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I don’t want to live on this planet anymore…
my thoughts exactly
What? I love this great planet!
@ Angry Mob; I’m right there with you.
@ Great; Can’t tell if trolling or stupid. That’s not rock.
I know, right? LOL! So much great in this!
do ALL the crack!
Drugs are not great, son.
I don’t want to live on this granite anymore …
I don’t want this planet to live on me anymore…
I know, theres no mention of Katy Perry or Britney Spears for the older readers.
GQ, go shoot yourself!
Where’s Big Daddy Kane???
he’s not a rocker. he’s a country artist
But eminem is a rocker?
And Lil Wayne?
Here’s our ROCKSTAR -.-
I don’t see your point, that was a kickáss riff.
Can’t tell if trolling or retarded
Both.
GQ? REALLY? anti establishment singers on GQ just wow
Showing that they are part of the establishment, like that wasn’t news before.
I hate Lil’ Wayne. I don’t know HOW he became such a success because his music is horrible.
music ?????
Exactly!
How to Love.
I’m not a fan of Lil wayne at all, but it is nice seeing new and old generation musicians mixing with each other.
I don’t see what you are getting at, I only see one person in that picture with a musical instrument.
I actually saw this mag today. I was going to put the cover on here as soon as I got home… But, alas! you beat me to it. It is indeed a terrible fail. Why did Keith Richards agree to do that?
I’m telling myself that it’s a photoshop cover job. And don’t tell me otherwise, even if I’m wrong.
They mean “Rock” in the abstract sense. Like when someone exclaims, “That movie rocked!”, or “That show rocks!” or “This food rocks!”.
Either way, can any of you rationally define what “rock music” actually is?
Not particularily, but you can definitely describe what it ISN’T. Which is Lil Wayne and Eminem.
Keith Richards is?!
I saw the Stones in concert in ’96 (ish) and at one point my mom leaned over and said “Keith Richards is SOOOOO hot”.
My skin tried to crawl away.
Why dont u post that to the “crazy things parents say” part of this site? it deserves to be there.
This was also after she asked me if I or my then-boyfriend had brought any pot with us.
I told her to just lean back and breathe deep. The folks behind us had plenty.
Olololol, that is genuinely funny XD.
^ This.
No !! They mean “rock” as in “rock’n'roll”…
This or “gods of rock” means “gods of something brilliant” ????? Nonsense !!
btw, what or who is LGB?
not “Lesbian, G@y, Bisexual?”
woops.
*rethinks*
We started using acronyms when we got too lazy to type it all out.
Well…. I did anyway.
I thought I would pop back in and give everyone a good scare— er, … rather a good surprise!!
Avis: I for one, am always pleased to see you!
Awww! Thank you!!!
…
my god, that son of a b1tch is OLD! i’m surprise he can still hold a Tele. unless it’s balsa wood.
Hahaha! It’s probably Ash actually. But he looks a lot older than he actually is.
Considering Rock didn’t look like the emo white boys that now dominate it when rock originally started. This is as much ‘rock’ as it was in the beginning. rock is so passe.
Too mainstream for you?
*SNORK*
snork is rite!
That is exactly where I was going with that one!
You mean folk music?
So hendrix is a white boy emo
i really really hope your just trolling and not one of those pop techno kids
I have never heard Lil Wayne’s music, but I have heard M&M, and his ‘music’ sucks donkey balls. To call his what he does ‘rock’ is to totally render that word without meaning. Keith Richards helped to DEFINE the meaning of ‘Rock’. M&M sucks the wind out of it. Sure, M&M might be ‘talented’ at what he does, but rock it ain’t. I do like his Chrysler commercial though…
I find looking for the word “rock” in the genre name is generally a good guide…(or metal).
Trance is not rock and other than just then, I have never seen it categorised as such, and Eminem sure isn’t rock either. I still like his music, when I am in a certain mood, but that doesn’t make him rock.
Otherwise, I agree with you.
Totally agree with you, always felt that people who stick to certain genres, even dress according to whatever ridiculous rules there are in said genre, are a little bit weird.
Especially with clothes it pisses me off, like suddenly you like goth and only black, sad looking band t-shirts, long hair and black nail polish…right….
Completely in agreement, I listen to hard rock, hip-hop, house music, french touch, minimal, metal, classical, dirty house, disco, mainstream music (“pop”), old-school rap, and anything else that makes me dance
I think you’re missing the point. The cover calls M&M and Lil Wayne “god’s of rock” neither of them make rock music, they produce pop/rap music. To define rock isn’t hard you just have to ask yourself a few simple questions,
Is the music guitar heavy? Does the lead singer have a rough voice? Are the lyrics about sex, drugs or rock n roll? Is there a kick as guitar solo? is there a kick ass drum solo? is there a kick ass bass solo? If you answer yes to these questions, then yes, you are listening to rock.
How to know it’s not rock. Is there a rap break in the middle of the song? Is is all rap? Is most of the music synthesized? Are the lyrics about a chick dumping you? Any use of autotune? If you answer yes to these questions it is not rock.
