UG Awards: Vote For Biggest Drama Of 2012

As part of our forthcoming UG Awards 2012 post, we're asking readers to vote in a new category each day for a special post over the holidays.

Today's category:

Who was the biggest drama of 2012?

We want you to place a nomination in the comments and upvote the ones you agree with. The one with the highest number of up votes wins the award.

Rules

It must relate to the rock world in some way. Some examples: Axl Rose rejecting the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the barmy breakup of Queensryche, Josh Homme suing Kyuss... the list goes on.

Voting tips

- Place ONE nominations per comment, or the upvotes won't count. You can place as many nominations as you want across different comments, though.

- Do a quick search of the page if you want to check if someone else has made a similar nomination. Just scroll down to the bottom so all the comments have loaded, then do a search on the page (ctrl-f on a PC, cmd-f on a mac) for their name.

You're welcome to discuss the topic in the comments and reply to nominations, as usual.

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Remember to vote in our other award categories too. The list so far:

Band Of The Year

Guitarist Of The Year

Best New Act

Best Comeback

Comments

[MUSE108]

Matt Bellamy breaking his foot

[vppark2]

Muse fans are the most self-centered pricks around. No one cares!!! His ****ing foot broke, ok we all know. They are not the best band in this world like you guys think.

[RegularMexicola]

I think he was joking. Settle petal.

[vppark2]

In general tho im just saying. Didnt mean to start anything.

[benjony]

It's sad that you just leave a comment to hate a band. Who gives a shit if you don't like them! And you insult their fans. Dude just get a life and if you don't like them, its not your place to insult people for liking a different band than you.

[hen3vz]

butt-hurt muse fan this one...

[alsagino1]

Haha "didn't mean to start anything"...suuuuure you didn't

[ledzepage]

Exactly! We all know the best band in the world is periphery

[Cindykt]

Thanks!

[HellKaiser]

You know, Muse fans think that Muse is the best band in this world because they love the band, and that the way we must do no ? Loving ours bands and say that they are the best band in the world because they give us feelings thanks to their songs, their personality, their love of doing musics...Etc. So we can say all the band in the world are the best band for the people who love theses bands. For his foot, we don't care in one way yeah beacause it's not important, but in the other hand this is, because some fans could not see them. Have a good day

[pcb1992the2nd]

Matt Bellamy breaking the machine he uses to compose music

[Fuku-san]

Wrong ! His computer never worked so much than with the 2nd Law : copy and paste.

[Zerath]

What I find disrespectful is that, he continues playing gigs like 3-4 days after the canceled shows and won't even book a replacement for the Sweden shows WE HAD 2 SHOWS, wtf

[HellKaiser]

On their site and on twitter they said that they will look after dates to replace their dates cancelled

[Barricade_28]

Everything Black Sabbath, ie: Iommi gets cancer, then they have contract issues Bill Ward that gets him kicked off the reunion album and tour.

[babinator93]

GNR reunion/not-reunion.

[jman25]

The amount of dislikes on the comments for the article picking the song of the year

[jsantos15]

Agreed

[musicman14579]

Seriously though, rising KISS tensions are always a worthy subject

[sonofgkex]

Sarcasm? Yes? Am I just not getting it? I hope this is a joke that I missed.

[ItMightGetQuiet]

idiots doing a weird horse gallop dance, that only Asian's can pull off.

[Krieger91]

Courtney Love still existing?

[xplosive59]

Gotta go with Randy Blythe's manslaughter case.

[guitarfeener]

Agreed.

[Toxicity3431]

In all seriousness this probably is the best one. It was the only one that I was actually interested in keeping up with.

[swave75]

This one. There is no competition. The Gun N Roses soap opera has been going on for years so it's not new. The Queensryche ordeal....well maybe if it was 1992 it would be a big deal but not now.

