as a songwriter, maybe.

(And this is not about black music, it is about James Brown, and all his followers)

Discharge.

LOL Liam Gallagher

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc48/SAHBOFFICIAL/Official%20Alex%20Harvey%20Gallery/alexharveyofficial-5.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc48/SAHBOFFICIAL/Official%20Alex%20Harvey%20Gallery/alexharveyofficial-38.jpg

your choices are genesis p orridge, will sheff or tiny from ultrasound

― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, March 26, 2010 12:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

I used to be obsessed with Ultrasound, meeting tiny was one of the highlights of my teenage years.

I started reading through this thread and when I reached the list of the top 20 I had to google who Tom Meighan was, it made me laugh when several pictures of that gormless chumpl from Kasabian came up.

Where the hell is Prince on this list?

Fucking unbelievable. Once in a while news like this actually makes me proud to be American.

is liam actually slightly slow? like is there some sort of cred to be taken from being a total moron and luddite?

http://www.gq.com/style/ten-essentials/201106/liam-gallagher#slide=3

Muse fucking scares me. They're like fucking creepy shit. But people like 'em. They at least play guitars, but when I hear his voice I'm like, 'Ah, fuck him.'

I don't use gadgets. Like, people do all this shit on their phones. I just use it to ring my Mrs. and mates. Never sent an e-mail in me life. I've got no apps. I don't even know how to download music.

[After being asked by a doorman if he would like an umbrella in the rain during the interview:] "An umbrella? I only use those to stick up people's asses."

short, bleak answer: yes

if his point was "muse are fucking shit" i for one agree

That's Muse in a nutshell. Though I suppose he could have mentioned their crap videos set in outer space

the umbrella thing is like something Nelson Muntz would say

Nelson Muntz has hidden depths LG can only aspire to.

Muse >>>> anything Liam Gallagher has been involved in from 2002 onwards.

Liam Gallagher is a stupid whining idiot with an IQ or less than 30.

like this makes one less of a rock star

I don't use gadgets. Like, people do all this shit on their phones. I just use it to ring my Mrs. and mates. Never sent an e-mail in me life. I've got no apps. I don't even know how to download music.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wjrh9UtBYuA/TeYNw57i-FI/AAAAAAAAAmc/8xVjmuSGXPs/s1600/logo01.jpg

i fucking hate pretty green. total exhaustive range of terrace clobber type shite that is totally rote, and the logo is shite.

that's good, i could hear him saying it

This just gets better as it goes on:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/liam-gallagher-rescue-marriage-nicole-2097859

“I’m not too mad about not speaking to Noel. Especially because of the fact he has dumped the Labour Party for them Conservative b*****ds, that’s serious, that’s blood. Liam would never do that, never.”

“I don’t blame him for cheating on Patsy Kensit, Pasty Hens**t, she was awful,” Tommy said. “She is awful, she whistles when she talks. But I think Nicole’s pretty genuine and I love her sister as well.”

then you find out he hasn't even met them

mm, bit, um, repetitive, that story.

They must have spent all day with him, without him ever needing to buy a drink at all...

Tommy, who lives in the modest house in Burnage, Manchester, where Liam grew up, was standing in his back garden with blood dripping from his head and back when we first visited him.

A big rock had fallen on him as he was mending a fence. We took him to A&E for treatment but he shrugged off his injury to head for the pub.

Lol omg wtf

sounds very father ted lol

ppl dont understand that fr ted is actually a documentary series

did he really kick the bishop up the arse?

i'm tweeting the journalist who wrote this now btw if anyone fancies a lol.

Other than that, the list is pretty much nice enough. Except it would have been much better without James Brown, but that goes without saying....

