Which musician do you feel is the biggest sell-out of all time?
 

I gotta go with Gene Simmons...He'd do ANYTHING for a buck.

On a side note...Metallica...UGH, 'Saint Anger', what the hell was THAT?!

Metallica .

phil collins - hands down.

Ditto....I loved them when I was a kid....but without Cliff....they would NEVER be the same.... And Justice For All... was good....but after that it was sell out city.

I guess maybe Elton John or Bono...


Elton for his rewrite of his own song for Princess Dianas funersl just to make a buck.. and get a number 1 after year of no success.

Bono, because he seems to want to get his head in every where when we don't cares what the dipshit thinks since Zooropa...

Yet he shows up on every second doco as though he was there..

INXS sold out to reality TV
Goo-Goo Dolls used to be punk...and decent punk at that and then--mainstream.

And Justice FOr All was thier best album imo.
but you're right. after that it was a quick and steady decline into shit.
but i'd still see them just to say i did.

i disagree.

oh, and Billy Idol sold out pretty bad.
im still a sucker for Rebel Yell though.

billy idol was always in it for the money though so he never really sold out.

I don't know, I find it hard to label anyone as a "sellout", I bet most of these bands didn't start without money being a major factor. That said...


Greenday

Green Day has always been a sell out.

I agree with Metallica.

Gene Simmons, by a LONG shot.

I wouldn't really call Gene Simmons a sellout. Kiss were always big business and never denied it in fact they embraced it... they wanted to be as big as Coca-Cola.

Rage Against The Machine take the cake for me. So full of shit. Preaching all their anti-establishment/big business while there signed to Sony records :rolleyes:

It always weirded me out how everyone gets on Metallica's case when Soundgarden did the exact same thing. I guess most people didn't listen to them in the early days before they cut all their hair off and started writing shitty slicked out pop rock.

With Metallica I HONESTLY feel they just wanted to try something different. I don't think the change boosted their sales OR gained them a ton of new fans really. If they "sold out" it was well before Metallica's "Metallica" (or Black album if you will). System of a Down is even a bigger sellout in my mind.

don't know if you guys know them, but here in europe: Tokio Hotel
disgusting how commercial they are, I almost have to puke when I think about them

You're wrong......Daron has always wrote all the music for SOAD.....Serj used to write most of the lyrics.....but it's 1/2 and 1/2 now a days....Also, I don't consider SOAD a sell out at all.....Serj's solo album Elect the Dead was sub-par at best. :rolleyes: I'm sure Scars on Broadway will blow it out of the water musically.

Rancid.... Though every band should look to sell out, if they care to make a living at playing their music, that is.

I'm a big fan of Operation Ivy...I've never liked Rancid though.

Oddly enough, I'm just the opposite. :p

All those Epitaph/Fat Wreck bands are cop outs. Punk-lite for fuckwit jock college kids.

:eek: Damn Elvis...you don't like NOFX or Bad Religion?.

Doubt any of you have heard of him but Robbie Williams.

He had a couple "hits" over here...blech.

I dig How Could Hell Be Any Worse? but not a lot else. I used to like NOFX when I was younger but they don't really do much for me these days.