Posted on 05/01/2013 4:06:21 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Holy Sh*t!
If you say so. People go to see him in the thousands every where he playss. In Argentina he had 400000 people show up. He may be a douche bag but his music, and in general the whole of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and the late Richard Wright were not like Roger. Roger Waters is a douche. But nowadays we have to separate the music from the man.
fax fax fax divorce....
This list is idiotic. The author is clueless.
Don’t much care for Springsteen’s music, nor do I care for his asinine politics, but his contribution to rock is noteworthy.
Morrison was also a noteworthy contributor. The Doors are great!
Stevie Wonder is also a fantastic composer of pop. Not a big fan of pop, but he’s an outstanding artist and performer.
yup, there with ya.
Honestly-I have tried to like Genesis. Just can’t. Not to my taste.
Do Blues (All kinds), progressive (Dream Theater, Buckethead), Guitar (Steve Morse, Gary Moore), Hard (Sabbath, Heep, Purple).
Genesis and Collins just make me retch. The two fastest ways to get me to change a radio station is to play Collins/Genesis or Def Leppard.
Once again-personal tastes
Singer or musician? Jimmy Jamerson should be in that group. And Smokey and Marvin Gaye.
Excellent album.
i’d trow the grateful dead in there and jimmy buffet.
remeber, we’re not talking about talentless, we’re just talking about OVER-rated.
they can still have some good stuff, just that we’re not worshipping them as being totally awesome and without blemish.
I pretty much skip the first two albums and most of “Drums and Wires”, but everything from Black Sea on (with the exception of “Melt the Guns”) is top notch....And I just listened again the other night to The Dukes of Stratosphear, amazing how they paid tribute to that era, but still made them work on their own.
Probably my all-time favorite Partridge composition is “Ladybird” from “Mummer”.
i would add michael jackson. over-rated, especially after the early 1980s were over.
People that know Pink Floyd from the beginning know what innovators they were. When the Weattles were being poser hippies, Floyd had 2 years of Pyschidellic Music under their belt. Syde Barrett was a lyrical Genius. And Pink Floyd were the first to use alot of mixing and sound effects that set the tone for many many musicians to follow. Say what you will but future bands owe alot to Pink Floyd.
Understood. Prog isn't everyone's cup of tea.
You are right...he is so overrated he belongs on his own list
FWIW: Former Jersey Boy and been to the Stone Pony to see him... before he was famous...he is a good bar band...that's about it..
Pete Townshend skipped a Who gig in 67 just to go see Floyd play.
great choice.
i’d include mick fleetwood too. the pretenders asw well, only really had a couple good songs. they were just an item because of chrissy. the only real contribution of them is their one guitar riff that intro’s limbaugh’s show.
Agree regarding Springsteen, Wonder and Morrison. Waters, though an ass in just about every conceivable way , wrote and played a lot of great music. Bob Marley wrote and played many great songs. Boner should be on the list long before Marley and Waters. John Cougar also.
Not a big fan of his pop stuff as it was mediocre pop music. However Phil Collins was great as part of earlier Genesis, a highly original creative band. Not everyone’s cup of tea but they created their own artistic space and influenced many bands.
When Peter Gabriel left they supposedly auditioned 1,000 vocalists (exaggeration I’m sure but that was the story) and they ended up using Phil who sounded close to Peter without the crazy costumes. not a bad drummer and writer either. Just didn’t connect with his solo pop stuff
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