Historical figures who look like they could be members of NME feted haircut indie acts.

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1. John Constable

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/~cerioni/ig/ImmaginiJC/constabledagiovane.jpg, even.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

http://worldofwonder.net/wimages/hitler-tm.jpg

Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

http://lettresbacpro.free.fr/images/rimbaud.JPG

Laney (Laneyje), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Victorians/oscar490x20.jpg

darin (darin), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Victorians/oscar490x20.jpg

monkeybutler, Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha xpost

monkeybutler, Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://libarts.wsu.edu/history/this-month/images/graphics/augustus.jpg

Pablo (Pablo A), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

This is going to link out because it's huge, but...

http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/images/jpg-100dpi-10in/18thCentury/Napoleon/Portraits/Napoleon-Young.jpg

Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, even better:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/4/4c/Napoleon_-_1.jpg

Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

http://images.scotsman.com/2005/02/07/burnsnighti.jpg

zappi (joni), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

sibsi (sibsi), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

ive never seen so many pictures of british sea power before!

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wooop.de/gfx/paintings/std/bilder_egon-schiele-selbstportraet-mi-08892.jpg

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Franz Liszt:

http://mclub.te.net.ua/images/art/artist_4779.jpg

Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

http://libarts.wsu.edu/history/this-month/images/graphics/rasputin.jpg

sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.susa-literatura.com/emailuak/beckett/irudiak/beckett-ezkerrean.jpg

goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

This thread is quite the eye-opener. If that's Samuel Beckett, he could easily grace the cover of The Wire right now.

moley, Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

not an actual historical figure but nonetheless a perennial rock haircut inspiration:
http://www.newsarama.com/Other_Publishers/Prince_Valiant.jpg

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

(dunno about the haircut but the attitude is spot-on; i see VVN as a bassist)

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.meaus.com/AlaxanderBust.gif

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait...

paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

http://rym.waglo.com/images/hussein

goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

It goes beyond haircuts: Constable looks exactly like Alex Capranos, doesn't he?

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

http://i.infoplease.com/images/poe.gif

jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sinewaves.it/cinema/truffaut-francois.jpg

General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

TWEE!

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/images/aleister-crowley.jpg

Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/2BOSIE.jpg

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bestofrussia.ca/images/volkonskSG.jpg

casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bestofrussia.ca/images/muraviev.jpg

casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

http://digilander.libero.it/biblioego/isoubave.jpg

casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

geez! nabokov was a real hottie

Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

http://ito.gn.apc.org/Trotsky_Mugshot.jpg

http://www.poetryconnection.net/images/Rupert-Brooke.gif

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 30 October 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

trotsky was the first person i thought of when seeing this thread!

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 30 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.braungardt.com/Philosophy/Nietzsche/nietzsche.jpg

Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

geez! nabokov was a real hottie

according to boyd's and schiff's biographies of VN, he gained an insane amount of weight in about TWO WEEKS after he quit smoking - and went from this...

to this:

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Seconding Space is the Place:
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~kmz/img/egon5.jpg

xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Ack! Sorry! Didn't realize that was so huge. Here.
http://egonschiele.museum.com/images/schiele1914.jpg


xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma3/fotoweb/duchamp.jpg
On the evidence here, Duchamp basically WAS a feted haircut indie act.

xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/untitled1.jpg

Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Sunday, 30 October 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Franz Liszt looks ace!

Why does schiele look so terrifyingly odd? he's been photoshopped, surely?

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.laveco.com/images/Laszlo%20Varadi.jpg

ABBAtoir, Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

OOps.
http://www.laveco.com/images/Laszlo%20Varadi.jpg

ABBAtoir, Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/radioshow/chicago_files/l&l.jpe

late adopter, Monday, 31 October 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.4to40.com/images/legends/Wittgenstein/Ludwig_Wittgenstein_during_WWII.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i still contend that antonio gramsci was the original corny indie fuXor:

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/g/pics/gramsci.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Portraits/keats.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rosezone.com/postcards/images/1341.jpg

"Bassist T E Lawrence ponders the group's forthcoming album during a break in their tour of the Middle East" [Photo: Anton Corbijn, NME 1985]

bham, Monday, 31 October 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Thread needs more women

http://212.84.179.117/i/Louise%20Brooks.jpg

"Louise's new e.p. My Lost Umbrella is out soon on Sarah Records"

bham, Monday, 31 October 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/05/article-2082640-0F58B8A300000578-613_224x354.jpg

hitler

nakhchivan, Monday, 16 May 2016 17:12 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

...with the swagger of Oasis:

https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/560xh/public/products/five-martyrs.jpg

fetter, Friday, 15 November 2019 10:55 (six years ago)

Good one!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/e9/85/c1e98570507114a23df13c3d7abb0c31.jpg

Proto Belle & Sebastian EP cover.

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 15 November 2019 10:56 (six years ago)

Omg

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:00 (six years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Robert_Walser.jpg

pomenitul, Friday, 15 November 2019 11:05 (six years ago)


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