So, Because the Industrial music “Genre” uses a lot of sythesized music (I.E. Nine inch Nails) then they shouldn’t be in the Rock category? You my friend have given birth to an illegitimate argument… Rock has always been about pushing boundaries, in style, sound, function, and what “Normal” people call ethics. Why do we as the listener get to put what the artist puts out under our own box? Saying that it must be catagorized as this, or that? Cypress Hill (Notorious pot smoking, rap-artists) put out a song entitled “Rock star” and what it is about is how the industry will let you be a “Rock-god” as long as you are producing for them, but when record sells fall, there go the friends, wealth, women, wine, weed etc… They call themselves Rock Stars, who am I to disregard that? I do get that we need labels to sell certain goods to target markets. But think about how we would catagorize the different types of music that the Beatles put out? Many of their songs would fall under Emo nowadays!!! to me that isn’t right!
Genres have particular characteristics. Otherwise you may as well call these guys the kings of the blues or the ultimate jazz masters or the greatest neo-classical composers of our time.
Many people only know Jimi Hendrix for his wicked “Rock God” guitar stylings, but he was also one super kick-ass Blues guitarist. Does that mean he isn’t a Rock-god? Eddie Van Halen was trained in classical guitar, so because his start was in classical music, should his entire history be put there?
Too long, didn’t read
Where’s the “I’ll tell you in the comments” option when you need it? Dio all the way.
Rap is a sub-form of Rock and Roll. How is this wrong?
Run DMC are the Kings of Rock btw.
Run DMC = Rap
Eminem, Lil Wayne = Pop music,
I like the expression on Eminem’s face. Truly expressive of his intellect as he tries to figure out where the camera is.
That cover is indicative of a Hipster’s playlist. The only people that buy GQ.
Do you know what a hipster is?
If Eminem and Lil Wayne are considered “rock”, then I guess AC/DC is considered jazz? Led Zeppelin country? Hendrix emo?
If you actually took time to read the feature(s) on them, you would understand why GQ put them on the cover. Basically, it’s talking about multiple musicians that have bounced back and have creative careers with longevity.
Yeah, this is more of an assumption of the readers/commenters based on one word fail. Also, why are the readers bashing Richards and the Stones? They were definitely rock before any of that knock off stuff we hear nowadays. All these kids need to get out off my lawn *grumble* *grumble*…
I don’t get why folks are bashing Richards either. Granted he’s NOT hot, but he IS a rock legend.
party poopy
Keith Richards: the only living man to do more drugs in his lifetime than Lil Wayne and Eminem combined!
Keith Richards isn’t a rock god . He just isn’t dead
when he finally dies, what will he be?
a drug.
dead.
After everything he’s done to himself over the years, that he isn’t dead might just be a sign of divinity.
Oh I understand now, it is the amount of ROCK they smoked combined that this is referring to…
Yeah, well almost all of that was smoked by Keith. At breakfast.
More like Fail Blog fail. I’m pretty sure that GQ is just announcing the famous rappers first, and announcing the “43 other gods of rock” separately, although it is a weird combination.
It’s supposed to wayne tomorrow, but let’s just hope it’s only a lil drizzy. It’ll probably end up raining though, and here, when it waynes it pours.
Drizzy is Drake. Lil’ Wayne is Weezy
I am 6.85%
GC is clearly still following the 70′s music categorization system in which there are only three types of music: Classical, Jazz, and Rock. Rock was the catch-all term for anything that didn’t fit into the other two. If it wasn’t classical and wasn’t jazz, it was rock, by definition.
Speaking as an old fogey myself I remember this classification fondly. It made things so much simpler. I got so confused when rock started to split into subdivisions. Originally rap WAS considered a subgenre of rock… only later did it grow so big that it merited its own aisle placard in Tower Records. I remember being so baffled when Electronica got its own placard too and “Rock” was suddenly only PART of an aisle instead of half the store, and I realized the definition of “rock” must have shrunk somehow to some subcategory of its former self, but I wasn’t sure which subcategory had ended up with the name and I didn’t have (and still don’t have) any idea where to look for anything anymore. The whole thing got so confusing that I had to flee the country for a few years.
You can say ALL you want buddy-boy.
Lil’ Wayne and Eminem are NOT rock. No matter HOW you put it, it’s not rock.
I myself listen to eminem too, but it’s just NOT rock… not even back in the days… cuz it was called “hiphop and RnB” or something.
Bottomline, YO GC IMMA LET YOU FINISH!! BUT THIS IS THE WORST ROCK MAGAZINE COVER OF ALL TIME!!! OF ALLLLLL TIIIIIME!!!!
General definition of “Rock” these days: Has electronic guitar(s), lyrics are in rhythm with beat and voice effects not used in overkill levels.
I’d say hiphop has developed more from jazz than rock
Most people these days just think jazz means some dude with a saxophone and a piano. Actually, jazz was the main “urban” music from roughly the 1920s through the 1970s and it had a lot of different eras that it went through which were, in their own time, as meaningful to their people any other style of music in our epoch of highly labeled genres.
