Liam Gallagher Is The Greatest Frontman In Rock History

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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?

neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link

entire british posting contingent to thread

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

anagram, Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link

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

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Allbran Burg (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link

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...

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link

...is the correct answer

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link

this is absolutely fucking retarded

facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link

guys

it's Q

relax

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link

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

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link

hahahahahaha @ these alphabet thingies

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link

a load of ole shite, innit?

twice boiled cabbage is death, Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link

surely you mean shhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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

not_goodwin, Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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!

And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link

liam gallagher is captain britain. cuddling cerberus.

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link

the only Oasis release worth a shit is Wibbling Rivalry

Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link

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

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link

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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link

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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link

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?

black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link

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

dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link

ok then, who's the best frontman?

not_goodwin, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link

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

not_goodwin, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

jabba hands, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link

oh, dude.

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link

Barney Greenway!

Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link

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

not_goodwin, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link

not "a rock", "the rock"

not_goodwin, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link

his cousin's pretty good too

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Master of Treacle, Friday, 26 March 2010 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Q readers even.

Master of Treacle, Friday, 26 March 2010 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

anagram, Friday, 26 March 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link

you do need to tell me what it was pal

-_- (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 23 September 2017 10:42 (six years ago) link

oh new liam doh

-_- (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 23 September 2017 10:42 (six years ago) link

haha yup

kinder, Saturday, 23 September 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link

4 star review in new mojo !

mark e, Saturday, 23 September 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link

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

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 23 September 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link

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

nor Liam Gallagher.

be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 September 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link

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

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 23 September 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link

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

kinder, Saturday, 23 September 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 September 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link

Yet more dude.

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

Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 September 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link

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).

kinder, Monday, 25 September 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link

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.

AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link

not how i think of them.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link

Well, yes.

I ♥ LGx pic.twitter.com/YnpstvdLeX

— Simon Love (@simonloverules) October 6, 2017

Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link

Hah!

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 6 October 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link

lol @ "too nice"

calstars, Friday, 6 October 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link

Smiles

Mark G, Saturday, 7 October 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link

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

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

AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 October 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link

That's almost as good as Beavis & Butthead.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 October 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link

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

AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 October 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link

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

AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link

haha him and damian marley sharing a weedmobile in london

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link

yeah, lots of chuckles throughout all 3 eps.

mark e, Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link

3 eps?

calstars, Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link

Now that's Must See TV

calstars, Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link

3 eps?

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

mark e, Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

😴

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 October 2017 06:59 (six years ago) link

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.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link

He was always variable..

Mark G, Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link

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.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link

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

Mark G, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link

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.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link

celeb gogglebox vs liam.

has to be hungover weekend catchup tv surely !

mark e, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

Dispatches from the As You Were tour,

The Last Great Rock Star

Some stupid with a flare (Smoke Oan the Watter)

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 December 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link

no pyro no party

-_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 December 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link

seven months pass...

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

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link

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!)

AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 20 July 2018 05:36 (five years ago) link

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

BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link

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

Neil S, Friday, 20 July 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link

precisely

BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link

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.

AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 20 July 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link

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

BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link

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.

Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 July 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

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

calstars, Friday, 30 July 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

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 world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link

the interior life of liam gallagher

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

z_tbd, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 16:16 (eleven months ago) link

Shiv--My Old Man

a (waterface), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 17:22 (eleven months ago) link

whoops wrong thread

a (waterface), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 17:22 (eleven months ago) link

not if you knew his relationship with his father tbf

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 23:05 (eleven months ago) link


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