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, March 27, 2010 12:43 AM (3 years ago)

boy i sure miss this guy

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/liam-gallagher-whatsapp-ricky-asap-rocky-a7883681.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGtWJAGXkAAWb0I.jpg

... one of the greatest cunts too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/liam-gallagher-reveals-never-met-20-year-old-daughter-aint-happening/

whatsapp ricky had me howling in bed last night.

he so was fuckin funny on stern last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV4BDOecG5o

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/8xqw7x/liam-gallagher-eternal-fuckin-shit-talker

New one isn't bad but the tempo could use a kick in the arse
It also sounds nearly identical to the oasis ripoff I penned for my old band 15 years ago

does anyone know what "our kid" was dissing Lee Mavers of the La's on Twitter yesterday??

You don't tell me nish esp when your called Fred you massive cunt Fred I'll Fred you through the needle of life

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) August 15, 2017

Neds rule, Freds drool

as you were - NR x

the whole saga including his very timely dissing of omnipresent media personality Lee Mavers and saying some band called the Real People invented the Foo Figthers or some shit

http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/liam-gallagher/news/liam-gallagher-random-epic-twitter-rant-reaction/#eYrhJLfxyBBL0AiM.97

does anyone know what "our kid" was dissing Lee Mavers of the La's on Twitter yesterday??

Maybe readers of Mojo have voted Lee Mavers as The Greatest Frontman In Rock History.

oh word? Did Lee Mavers know how to electrify the crowd by standing stock still with this hands behind his back too?

i'll think you'll find that liam's stagecraft involved a lot of bobbing, swaying, and leaning while standing with his hands behind his back

i watched supersonic a couple of weeks ago and i keep having oasis songs in my head now and have been playing the first two albums on spotify a lot

I've not been even remotely enthused about the band oasis since about 1995

neither were the band oasis if the subsequents records are anything to go by

beady eye albums to become lost classics in 10 years time.

truly the darkest timeline

i'll think you'll find that liam's stagecraft involved a lot of bobbing, swaying, and leaning while standing with his hands behind his back

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, August 15, 2017 2:11 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fair point

Always bemused by the amount of tears over oasis on ilm. Something something the fact of their popularity was also something something ilm ppl hate them. To act as if the popularity then becomes a reason to react against them is absurd.

The reaction to a q list, a fucking q list mind, upthread is ridiculous. A fucking q list!

the first two album are completely classic.. and yeah they make me laff they are funny guys

i am grateful for the american ilxors who can appreciate the gallaghers as musicians and clowns, sorta like finding people who also appreciate pauly shore or keanu reeves

that analogy does not make sense

No-one outside the US knows who Pauly Shore is so... it does make sense?

If you think defining cinematic masterpieces such as 'In The Army Now' and 'Encino Man' haven't travelled across the Atlantic, you are sorely mistaken.

Maybe it's just me then, I had to google the guy, I know the name but I had no idea what he looked like.

you're missing out, tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_peIOfTn0

omg

A+

ok lol

enjoyed that a lot.

Heard some shitty old plodding c-list Britpop song on the radio - slightly baffled how I hadn't heard it at the time, but it was really sub-Oasis pish, frontman desperately trying to sound like Liam in his heyday but somehow even more whiney, lyrics excruciating, actually made me slightly pine for the awful cheese of Be Here Now.

Anyway I don't need to tell you what it was.

Something from the first Robbie Williams album?

you do need to tell me what it was pal

oh new liam doh

haha yup

4 star review in new mojo !

I'm secretly hoping I like this album so I can place it high up on my EOY poll ballot.

can't believe this is washed-up joke of a performer is still on ILM.

nor Liam Gallagher.

Hey now, that's no way to talk about kinder.

http://d2trtkcohkrm90.cloudfront.net/images/emoji/apple/ios-10/33/0753.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUKrUqEesc

Yet more dude.

http://www.newsweek.com/2017/09/29/liam-gallagher-oasis-noel-you-were-668947.html

lovely stuff.

A couple of years ago, you tweeted that you wouldn't do a solo record because you're "not a cunt."
I know, I know, I know. I was lying when I said (that).

