Alice Cooper
Let's be honest, once you get past the horror-film imagery and the ever-so-rock-n-roll persona, his music isn't really all that good, is it?

(...and yet he is still not among the Three Biggest Triumphs of Style Over Substance in the History of Popular Music)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:14, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Go on then, this should be interesting
Please don't say Marilyn Manson, a) because I liked them when I was of an appropriate age to do so, and b) because I don't think you can credit MM with being a greater triumph of style over substance than Alice Cooper when the latter clearly directly inspired the former
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:16, Reply)

Marilyn Manson is fucking gash
He looks as threatening as a pink mouse
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:19, Reply)

aka Tango's cock

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:20, Reply)

Hey, at least I cleaned my pubes up!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:23, Reply)

Too little, too late according to my mum.
She's off the cock for life apparently.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:31, Reply)

Nope.
In third place is David "Shitting" Bowie, just for being an awful cunt who seemed more interested in silly names and costume changes than musical innovation.

In second place is that ghastly old harridan Madonna, who is only kept off the top spot by...

...Lady "Christ you really are ugly, aren't you?" Gaga, who seems bent on trying to be a carbon copy of the former. Or just bent.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:20, Reply)

You and I are in full agreement, once again.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:21, Reply)

At least, I can't think of anyone who rivals the aforementioned frightful cunts in terms of favouring a phenomenally bent image at the expense of trying to write anything remotely listenable...
Even Chubby Checker, in his defence, didn't really push his image further than just being a fat, grinning spastic, and just wrote shit songs instead.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:27, Reply)

My three year old pointed out you can sing the lyrics from any lady gaga song over the top of any other.
I of course beat her and sent her to bed without supper for knowing Lady Gaga lyrics.
( Peej, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:22, Reply)

and you had right on your side.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:23, Reply)

*click*
The Crow, he Know
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:26, Reply)

This is an excellent post.

( Kroney, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 16:27, Reply)