[Camron62\m/]

absolutely

[BurlingtonRock]

Billie Joe Armstrong throwing a fit on stage because he's "no Justin f--king Bieber"

[x0vincent0x]

Obama's re-election, and that is related to rock because of Dave Mustaine.

[-Retro-]

I think you were looking to say simply "Dave Mustaine" alone.

[6-String_Madman]

and the NUGE

[introvert10]

It's yet to happen. Enter Ted Nugent's soon to come, moronic, garbage, pro gun rhetoric.

[wylde1994]

Tonni Iommi diagnosed with cancer

[sonofgkex]

Way to be all serious and stuff.

[edgeyyz]

Dave Mustaine/Courtney Love/Ted Nugent

[coolioismyoword]

Ravi Shanker's death

[Peranthus]

Gotta go with the dramaqueen himself, Axl and his letter explaining why he didn't go to the hall of fame.

[FallenDestiny]

UGs wide publicising of every single one of Dave Mustaine's goddamn sentences.

[FallenDestiny]

Oh, oh.
I forgot about Courtney Love accusing Dave Grohl making a move on Frances-Bean Cobain.
Now that was ridiculous.

[My Last Words]

Mark my words: New Dave Mustaine article featuring his controversial opinion on the connecticut shooting within the next week.

[Skodward714]

My money is on that he thinks it's another scheme of Obama's to stop the 2nd Amendment, just like he thought was the case with the movie theater shooting.

[MR.LZZYHALE]

Okay dude Im just wondering, do you totally 100% belive that its impossible for all the US government to want the book "1984" to become a reality or what

[mrRICHARD911]

it's a mix between "1984" and "Brave New World"

[HoverFan#1]

My thoughts exactly.

[ZOSO <(")]

personally i don't believe that Obama caused the shooting in connecticut. although i believe without a doubt that he will try harder than ever to push a gun ban because of it. if a teacher would have been armed that day that maniacs killing spree would've been a lot shorter.

[ledzepage]

I wouldn´t send my kids to a school with armed teachers.....

[Nakama]

If America had tighter gun laws it wouldn't have happened...

[Mouloudo]

are you dumb or what, there's multiple cases of teachers beating up children, imagine if they were armed... plus it would be awesome to have shootings in the middle of a school with teachers firing at maniacs with children running in between

[iammclovin]

UG slamming something...

[introvert10]

Hetfield - "I AM THE BIGGEST DRAMA"

[jonathan.keeler]

Djent kids

[roarinflames]

i listen to "djent" and approve of this nomination

[JMZ08]

Djent isn't a genre. Well done, you listen to a playing style. I suppose I'm a "fingerstyle kid" then?

[LeakyFlask]

If it's a very characteristic playing style of a certain subgenre I don't see the problem. Some people seem to be so damn upset that djent is being called a genre, the thing is, there are no official genre naming boards around, it becomes a genre if enough people think it is a genre. And as of now, you have to admit, djent is a bit of a genre.

Hehe, djenre.

[jonathan.keeler]

hurr

[roarinflames]

i used quotations for a reason.
people like you are that reason.
cant believe people still get pissed over that though

[alestorm666]

BillCo threatening to piss on Radiohead. Not the biggest, but easily the funniest story of the year.

[ihartfood]

+1 for Randy Blythe

[vppark2]

Anything related to politics about the election and UG even publishing the stories.

[dewitt]

This article.

[TTeddybear]

Courtney Love, every single thing she did this year.

[apartzero]

UG's downvoting debacle for these lists.

[diozeppelin26]

The Production of LuLu was pretty dramatic

[kennethdave]

This is not gonna be over soon, is it.....

[6-String_Madman]

I thought that was last year.

[oncenfutureidio]

All the piracy bills trying to be passed

[Dude475]

Anything Dave mustaine has said

[THE ROZERS]

Bill ward/ black sabbath

[headbang123]

one word: Oasis

[MegadethFan29]

The End of the World!!

