Post-punk/new wave hotties poll

Gahan

I voted but they all still say 0%

Um, BILLY IDOL???????

Another vote for Dave Gahan.

And another vote for Gahan.

Damn, gurl, you old.

Billy Idol. Dave Gahan. That dude from Big Country

Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins

Big Country guy...Stuart Adamson. Also from a few years before- Terry Hall of the Specials.

We generally got it several years or more late where I lived - suburb of LA, but not in LA proper.

KROQ, 91x and MTV..haha.

Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet

Jon Moss from Culture Club

Larry Mullen, Jr. from U2

John Taylor and Roger Taylor from Duran Duran

Paul Simonon from The Clash

Weak chin on Dave Gahan, alas.

Dave Gahan

Gahan by a mile. He still brings it!

I always had a crush on Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Morrissey??? On what planet is he considered hot to anybody other than 14 year old hags with a major case of teen angst?

So this thread made me look up Terry Hall and Fun Boy Three vids on YouTube ... Somewhere in there my little 1983 heart still skipped a beat.

Phil Oakey of the Human League was pretty fuckable.

According to interviews with friends and loved ones, Billy Mackenzie from Scottish New Wave band The Associates was bisexual. Strong cheek bones.

[quote]Morrissey??? On what planet is he considered hot to anybody other than 14 year old hags with a major case of teen angst?

In what world is this not good looking?

I'll go more obscure with Peter Schilling.

More young Moz.

If you don't consider his personality, I think a lot of people would find Moz pretty attractive.

The Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet

And from 2014.

What about the lads from Duran Duran?

Dave Gahan.

Then, now, and in-between

I an Curtis was incredibly handsome. Moz is a nasty piece of work. Where is Bernard Butler and Brett Anderson of Suede? When I was growing up I always had fantasies of both of them

Moz is a nasty piece of work.

And Gahan's a narcissistic, talentless twat, but that's besides the point.

[quote] The Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet

Oh yeah!

Morten Harket of a-ha

Oh, yeah, Morten Harket...yum.

Michael Aston of Gene Loves Jezebel was very sexy. They overdid the makeup & looked a little too Sunset-Strip-glam-band most of the time, but nothing a little soap and water wouldn't take care of.

Of the choices in the poll, I would go with Billy MacKenzie. Quite pretty when he was young.

Bump for 2 year anniversary of the lot of trouble this thread ended up dumping me into the middle of ...

Do tell, R32.

Am I really the first one mentioning Adam Ant?

R33: I went off searching vids and whatnot of my favorite which ended up dumping me in the middle of the fandom from hell: drama involving the actual guy, a delusional stalker, many, many of his women/girls and on and on - personalities I never could have imagined. I really need to write a screenplay. People in my offline life rue the day I found this thread.

Billy Mackenzie committed suicide. Siouxsie wrote a song about it and released it on the Creatures 1998/1999 album Anima Animus. The song is called Say.

I heard the news today

Billy's gone away

Left us all for good

No one understood

Geez R32, Some fans really are fanatics. For what it's worth, I hope the freaky types and stalkers didn't affect your real life in any way.

Who?

Watch this and justify not voting for Ian iIan McCulloch. Those lips!

I have been on a huge Ian McCulloch kick the last couple of weeks. I was a casual fan back in the 80's just as E&TB released their last album with the original quartet. I saw his Candleland tour but remembered not being impressed at all and made a decision to not to invest too much time in his solo career. Over the years, I've gone off and on and off E&TB. But a couple of weeks ago, I really wanted to hear The Cutter and I don't have that song as a MP3 so I checked out Youtube. And thus begun the Youtube rabbit hole. Seeing early-mid 80's E&TB live has been an eye opener. Now I understand the hype they got early in their career. They had a power live that didn't quite always come through on their albums.

I can see the appeal now of a young and impassioned McCulloch live on stage. Definitely sexy. He's not even that good looking really--a bit of weak chin and slightly bug-eyed. But on stage with that VOICE--damn he was delicious.

Alas, he's the epitome of the English boy syndrome--beautiful in their twenties and hitting the wall hard by 30. Decades of ciggies, drink and drugs haven't helped either. If you want to remember Ian at his best, do not google or youtube anything past the early 1990's. The worst is that VOICE is no more.

I’m with R34, everyone is a distant runner-up to Adam Ant.

R39, thanks for that link--that's a fantastic performance of Ocean Rain. The best song off that album even though Ian Mac always touts The Killing Moon as the greatest song ever.

I had a HUGE lust for David Sylvian in my youth, but to this day Bryan Ferry does it for me, weird face and all.

What’s weird about Bryan Ferry’s face?

Richard Hell deserves a mention in this thread.

While I was only casually into the Bunnymen and McCulloch's appeal back in the day, I had a huge crush on Gahan. His descent into heroin chic cured that obsession pretty quickly.

First love was Robert Smith, then a quick infatuation with Martin Gore (can't believe he's got 0 votes) and then it was Gahan for a long time. Oh there was a Alan Wilder period too. Basically I fancied everyone in DM except Fletcher.

Yeah, nothing wrong with Bryan Ferry's face.

Andy McCluskey, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)

Come on, Adam!

Bernie

Mac looked good as a girl too.

Sting

U2 boys

Michael Hutchence

And a snippet of Mac behind the scenes.

Things I only learned recently about Mac:

He's been blind as a bat since age 12--he wears prescription sunglasses and won't wear regular glasses (in public at least) because of vanity. He didn't think rock stars should be wearing coke-bottled glasses. He was diagnosed with OCD as a child--apparently still a challenge well into adulthood. Wonder how much it factored into his notorious reputation for being a prickly character and the drug/drink issues.

