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Every Rock star has an Ideal Iconic Death Age (or IIDA), a specific time in their career when their death would have the most iconic resonance. Generally the longer a Rock star lives, the less iconic they are. 27 years of age seems to be the exact right number for alot of our Rock stars. Cobain, Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin all cashed in their chips at this age. 27 seems to be the age where you are still almost considered young, but also have acheived enough to have produced the material need to hold the attention of Rock fans.

Ofcourse this age varies from one rock star to the next. John Lennon for instance, if he would have died at 27 we would have no 'I am the Walrus' 'Come Together' 'Revolution' or 'Imagine'. Then again the world never would have heard of Yoko Ono either.

― PEW (PEW), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

You have not yet truly had your face ground in the crunchy underwear that is life.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yoko ono is awesome. you a dipshit.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You have not yet truly had your face ground in the crunchy ~~underwear~~ gravel that is ~~life~~ The Darkness.

fixed

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

one of the best perks of being an American is you don't have to care about the Darkness.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

...or, interestingly enough, The Killers. :-(

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

if only wagemann had died at 27

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ideal iconic death age

How old are you right now PEW, 38? Better get cracking.

x-post DAMMIT VAHID

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

no jeb fuckley, no kwedibiwity

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

111

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

this would be an interesting topic for a blog post

― obi strip (sanskrit), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeb Fuckley is rather inspired, I think. Cheers.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 9 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

all the best rock stars go up to 11.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's put on Killing Joke = Night Time. Who says Alex in NYC has to know?

...up to 11, man. Even a Negativland CD I listened to tonight talked about "Eleven": "Escape from Noise".

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link

"I hate Bowie! In 'All The Young Dudes', he says "you should die when you're twenty-five". D'you know how old he is? He's fucking thirty! Well, twenty-nine. He's a liar."

― Nice Esteban Buttez (King Esteban), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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