[headbang123]

one word: oasis

[ledzepage]

Cant believe they erased the UG song of the year comment

[iommi600]

Ted Nugent's opinions on politics?

[SynysterNinja13]

paul mccartney replacing kurt cobain in the Nirvana reunion

[pedro_bear]

Everything that Dave Mustaine has said this year

[DrMaplecrest]

Baroness' bus accident

[Jozef23]

All the Tenacious D fans having to laser off their D tattoos. Such a sad time for Rock music :'(

[ZOSO <(")]

i must have missed that one

[Logicaliber]

Romney trying to use "panic switch" and getting denied by silversun pickups

[Jastul]

Gene Simmons

[dcstar77715]

Mitch Lucker being killed by death.

[Cindykt]

Dave Mustaine, period.

[IrishConnor1994]

My first thought was Bill Ward and Black Sabbath, but Randy Blythe's manslaughter charges probably take the gold

[Badmoon79]

Bon Jovi's daughter's overdose

[gocool]

the epic fail case of 21st december that is yet to happen to not happen .

[gocool]

sorry i didn't know about the rules....but neither did the mayans muhaha..

[bharathrk95]

BIGGEST DRAMA OF 2012 = UG awards

[Braykah]

UG itself, the greatest drama circus of all time.

[arnob_oblique]

bieber puking on stage , not related to rock but it sure made the rock fans giggle

[IrishConnor1994]

It was kind of funny, but not the biggest thing that happened this year.

[IrishConnor1994]

Would have been better if he fell of the stage xD

[ohJeffrey]

and died

[mandudehey]

biggest drama? UG "slamming" everyone

[Raven_Flight]

Nightwish, once again.

[jpcl]

Biggest Drama of 2012 and indeed all the other years UG has existed for is UG itself. Why? Because it thinks music fans need to have this gossip and drama stories that we get every 5mins. UG is a joke. Especially when they start leaning on politic's with no musical relation. That says a lot right there, doesn't it?

[gocool]

you are right in some parts but you have a problem, don't use it...your comment will not be the end of gossip in UG, so save your energy for your fretboard my friend .

[gocool]

i missed if* (if you have a problem, don't use it).

[TVHBAND]

The Down votes for Song of 2012. Mad Drama!

[Jack2994]

Something Courtney Love did.
Was it this year that she admitted telling the bank Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic had died so she could get their credit records?

[IrishConnor1994]

wow, did she seriously do that?

[Jack2994]

Yeah, just found the article, turns out it was the end of last year so it won't count. But interesting nonetheless!

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gene...

[Pierfrittella]

green day stayin at their homes when i was waiting for them in bologna.

[Heideck]

Randy Blythe, Courtney Love, Dave Mustaine

[JelloCrust]

Dave Mustain alienating his band mates and making a bunch of privileged fans feel justified in their privilege.

[Darth Wader]

Deryck Whibley dressing up as Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger getting real mad (sarcasm)

[apartzero]

When that dude ate pineapples. What the hell was that all about?

[jhaneline]

Randy Blyth?? Wasn't this news everywhere? I'm pretty sure I heard that it even reached the White House.

[martijnsurf]

LULU

[Jasonbts]

Mike Portnoy leaving Dream Theater.

I know this happened a few years back.. but if you read any DT or Mike Portnoy articles on here you'd think it happened yesterday.

[AshleySloane69]

Randy Blythe obviously

[SynGates120]

Billie Joe Armstrong not being Justin Bieber and breaking his guitar

[slash.r0cks]

Nicki Minaj being chosen as an American Idol judge. Not rock/guitar-related at all, but as a singing enthusiast this is a joke. My cancer-riddled dog has more singing talent than that piece of plastic.

[Johnsson6]

Billie joe armstrongs rant on iHeartradio and cancelling their whole tour and being absent during the trilogy release.

[spitbubble]

Machine head banned from disney. though this is kinda hilarious

[6-String_Madman]

The Gallagher brothers...