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
Like fingernails on a blackboard.
I'm not an musician, only a consumer of music, but I always thought the Doors were awful. Even after all these years, Light My Fire still makes my skin crawl.
“Steely Dan was basically Becker/Fagen and a bunch of studio musicians.”
A lot of studio albums used studio musicians. Leon Russell and Glenn Campbell come to mind, but there were many more.
That’s not a problem.
As long as you acknowledge that my position is the only correct one.
Considering A Night at the Opera was their fourth album, Bohemian Rhapsody was quite a risk and it was way longer than the three minutes radio stations wanted yet it became a hit.
Elton John said it was horrible when it was played for him and would never sell. I guess we know how much Bernie Taupin was responsible for Elton’s success and I can’t think of a person I see who disgusts me like Elton John and of course he was wrong and without Bernie, where has his music career gone? I want to slit my wrists when I go through my albums and see “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. His role in “Tommy” should have ruined his career forever.
If you have access to the album, listen to, “Death on Two Legs”. Anyone who is straight who has met a few homos notice pretty quick that they’re pretty angry at life. He wrote the song to his previous record distributor who ripped them off, the dedication is: dedicated to... It’s an insane angry rant that is perfect musically.
“Steely Dan is really just 2 guys, Becker and Fagen (and a lot of the time, Skunk Baxter). However, they used some of the top studio musicians around for their albums and tours. But they really weren’t a band with a static membership.”
Innovative. Doing “fusion” many years before it gained wider popularity.
"Breathe deep the gathering gloom Watch lights fade from every room Bedsitter people look back and lament Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one Lonely man cries for love and has none New mother picks up and suckles her son Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is grey and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion?."
Who the hell writes stuff like that? Must have been some serious drugs.
Their catalog of music is great even though they have a few duds and a few overwrought pretentious songs as well.
The Girl That I Love--The Beatles
The song is about the heroin addiction in general as well as the addiction of one of Bono’s friends at the time the song was written.
And it really does have a unique sound, I’ve not ever heard another song like it.
Totally. Totally. Unlistenable. Ear. Poison.
Soft spot for....
Here comes the Sun
They forgot U2
U2 and Bono deserve top ranking here!
My 3 over-rated recently included:
Frank Sinatra
Stevie Wonder
The Who
The Buggs rock, but the lyrics don’t seem to fit a song entitled “Teddy Boy Stomp.”
Here Comes the Sun--Katherine Smith
However, their early stuff wasn't that great (IMO).
Maybe a good analogy for me is the Who — I don't like their early stuff (60s) but their 70s music was superb. Maybe I just don't like the “60s” music that much.
Well, yes they were a band on the first three albums (’72, ‘73 and ‘74)...Can’t Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic
(I woulda changed MY name too!)
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