This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: The Lead Singer And A Few Other Guys: From YKTTW
Bobby G: I removed the following sentences from the King Crimson section because they're blatantly untrue: "But never Adrian Belew. No one likes Adrian Belew." I like his songs. I know there are some people who don't like him, but he has his fans.
Ethereal Mutation: This article is getting too long and encompasses way too broad a spectrum of the music out there. It should really only list non-singer faces and aversions.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: This trope was always meant to include lead singer faces, so I object to cutting them. I am against "aversions only" on principle - very few tropes are that universal... But there is another method (since one of your problems is "broad spectrum"): Sort by genre. We do that on some of the other music pages. (See Wallbanger/Music.) And it would help...
Mr Fluffykins: Genre organizing is a good idea. However, a lot of these examples need to be cut, particularly ones where people list more than one band member. Also, "inverted because I can name two band members" examples really need to go as well. They way I understand this trope, it's an example when the frontman vastly overshadows the other band members, and inverted when people know everyone equally. Unless I'm reading this trope too narrowly...
Crazyrabbits: I'll take a crack at editing this article sometime this weekend. EDIT: I have literally never seen anything as haphazardly written and mindlessly rambling as this trope. Jesus Christ!
Willbyr: I've taken a stab at organizing some of the acts under genres, but I'm fully aware that the groupings are very generalized and there's probably many examples that aren't properly grouped. Please edit as needed.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here, as it is unclear exactly what is going on here.
- Duran Duran is another tricky case. Try to follow along here. Most people know and recognize the five-man Blue Bishounen Ghetto of 1984. In the mid 80s Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, and Roger Taylor made a spin-off band called Arcadia, while Andy Taylor and John Taylor joined up with Robert Palmer and "that guy who played drums in Chic" to form The Power Station which had a few hits. They reformed Duran Duran after being through with that but lost Andy and Roger, later adding "that guy from Missing Persons" in as an official member, and for many years were Simon, Nick and some other guys - or more accurately, "wow, Duran Duran still exist!?". Skip forward to 2001 - they kick out that Missing Persons guy, get the original five guys together and everything is great... until 2006 when Andy leaves again. And just to add to the confusion, your Duran Duran Greatest Hits album probably has songs from every iteration of the band, most of which won't sound like they were done by the same band except for the vocals... oh, and none of the three Taylors are related. No-one is called Duran of course, Duran Duran being a character from Barbarella.