Eheh nice intw. Somehow his and NG's intw are always nice/fun. Each one, in his own way seems more sensible and funny than you'd expect.

not how i think of them.

Well, yes.

I ♥ LGx pic.twitter.com/YnpstvdLeX

— Simon Love (@simonloverules) October 6, 2017

Hah!

lol @ "too nice"

Smiles

I don't know if it's been mentioned already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGUU4Nd7xT8

That's almost as good as Beavis & Butthead.

Noel and Liam should reunite but not for Oasis : for a talkshow or something like that.

eheh in ep2 : "tea cups at Disneyland. in the rain".
he's not very harsh in his comments though. he's gone mild, man.

haha him and damian marley sharing a weedmobile in london

yeah, lots of chuckles throughout all 3 eps.

3 eps?

Now that's Must See TV

3 eps?

watched the one above via youtube, and there are another 2 episodes listed in the sidebar.

Hehehehe!

http://clashmusic.com/news/paul-weller-and-liam-gallagher-are-beefing

😴

Liam utterly crucifying 'Rock'n'Roll Star' on the BBC Red Button right now... he sounds fine on his latest LP vocally, but live it's clear he can't sing this anymore.

He was always variable..

He's been putting the title track from 'Be Here Now' into his set. 'Rockin' Chair' too, so he's clearly willing to play songs that Noel won't go anywhere these days.

Does Noel sing songs that Liam used to do? I know he used to (e.g. Cast No Shadow)

He's done '(It's Good) To Be Free', but nothing like the Oasis version and more in keeping with his solo style. It's different, but I couldn't say better.

celeb gogglebox vs liam.

has to be hungover weekend catchup tv surely !

Dispatches from the As You Were tour,

The Last Great Rock Star

Some stupid with a flare (Smoke Oan the Watter)

no pyro no party

Earth to noel listen up rkid I hear your doing gigs where people can't drink alcohol now that's the BeZarist thing you've done yet I forgive you now let's get the BIG O back together and stop fucking about the drinks are on me LG x

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) July 19, 2018

I don’t see the point of an Oasis come back since I suppose it would only be for a tour or one off gig, not a new album. If people want to hear Oasis songs live they just have to go to a LG gig. What’s the difference if it’s NG playing the basic chords with heavy distorsion in the back (and the rest of the band, no one cares surely...) ?
And for those who want to hear NG’s Oasis sung songs, same thing, they can go to his gigs, whatever his band’s name is atm.
That would the most useless come back ever imo (except for the bros who would make a mountain of pounds of course!)

there is a collossal audience of diehard oasis fans out there who are going to want to see this and will happily pay extraordinary amounts of cash to see it happen

cf. the denizens of this thread a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

precisely

Oh yeah I’m sure but that’s what I find silly.
It’s not I dunno, GnR for instance where it does make a difference to have Axl AND Slash on stage. Or Morrissey AND Marr, etc.

noel and liam ARE morrissey and marr to a lot of middle-aged mods and young people inexplicably trapped in 1995, tho

I was listening to the Big Star box set last night, and especially the version of Chris Bell's I Am The Cosmos (which I think is a slightly different mix from the version I know from the Rykodisc Bell collection). The singing sounds like, well, Big Star, but the guitar playing and instrumental passages really reminded me of Oasis. Of course both Bell and the Gallaghers are well known Beatle worshippers, but it brought home to me just how much of a Creation band Oasis actually could be at times - betcha McGee played the Bell song to Noel at some point or other.

https://i.imgur.com/WzHevae.jpg

Guess the reunion's off then

I don’t wish AIDS on people I turn up and play the MUSIC for the people of MANCHESTER who have just had a terror attack while you sit on your dingy sipping champagne and you got the audacity to call me a COWARD sit down you 🛎 end

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) May 24, 2023

the interior life of liam gallagher

https://i.imgur.com/OoryPPn.png

Shiv--My Old Man

whoops wrong thread

not if you knew his relationship with his father tbf