"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"
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
Actually Steve Wonder was pretty good when he was young. Same for Springsteen IMO, I kinda liked some of his early stuff but fame and fortune seemed to affect a change in each of them.
In my books Pink Floyd is tied for worst with The Moody Blues.
Aw gee... now I'm about to have a flashback to 1977...
Please, somebody put on some Van Morrison.
"The only reason music critics love Elvis Costello is because they all look like Elvis Costello." -- David Lee Roth
"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"
I agree. I have a friend who travels all over to see Dylan. He leaves me cold.
The worst!
Queen sucks, sucks I tell ya, SUCKS!!
Bohemian Rhapsody is total crap.
There. I said it.
Two words: Paper Late.
But, the beginning of Hold On with the drum riff is good, the rest crap.
Land of Illusion? Mega crap.
Them are fightin' words here in the South!
The Bass Player from Atlanta Rytum Section, Paul Goddard, Johnnie Deranza (spelled correct ) The Elvan Bishop Band's Lead Guitar. Everybody in the Marshall Tucker Band, and Guitar Madness that was Molly Hatchett, their are so many more....
Also check out the band that never made it big that should have... Fountainhead
http://fountainheadband.net/music.html
Check out "Stay Away" and "t's A Pirate's Life For Me"....
The Doors was 60s music. Sure if you want to compare Jim Morrison with Blake or Wordsworth he’s going to appear shallow, but as 60s music goes, he wasn’t that bad.
Ouch, love me some Rush. Seen them many times. Neil Peart is amazing.
Rush has released a fair number of albums since '2112' in 1976, which seems to be the last one you heard. ;)
Exactly....Geddy’s voice pretty much has mellowed since Permanent Waves.
Pointy haired pointy shoes Finns and the Red Army Choir singing...
Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA
But is Stevie Wonder really "highly esteemed?" He's even more of a figure from the past than Springsteen is. He's been pensioned off, like Chuck Berry. If you're aiming at five overrated reputations today, you waste your chance if you go with Stevie.
#1 Kurt Cobain
(Never understood a single word he sang)
Missing from the list are...
Billy Squier
Eddie Money
Bon Jovi
Axel Rose
Sammy Hagar
Kurt Cobain
Tito Jackson
Jermaine Jackson
Beck (not Jeff)
Meatloaf
Nick Gilder
...more to follow if necessary
This is too easy. Pick any five rappers.
Shouldn't that be Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers)?
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