Well, since everyone is complaining about how much NME sucks with their hero list, we should make our own. How it goes down is everyone nominates their top 3 heros and then on June 1st I will take the top 20 nominees and put them in a poll, and you will vote for them and we will get our top 20 hero list

My three top Rock Heros
Craig Nicholls
Patti Smith
Bob Dylan

good idea

John Lennon
Julian Casablancas
Craig Nicholls

cool


John Lennon
Thom Yorke
Craig Nicholls

Billy Corgan
Conor Oberst
Ben Ottewell (althought i dont think he will get much votes )

Dave Mustain
Kurt Cobain
Pekka Kokko

Jarvis Cocker
Pete Doherty
Matt Bellamy

Well, I guess you mean "heroes" not heroes, do you?

Paul Banks
Damon Albarn
Graham Coxon
Daniel Kessler

Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Beck Hansen

in no particular order:

Craig Nicholls
Jarvis Cocker
Patrick Wolf

1 - Craig Nicholls
2 - Peter Doherty
3 - Brett Anderson

Thom Yorke
Craig Nicholls
Eddie Vedder

Craig Nicholls
Alex Kapranos
Thom Yorke

How can someone put Craig Nicholls on the same list as Patti Smith?

Ihatemusic, you're so cute. Daniel...

Noel Gallagher
Thom Yorke
Liam Gallagher

What does Thom do there? I don't know...

Thom Yorke
Brett Anderson
Julian Casablancas

1. thom yorke

and if thom doesn't win this one, there is no justice

I figured yours would be Thom Yorke three times or Thom, Jonny, and Ed or something (personally I might substitute Ed for Colin however)/

argh I wanna add Carl Barat to the list...he's so great.

yep

Mine would be :

1 John Lennon
2 Franck Black
3 Bob Dylan

Craig nicholls...

Kurt Cobain
Craig Nicholls
Jack White

Tim Rogers
Craig Nicholls
Chris Cheney
Johnny Thunders
Dee Dee Ramone
Richard Hell
Dave Gilmour

Kurt Cobain... just kidding, he sucks.

didnt NME proclaim Pete Doherty as sexiest man? I dont see whats wrong with that. =]

i look up to myself. not only am i open minded and kind hearted, but i am very smart (a genius) and will usually make the right decisions (i am human though and make small (very small) mistakes. sometimes). if any of you need a mentor, as the giving person i am, i volunteer. i only hope that some day a person will come around who can show me an even better way (if that is possible) of living.

I choose not to believe in heroes.

It's the only righteous thing NME's ever done.

yeah the cracked out look is so in.........

Carl is so much more attractive.

Pete Doherty is fat.

Yo' momma is fat.

Apart from make it so that you know The Strokes?

I didn't get to know The Strokes through NME.

You are one of a kind then.

hahaha

Pete Doherty is god.

I didn't either. Mine is even more shamefull.

No, but I'm willing to bet that if the NME hadn't spaffed over them as much as they had, you wouldn't have known them when you did.

oh m-god yes!! ok
Beck Hansen
Ryan Ross(er)
Yanni .........no wait, jack white

Oh, to be fair, I think The Strokes would have been fairly big without the help of the NME, too.

Bob Dylan
Conor Oberst
Beck Hansen
George Harrison

Where do you know The Strokes from Ihatemusic?

Oh, you mean... this... interview...

Did I say too much?

They are both musical genious', so why not?

Uhhm...
Courtney Love
Craig Nicholls
Kurt Cobain

Ok, so our nominee list so far is

Craig Nicholls (7)
Thom Yorke (6)
John Lennon (4)
Beck Hanson (3)
Kurt Cobain (3)
Pete Doherty(2)
Brett Anderson (2)
bob Dylan (2)
Jack White (2)
Julian Casablancas (2)
Conor Oberst (2)
Jarvis Cocker (2)
Billy Corgan
Ben Ottewell
Dave MustainE
Pekka Kokko
Matt Bellamy
Paul Banks
Damon Albarn
Graham Coxon
Daniel Kessler
Paul McCartney
Patrick Wolf
Eddie Vedder
Alex Kapranos
Noel Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
Caral Barat
Franck Black
Tim Rogers
Chris Cheney
Johnny Thunders
Dee Dee Ramone
Richard Hell
Dave Gilmour
Ryan Rosser
George Harrison
Courtney Love

Not all of the people on this list will make it onto the polls. I am only taking the top 20, so everyone with multiple votes and I will use my best judgment to pick the ones that only got 1 vote to fill out the list.

NOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T VOTED: I doubt we are going to get more then 20 people with multiple votes, so you shouldnt vote for them because they already made it to the polls. Vote for people with one or no votes.

1. 'Genuises', and they're not possessing anything in that sentence.
2. Craig Nicholls is not a musical genius. To suggest he's comparable to Patti Smith is absurd.

The meaning of the word 'genius' as the generel used term is rather vague, though.

Really?

Isn't it?
Maybe I didn't say it right.

I looked it up some time ago and read it can also just mean: a creator of something of high value to someone else, that he himself could not create. (Vaguely something like that.)

I suppose it is a bit hard to define...but basically Patti Smith is an example of a genius, and Craig Nicholls is not. No one else could do what Patti Smith does; lots of people could do what Craig Nicholls does.

1 _ Kurt Cobain
2 _ John Lennon
3 _ Paul McCartney
4 _ Dave Gilmour
5 _ Craig Nicholls (i say him because i think he's a hero but of course he's got the time to become a guy like John Lennon, a guy who'll stay in our memories forever !!)

If I nominate Craig twice, will this count?


*nominates Craig one more time just in case*

Neither. The NME isnt very big in New Zealand.

I didnt even know what the NME was untill I joined this board so yeh..