Ok everyone who are your top 20 favorite frontmen (pssst...they don't all have to be men...they can be women too) I'm looking for musicians who have contributed something new to their genre of music, who have in any way revolutionized the way people think of music. Someone who has caught people's attention whether by their voice, performances, look, of videos, or anything else you can think of.
ink's list:
1. incubus (hands down, my favorite)
2. Alanis Morissette (favorite female rocker)
3. Marilyn Manson
4. Nine Inch Nails
5. No Doubt
6. Janis Joplin
7. The Doors
8. Placebo
9. Garbage
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
11. Jane's Addiction
12. Nirvana
13. Everclear
14. Dave Matthews
15. Poe
16. Radiohead
17. Bush
18. Coldplay
19. Tool
20. Tonic
21. Ozzy
22. Alice in Chains

I also ask that you do not post anything offensive when it comes to other people who post their favorites. Everyone has their own taste and you don't have to like but please be courteous. Thanks

-ink

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Sex Pistols
3. Joy Division
4. Depeche Mode
5. Cocteau Twins
6. Dead kennedys
7. Orbital
8. The Smiths
9. The Cure
10. The Who
11. Jeff Buckley
12. Lush
13. The Sundays
14. Public Image Limited
15. The Velvet Underground
16. The Small Faces
17. Tim Buckley
18. Bob Dylan
19. Underworld
20. Peter Gabriel

Would you say PIL were more important than the Pistols? I prefer PIL but surely Pistols changed music in a more dramatic fashion?

hmmm...I'm not really sure. I suppose its just whatever your opinion is...I'm more for the pistols myself but that's just me.

1. Oasis
2. The Stone Roses
3. Ocean Colour Scene
4. The Beatles

In no particular order

The Strokes
Prodigy
Death In Vegas
Cast
The La's
Jet
Pulp
NWA
Radiohead
Ryan Adams
Def Leppard
Joe Cocker
Eminem
Sex pistols
Happy Mondays
The Jam
The Who
Keane
The Stands
Franz Ferdinand
The Hiss
The Stills

So is it our top 20 bands or the top 20 bands who have contributed to music and I take it from people choises it is not restricted to alternative bands/artists.

It seems more like a "my twenty favourite artists list"...

I mean A Morissete and Incubus to name two haven't really contributed a lot to music, I'd say...

names that pop in my head as having contributed really something...

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Velvet Underground
Jimi Hendrix
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
The Smiths
David Bowie
Joni Mitchell
Tom Waits
King Crimson
Tool
Korn (I don't like Korn anymore, but they did influence- together with the deftones and faith no more and others a lot of (nu metal) bands)

Perhaps you should keep your damn opinions to yourself and just answer the question or not reply to my posts. I for one believe that incubus in particular have contributed a lot to music whereas some of the artists you named I have never even heard of. Therefore, I would say its a matter of opinion about what bands have contributed something to music and those bands who have not. I for one do not think the smiths contributed anything, nor did korn in my opinion.

revolutionizing the way people think about music is not always a positive thing... either way this is my list of influence (no order)

the beatles
led zeppelin
jimi hendrix
pink floyd
chuck berry
elvis presley
robert johnson
aphex twin
the clash
korn
nirvana
frank zappa
mike patton
ornette coleman
kiss
van halen (the david lee roth years)
king crimson
red hot chili peppers
radiohead
ministry

1. The Beatles
2. Bob Dylan
3. Pink Floyd
4. Metallica
5. AC/DC
6. Radiohead
7. R.E.M.
8. U2
9. Nirvana
10. Rage Against The Machine
11. Korn
12. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
13. Eminem
14. Marilyn Masnon
15. Coldplay
16. The White Stripes
17. The Strokes
18. Beastie Boys

And the last two, influences downunder:

1. Midnight Oil
2. Silverchair