U2? Sounds like a Soviet warplane
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?
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.
dexy’s midnight runners
C’mon Eileen.
The Beatles says your son-in-law-to-be is the most over-rated musician? Huh?
Beatles? What band would you consider underrated?
I liked her in Ruthless People.
I can't believe how much you and I think alike. I also liked her in Drowning Mono.
Wow! A lot of stinkers in the top 20
U2? Sounds like a Soviet warplane
Robert Cray
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!
Thank goodness I’m not the only one who does not like Bob Dylan.
His voice is awful and it grates on me.
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! ;-)
Warren Zevon
Steppenwolfe
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.
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.
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?
Bruce sings like he’s trying to pass a bowling ball.
“And my nominee for worst rock band of the 70s ...... Styx...Gayest sounding band, ever”
Au contraire, Rush will always be worse
What turns him off? I’m curious.
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.
David Bowie
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