Do you remember this staged "meeting with the fans" moment? Courtney Cox, later known from the teevee show Friends.
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
Because Frank Zappa was never a pretentious turd...
No really, and he admits his sh!t is weak in that "It Might Get Loud" documentary when he plays those notes without his effects pedals (he has a different set of pedals for each damn song, he can't even work his gear). I know guitarists who travel the world and have gotten by all that time with 2 pedals (one for amplification, and the other for distortion) and that's it. Then again, he has one of Fred Sonic Smith's guitars...
Do you remember this staged "meeting with the fans" moment? Courtney Cox, later known from the teevee show Friends.
James Brown was a better band leader because he demanded it from his players. When they were on, they were tight.
That's only c'aus Dylan didn't do it(yet).
I don't own a single album by him and prefer Mudhoney to Nirvana but Kurt at least had someone bending his ear on music.
When I mention bands like Os Mutantes, Billy Childish/Thee Headcoats, the Sonics, Daniel Johnston, etc. I have to find "common ground" by telling associates that "Cobain liked them and tried to get them to reunite/play". In the end, even with all his millions he couldn't get bands to jump (jump) although all of these bands are on the road these days (without his help) even though 2 of them hadn't played in 45 years.
I prefer this song from the same film (not sure if Frank is in this band but he did do the soundtrack). Director Timothy Carey is the singer/star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWCXY-fo8M
About the closest thing we have to this today (or the Cramps or Screaming Lord Sutch or even Bo Diddley) is the King Khan & BBQ Show.
King Khan and BBQ Do The Chop (audio clip)
King Khan & BBQ Show - I'll Never Belong - Pitchfork Live
The King Khan and BBQ Show "Why Don't You Lie" Music Video
But then again, I saw them open for Roky Erickson and Billy Gibbons' Moving Sidewalks last weekend at the Psych Fest so I may be partial.
Moving Sidewalks featuring Billy Gibbons - You Don't Know The Life (NYC live)
They might've been better if Syd had stayed in the band.
Here's their first demo.
6. Posting photos of what they are having for lunch.
PS the photo on the menu made it look nicer.
“Lucy Leave” (1965)—an example of the mid-sixties garage band sound.
I've never heard Springsteen's version of "Dancing in the Dark," and frankly, I don't think I would ever want to. That song was one of my mother's favorites--she liked to sing it while accompanying herself on the piano. This is my favorite version:
Dancing in the Dark--Waring's Pennsylvanians (with the Three Girl Friends)
Reportedly, the pink floyd would play Louie Louie in their club days, wandering off for 20 minutes in the song to play Interstellar Overdrive and then finish out with Louie Louie.
Ah, yah. Lol.
It’s not a cover. It’s his own song. (He can’t give up his integrity as a “songwriter”, after all, but he sure can steal song titles.)
That would have been interesting to hear. "Louie, Louie" is among the most--performed- and recorded rock tunes. However, Richard Berry, who wrote and first recorded "Louie, Louie" once remarked that "if you couldn't play 'Louie, Louie,' you couldn't play anything."
I agree the five are very overrated, with the possible exception of the Doors. As for Jim Morrison, I don’t usually care much for male vocalists who act silly and don’t really have the redeeming quality of playing an instrument well.
Dylan was a masterfully prolific song writer, penning poety in music. The only other who approached that level was Leonard Cohen. Both of their songs are timeless, which cannot be said of that many songwriters or musicians.
You and I will have to agree to disagree. I love Springsteen. And millions of dollars in his bank acct tell us alot love him. Not everyone likes the same music. When my husband and I married 48 years ago, I taught him to love Willie Nelson. He taught me to love Jimmy Reed and Muddy Waters. Thank you for your kind reply.
It all boils down to who you can identify with...
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