Most worthless member of a pop music group

[swag]

Poll question: Most worthless member of a pop music group

Joel Gion, Brian Jonestown Massacre

Bez, from Happy Mondays (a pretty worthless band, though they did have four songs, by my count, that vindicated their existence)

Jerry Garcia (the basis for the character "Ralph Garcy" in the movie Fame)

[GirlinContempt]

1. Burton Cummings

[driver8]

2. Burton Cummings?? Explain, please...

In my opinion, Burton Cummings has one of the best voices in rock.

[GirlinContempt]

4. You've never seeing him swaggering around a salsbury house

chomping on like 6 cheese nips like a fucking hero. Trust me

[driver8]

11. Well, since you put it that way...

He still has one of the best voices in rock.

[swag]

3. David Clayton Thomas for the Coors Light set.

A wise choice indeed.

[GirlinContempt]

5. I'm as drunk as burton cummings right now

The fact that I've matched his #1 accomplishment in life in my mid-20's says it all

[swag]

6. What?

You clogged the toilet on a Sunday morning?

[GirlinContempt]

10. You gotta give him a LITTLE more credit

He DID, after all, show up drunk at a Salsbury House ( http://www.salisburyhouse.ca/ ) and fall over on the grill.

[swag]

26. I've done better than that,

and we shall never speak of it again.

Now what was the greatest BC accomplishment that you matched?

[GirlinContempt]

28. Getting pissedtanked

Thats the #1.

#2 would be crashing an event at the local Burton Cummings Theater ( http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/139404? ) and 'performing' the bathroom.

How have YOU matched or exceeded Mr Cummings?!

Oh, we also impersonated Burton on Livejournal, got banned, and started a live journal community to commemorate our efforts: http://community.livejournal.com/burton_cummings/

But, seriously, I'm pretty pisstanked. And getting ready to go out. This can only lead to disaster.

[swag]

30. Fuck shit up

Do it punk

[GirlinContempt]

31. So heres the deal:

1. We meet up (Your place or mine, whatever)
2. Get totally pisstanked. Like shitfaced. Blitzed. Hosed. Hammered. Etc.
3. See who can cause the most B.C.-esque shenanigans
4. Post about it on DU
5. Have eggs benny for brunch


Deal?

[swag]

33. Sounds better than the DU Oscars pool, fer certain.

Bloodies and/or mimosas with the benedict goes without saying

[GirlinContempt]

35. And this is why

I adore you
And will out-do you in BCfeats

Bring it, bitch

[Fenris]

7. I'd say Joel Gion...

But seeing as I consider the Brian Jonestown Massacre as worthless in general, I have to go with Bez. Although Bez did have a lot of drugs, which is always a plus. Without Bez, the Happy Mondays story wouldn't be quite as funny.

[swag]

8. I'm sure you're right,

even though I voted Bez and extoll the virtues of Burton Cummings and Ralph Garcy.

[Fenris]

9. I will say this about Jerry Garcia...

In the film "Festival Express" there's great footage of him playing lead with Janis Joplin and one of the guys from the Band on rythym. Everyone in the scene looks completely fucked up on drugs and booze, and Joplin is warbling with a voice that sounds like she swallowed shards of glass. The whole thing is fucking chaotic.

Garcia never missed a note.

I hate the Grateful Dead, but that impressed me.

[driver8]

12. I'm not a Dead fan, but Garcia could play!! I have always liked

his style.

[swag]

13. Yeah, he lived there,

but so what?

He was great in Fame, though, I agree.

[driver8]

14. How about the "other guy" in Wham? What was his function?

Is Wham even considered a pop group?

Discuss...

[swag]

21. He was the catcher

[driver8]

24. Ha Ha! Good one. n/t

[no name no slogan]

23. Andrew Ridgley wrote all the songs

but was not as pretty. But he was an okay racecar driver, or so I've heard

[driver8]

25. He wrote the songs?? Damn, he is one rich m-fer, then. n/t

[no name no slogan]

27. Yeah, but he doesn't get arrested

and stays out of the headlines :(

[WCGreen]

15. Oates

[Fenris]

16. If Hall grew a mustache there would be no reason for Oates to exist

[WCGreen]

38. But who would play the bass....

[bbernardini]

39. T-Bone Wolk. Oates plays guitar and sings.

[WCGreen]

41. You are right.....

But Hall is the heart and soul of that pair.....

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. How can you put Jerry Garcia in that lineup?

Fuck, even if you don't like the Grateful Dead (and they certainly were not a pop band, either, by any account), Jerry was one of the hearts and souls of the band, an essential element.

Certainly not worthless - he was necessary!

[swag]

19. Yeah,

I thought he was great in Fame.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Garfunkel

[Robeson]

43. No doubt. Simon didn't even need him.

[no name no slogan]

20. The first thing I thought when I saw the thread title was "Bez"

99% worthless. About as interesting as a Fred Schneider solo album, yet somehow more annoying.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Andrew Ridgeley, George Michael's best friend and stage set.

:hi:

[swag]

29. Fuck, isn't anybody going to vote for Joel Gion?

[GirlinContempt]

32. He's the lounges undead nemises

[swag]

34. Joel!

Is that you?

[GirlinContempt]

36. In the binary

[swag]

40. I think DU's myspacers had better step up to your friendship, Joel

http://www.myspace.com/thedilettantes

[GirlinContempt]

42. My profile views - friends ratio makes me

weep silent tears

[momophile]

37. Paul Rutherford "I come to dance"

from Frankie Goes to Hollywood

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

44. I'm going to get flamed like hell for this one

But Linda McCartney in The Wings, I'm not real familiar with Paul's band the Wings, but I once saw a performance where Linda's just standing there swinging a tambourine around. I say it's safe to say if she wasn't married to Paul she probably wouldn't be in the band or any band for that matter.

[LaurenG]

45. No flames here

and no insult intended toward Linda, but I think you are right.

[HughBeaumont]

46. Ever heard the soundboard recording of her voice?

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH. How did that line go . . . "I've heard cats fuck with more harmony!"

Addendum - Linda was a great humanitarian, environmentalist and wife. But she should have never been anywhere near a mike.

[donheld]

47. Who the hell are these people?

:shrug:

[Orsino]

48. The "brooding" New Kid on the Block...

...as elegantly skewered by Dennis Miller in Black & White, or analogous members of other boy bands. The ones who lip-synch to the same schlocky dance-pop as their colleagues, but who have the nerve to pretend to be bad.

[swag]

49. I'm stunned. Still no votes for Joel.

[begin_within]

50. Linda McCartney