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
Pink Floyd - I think were good musicians, interesting take on life: All in all we’re just another brick in the wall.
Bruce Springsteen - sorry folks, the E Street Band and their leader can rock any place and play anything. Check out “If I Should Fall Behind”...
Bob Marley - Brought Reggae to the masses, very good songs that to this day, continue to get sampled. No Women No Cry, great tune.
The Doors - Never got it...but he had charisma and could actually sing when he was sober....very unique organ sound, couple catchy tunes - Roadhouse Blues
Steve Wonder - Man can sing circles around anybody, plays harmonica, piano as well...try singing “What Christmas Means To Me”...tough song.
I think the greatest we’ve had...ELVIS, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Hendrix, Sting.
"I ain't impressed, you wanna impress me, take the wheel for awhile m------f------."
Bob Marley’s entire discography is one long reggae concept album and that’s all it is.
Weird Al Yankovic does a parody of Nirvana that is hilarious. Even mumbled like Cobain.
I never liked the Stones, so rank them in the top 5 for me.
Frank Sinatra was more pizzaz than talent. People like him because it was expected of them.
Eminem
David Bowie
Bruce Springsteen
I like trippy music so Pink Floyd is okay in my book. Listen to the lyrics of “Mother” from the wall, it’s contemporary classic.
Meatloaf? Anybody that ugly who can get up there and sing like that is okay in my book too.
Are you talking about their music or their personal lives?
I liked Pink Floyd back in the 80’s. Springsteen’s early stuff was great.
I can stand their politics. But their music was good.
Boy George
Nick Mason has retired. No Mason no Floyd.
What an idiot. Roger Waters is a singer, not a musician. And he’s not been a part of Pink Floyd from 1980 to 2005, when he briefly rejoined for a reunion tour. David Gilmour, on the other hand is one of the most influential, and greatest guitar players ever. But I get the sinking suspicion that the author’s knowledge of Pink Floyd is largely limited to “Another Brick in the Wall (part II),” including the lyric, “We don’t need no education.”
Bruce Springsteen is not a musician, either. His oft-time backup band, The E Street Band (chiefly from 1972 to 1989) had some pretty good musicians.
Stevland Judkins is known as Stevie Wonder because he was a 10-year-old musical genius who built his own synthesizer. Behind Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, he is the 3rd most prominent and talented Motown musician of them all. If the author doesn’t like Stevie Wonder, I can only presume it’s because he doesn’t like Motown balladeers, and Wonder is the only one he could think of. He is an accomplished harmonica player and pianist, but, oddly, is also best known as a song-writer and singer, not as a musician.
Wow! A musical post on FR that I actually agree with, especially the part about Springsteen.
Have to agree with all, but I agree with Waters the most.
I am a huge, huge Pink Floyd fan, I have been my whole life, but not because of him.
I find him to be a very annoying and obnoxious human being.
Let’s have a list of The 5 Most Overrated Male Musicians by Me the Poster!
Agree heartily on all except Pink Floyd - some of their stuff is good. Exchange Rod Stewart for Floyd and it’s a wrap.
Pink Floyd is a great band. I hate Roger Water’s politics but he wrote a bunch of great songs. nevertheless it’s a better band without him and with David Gilmour leading it. PF is a great artistic success story. I followed them from their early days. They proved that if you stay true to your beliefs and work hard you can be successful - your way.
Marley and Doors were both groundbreaking acts and highly influential. Morrison was a drunken fool and their live shows usually stank but they influenced a lot of bands and helped define the 60s music scene. Stevie Wonder is a great original musician and writer. So this ‘critic’ is full of crap. The only one I might agree with him on is Springstreen who wrote fairly mediocre music - slop for the masses
Rick Wright has gone to the Great Gig in the Sky.
Very good bassist, IMHO.
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