ILM's Definitive List of Ugly Musicians

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1. That potato headed guy from Lynyrd Skynyrd

You Ain't Got No Alibi, Friday, 12 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Pix please?

Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

2. Gary Moore

http://www.gibson.com/absolutenm/articlefiles/115-GaryMoore3.jpg

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

most musicians are ugly

some stockholm cindy talking (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

http://img.iskon.hr/kl/2005/01/31/0002002v.jpg

here we go again...

i swear im never posting htis again...swear!

bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

4. http://www.nndb.com/people/170/000070957/krs-one.jpg

He always looks like he's pushing his face against a window.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.united-mutations.com/m/mothers1966_01.jpg

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

skeee dapppp deee beeedleeee deeee armagedddon deeee whooo hooo parrot on my lips...
ihttp://www.thebeakretreat.com/images/photosteventylerhobbit.jpg

Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

HELLO LADIES
Ihttp://www.altmanphoto.com/TinyTim.JPEG

Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/ebtg.htm

I WIN!!!

I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (papa november), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

or...

ihttp://www.hadamadone.co.uk/images/Articles/Music/supergrass_03.jpg

I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (papa november), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

i'll try a different one:

http://www.ambfrance.fr/actualites/images/supergrass1.jpg

I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (papa november), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

What, no Serge?

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

And no Heino?

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fotobaron.com/blow_out/images/Leslie-West-Mountain.jpg

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Supergrass is one of those bands that are so ugly in such a strange way that you can't stop looking at them.

Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Just find any picture of the thousands of failed and bitter musicians who frequenting post on this board. The people who lovingly form one big circle jerk to seriously "critique" simplistic pop music and throw around wanky analysis of an artist's originality/"AUTHENTICITY" WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCEPT IN MUSIC EVAR OR ELSE THE MUSICIAN IS A WORTHLESS HUMAN BEING WHO SHOULD BE BRUTALLY MURDERED.

am i rite?

Cunt Of Hope, Friday, 12 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Hello Marissa

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Ich don't think so.

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

People are confused if they think supergrass are ugly. The singer was a Calvin Klein model fer chrissakes

Although the guy with glasses at the back of the pic (drummer?) looks a bit leery

..., Friday, 12 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Damn.

Again with feeling :

Craig Mack.

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos3/mackcr~1.jpg

Ellis, Friday, 12 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Lemmy.

http://www.nrk.no/img/269600.jpeg

The drummer and bassist from Babes In Toyland, but the drummer in particular.

http://www.altpress.com/sections/covers/12-06-2000/1992/051oct92.jpg

Ellis, Friday, 12 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed

Reggie, Friday, 12 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

David disagrees with you:

http://www.5years.com/Im104.jpg

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39651000/jpg/_39651649_peteburns.jpg

Pete Burns y'all.

gspm (gspm), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/mrib/20030508/08/728546155.gif

gspm (gspm), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

um, most of these people arent that ugly, just normal looking.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I like how that comment comes after the Pete Burns pics

Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

http://home.tiscali.se/afghan1/images/pj_harvey_014_jpg.jpg

paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Debatable.

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I think you may all be forgetting about King Stitt:

http://www.geocities.com/studiowon/KingStitt.htm

http://www.geocities.com/studiowon/Images/KingStitt2.jpg

Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I was going to post King Stitt but thought it might be a bit tasteless as he's actually physically deformed as opposed to merely ugly... good job Tim has no such scruples!

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Dude, he calls himself "The Ugly One". It would be positively disrespectful to the King to omit him from a list like this. I should add that he is one of the greats of twentieth century music.

Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh I HEART The Ugly One!!!!!!! Clancy Eccles RIP!!!!!!!!!!!

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

http://ianbetley.tripod.com/282d90f0.jpg

jonny buckland, coldplay guitarist

Neil FC (Neil FC), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.uk-flava.com/StrictlyUK/skinnyman/img/photo.gif

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

ok. i assumed the definitaive part of the thread tittle meant we would be making the definative list.

fodder from he cannon

Who is the ugliest boy band ever?

The "Nine Ugliest Rock Stars Alive" list

Least sexy male vocals

i swear there was another


bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Biggest Dropoff In Visual Quality Ever
http://www.ondarock.it/photo/Nico.jpg
http://www.cbgb.com/shrine/photos/ebetroberts/Nico%20and%20David%20Johansen.jpg

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, she doesn't look too bad for a 50-odd year old junkie

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.ergo.nu/Images/annie.jpg

POLLY JEAN FUCKING HARVEY!?!? (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

True, Dadaismus, but she's not as cute as Judee Sill.

