coolest american pop icon of the last 50 years?

[mark414]

stolen from floog: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5748591

[querelle]

1. Elvis Presley

If not the coolest, then certainly one of the most influential.

Q

[mark414]

2. neal cassady of course wins in a heartbeat

but he's riding a bicycle and hunter s. thompson is wearing rollerskates and holding on to the back of the seat...it's that close

[mtowngman]

3. Dylan n/t

[mark414]

4. doh...

how did i forget him?

[mtowngman]

5. I don't know, maybe something like omnipresence

part of what makes him so cool

[mark414]

8. though if i made the poll more inclusive

i would've included and voted for his hero, mine too (and my sig pic)

woody!

[buddhamama]

6. indeed

:spank: :)

[mark414]

7. i blame it on the alcohol

:toast: :puke:

[mark414]

9. shit, marvin gaye should be on that list too

man i suck

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. What about William S. Burroughs?

[MrCoffee]

16. the hipster bebop junkie never showed at 103rd...

long may he reign.

[ohiosmith]

11. You want to talk about cool?

cool squared

[mark414]

12. word

my vote still goes to cassady though

[SKKY]

13. Having lived in Europe for 9 of the past 15 years, I'd have to...

...say few people qualify, at least from a world-wide perspective, more than Michael Jordan.

[idgiehkt]

15. LOL

thanks for that, I wish more expats would weigh in on this, lol. Ha, and he's a tarheel, neener, neener.

I think Elvis and Dylan need to be up there somewhere. Is Madonna up there?

[Guava Jelly]

14. you will never guess who i voted for

:)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

18. Why am I betting it was Ol' Blue Eyes?

:P

[Guava Jelly]

23. are you like psychic

or sumpthun lol :)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. Miles isn't really pop, but I had to give him a vote.

Any cat with an album called Bitches' Brew or The Birth of the Cool is one fucking amazing mofo who deserves your full veneration. "Cool" began with Miles, and with Bird, and with 'Trane, way before Mr. Presley.

[YDogg]

19. Max Headroom.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. ...

[Broken_Hero]

21. other, Elvis....nt

[RebelOne]

22. James Dean

I was devastated when he got himself killed.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Why the heck isn't Elvis on that poll??

He was cool and didn't even know it, or really want to be. He didnt' even have to try.