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July 12, 2006

Boys Do Cry

Blender has started to reveal its latest pointless list, The 25 Biggest Wusses ... Ever!

25. Robert Smith
24. Donovan
23. Everyone in ’N Sync (Except Justin Timberlake)
22. Natalie Merchant
21. Pat Boone
20. Garth Brooks
19. Bread
18. Common
17. Metallica
16. Paul McCartney
15. Christopher Cross
You can read their reasoning here. Who do you think is number one? Moz? Flea? The dude from Cobra Starship?

Better yet: let's make a list of the least wussiest rockers. I vote for anyone in Mayhem.

UPDATE: USAToday.com leaked the Top 10. (Thanks Joe!)

10. Hilary Duff
9. Chris Martin
8. Babyface
7. Rascal Flatts
6. Kenny G
5. Peter Cetera
4. Boyz II Men
3. Dan Folgelberg
2. Nick Lachey
1. James Taylor

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how about most bizarre cross between least and most wussy rocker?

andrew wk. . .c'mon. . .

Posted by: b at 07/12/06 6:43 PM | Reply
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moz is probably number one, preeeeetty hard to beat. i bet marc bolan might make the list, based on their reasoning for donovan.

Posted by: kiki at 07/12/06 6:43 PM | Reply
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Say what you will about Common, but dude RIPPED Ice Cube a new one back in the day. Guy's a nasty MC.

Posted by: Paul H. at 07/12/06 6:50 PM | Reply
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I actually think Kanye is kind of wussy. He's great and all musically, but he's just got that Napoleon complex thing going and he seems like the type who'd get real upset over a misunderstanding and get his big brother to fight you.

Posted by: Stephen at 07/12/06 7:21 PM | Reply
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Donny Osmond has to be on there for only claiming to be "a little bit rock 'n' roll," and not even making that believe.

Also, because he got beat by Bonaduce in one of the first celebrity boxing matches in memory.

Posted by: Laflin at 07/12/06 7:41 PM | Reply
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dude from midtown/cobra starship.


god, what a tool.

Posted by: dennis at 07/12/06 7:44 PM | Reply
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dude from midtown/cobra starship = numero uno.


god, what a tool.

Posted by: dennis at 07/12/06 7:44 PM | Reply
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#1 Wussiest - who could forget....EMINEM!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: eman at 07/12/06 8:13 PM | Reply
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Yeah I vote for Flea for first. Or maybe Chad Smith - at least Flea was complaining about something real, Chad Smith just makes up problems.

http://www.musictimes.com.au

Posted by: Music Times at 07/12/06 8:13 PM | Reply
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I say Chris Carraba. And this ::is:: a pointless list.

Posted by: Jeff at 07/12/06 8:14 PM | Reply
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What is JTimbs doing making the cut? Big time wuss.

For least wussiest, shoutout to GWAR

Posted by: mike at 07/12/06 8:24 PM | Reply
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It looks like Blender is Chunklet for people with no sense of humor.

Posted by: pissed at 07/12/06 9:18 PM | Reply
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james taylor is number 1 according to USA Today. Also included are Chris Martin, Hilary Duff, Babyface and Nick Lachey at number 2.

Posted by: joe at 07/12/06 9:23 PM | Reply
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How about Sufjan Stevens, "crying in the back of the van" Dude save that stuff for group

Posted by: King of Zing at 07/12/06 10:27 PM | Reply
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James Taylor? Dude was a junky! No one who used needle drugs can be considered a wuss. Even if he did sing some pussy-assed lite rock...

Posted by: Jake at 07/12/06 10:37 PM | Reply
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Why does Blender exist?

Oh yeah, 'lists' that no one cares about.

It's a cheap knock-off of Q anyway.

Posted by: Sean at 07/12/06 10:49 PM | Reply
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Who here in PA saw Pat Boone stump for Rick Santorum in a new commercial? I don't know if that strengthens or weakens the argument that Boone's a wuss.

Posted by: r*obox at 07/12/06 11:18 PM | Reply
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Might as well put all the new emo bands on here too..

Posted by: Apexa at 07/12/06 11:26 PM | Reply
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How could that list not include Morrissey?

