I imagine this wouldn’t have been the easiest list to compile given the sheer number of rock musicians in contention for a place.

Rock musicians have a built-in excuse to act poorly. While we expect pro athletes to be model citizens and movie stars to at least remain upright, rock stars are cut enormous slack to copiously indulge in bad behavior. The typical triggers for excess when you’re a celebrity are notoriety, spare time and money; however, there’s something in the primal and narcissistic nature of rock music that fosters a particularly dedicated form of decadence.

Number one on the list is probably no surprise though.

I seem to hear a lot of talk about doing things in moderation. Eat in moderation. Drink in moderation. Sleep in moderation, even.

It’s only lately though I’ve started to give consideration to what degree you can be doing something for it to be considered moderation.

To me moderation is the opposite of excess.

Lets look at this way. Three or four beers is moderation. Ten or more is starting to get excessive. And while I may have nailed the example of excess, it seems my definition of moderation is slightly well, excessive.

An article in the local paper on an unrelated subject caught my eye last weekend, where according to Dr Parikh of Sydney, one standard drink per day is deemed to be drinking in moderation.

Alcohol in moderation of, say, one standard drink per day with two alcohol-free days per week has some health benefit. The trouble is to discipline yourself to the recommendation.

So should moderation be redefined to mean just barely doing something, or something close to nothing?