[pnz1]

Don’t think she’s really a “musician, but Taylor Swift

[Lakeshark]

Klaus Nomi singing "You don't own me"

Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh......

[Third Person]

Milli Vanilli
Animotion
Kajagoogoo

[FrankR]

ANY Rap singer, pick one.

[Revolting cat!]

Whitney, something or other (not Museum, that’s for sure), I forget, thankfully, gone now!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Springsteen obviously. Any c-rapper. Rod Stewart.

[Dysart]

Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, that screamer Kroger, cant recall his band, you know who I’m talking about. Hell most pop bands or solo acts are overrated because they appeal to the masses, and you know what they say about them. Much of my favorite musical choices not many here have heard of, or likely would enjoy. Think: fiddles and washboards and you get some inkling...after all im from the South and therefore simple, humble.

[Revolting cat!]

And the winner of the Worst Record of All Time!

[Gil4]

I started with this top 100 listing as a reference (it was just the first one I found where it was an actual 1-page list, not 100 pages to click through):

http://stereogum.com/495331/vh1-100-greatest-artists-of-all-time/list/

My top 3 overrated were:
1. Nirvana (#14??? They had one decent song)
2. Bob Dylan (The man never could sing at all)
3. Jimi Hendrix (He could do amazing things with a guitar, but one thing he couldn’t do with it was make good music.)

Dishonorable mention: Janis Joplin at 72. (At least 1000 places too high; just horrible.)

I assume Velvet Underground at 24 was just a joke to see if anyone was paying attention.

[stump56]

Wynton Marsalis anyone?

[MachIV]

I’ll give one......Bob Dylan. I’m nearly 46 and I never even heard of him until I was about 33 or so.

[Revolting cat!]

Who's gonna argue? C'mon dudes!

[Jeff Winston]

PSY.

[sagar]

Bob Dylan, Beatles, and assorted rap and country freaks.

[Figment]

Robert Cray

[Tucker39]

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!

[Misterioso]

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.

[Revolting cat!]

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?

[j_tull]

David Bowie

[South40]

Prince.

He was one of the opening acts for the Stones in 1980 at the LA Coliseum and he was, literally, booed off the stage. I think I booed the loudest.