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Eh? She was a bit of a dog wasn't she?

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I was just tweaking you.

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

pjh strikes me a bit like liz phair...an unnattractive-normal looking woman posing as an attractive woman. (see prototype: sarah jessica parker.) u gotta be - skinny, wear a lot of provocative makeup, prettygirl clothes, pouty look ..... er..still not pretty. HOWEVER, PATTI SMITH????? WTF? and without even trying!

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm. Annie. Nice.

Yeah Sarah, I agree. And the worst thing is that PJH is *trying* to look good in those pictures of her.

paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rattlebeak.com/images/content/bowie/full/new/david_bowie_9.jpg

"ugly" (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Seeing Polly Harvey and Patti Smith (hell, even that downright adorable Baby-Face Huey!) here just demonstrates to me that everyone's conception of "good looks" is as downright arbitrary and individualistic as their opinions on "good music". (No big surprise there, of course.)

Anyway, here's my submission:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autograph/photos/autograph85.jpg

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 12 August 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Wow...Autograph. Those guys were damn ugly AND fucking sucked.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Who is that band over Autograph? Apart from the guy with the Yahoo Serious hair, I don't think they're ugly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure they'd take it as a compliment, but the Casualties are pretty damn ugly.....to say nothing of their deplorable lack of originality.

http://www.thecasualties.net/photos/photo40.gif

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.shout.ru/news/marylin_manson1.jpg

blunt (blunt), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.swans.pair.com/GALLERY/82-87/19_82.jpg

Swans.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.showbizireland.com/images/stars/bono-clinton.jpg
2 ugly birds with 1 stone. the guy on the right thinks he plays sax.

blunt (blunt), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

playing the "sax" must be where he caught that thing on his lip.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

that would be from the ..cigar flute..

blunt (blunt), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.davidstuff.com/opinion/los-mjackson.jpg

mr. obvious (alanbanana), Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

What did Dadaismus say about her and Nick Cave?
Something about skeletons on a hot tin roof. I've gotta search it out.

k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

SWANS?!?!?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

(Jarboe and Gira are way photogenic on a good day. Late 80s didn't do no-one any favours.)

Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

[ailsa:] why has no-one yet jumped in in defence of Emmy-Kate Montrose from Kenickie?

Yeah, mentalist choice!

OleM (OleM), Saturday, 13 August 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.handsomeproductions.com/images/deadboys.jpg

The Dead Boys.


Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 13 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

[IMG]http://www.stereo88.com/photos/profiles/artist_label/edrush.jpg[/IMG]

Ed Rush

Cliff =C= (OnoSendai), Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Um, why haven't the motherfuckin blokes from Oasis made it on here yet?! And um, what about that horrid picture of Ace Frehley from the REALLY early days of KISS where he looks like Lily Tomlin. (I'm a moron and can't post in .html, so if someone could get these up).


And has anyone noticed how El-P looks sorta like actor Alan Tudyk (Pirate Steve from Dodgeball, Wash from Firefly)

Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 14 August 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Keith Richards mr. mummy-face


http://members.fortunecity.com/soundchaser/pere.htm
Dave Thomas

"Mr Thomas is a BIG man, in order to perform he will require a hotel which offers him a BIG bed and a restful sleep...."

That's what it says in the frontman of Pere Ubu's, and more recently Pale Orchestra's, touring contract. I'd given up hope of ever finding of some pics of Mr.Thomas (another statement from Pere Ubu is that they will never have official photographs taken of themselves), until once again Phil 'Fatskin' came up with the goods.

http://members.fortunecity.com/soundchaser/pere1t.jpg

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 14 August 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39894000/jpg/_39894140_richards_pg.jpg

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 14 August 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Google is letting me down in my search for a photo of that Britpop hottie Alan (Shed 7) Leach in his Athena tennis-player-flashing-her-arse pose...
But there's always Rick Witter!
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/photos/move/2002/ShedSevenLS01.jpg

Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

and (x-post) for Bryan - noel looking his constipated best...
http://www.nrk.no/img/244813.jpeg

You could be here all day posting images of him really...

Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dr.dk/zoom/idiot/sladder/grafik/galleg.gif

Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://westgarth.nomadlife.org/uploaded_images/nick_cave_bw-721729.jpeg

Bob Six, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

Well Cave looks way better there than he does NOW, thats for sure. That giant handlebar mo' and the balding head are not doing him any favours.

That wheelchair pic of Shane McGowan upthread is incredibly depressing. Is he covered in drink or food or vomit or something?

Trayce, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, well I think that about Nick Cave as well...but a friend of mine claims that Nick Cave looks hot these days. Can't see it myself

Bob Six, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

why has no-one yet jumped in in defence of Emmy-Kate Montrose from Kenickie?

I was leaving the job up to esoj

-- kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 13 August 2005 09:44 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

wah! EKM is GORGEOUS

electricsound, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

more interesting are the musicians who go though stage of being cute, attractive, ugly, and back to good looking again.

Paul Simon is a case in point. He's recovered from the terrible moustache/thinning hair that Nick Cave's currently favouring, and is now back to looking ok again.

Bob Six, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

Mouldy old dough by Earl Brutus.

Just got offed, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'd also be interested in views on Lou Redd. I was gobsmacked to read in some Warhol biog that Lou was consudered good looking and that the females in the Warhol factory entourage competed for his attentions.

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/06/01_loureed.jpg

Bob Six, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Simon's 'tache & combover look during the "Still Crazy..." period has to have been his worst look. Combined with those sportcoats - I'd like to think they were all brown - and he looked like a supply teacher.

snoball, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

You have to remember that back then Reed looked like this - at least in his Warhol screentest:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/07/30/reed460.jpg

snoball, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

Now LR and Keith Richards look like brothers.

snoball, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Roger Waters is another one who's been through some changes:

looked good when young in the mid-60s, looked a bit disturbing in the 70s and 80s (possibly not quite ugly though), and now looks positively dignified.

Bob Six, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

^^so true

electricsound, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm actually waiting for the point where Lou, Iggy, Bowie, Mick, Keith, Waters, and the two old guys from Status Quo all look the same.
Presumably then the Apocolypse will be triggered or something...

snoball, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

Warrel Dane of Sanctuary/Nevermore

http://tmetal.com/images2/Warrel.jpg

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

Bryan Ferry still looks dashing. Dude is the Dick Clark of glam.

My vote is for poor Mickey Dolenz.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

Dee Snyder even when he was young. That makeup was for a reason!

nickn, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

David Van Day - he's got that red faced steroid bloater I've-just-been-punched-in-the-face look. So now do many other New Romantics.

snoball, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

HELLOOOOOOOO

PEOPLE.....

http://www.pyrrhus.be/Afbeeldingen/dvdhole064.jpg

Pig Champion!!!

chaki, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Buster Bloodvessel, back when he weighed 30 stone. Expecially if you can find a picture/video clip of him on a kid's TV show eating a pork pie mashed up inside a jar of pickled onions. Although he recently lost 18 stone.

snoball, Friday, 7 December 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Roger Waters is another one who's been through some changes:

looked good when young in the mid-60s, looked a bit disturbing in the 70s and 80s (possibly not quite ugly though), and now looks positively dignified.

-- Bob Six, Thursday, December 6, 2007 6:20 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hell yeah, and Gilmore's done quite the opposite.

will, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

gilmore doesnt look so bad. he's aging gracefully. he just lost his hair.

chaki, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://homepage.internet.lu/www.aliensworld.lu/Pictures/Sean_Yseult.jpg

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

I cant believe someone posted Bowie upthread, he looks hotter the older he gets!

Trayce, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

RE Gilmour - you may be right. Seems like I'd seen a picture of him recently looking an awful lot like Jabba, but he looks pretty pimp here

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/0/9/9/4/16584990-16584993-slarge.jpg

will, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://bizarrerecords.com/galleries/sexy/JacksonMilliebath.jpg
http://www.moox.no/ImageDelivery.aspx?id=5451

Never ceases to amaze me how the latter would give birth to such a beautiful daughter.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't aware Steven Tyler gave birth. Was it a caesarian?

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oops. No. But he is her dad at least. :)

Geir Hongro, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

(It might have been Mohammad the Prophet, mind you)

Geir Hongro, Friday, 7 December 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

re: Cave upthread, yeah he's not very cute in 2007 but at least he's not all smacked out anymore..

stephen, Friday, 7 December 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)


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