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
As well as The Beatles.
They may be good but WAY overrated.
so many bad musicians, so little space. We’d need to narrow it down to a specific era just to keep the discussion focused!
Springsteen - yuk, didn’t even know it was music, I always thought it was random electronic feedback; and a bad person
Marley - never heard of him
Wonder - never liked him either, especially considering the awesome groups that were good choices in that time period.
from the ~1978 period - Linda Ronstadt, jackson browne
Really, really bad - Richard Harris (Macarthur Park), Melanie (Brand new key) - I could list hundreds of horrid musicians and songs that make one want to rip the stereo right out of the car and throw it out the window and be done with it.
I agree that Springsteen and the Doors belong on this list. Doors music is obnoxious, like their frontman Morrison.
Springsteen grossly overrated, his singing sucks, although the rest of his band are good without his screeching.
Zappa, a genius. Remember he butted heads with Tipper Gore in the 80s over warning labels on CD’s.
Pink Floyd individual members better than the whole.
The Who, watch their performance at the 911 concert and tell me they suck. Even the 121212 concert at 68 years old they blew the roof off.
Then there is Gordon Sumner, who insists even his own mother must call him Sting. If it wasn't for Stewart Copeland, no one would have ever heard of him.
Andy Partridge of XTC is criminally underrated.
As much as I hate Bono and the Edge, Bad is one of the finest songs I’ve ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfA2qBIJrYg
This is my favorite recording by his band. It was waxed under a pseudonym at a studio in Cucamonga, which was at the time a wide spot along Rte. 66 in San Bernardino County, Calif.
The World's Greatest Sinner--Baby Ray & the Ferns (1963)
Springsteen does play guitar. Maybe not the best, but he does play.
I liked Springsteen but only with the E Street Band. And now that Clarence Clemons has passed, I doubt I’ll be seeing the band anymore. His sax playing was the best. Just isn’t the same without him.
“He called himself a verb, present tense. He’s not Stung. He’s not Stinging. He’s Sting......"
"Allo Gordo."
"Uh, I'd prefer that you call me 'Sting' from now on."
"Sting? You've gone off your bleedin' rocker, you 'ave." -Dana Carvey
In less than three minutes, this comedian exposes just how formulaic, trite and mindless Springsteen’s music is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swNxMzAgQ0
Meatloaf? Eddie Money? Is anyone really suggesting that they were “rated” at all, let alone overrated. If you are having a conversation about overrated at a bar and someone said, “Meatloaf kind of sucked”, everyone would just nod.
Yes...there was an old adage that if you knew three chords you could become a rock star.
Many of the Doors songs contain only TWO.
And more often than not, it’s the minor to its major four chord. (Break on Through, Light My Fire, Riders of the storm, etc etc)
I know because when i teach guitar and the ultra beginner student only knows two chords, those are the songs we play! (I get to rock on the bass though)
I LOVED Zappa back in the day. Saw him live many times at a hippie nightclub called (Are You Ready???) “THE TEA PARTY!!!!” LOLOL!
I loved the Doors back then, but I was 14 at the time and only knew two chords. hahahaha
Like them or not, The Doors were the top of cutting age music during the era of psychedelica.
If you want true over hype and irrelevancy, start with John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
And while we're at it, lets add Elton John. He's never produced anything noteworthy on his own since his primary song writer Bernie Taupin left...........
Zappa was a musical genius. Check out Steve Vai’s youtube where he describes his audition with Zappa if you haven’t seen it. Zappa was a ridiculous taskmaster
Better when he kept his mouth shut (shut up and play your guitar). He hated Christians. In one concert he wasted a bunch of time on a anti-Christian rant that really pissed me off.
No, that song was by Chaka Khan.
Waters is one of the best composers/writers in the realm of rock. He’s still a political idiot.
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