R30, speaking of Gene Loves Jezebel, it reminded me of one of the best Mac the Mouth quips:

“Us and New Order wanted to do some gigs together and we thought we’d take some hairdressers along.”

The Bunneymen and NO co-headlined a successful US tour in 1986 with GLJ as the openers and clearly McCulloch didn't rate them.

OP, your list is ancient for post punk bands.

Adam Ant. Has there been anyone more beautiful in music? His work is steeped in sex and humor, and he loves to play with masculine iconography, dressing as a cowboy, pirate, astronaut, Indian warrior, leather-clad biker, Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando... and Jane Russell just to round it out!

Though I didn’t appreciate his looks back in the 80s, I now think Terry Hall was, and is, really attractive.

Hall has aged amazingly well.

I know U2 went supernova in the late 80's, but I can't, at any time, think of Bono as a hottie.

I voted for David Sylvian (left) - he was very pretty and so was his younger brother (right).

David Sylvian.

Is is a man or woman? It's David Sylvian.

Is is a man or woman? It's David Sylvian.

Sorry for posting twice.

David Sylvian may have lost his looks as he aged but when he was young, he was beautiful.

The Sylvian profile.

A look of longing.

He's pretty.

He's ready for his close-up.

David Sylvian and his brother Steve Jansen.

Sylvian rarely smiled in photos.

The bloke from Everything But The Girl was always beguiling to me. Glad people finally mentioned Adam Ant. Some of The Style Council were cute too, think two of them.

Adam Ant!

R71 - you rang? Adam Ant was great in his prime but later he lost his hair and gained weight.

R17 - Billy MacKenzie was gay. Not bisexual. He grew up in Scotland in the 60s/70s. He would have had experiences with girls. But he was gay. How much that contributed to his suicide will always be difficult to tell.

Ian Mac fucking up Dylan but somehow still sounding amazing and appealing. Wish there was video of the performance.

How could I forget Paul Weller?

Jim Kerr, of Simple Minds. Didn’t he merkin for Christie Hynde?

He wasn’t really hot, more ethereally beautiful to start with then quickly becoming a disheveled semi-cute. But I definitely had a massive crush on him for years. He’s such a kind man when sober, with loveliest twinkly eyes when he smiles like many Scots. And that thick, rich, porridgey brogue is to die for.

Morrissey, always and forever. I don't care what he's like in real life.

On a side note, since we're on the subject, I made out with Martin Gore in the back of his limousine one night, sometime in the mid 90s. He invited me back to his hotel room, but I declined. He was hot, and kissing him was incredible, but I didn't go through with it. If it had been Dave Gahan, my answer probably would have been different.

Billy Bragg

Dave Gahan, of course!

R77, guy or girl?

I loved The Smiths back in the day--loved them. Sometime in the late 1990's or early 2000's, I simply lost the capacity to tolerate Morrissey's voice. I simply cannot take it. Johnny Marr's music is still ace, pity I can't listen to it. I don't understand rating Morrissey as a hottie--there's nothing sexy about him. He may have been perfectly fine looking but the guy even said he wasn't into sex?

R47 I vote instead for Paul Humphries of OMD. (on the right)

[R80] I'm a girl.

I sort of had the same experience with Morrissey, until I saw him perform live about seven years ago. I went in with pretty low expectations, thinking I would become bored, but it was actually one of the best live performances I've ever seen. He managed to turn what are largely depressive lyrics meshed with sort of lulling music into something completely captivating. I was, and still am blown away by his presence and talent as a performer.

If the poll had been opened up a bit more, this is someone I would have voted for. Maybe I'll start a lady of the post-punk/new wave hotties. There are a few of them out there.

Totally off-topic, but watching R78's clip, I was amazed by how cool it was that Letterman would book Billy Bragg on his "goofy little show" (to use Letterman's own description) and for Billy to accept given he was often very reluctant to do network programs. Says a lot about the both of them.

This isn't from the 80's but I really digging this Ian McCulloch duet with Jane Birkin from the early 2000's. Very French pop song.

If I had a time machine I’d go back to Brighton in the ‘80s and watch the Bunnymen play live in one of those moody little clubs by the pier for the New Wave Kids.

Richard Butler, Psychedelic Furs

Michael Hutchence of INXS...everyone else is far behind.

R85, same here, same here.

Best available now is to watch or listen to their shows on Youtube. Albert Hall in 1983 is a scorcher. The closing with "Do It Clean" is amazing.

Clem Burke from Blondie

Clem Burke, hottie? Never was, never will be, but what a drummer!

Clem Burke was not bad in his prime but from Blondie I would nominate Jimmy Destri.

Look at that sweet face. And those lips.

Belies Mac the Mouth's legendary reputation as an acidic-tongued curmudgeon. .

R87 my ultimate fantasy striptease song (receiving or giving, doesn’t matter) is still ‘Suicide Blonde’.

Adam was smoking in his prime. Saw him on the Strip tour as a young lad. At the end he stripped down to his tighty whiteys, jumped into a giant tank of water, and then gave us all a good look. What a great show that was.

A snippet of the young Bunnymen on TV. This has to be the earliest footage. It was in the summer of 1979 and you can tell they had barely learnt to play their instruments! This was also when they were still using the drum machine. They formed in the autumn of 1978 and their bass player didn't know how to play bass at all. Less than a year later, he's on tv performing their first single.

Turn down the volume because they sound pretty bad. What struck me though was how Bowieseque the young Ian McCulloch was, especially from the profile angle. Bowie, but with fuller lips.

This was when they were on an indie label and Mac jokingly recalled that Seymour Stein of Sire Records saw the band, wasn't bothered with the songs, but signed them anyway because he wanted to shag McCulloch.