Posted on 03/25/2011 1:05:27 PM PDT by GSWarrior
“Locomotive Breath” is a masterpiece. Some of their other stuff is just...weird...
Seriously? Locomotive Breath? They ought to get a lifetime pass just for that song.
There’s everything canned about them. Just look at the generic love songs they built their empire on: I wanna hold your eight days love me do ticket to ride etc etc. They’re all the same song over and over again. And popular music has been rewriting those songs ever since. The 100% generic record company approved prefab crank it off the press love song, chaste and clean so parents don’t get upset.
It’s funny you included the Monkees in who should get my ire since they’re one of the Beatles clones. If there’d been no Beatles, there’d have been no Monkees. You just proved my point.
I should have stopped reading when the author tried to use album sales to justify his position.
Reading the thread, I’m obviously in disagreement with a great many FReepers. I love the Beatles, Stones, U2 (own everything they ever recorded), Genesis, Journey....
I have no use for anything remotely punk. The Ramones were amusing when they did Lobotomy and the KKK Took My Baby Away in a Right Said Fred kind of way, but other than that, no musical value than I can discern.
What’s overrated is anything country that’s not Johnny Cash. He’s the only country artist I can listen to more than two songs from and not want to lie down in front of a tractor and end it all. I’m still confused why there aren’t more tractor suicides in areas where country gets a lot of airplay. I know they think about it after two country songs, or just one bluegrass.
The Police - amazing band. Love them.
Sting solo - BARF.
It doesn’t always work that way:
Van Halen with Roth: Perfection
Van Halen with Hagar: Meh
Hagar Solo: Awesome
Roth Solo: Meh
How can they be overrated? The critics have never liked them. Rock critics don’t like progressive rock or hard rock, and Rush is both of those. The only like R & B. They really don’t like rock, to be honest.
Yeah, 4 Beibers who could write songs, compose symphonies, and play 117 different instruments between them. Other than those minor variations they were exactly the same. /s
I’ll give Revolver some credit, there’s actually a couple of decent songs on there. Really once they discovered drugs and broke away from the mimeograph machine they actually got kind of interesting. But by that point it was too late, they’d already created the mold that’s been ruining popular music ever since. Every painfully boring love song you’ve heard since 1964 was an attempt to rip off the Beatles.
Rock wasn’t dieing on the vine before the Beatles. American radio rock was having issues with worshiping Pat Boone. But there was still lots of great rock running around, it was just struggling to get the play, and continued to struggle after the Beatles.
Genesis with Peter Gabriel was a very good band.
Once he left , gag me.
The Who is one of the best bands ever.
That being said, that's a 30 year old memory, and I may not have liked the Allmans' then either, so perhaps I should give the Dregs a second listen. They've got to be better than the other stuff floating around today....
Fred Seaman, John's personal assistant who was involved in many legal battles with Yoko over the years, is a personal friend of mine and wrote a tell-all book, "The Last Days of John Lennon." Fred says that Lennon supported Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter because Reagan felt that Carter made America look weak during the hostage crisis in Iran. Mike Tree, John's gardener, also said in an online interview that Lennon backed Reagan because he heard that Reagan was into astrology. John also said, "He will be the greatest president of our time."
Here's the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433993/posts?page=31#31
I watched the reruns in the mid/late 80s.
Springsteen is an acquired taste at best. There is a lot of energy in his music, but watching him perform gives me the creeps. I don’t know why.
The Beatles
U2
Michael Jackson
Madonna
The only Rock band that isn’t overrated is the Beatles.
Southern Rock in general is an entire genre we could call overrated.
Before my time I guess, but I do love music from that era. I just don’t dig all the flutes and stuff.
And Then There Were Three...., Duke and Abacab were still pretty good, but then after that they became Phil's backup band.
But their first post-Gabriel albums, A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering, were masterpieces.
And "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is the best of them all, it was the perfect end to the Gabriel era.
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