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Most Overrated Musical Artists

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Originally Posted by Pennglock
That’s quite the reaction over a bit of nomenclature… which is beside my point anyway.

No, it's not just a bit of nomenclature; it was proof of your ignorance.
 

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Velvet Underground
Talking Heads
The Clash
R.E.M.
Miles Davis
Radiohead
 

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Originally Posted by binge
Miles Davis

The guy's John Hancock is on the manifesto of every major jazz movement that occurred in his lifetime with the exception of free jazz. There is no way he can be overrated.
 

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I'm surprised I hit only one. I'll give it a few days...
 

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Also, I never thought that Ralph Tresvant was rated "R". At best, PG; not even PG-13.
 

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^ Not very sensitive of you
 

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Originally Posted by Pennglock
50 years from now people are going to be listening to those Dylan recordings about as much as they listen to Leadbelly or Woody Gurthry today. Outside a group of aging hippies, Rolling Stone magazine lists, VH1 and ****** folk singers, the interest in Dylan is already confined to the academic.
Bob Dylan will outlast almost every popular musician or band from the last 50 years through the next 50. The Beatles are the only group I can confidently say will exceed Dylan in acclaim and popularity. He's going nowhere.
 

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Originally Posted by why
Hendrix
^ban this guy. Listen to 9 to the Universe or Electric Ladyland and tell me he's over rated. That early pop stuff gives people the wrong idea And you people talking **** about Dylan are morons. He's probably the best lyricist of all time. If you have something against folksy guitar check out Planet Waves. **** rocks.
 

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Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joy Division, Grateful Dead

U2 is great, IMO, even now. And nobody likes The Killers anymore, so I'm going to say they are underrated, cause I like their newer albums.
 

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Originally Posted by texas_jack
^ban this guy. Listen to 9 to the Universe or Electric Ladyland and tell me he's over rated. That early pop stuff gives people the wrong idea

And you people talking **** about Dylan are morons. He's probably the best lyricist of all time. If you have something against folksy guitar check out Planet Waves. **** rocks.


Hendrix and Prince both fall into the same category for me: guitarists who have some illusory style that I don't understand. Maybe a guitarist would have to explain it to me, but in terms of composition they seem lackluster and shallow so whatever magic they're doing solely to the guitar must be missing my ears.
 

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Originally Posted by Sigmatic
Lenny Kravits . He's the Paris Hilton of music - nobody can come up with a good reason as to how or why he's famous.
KISS - Ugh.
Neil Young. Damn near the worst performance i've ever seen.
Anything remotely related to Puff Daddy, P-Diddy, whatever his name is.
Oasis - Seriously, this is some terrible, terrible ****.
Green Day


EPIC fail. Unless perhaps you saw him playing with the Shocking Pinks. And even then ...
 

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