Posted by: Jack at 07/12/06 11:38 PM | Reply
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john mayer

Posted by: robbie at 07/12/06 11:44 PM | Reply
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moz is too cool for that wussy list....

he'll kick all their asses....

make the sun shine out of their behinds.....

i pick....

antony?

Posted by: maya lucia at 07/13/06 12:19 AM | Reply
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wow i thought the list started pretty well, but that top 10 sucks. way to blow it, blender.

Posted by: kiki at 07/13/06 2:04 AM | Reply
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Yes, I subscribe. No, I don't pay for it.
14. Cat Stevens (Mild World)
13. Belle and Sebastian (Twee Are the World) Inspriring slavish devotion from cardigan-clad legions of poetry majors, this Scottish chamber-pop collective are like the Smiths but without all the macho posturing.(So, is that why Moz wasn't mentioned?)
12. Graham Nash (The "Heidily-Ho" Hippie)
11. Barry Manilow (Schlock Horror)

James Taylor's wussiest moment: His cover of "Summertime Blues," in which he takes on Eddie Cochran's yawp of frustration as if he wants to be the white Bill Cosby.

Posted by: H at 07/13/06 3:00 AM | Reply
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I got to say, VH1 does arbitrary lists a lot better. At least they have some decent comedians commenting once in a while.

Posted by: burnwash at 07/13/06 3:15 AM | Reply
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Bit baffled at the lack of Morrissey, his smug, wussy whining makes me want to tear off my ears.

Posted by: Ben at 07/13/06 6:39 AM | Reply
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wussiest...lol...yeah, pretty lame idea, i hate lists yet love them

what is that lead singer from counting crows again?
him.

Posted by: booboo at 07/13/06 8:49 AM | Reply
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james taylor? how inappropriate

Posted by: wes at 07/13/06 10:34 AM | Reply
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Least wussiest- G.G. Allin

Posted by: Ken Kwan at 07/13/06 10:49 AM | Reply
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I can't believe Peter Cetera made that list. Apparently they don't remember the video for Chicago's "Stay the Night."

Quick, somebody YouTube that shit.

Posted by: Ben at 07/13/06 10:50 AM | Reply
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Okay, I'll do it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hd99MRPajMw

Posted by: Ben at 07/13/06 10:53 AM | Reply
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Michael Jackson--If for nothing else, than for the creepy She's Out Of My Life.
A grown man fake sobbing during a song? The once and future King of Wuss Mountain.

Posted by: virgil at 07/13/06 11:11 AM | Reply
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HE WASN'T FAKING! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Posted by: Ben at 07/13/06 12:33 PM | Reply
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Mayhem aren't death metal. Thanks for trying though.

Posted by: jefferson at 07/13/06 2:02 PM | Reply
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What the hell ARE these lists? I'm pretty sure that Metallica, Robert Smith, James Taylor and Paul McCartney shouldn't be on this list! And anyone that was ever in any kind of boyband at any time should consume the top 50... EASILY. I hate these things.

Posted by: Chris at 07/13/06 2:52 PM | Reply
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it must have taken some balls to split the Smiths the go on to record a string of sub standard material...

Posted by: robbie at 07/13/06 3:02 PM | Reply
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Yeah, boy, that James Taylor is a wuss. And you know what else? This is a *problem*. A BIG problem.

I should also add that actually, if you believe Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson is really crying at the end of "She's Out of My Life." Not only that, but he couldn't manage to *not* cry. On every take.

Posted by: Spencer at 07/13/06 5:05 PM | Reply
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Lamest crutch in all of publishing? LISTS.
(Whatta coincidence, all Blender does is lists. Has Craig Marks had a fresh idea since 1994?)

p.s. Robert "wuss" Smith would drink the entire Blender staff under the table.

Posted by: Lan at 07/13/06 6:46 PM | Reply
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What the hell are they talking about? James Taylor? Never. He's going to go down in history as one of our best artists ever. Never as a wuss or anything close.

Posted by: vicky at 07/16/06 11:22 PM | Reply
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Where is Yanni?

least wussy: Phil, the
singer from Pantera

Posted by: T at 07/24/06 11:01 AM | Reply
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>>23. Everyone in ’N Sync (Except Justin Timberlake)

Shit, they really fucked up the spelling of "especially."

Posted by: Blah at 07/28/06 4:06 PM | Reply
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