Brian Wilson is the #2 craziest pop star ever

[STE]

Hi,
according to this Blender's article Brian is the #2 craziest pop star of all time (altough some of the info is not accurate):

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2515


I think the #1 spot is well deserved but what do you think of the rest?


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[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

#1 is definitely desevered.

Reading the entire thing now...

[punkinhead]

i wish spears wasnt on there, she hasnt done that many odd things....honestly.

i guess #1 is well deserved, but whether i like him or not, yeah, i actually hate him a whole lot...and i can't see why he has such a huge following

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

I hate that child molesting loser, too.

I think Brian is ranked WAY too high. Case in point

23. G.G. Allin
His live show was, quite literally, merda
Case History: The '80s shock-punk stalwart — named Jesus Christ by his father — built a career based on shows filled with nudity, defecation, mutilation, self-abuse and audience abuse. At one show, Allin attempted to have sex with a dead cat. A promiscuous man, he expressed disappointment when he tested negative for HIV, and he promised to commit suicide onstage. Instead, he died of a rather ordinary heroin overdose in 1993.
Crazy Moment: Allin was buried in a jockstrap embroidered with the phrase EAT ME.

*shudder*

wish spears wasnt on there, she hasnt done that many odd things....honestly

Not yet . Doesn't mean a thing...she's losing it right now. Check back in a few years and she'll be ranked higher.l

I wouldn't call Brian "crazy"...the above example really IS crazy (or, was).

Totally sane singer-songwriter…when he remembers his medication
Case History: When he stayed on his meds, singer-songwriter Johnston warbled sweet off-key pop songs backed by piano or acoustic guitar. When he went off them, the pudgy Texan was prone to erratic behavior. In 1986, he was tossed in jail for attacking a friend with a lead pipe; Hi, How Are You?, the self-produced tape that made him famous, was recorded during a full-blown nervous breakdown.
Crazy Moment: On a plane in 1990, Johnston freaked out and grabbed the controls, convinced that his father, who was piloting it at the time, was — guess who? — Satan.

1. It was his MANAGER he clocked with a pipe; said manager was also the guy who got Daniel into drugs, although it was Gibby Hanes (from the Butthole Surfers) who got him into acid.
2. According to  Dick Johnston (Dan's brother) , Dan thought he was Casper and could fly to safety. Dan hadn't taken his meds in two weeks, because they made him lethargic and he was on a tour.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Craziest Moment: Meeting some youngsters backstage in 1970, Wilson introduced himself with "I'm Brian." "We know," one replied. "We're your children."

That wasn't 1970, unless Carnie started speaking coherently  rather young...

[STE]

That wasn't 1970, unless Carnie started speaking coherently  rather young

Yeah that's what I meant with "some of the info is not accurate"..   In the late 70's, quite possible

[Pretty Funky]

Brian was worried Spector was going to shoot him. What a nut!

[Ebb and Flow]

Yeah, that's crazy talk right there! 

[PMcC]

hhmmmm......Keith Moon didn't make the top 10....the definition of "crazy" must have shifted a bit...

[PongHit]

author=Piddler on the Roof link=topic=3593.msg60871#msg60871 date=1173297873]
I think Brian is ranked WAY too high.

I agree...  unless the fame-o-meter was used as part of the equation.

[Summer_Days]

You know, that list was really put together for a laugh, but Brian's condition I never felt was all that funny. A guy who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, manic depression and brain damage doesn't seem all that humorous to me...but hey, whatever...

But then, many of the people on that list don't strike me as crazy. Mostly, they're either mentally ill (Brian Wilson, Syd Barret), sometimes do/say odd things, but are usually "normal" (Mariah Carey, Britney Spears) or are complete assholes (Axl Rose and Ike Turner).

[melissalynn]

That list is a bunch of garbage. GG Allin should have been number one or two. Nothing is sicker than that, as far as I'm concerned.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Amen.

[MBE]

Well I do have a sense of humor about Brian, but he is so much more then "crazy". Love em or hate everyone on that list has fans and except for somebody like G.G. Allen. all made an impact musically that is something meaningful to their fanbase.

[Mahalo]

MIKE LOVE SHOULD BE #1. HANDS DOWN. BRITNEY DOESN"T BELONG ON THE LIST. 

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I think Ozzy shouldve been a bit higher on the list. And one person that wasn't on the list at all should be in the top 5. Marilyn Manson!

[shelter]

I think Brian is ranked WAY too high.

They obviously didn't rank these people just by how insane they are, but also by how famous they are. Otherwise that guy from Burzum (who killed his friend and burned churches) should have been #1...

[shelter]

I think Ozzy shouldve been a bit higher on the list. And one person that wasn't on the list at all should be in the top 5. Marilyn Manson!

Marilyn Manson isn't crazy. He's just playing a role. He just does what Kiss and Alice Cooper did before him and just takes it a little step further.

[melissalynn]

I second that. Marilyn Manson, while crazy to the average person...is just an actor. I've seen him in 'real' interviews and such...nothing really very crazy about him at all. Just an excellent showman. Euronymous...yeah...that's a bit extreme, even by crazy standards.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

He's actually a pretty cool guy and quite the jokester. Marilyn Manson the performer and Brian Warner the person are quite different.

[Jason]

A mini-bio of Euronymous and Varg Vikernes, and a reason why both of them should have both been #1.

Euronymous took his name from the Swiss black metal band Hellhammer's song "Eurynomos". The artist formerly known as Øystein Aarseth is regarded as the father of Norwegian black metal. He actually owned a store called "Helvete" in Oslo, which specialized in black metal culture. He was an arsonist by nature, and he burned several churches along with other Norwegian black metal musicians. Euronymous fronted Mayhem from 1983 until the day he died. The story about him eating pieces of Dead's brain is true, however, it was Mayhem's drummer Hellhammer that used pieces of Dead's skull for a necklace. One of the infamous pictures Euronymous took of Dead's body became the cover of a famous bootleg, Dawn of the Black Hearts. (http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8075.jpg)

Varg Vikernes is the official name of the artist formerly known as (gasp!) Kristian Vikernes. He had, at least until 1999, a one-man black metal/ambient project called Burzum. He also murdered Euronymous, and described said murder in detail on the Burzum website. He has a lot of other writings there, and they're quite twisted.

http://www.burzum.org........if you're man enough.

These two guys should be #1 together because they're both legitimately insane.

[shelter]

Varg Vikernes is currently in prison for murdering Euronymus and setting fire to at least three churches (which costed the life of one firefighter). He also used to be a member of several neo-nazi and aryan resistance groups. I think you could say he's crazier than everyone else on that list...

[Jason]

The whole Mayhem/Burzum story is a "craziest pop star" article in itself. 

Mayhem may be the most "evil" music ever, but Burzum's by far the most diabolical sound ever put on tape.

[STE]

However I think there's difference between being crazy as in "eccentric" (e.g. Brian) and crazy as "criminally sick" like those sickos you mentioned

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[shelter]

However I think there's difference between being crazy as in "eccentric" (e.g. Brian) and crazy as "criminally sick" like those sickos you mentioned

I'd say that offering cocaine to your children is beyond eccentric....