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Most Over Rated Musician

Posted on 04/05/2013 7:20:30 PM PDT by MNDude

There are a lot of lousy musicians that are a lot more popular than they deserve, but in you opinion, who are the three most over rated musicians (or groups) of all time?


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; vanity
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To: LibertarianLiz

Her “talent” is mediocre at best, but she is a genius at marketing. That she can make people think she is anything but putrid is beyond amazing.


101 posted on 04/05/2013 7:54:12 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: Mears

dexy’s midnight runners

C’mon Eileen.


102 posted on 04/05/2013 7:55:39 PM PDT by x1stcav (Man up! We're all going to have to become Samuel Whittemores.)
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To: svcw
My son in law to be, says the Beatles.

The Beatles says your son-in-law-to-be is the most over-rated musician? Huh?

103 posted on 04/05/2013 7:56:03 PM PDT by Misterioso ("The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Beatles? What band would you consider underrated?


104 posted on 04/05/2013 7:56:14 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: dfwgator
Poor old Johnny Ray....

I liked her in Ruthless People.

I can't believe how much you and I think alike. I also liked her in Drowning Mono.

105 posted on 04/05/2013 7:56:40 PM PDT by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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To: Gil4

Wow! A lot of stinkers in the top 20


106 posted on 04/05/2013 7:56:47 PM PDT by MNDude (I survived the sequester!)
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To: MNDude
I’m surprised no one has mentioned U2 yet.

U2? Sounds like a Soviet warplane


107 posted on 04/05/2013 7:56:53 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: MNDude

Robert Cray


108 posted on 04/05/2013 7:57:37 PM PDT by Figment
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To: MNDude

Bruce Springsteen
And Ricky Minor, the pretend bandleader on Tonight Show for a while. All he ever played was “Star Eyes” and improvisations of the melody of that one crappy tune!

Although I can’t stand Letterman, the lowlife.....the bandleader on the show, Paul Shaffer, can actually play music, great music; and can launch into ANY tune at the drop of a baton!


109 posted on 04/05/2013 7:57:58 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: RobertClark

Thank goodness I’m not the only one who does not like Bob Dylan.

His voice is awful and it grates on me.


110 posted on 04/05/2013 7:58:08 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Causing trouble since 1976)
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To: dfwgator

Wow...is that a lady or guy? Very creepy!

IT kind of reminds me of “Pat” from SNL from several years ago. You just never know! ;-)


111 posted on 04/05/2013 7:58:59 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Two highly underrated performers that come to mind immediately:

Warren Zevon

Steppenwolfe

112 posted on 04/05/2013 7:59:11 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: MNDude

The question refers to singers, not musicians. There’s a harpist playing in the San Antonio Symphony that couldn’t find her G-string if her life depended on it, but I wouldn’t include her in this list.


113 posted on 04/05/2013 7:59:28 PM PDT by Misterioso ("The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." - Ayn Rand)
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To: NoLibZone

I lived at the Jersey shore while Springsteen was a raising “star” Been to the Stoned Pony many times. The place was a dump, and I’m convinced mostly girls loved Springsteen and the guys just went along with the farce that he had real talent trying to get laid.

To this day I have to turn him off whenever he’s on the radio.


114 posted on 04/05/2013 7:59:59 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: MNDude

People’s tastes are so undiscerning nowadays. I mean, Sinatra overrated? Johnny Ray, Beatles, Rolling Stones? Do these folks love Elvis singing “My Way”, as I suspect? Loving Pat Boone destroying “Ain’t That a Shame” because of his politically correct politics? Judy Garland’s kitschy, syrupy “Over the Rainbow”? I have seen on this forum posters praising as musical geniuses Liberace and Eddie Van Hellem.

And who ever heard of Willy DeVille, of Marshall Crenshaw, of Marti Jones and Don Dixon?


115 posted on 04/05/2013 8:01:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Fzob

Bruce sings like he’s trying to pass a bowling ball.


116 posted on 04/05/2013 8:01:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

“And my nominee for worst rock band of the 70s ...... Styx...Gayest sounding band, ever”

Au contraire, Rush will always be worse


117 posted on 04/05/2013 8:02:08 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Fzob

What turns him off? I’m curious.


118 posted on 04/05/2013 8:02:27 PM PDT by Misterioso ("The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." - Ayn Rand)
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To: GQuagmire
Jeff Beck

Have you seen the "Live at Ronnie Scotts" album/disc/DVD? Taste is taste....but IMHO he is about the greatest guitarist ever. No accounting for taste, however.

119 posted on 04/05/2013 8:02:38 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: MNDude

David Bowie


120 posted on 04/05/2013 8:02:59 PM PDT by j_tull (The smart money these days is in brass and lead.)
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