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
Roger Waters hates his fans so much he built a Wall between him and them and people still paid to see that crap.
And Springsteen !? LOL Was turned off by this multi-millionare droning and moaning on about the plight of the working man while flying around in private jets from his mansions. Hey "Boss" practice what you preach, give 99.99% of your money back. What? No? Thought so.
Spot on to me, although I wouldn’t complain too much if Marley slid off the list for numerous others.
Roger Waters IS a musician and if we’re supposed to be talking about his musicianship then...YEAH! He’s damned good musician.
When I was in college I went out with a girl from a decaying industrial town outside of Pittsburgh. She absolutely loved his album “The River”. I listened to it and told her, “He’s mocking the people you think he cares about. He thinks they’re trash.”
Well, so much for that relationship.
Pastime Paradise and Village Ghetto Land were pretty good yet, in general, I agree...especially w/ #1. Springsteen was on the covers of Time and Newsweek at the same time which was the first I had ever heard of him...imagine my disappointment upon actually hearing his crap.
Well I certainly agree about The Doors, but I know very few musicians who don’t recognize the likes of Pink Floyd and Marley as true innovators with extraordinary talent.
Floyd’s lyrics in The Wall might be “self centered” but the work itself is universally recognized as a piece of musical genius. Marley created a completely new, fresh, and thrilling sound from the Trenchtown slums - did about 10 things extraordinarily well and was the first to do them - and that’s more than I can say even for the Rolling Stones.
On the political business, if that were a criterion I’d never enjoy a music track or a Hollywood movie.
Never could understand the Doors popularity! As a musician, I thought they sucked! And Morrison was so pretentious that it hurt! Back then I was a big Zappa fan.
kd Lang.
He’s wrong about Bob Marley but spot on about the rest.
My sister’s appraisal of Springsteen’s vocal prowess is one that I can’t best: the man sounds like he is constantly defecating (and struggling with the effort to boot) when he attempts to sing.
If Waters isn’t bleating antisemitic drivel or wallowing in self-pity over the father he lost in WWII, he won’t shut up about Syd Barrett, who was himself overrated. Face it, Roger: Gilmour is a darn good musician by contrast, and Floyd wouldn’t be what it became without him. Get the reunion done and stop shafting your fans; even the Sex Pistols had reunion shows.
When I found out what Marley’s “religion” was, I just shook my head. Haile Selassie?
I agree on Springsteen most definitely. I don’t agree on Pink Floyd. The others, kind of indifferent.
Reverse list of writer/musicians ?
Zappa would be near to No.1 . Clever, funny,inventive and a fine guitar player to boot.
That is funny and so true. The only Springsteen that I've remotely liked is Dancing in the Dark.
I smell a ‘Rick Rolled’ coming up.
Cyndi Lauper
Sheryl Crow
Cher
The freak from Culture Club ... thankfully, I don’t recall its name.
No worst musician list is complete without Michael Bolton
Bob Marley is classic and timeless.
None of these bands are over-rated IMHO.
Was turned off by this multi-millionare droning and moaning on about the plight of the working man while flying around in private jets from his mansions.
You hate him, as do I, but it is not because of his music.
Lady gaga? She can’t help it if she was born that way...
They forgot Phil Collins
Pompous overblown ass with simplistic crap that is only suitable for garbage Disney movies now.
And for anyone that disagrees, I have three words:
SU Su Sudio
:)
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