VEGANGELICA

Since the last male musician about whom I posted in this thread is dead, I'll post about one who is even (alas) deader:

Johannes Brahms. Virtuoso pianist + Composer + German = HOT HOT HOT!!

Until I happened by the "snog, shag, or marry" thread down in the lounge today, I had no idea that Johannes Brahms looked like THIS back in 1853 when he was twenty years old:



Add to his fetching appearance the fact that he composed the following music, my favorite composition for clarinet and piano...

Brahms Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2, 1st. Movement
Levan Tskhadadze - Clarinet



...and I would have joined the many adoring fans described in this article about Johannes Brahms, if I had lived in the 1850s:

Here he is seated at the piano:



Finally, here he is all grown up:



The pictures of Brahms make me curious about the appearances of other famous, deceased male and female musicians and composers whom I know only through their music. When I listen to their music, I somehow forget that they were real people. It's nice to remember they were once flesh and blood, just as we are now.

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RVCA

Dude. Dennis Lyxzen from Refused is hot stuff

skaltezon

Looks like he didn't spend much time in the gym, though.

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VEGANGELICA

Did they even have gyms back then?

I agree, Brahms appears to have been on the slender, delicate side of physiques when he was a young man...

...but he was a pianist. He must have had very capable hands.

Brahms reminds me a little of another dead man, Heath Ledger, perhaps because of a similarity between their lips, hairlines, and eyebrows. I've never felt any particular affinity for Heath Ledger's appearance though, although he had an awesome name. I feel Brahms beats Ledger in a contest of faces, hands down. Heath Ledger looks cute, I suppose, but Brahms...Brahms looks beautiful (and he spoke German ):

Johannes Brahms: beautiful!



Heath Ledger: cute?



Here are some more pictures of Brahms:

As a lad, I think, and then from the side when older:



Another serious, arms-crossed picture of Brahms (he seems to have liked that pose):

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DoctorSoft

I've always thought Brian Aubert from Silversun Pickups was pretty hot.

The Monkey

John Cooper Clarke. Would definitely be my type if I was gay or a straight woman.

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Now another stranger seems to want you to ignore his dreams as though they were the burden of some other

My Last.fm

Howard the Duck

Chet Baker was like the James Dean of jazz before the drugs effed up his chiselled looks:-

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Malaise is THE dominant human predilection.

TockTockTock

Tchaikovsky



Kevin Ayers



Syd Barret

sopsych

No mention of Richard Marx? Women obviously liked his appearance (probably to the detriment of his rep as a musician).

But I'd go with Gavin Rossdale, yeah. Lol at Gabe Saporta. Unfortunately for me, I probably look more like Saporta, with a (not-buff) Marx body.

Dave Gilmour looked pretty good when young. What happened? Too much drugs and food, I guess. Jim Morrison (probably the 2nd best-looking male musician) was headed that way before he died - or he probably wouldn't be missed so much.

Mike Tramp (White Lion singer) was a "pretty boy" back in the day. And women loved George Michael before his sexuality was widely known.

Edit: it must have been Nick Lachey's looks, especially the muscles; his musical ability certainly isn't much.

(No, despite all that, I'm not gay.)

sopsych

I decided to approach this analytically, in the non-controversial, easy areas:
Best-looking bassist: John Taylor (I'm spurred to edit this by video tribute blocks to Warrant. Jerry Dixon stands out. So does Mark Andes, of Heart, etc.)
Best-looking drummer: ("Dreamy") Larry Mullen, Jr. or Roger Taylor (Duran Duran's Roger Taylor also gets a shout-out.)
Best-looking bunch excluding the lead singer: Spandau Ballet
Best-looking keyboardist (more than occasional): Gregg Rolie (slim pickings there and an idea for a different thread)