12.2.06

Bob Dylan is cool - official

This startled me - the annual NME 'who's cool in rock' list has Mr Bob Dylan at number 9.

Bob's cooler than Ian Brown! And a bunch of other guys (hmmm...it's nearly all men...well done non-sexist NME) I've never heard of!

  1. (New) Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys)
  2. (New) Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
  3. (New) Kanye West
  4. (New) Antony (Antony and The Johnsons)
  5. (9) Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
  6. (17) Devendra Banhart
  7. (=1) Pete Doherty (Babyshambles)
  8. (New) Jemina Pearl (Be Your Own Pet)
  9. (New) Bob Dylan
  10. (=1) Carl Barat (Dirty Pretty Things)
  11. (New) Ian Brown
  12. (New) Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz)
  13. (New) Ryan Jarman (The Cribs)
  14. (New) Julian Casablancas (The Strokes)
  15. (New) Ninja (Go! Team)
  16. (New) Paul Epworth
  17. (New) Billie Jo (Green Day)
  18. (New) Tom Atkin (The Paddingtons)
  19. (New) Henry Harrison (The Mystery Jets)
  20. (New) Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm, so Pete Doherty is "cool" at number 7 is he?
I thought being able to handle your drugs made you cool, not being arrested and crying every ten minutes?

Anonymous said...

I quite agree. No one who was cool would ever allow a supermodel to dump them, not even a coke-addled scrag like Kate Moss.

Tom said...

Pete Doherty is a tragic waste of oxygen. The Guardian had the temerity to publish his 'prison diaries' last week, in which the shabby smack fiend declared his surprise and delight at being able to watch so much television in his cell. Stupefyingly under-talented and over-promoted.

Anonymous said...

Keith Richards he ain't