Back then that was a meaningful definition, because of the type of music around. To try to apply that definition today makes the word “rock” pretty much meaningless.
“Rock” may not refer to the music genre, but rather to the “Rock your world!” part… Ok, it’s far fetched.
I’m more shocked by “Keep your cool this winter”… Just go outside, I, for myself, would rather keep my warm this winter, please!
Best rock is Tom. While he may look big and gray, there’s always somepony who sees him as a giant diamond.
No, Rocky is best rock!
wow…lemmy is more rock than anyone on that cover, but he is too badass to be on GQ….
YEAH! YEAH!! WHAT!!! WHAT!!!!! YEAH!!!!
Sure don’t let the black man have a chair, whiteys.
Hey look! its one rock star and two talentless pieces of s**t!
you got that right!
Keef, you f**king SELLOUT! One of the world’s harshest music critics who thinks that AC/DC is the only band that even “rates”… [inset: nonsensical rage]… Up yours, Keef!
[more rage...]
Freddie Mercury Forever!!!
This.
The only true god of rock is Armok.
what’s the fail? it’s a SPECIAL. it’s written at the bottom. it’s logical to care about other musical genres, right?
Damn Kids these days don’t appriciate ragtime. They don’t know what is good.
Sixth cords, dude. Used to be a time when the Pope said you can’t play sixths. That was some real protest music. Music has sucked since the 1840s.
The fail here is the line “.. and a few girls who rocked our world.”
It implies that women cannot be seen as innovative, and all the other positive things listed before them in the list.
Implies that they are junior (i.e. girls, not women, whereas the male artists are men, not boys).
They are added as an after thought.
It does not say that the women rock, only that they “rocked our world”.
It emphasises that they are ‘few’.
Well I can’t really think up any women who were innovate in the music industry (at least metal/rock), but there are quite a few who are great singers.
Tarja Turunen (Nightwish) although she is an opera singer, rather than a rock singer.
Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy) who has bigger balls of steel than a wrecker.
And lots more… though most of them I find boring and unoriginal.
(same with most men singers)
Took the words right out of my mouth, Hanuri.
And Raqubor, Are you kidding me! That’s all you can think of, really? What about, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Grace Slick, Sinead O’Connor, Alanis Moressete (sp), Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Madonna, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Hell even Cortney Love. The list goes on and on. There are MANY women who have made HUGE contributions to the music industry!
I actually went to Wikipedia in search of a band called Granite before I got the joke
Me too…
all i have to say about Keith Richards is hes living proof of zombies therefore a win no matter what the case. as for the other 2 ……ones a rehash of vanilla Ice and no idea WHAT lil Wayne was ever trying to be .
Oh, Lil Wayne rocks so hard! GTFO Stones and sh*t like that!
People are just telling that he’s not rock. Also, you can say you don’t agree, but don’t disrespect the others, please. I don’t like Lil Wayne, but I’m not saying he’s s**t. I could, but I’m not. Really? Grow up before commenting here again.
lol @ Kid Rock being lower than Eminem and Little Wang.
Oh no! It looks like Eminem is a member of the Deathly Hallows!!!
Rock/God?? …Hudson, of course.
rock hudson, ftw!
DOUBLE FAIL – considering Eminem & Lil Wayne are some of the worst dressed dudes out there, why would they be on the cover of GQ dressed,,,,,the worst!
Why is there no option in the poll for “I have no idea who any of those people are” because I don’t. There is also no “I’ll tell you in the comments” option.
I’d rather die than select any of the people on the poll for rock god.
What ’bout Buddy Holly, Elvis, 4 lads from liverpool aka The Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The doors, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The kinks, The Rolling Stones, The zombies, Pink Floyd, Chuck Berry and alot more of those rock gods?
Rock:
Classic Rock, Metal, Grunge, Hard Rock, Chick Rock, Death Metal, Punk Rock, Glam Rock.
Not Rock:
Emo, New Wave, Trip Hop, Trance.
Depends on how you define it:
Golden Oldies
I WOULD consider what Prince does to be rock.
Other than that, I agree with you that that good music is good music, regardless of genre.
If they’re going to stretch the definition of “rock” this far, they may as well call it all “jazz.”
Come on… Keith Richards is in there, there’s more rock in that cover than anything else!
Why is there no “none of the above”? DIO or Metallica should definitely be on the list. FailBlog fails again…
Looks badly structured or worded. Emimem probably should not be on that list there, but below it or elsewhere on the cover.
so…which rocker did they get wrong?!
Oh…right, its the genre they’re saying GQ got wrong…my bad
Rap, hip-hop, and rock come from the same roots, actually. They’re a lot closer than what most of us think.
I don’t understand why Lil Wayne tries to become a rock star, though. Or Eminem. Eminem can do some fine rap.
you spelt Gods of C**k incorectly.
I think M&Ms and Lil’ Weener were both shopped into original Keith-only photo, because Richards would smack their teeth out with his guitar.
Who is Lil Wayne? I’ve never heard of him. Sadly I already know the faux-angry little white boy is.