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
Holy Sh*t!
If you say so. People go to see him in the thousands every where he playss. In Argentina he had 400000 people show up. He may be a douche bag but his music, and in general the whole of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and the late Richard Wright were not like Roger. Roger Waters is a douche. But nowadays we have to separate the music from the man.
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This list is idiotic. The author is clueless.
Don’t much care for Springsteen’s music, nor do I care for his asinine politics, but his contribution to rock is noteworthy.
Morrison was also a noteworthy contributor. The Doors are great!
Stevie Wonder is also a fantastic composer of pop. Not a big fan of pop, but he’s an outstanding artist and performer.
yup, there with ya.
Honestly-I have tried to like Genesis. Just can’t. Not to my taste.
Do Blues (All kinds), progressive (Dream Theater, Buckethead), Guitar (Steve Morse, Gary Moore), Hard (Sabbath, Heep, Purple).
Genesis and Collins just make me retch. The two fastest ways to get me to change a radio station is to play Collins/Genesis or Def Leppard.
Once again-personal tastes
Singer or musician? Jimmy Jamerson should be in that group. And Smokey and Marvin Gaye.
Excellent album.
i’d trow the grateful dead in there and jimmy buffet.
remeber, we’re not talking about talentless, we’re just talking about OVER-rated.
they can still have some good stuff, just that we’re not worshipping them as being totally awesome and without blemish.
I pretty much skip the first two albums and most of “Drums and Wires”, but everything from Black Sea on (with the exception of “Melt the Guns”) is top notch....And I just listened again the other night to The Dukes of Stratosphear, amazing how they paid tribute to that era, but still made them work on their own.
Probably my all-time favorite Partridge composition is “Ladybird” from “Mummer”.
i would add michael jackson. over-rated, especially after the early 1980s were over.
People that know Pink Floyd from the beginning know what innovators they were. When the Weattles were being poser hippies, Floyd had 2 years of Pyschidellic Music under their belt. Syde Barrett was a lyrical Genius. And Pink Floyd were the first to use alot of mixing and sound effects that set the tone for many many musicians to follow. Say what you will but future bands owe alot to Pink Floyd.
Understood. Prog isn't everyone's cup of tea.
You are right...he is so overrated he belongs on his own list
FWIW: Former Jersey Boy and been to the Stone Pony to see him... before he was famous...he is a good bar band...that's about it..
Pete Townshend skipped a Who gig in 67 just to go see Floyd play.
great choice.
i’d include mick fleetwood too. the pretenders asw well, only really had a couple good songs. they were just an item because of chrissy. the only real contribution of them is their one guitar riff that intro’s limbaugh’s show.
Agree regarding Springsteen, Wonder and Morrison. Waters, though an ass in just about every conceivable way , wrote and played a lot of great music. Bob Marley wrote and played many great songs. Boner should be on the list long before Marley and Waters. John Cougar also.
Not a big fan of his pop stuff as it was mediocre pop music. However Phil Collins was great as part of earlier Genesis, a highly original creative band. Not everyone’s cup of tea but they created their own artistic space and influenced many bands.
When Peter Gabriel left they supposedly auditioned 1,000 vocalists (exaggeration I’m sure but that was the story) and they ended up using Phil who sounded close to Peter without the crazy costumes. not a bad drummer and writer either. Just didn’t connect with his solo pop stuff
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