Posted on 05/01/2013 4:06:21 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
#5: Pink Floyd
Let’s tackle Roger Waters’ reputed antisemitism first, since it lets me put off having to actually talk about his dreadful “music” for a bit.
I grew up trying to avoid The Wall. It was ubiquitous in my steel mill home town — a whining drone blaring from every paneled suburban basement and tricked out Chevy van.
#4 – Bob Marley
The king of rasta “music” (and his idiotic “religion”) inspires so much loathing I barely have to do more than cut and paste this entry. Thanks, other people!
Remember that “tribute to Bob Marley” at this year’s Grammy Awards? Neither does anyone else, because it was terrible. The most entertaining part? You can actually see all these A-list performers’ suddenly remembering, too late and on live TV, that Bob Marley’s songs are, in fact, really really bad.
#3: Stevie Wonder
At the risk of wandering into Elvis Costello territory — yes, he really did say this — I’m gonna come right out with it:
If Stevie Wonder wasn’t black and blind, there’s no way he’d be as highly esteemed as he is.
A white guy who named himself “Wonder” would never hear the end of it. Instead, we never hear the end of Stevie’s songs, especially on American Idol.
OK, so that’s not his fault, but you know what is?
Besides The Secret Life of Plants and “I Just Called To Say I Love You” and “Ebony and Ivory”?
#2: The Doors
The Doors are like certain Twilight Zone episodes or The Shawshank Redemption:
Really deep and profound — if you’re 12 years old.
Jim Morrison’s lyrics — sorry, I mean “poetry” — is, well, let this guy say it:
Jim Morrison wrote a lot of poetry, and most of it was (…) pretentious, regrettable, faux-intellectual diarrhea. Reading Jim Morrison the poet is like watching a shirtless SAE pledge strumming James Blunt on his old acoustic in the university commons during spring break: totally insufferable, uninspiring, and distasteful.
By the way: the dude who wrote that is a fan of The Doors.
Just saying.
#1: Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen is a pompous blowhard whose overwrought, arrested-adolescent lyrics make Jim Morrison sound like Philip Larkin.
And like Morrison, he wrote about stuff he knows nothing about — like having a real job — and, like both Morrison and Stevie Wonder, he gave himself a ridiculous “penis” nickname: “The Boss.”
The only reason “Because the Night” is good is because Patti Smith co-wrote it.
But as usual, it took an Englishman to give Springsteen the thrashing he deserves:
Someone like Tom Waits makes me feel like I understand America a little better. Springsteen makes me feel hopelessly estranged from the place with his hyperventilating soap operas about young lovers riding outta this one-horse town on the back of a hurricane down the highway of dreams. (…)
His lyrics are wrought from overcooked high school poetry (“we ride through mansions of glory on suicide machines”), homespun hokum, and the York Study Notes to John Steinbeck.
Springsteen appeals to the eternal adolescent in every rock fan, but not the fun, irreverent version, rather the inner Holden Caulfield, earnestly searching for ANSWERS and TRUTH, desperate to be a hero in the drama of his own life, utterly incapable of laughing at himself or the world.
Pt.1 :http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/04/23/the-5-most-overrated-male-musicians-part-one/?singlepage=true
Pt.II:http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/04/30/the-5-most-overrated-male-musicians-part-two/?singlepage=true
They certainly don't sound like "Go Now."
I like some of Phil Collins earlier material - when he wasn't singing, but only playing drums (Genesis, Brand X).
You have Bruce Springsteen down pat. What an over-rated nobody. The man has about as much attraction as a venereal sore.
That, and also her experience playing Woodstock, looking out across the crowd.
5 OVERRATED ACTIVITIES AMERICANS ENGAGE IN:
1. Compiling lists of best, worst, underrated, overrated
2. Building Halls of Fame and choosing their members
3. Watching Whirled Series and Super Bowels
4. Paying attention to bestseller and popularity lists
5. Electing politicians to office
Am I in before or after “Dylan Can’t Sing!” ?
#0 - B0n0.
The Beatles
Yo Ma Ma.
No Alice Cooper was a blast. Poison...Under my Wheels..great songs. Plus he’s a Republican
You're right, it doesn't matter, and good poetry is more than just descriptive, drawing the listener into the experience.
I prefer the Dylan version. Muscially, the Byrds' is far superior, of course, but Dylan's - listening to it I can picture him at daybreak, standing alone, reflecting on the things he just saw, heard, and experienced.
If you rate the excellence of poetry by the ability to capture and communicate an experience then I've never heard better. Every line is a treasure.
“They forgot Phil Collins”
LOL! Now that guy IS over rated, and my hubby hates him with a passionate passion.
I actually kind of like all the guys on this list.
“THe Wall” I’m not crazy about, but Dark Side of the Moon is a classic album for all time.
Freepers should check out Luther Right and the Wrongs blue grass version of the wall,it’s really something and in some distinct ways better than the original.
LOVE THE DOORS, LOVE MARLEY.
Springsteen’s first couple of albums are also classics, but he quickly devolved into a hack. Sad, but to me it doesn’t detract from his first great stuff.
Oh, and I think blame for “ebony & ivory” rests equally with Paul McCartney.
And as I said to hubby once in the middle of a great donnybroork, I’ll put ANY song Ringo Starr did on his own against McCartney’s ENTIRE post-beatles career.
Venus & Mars are alright tonight - sheesh! Talk about over-rated!
“The only reason music critics love Elvis Costello is because they all look like Elvis Costello.” — David Lee Roth
That is truly funny.
I LOVE David Lee Roth, and you know, I usually don’t go for guys like that, but him, I love.
Yeah, I know
“Still, Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty are great albums.”
Those are the 2, agreed.
Now I want to listen to American Beauty RIGHT NOW!
I wish it was canteen night!
never could figure out what that song was about but it had a good beat to it...unusual.....
If I should fall behind...wait for me.....great tune.
“[Michael Jackson] had his share of musical genius and was tremendously influential”
The jackson5ive (or whatever it was) was definitely one of the greatest pop groups of all time. And Michael WAS the star of the show.
You see other little kids who are talented, but kids like MJ are few and very far between.
I think you are right that he is condemned (not unjustifiably) for his behavior. But musically he deserved to be the star he was.
Hi might even have been greater, could he have been more normal.
That idiotic chanting and shouting that was supposed to pass as singing? GMAFB!
“Tim OBrien (please don’t vet his politics first) and a record called Red on Blonde”
That is a great album!
Hubby got it for me one Christmas, to go along with the original blonde on Blonde.
O’Brien makes it work!
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