Vanhalen 0 Report post Posted August 26, 2005 US band Green Day have been named best band on the planet at the 12th annual Kerrang! rock awards. They were the biggest winners at the rock magazine's ceremony, also scooping the prize for best live act. Welsh metal group Funeral For a Friend won best British band, while New Jersey's My Chemical Romance picked up best album and best video. Iron Maiden were inducted into the Kerrang! Hall of Fame and shock rocker Marilyn Manson took the Icon Award. "I didn't wake up feeling like an icon because I didn't go to sleep," said Manson - real name Brian Warner. "I don't like journalists because I was one, but I like the fans." The flamboyant singer recently announced he was giving up music to concentrate on acting and directing. He said the final dates of his current tour would be "the last time people see this type of Marilyn Manson experience". Manson was honoured for "a notoriety that has spread all over the globe". "The thing about Manson I've always liked is that he's challenged the mores of America," said Placebo's Brian Molko, who said the award was "completely well deserved". His sentiments were echoed by Feeder, who said Manson was an "amazing lyricist and songwriter". "He's taken the flak for a lot of things he didn't really need to and he's dealt with it in an amazing way." The London ceremony was billed as "the biggest and baddest awards in the rock calendar". Green Day became one of the world's biggest heavy rock bands more than a decade ago and have been enjoying a renaissance since their American Idiot album came out last year. They saw off competition from My Chemical Romance, System of a Down, HIM and Foo Fighters to be named best band on the planet. My Chemical Romance won best album for Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge while the band's second award came for their Helena video. The US group said they wanted to "thank the fans from the bottom of our black little hearts". Lifetime achievement The prize for best single went to Foo Fighters' hit Best of You while Trivium were named best international newcomers. But System of a Down, who had five nominations, went home empty-handed. Funeral For a Friend saw off Feeder, Stereophonics, Placebo and Cradle of Filth to win the best British band title. Bullet For My Valentine, another Welsh band, picked up the prize for best British newcomers. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor was named classic songwriter while Killing Joke were given a lifetime achievement accolade. British rockers The Darkness triumphed at last year's awards, winning two trophies for the second year running. This year's ceremony was hosted by Hollywood actress Juliette Lewis, who fronts the band Juliette and the Licks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLAGIARISM! 0 Report post Posted August 26, 2005 Didn't Killing Joke win a lifetime acheivement or something? If so, then yay. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 US band Green Day have been named best band on the planet stopped reading Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 They saw off competition from My Chemical Romance, System of a Down, HIM and Foo Fighters to be named best band on the planet. That's my favorite sentence. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 System Of A Down > every other band at the awards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 Maybe, but still. C'mon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 More like the Special Olympics, am I rite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 Green Day are the least offensive of all the pop punk bands. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 Green Day has been my favorite band for the last 11 years or so, and American Idiot is their best work yet (and up there with Morrison Hotel as best album I've ever heard) so the award is deserved. Yeah... flame on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2005 Of course Green Day is better than the Doors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 Green Day was tolerable until they started co-opting emo fashion and trying to be political; that's what made them so reprehensible. Now he's like Bono in eyeliner. Go fuck yourself Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 I liked Green Day as a kid. The fact that kids who are the same age I was then are digging them now should say something for the state of popular music. Oh, and fuck anybody who uses the phrase "staying power." People are hating on Backstreet Boys left, right and center for coming back with the same old shit. At least they were honest about it. Green Day pulled together a half-assed "rock opera" and rebuilt their careers on it. It'll be another ten years before they finally decide to fuck off for good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 American Idiot is unlike anything Green Day has ever done (although a few songs sound like old Green Day), and while I am fairly indifferent to politics, most of the songs on the album are great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest *KNK* Report post Posted August 28, 2005 American Idiot is unlike anything Green Day has ever done (although a few songs sound like old Green Day), and while I am fairly indifferent to politics, most of the songs on the album are great. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Warning was better. Warning is still playable all the way through, while American Idiot is already tiresome, however Green Day will be pushing singles off that album for another year or two. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 American Idiot is unlike anything Green Day has ever done (although a few songs sound like old Green Day), and while I am fairly indifferent to politics, most of the songs on the album are great. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Warning was better. Warning is still playable all the way through, while American Idiot is already tiresome, however Green Day will be pushing singles off that album for another year or two. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Warning was really good, but I prefer American Idiot. I always listen to AI all the way through, with the exception of the song "American Idiot." "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Holiday" have been overplayed, but I still love 'em. Did anyone notice that Jason, the second touring guitarist, is in the video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murmuring Beast 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 Of course Green Day is better than the Doors. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Green Day doesn't have that annoying organ. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 Of course Green Day is better than the Doors. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Green Day doesn't have that annoying organ. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I thought you were the guy who had Robbie Krieger in his sig. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murmuring Beast 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 SarKasm. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ravenbomb 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 Welsh metal group Funeral For a Friend won best British band Isn't Wales a seperate country from Great Britain? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2005 I guess it should have been "Best UK Band". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 Welsh metal group Funeral For a Friend won best British band Isn't Wales a seperate country from Great Britain? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> England + Wales + Scotland = Great Britain Great Britain + Ulster = United Kingdom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ravenbomb 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 oh. Ok. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 I liked Green Day as a kid. The fact that kids who are the same age I was then are digging them now should say something for the state of popular music. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Even weirder: I was the age you are now when all these kids who you were once the same age as are digging them. Yup. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AboveAverage484 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 Shit, "Dookie" is their best album. It was funny and honest and had catchy, inoffensive (well, musically anyway) tunes throughout the CD. There are really no bad cuts on the whole thing, and it doesn't matter anyway because they blitz through the whole CD in like 35 minutes. Every kid in high school can relate to bitchy girlfriends, being bored and horny, wanting to blow shit up, get in fights, and get burned out and wander the streets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k thx 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 I love that Cradle Of Filth are considered one of the top five British bands... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 I love that Cradle of Filth haven't recorded anything good in the past 5 years and are considered one of Britain's top 5 bands. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 I'd watch it just to see Juliette Lewis doing her whole "act like I'm stoned all the time" gimmick... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 I love that Cradle of Filth haven't recorded anything good ever and are considered one of Britain's top 5 bands. Edited for you-know-what Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Renegade 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2005 I love that Cradle of Filth haven't recorded anything good ever and are considered one of Britain's top 5 bands. Edited for you-know-what <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good call Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted August 30, 2005 Hey...Dusk and Her Embrace, From the Cradle to Enslave, Cruely and the Beast, and Midian are good albums, fuck you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
