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Most Over Rated Musician

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?


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; vanity
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To: Eccl 10:2

Please. I grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, so spare me your supposed Big City sophistication. Springsteen is a joke, a mutt, a hack, a poseur and a musical impersonator. I’ve heard all his stuff. It’s ALL duff, and as a guitarist, he’s sh!t.


381 posted on 04/05/2013 10:01:38 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Which, sadly, Duane did not get to live to see.)
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To: FredZarguna

However....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkP3urtYCkc

[you can almost smell Reznor in this] ;D


382 posted on 04/05/2013 10:01:45 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: FredZarguna

He probably thought they were German WW2 vets or Hindenburg survivors.


383 posted on 04/05/2013 10:03:30 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: Salamander

Best cover of Immigrant Song ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g


384 posted on 04/05/2013 10:04:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Salamander

If it weren’t for contrarians life would be boring eh :)


385 posted on 04/05/2013 10:04:48 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: MNDude
I never got Eric Clapton's appeal. I mean, the guy can play guitar, but so can a thousand other guys. Jimi Hendrix, Richard Thompson, Junior Brown, Eddie Van Halen, Buckethead, Mark Knopfler, David Gilmore - any of them can play anything Clapton can play.

He never innovated anything, unless you consider incorporating (stealing) the guitar licks from almost-forgotten blues musicians and not giving them credit as innovation.

As a singer, he's a bore. His stage presence is blah. His songwriting is mundane.

That's just my opinion, but I never understood the fuss.

386 posted on 04/05/2013 10:05:16 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Russ

Barbara Streisand.
Madonna
Liberace
Elton John


387 posted on 04/05/2013 10:06:23 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: dead

I’m inclined to agree...I mean ok, he was on Layla and I Shot the Sheriff, cool songs, but when I hear him play guitar, it just doesn’t grab me. I think he’s pretty much coasted on his legacy with Cream all this time.


388 posted on 04/05/2013 10:07:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Yardstick

En garde!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxbtSEXQj88

;D

[that was *so* messed up!]


389 posted on 04/05/2013 10:07:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: ResponseAbility

If I didn’t torment you it would mean I didn’t like you anymore.

:)


390 posted on 04/05/2013 10:08:40 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I don't think I've ever read a less apt metaphor on FR. Quite an accomplishment.

The head coach directs every aspect of a football team; he doesn't pick a personnel team and chief of staff who in turn choose players and then tell them to go have fun. The Kennedy center awards are selected based on lifetime achievements and some of the President's people are involved in the approval, but 0 is no more than a distant spectator in that process.

Congratulations for giving me a great laugh at your lack of football knowledge, though.

391 posted on 04/05/2013 10:09:11 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Which, sadly, Duane did not get to live to see.)
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To: dfwgator; dead

Agree.

I’d rather listen to Stevie Ray play the blues.


392 posted on 04/05/2013 10:10:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: FredZarguna
OK, then make it the Ravens' owner.

And the laugh I gave you is only my humble effort to repay you for the chortle you gave me by suggesting Barry didn't know who he was talking to when he was talking to the surviving LZ members.

393 posted on 04/05/2013 10:12:23 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Salamander

Lol — oh great, now I’m going to have to go to bed with the universe not making any sense.


394 posted on 04/05/2013 10:12:54 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: FredZarguna; Joe 6-pack

Blind pig + acorn.

What matters is that they were recognized regardless of who was POTUS at the time.


395 posted on 04/05/2013 10:14:21 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: Yardstick

I do that every night.

;]


396 posted on 04/05/2013 10:15:14 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: Salamander
I’d rather listen to Stevie Ray play the blues.

Amen.

397 posted on 04/05/2013 10:15:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FredZarguna
"It’s ALL duff, and as a guitarist, he’s sh!t."

Word.

398 posted on 04/05/2013 10:17:28 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: dfwgator

Perfect symmetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEJh2FFUUoU


399 posted on 04/05/2013 10:18:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: Salamander; FredZarguna
Well, Barry's recognition, coupled with your passionate defense are only reinforcing my estimation of the degree to which they are over rated.

Led Zep is, IMHO, a band that fifth graders fell in love with decades ago, for no other reason than because the eighth graders thought they were cool...

400 posted on 04/05/2013 10:18:25 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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