The results of Brit rock mag Kerrang!’s reader poll are now officially my favorite year-end lists so far. They’re adorable! Kerrang!’s readers seem to only love about six bands (but really love them), they think mall emo/pop metal is some apex for Western civ, and their “sexiest male” and “sexiest female” lists totally spank that Stereogum silliness we posted earlier. The full lists (minus the bullshit about books and movies) are after the jump, but first, well you know.
THE GOOD: How good is it that the “Worst Band” category is basically just a rejigged version of the “Best Band” category? Also, I don’t even know what three out of Kerrang!’s five sexiest ladies look like, but I will say that Amy Lee > Leslie Feist. And hating on Jared Leto (as “Villain Of The Year”!) is always appreciated. (But then you go and give his dumb band best single! You nutty kids!)
THE BAD: You know, there are other bands besides MCR, 30 Seconds To Mars, Muse, Lostprophets, the Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, and Linkin Park out there, y’all. Just sayin’.
THE WHAAAA? I loves me some My Chemical Romance, too, but are they really toothsome enough to occupy three spots in the “Sexiest Male” category? (And poor Mikey Way, always the bridesmaid.)
Villain Of The Year:
1. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars
2. Pete Wentz - Fall Out Boy
3. Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance
4. Marilyn Manson
5. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets
Best Unsigned Band:
1. Kids In Glass Houses
2. My Favourite Pornstar
3. Boys With Xray Eyes
4. Fei Comodo
5. None the Less
Best Music DVD:
1. AC/DC - Plug Me In
2. Avenged Sevenfold - All Excess
3. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
4. Nightwish - End of An Era
5. Led Zepplin - The Song Remains the Same (Special Edition)
Best Band:
1. My Chemical Romance
2. Lostprophets
3. 30 Seconds to Mars
4. HIM
5. Fall Out Boy
Worst Band:
1. My Chemical Roamnce
2. Bring Me The Horizon
3. 30 Seconds To Mars
4. Linkin Park
5. Elliot Minor
Best Album:
1. HIM - Venus Doom
2. Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
3. Machine Head - The Blackening
4. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
5. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Hero of The Year:
1. Ville Valo - HIM
2. Robb Flynn - Machine Head
3. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars
4. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets
5. Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance
Sexiest Male:
1. Ville Vallo - HIM
2. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets
3. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars
4. Ray Torro - My Chemical Romance
5. Frank Iero - My Chemical Romance
Best Video:
1. 30 Seconds to Mars- The Kill
2. My Chemical Romance - I Don’t Love You
3. Fall Out Boy - This Ain’t A Scene…
4. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
5. Paramore - Misery Business
Best Single:
1. 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
2. My Chemical Roamnce - Teenagers
3. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
4. Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
5. Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour
Best New Band:
1. Madina Lake
2. Elliot Minor
3. The Blackout
4. The Ghost Of A Thousand
5. The Sleeping
Worst Album:
1. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
2. Fightstar - One Day Son This Will All Be Yours
3. Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
4. Angels and Airwaves - I-Empire
5. Paramore - RIOT!
Best Live Band:
1, Muse
2. My Chemical Romance
3. Machine Head
4. Lostprophets
5. Foo Fighters
Sexiest Female:
1. Pandora
2. Amy Lee - Evenescence
3. Hayley Willaims - Paramore
4. Tarja Turunen
5. Lyn-Z - Mindless Self Indulgence
It’s so honest in its being conflicted. I appreciate that.
Speaking of conflicted, I just found out that Lyn-Z married Gerard Way. My dreams = crushed.
Stereogum wins because their list doesn’t start getting into pro wrestler names until the teens.
No Slayer?
My Chemical Romance?
Seriously?
People like them?
For the record, the readership of British rock magazine ‘Kerrang’ is mostly German.
@kiss the snake goodnight: If that’s true, then why isn’t Hasselhoff on any of their lists?
Has Kerrang used a time machine to get the editors from my high school yearbook? Where are The Biggest Flirt and Most Outgoing nominees?
Sweet mother of God, I hate HIM.
ha ha you do all realise that Pandora is the buxom cartoon character who has been in Kerrang since before the dawn of time…
@byebyepride: I assume she wins this section every year!
LOL@Fightstar.
Right you lot, leave Kerrang! alone. It’s the biggest selling British music weekly, y’know, not the NME. Those kids know nothing of your hipster hieroglyphics, only pentahearts and heartograms and face metal. They are a generation of Bam Margeras - they live with their parents and dig HIM and probably Tokio Hotel too.
To the pure, all things are pure.
Lostprophets are still a band?
of course CURRENT pandora is OUR pandora’s* neice (i’m not even joking), and she is one times compleat EMOGOTH. it’s a shocking state of affairs…
*ie the one we read in the late 80s/early 90s
All you need to know about Pandora Peroxide old and nu: [www.rayzell.com]
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