Who are the Most Overated Musicians?

Special K · Post by **Special K** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:21 pm

Here's a few IMHO.

Paul Mccartney after the Beatles.
Peter Gabriel
Peter Frampton
The Rolling Stones should have retired 20 years ago.
Oasis
Jennifer Lopez(is she a musician?)
Bryan Adams
Rush(maybe they should have retired the same year as the Stones)

Can you think of any others?
K

TheCheez · Post by **TheCheez** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:28 pm

Bono
50 Cent
Kanye West

. . · Post by **. .** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:33 pm

I think you could group rappers as a whole. The majority of them just do vocals over someone elses beat.

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:51 pm

How could anybody place Paul McCartney on an "over" rated list?? Probably the finest artist alive?

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:06 pm

Kurt Kobain...

That guy SUCKS! killed himself for a reason...

. . · Post by **. .** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:17 pm

ocuh.. I think Kurt Cobain was really talented. In the age of homophobic and racist metal bands he fronted something very different and new. The hooks and lyrics from Nirvana songs will live forever.

niss · Post by **niss** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:28 pm

Didnt Cobain ice himself because he couldnt go any further, he felt he acomplished all his goals and decided the only way to go was down?

Over rated musicians?

Starship........Brooks And Dunn.......

... · Post by **...** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:32 pm

Anyone.....ANYONE & EVERYONE in country music.

When I hear country...I wanna chew my ears off if I could.

Oh and Celine Dion!

monkeyspankmasterflex · Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:32 pm

Coldplay
Radiohead
U2

TopperHarley · Post by **TopperHarley** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:11 pm

Kurt Cobain, U2 and Coldplay are all amazing musicians!!

Overated--- Britney Spears, NSync, Ashlee Simpson, etc etc.

heavymetal · Post by **heavymetal** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:18 pm

How about Theory of a Nicklefault? The most overplayed, over rated sound alike bands ever.

SkyWolfe · Post by **SkyWolfe** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:34 pm

Almsot all areas of music have talent, and DONT have talent. I would say in the areas of pop and rap there is a general overated problem.

Special K · Post by **Special K** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:44 pm

Sorry Doc, but how many good songs did McCartney do after the beatles?

I can't think of that many.

Band on the run
live and let die

I'm sure there are more, but it seems his legend was built teaming up with lennon.
Maybe it's because if I compare in my head the % of great beatle songs to the % of great mccartney(and wings) songs, pauly's writing talents seem weak.
Don't get me wrong though. He was great in the beatles.
......but maybe just average without them.

CYA
K

Snagmaster E · Post by **Snagmaster E** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:46 pm

monkeyspankmasterflex wrote:Coldplay
Radiohead
U2

Radiohead? Depends on which years I guess...

U2? Bite. your. tongue.

Over-rated musicians.....hmmm.

Oasis for sure.
Simple Plan
I'd have to agree with the rap comments... but only the hardcore, "gangsta" stuff... Old rap was and still holds up (well some of it)
50 Cent (mumble mumble window shopper)
Most pop acts (thank God bubble gum pop is dead!)
Celine definately (difference between great singer and artist)

Hell, the Pumpkins lead man Billy couldn't sing to save his life, but he was artistic for sure. It all really comes down to who you like and whether or not they're popular I guess.

Maybe a better question would be:

What musicians are UNDER-rated?

Nightshiftzombie · Post by **Nightshiftzombie** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:33 pm

Areosmith- The only band that manages to make each record shittier than the last.

200hr Wonder · Post by **200hr Wonder** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:53 pm

The pumpkins where over rated... there double album was self indulgent crap of billy coragan.

pianodude · Post by **pianodude** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:11 am

RUSH overated?!! aye carumba. as a jazz musician, i actually study this stuff at the university level. granted, it's not beethoven, but geddy and the boys write some pretty complicated stuff, both lyrically and harmonically/melodically.(as a full time musician/ piano tuner, i still make way more than i ever did flying)

CID · Post by **CID** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:33 am

I assume that the topic includes singers and bands overall. In that case I think we can all agree on at least one: Celine Dion

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:48 am

Anything from 604 records... Nickleback sucks... greatly overplayed and chad kroeger himself is a self righteous dick. Made an absolute ass of himself to me and a good bud.

I stand by my nirvana statement.. sure he might have been half talented... but this was about who was OVER RATED! I'll also say overplayed, over analyzed... the guys been dead for 10 years and the local radio stations play something by nirvana as every 2nd song almost.

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:14 am

Special K wrote:Sorry Doc, but how many good songs did McCartney do after the beatles?

I can't think of that many.

Band on the run
live and let die

I'm sure there are more, but it seems his legend was built teaming up with lennon.
Maybe it's because if I compare in my head the % of great beatle songs to the % of great mccartney(and wings) songs, pauly's writing talents seem weak.
Don't get me wrong though. He was great in the beatles.
......but maybe just average without them.

CYA
K

I wouldn't say that he was average without Lennon. It's more as he once said that he needed someone like Lennon with the guts to say, "that sucks fix this and it'll be good." Post Beatles he was surrounded by gutless psyncophants who wouldn't tell him shit if he was standing in it. By the same token, I think Lennon needed McCartney just as badly; that last album of his was horrible.

Scuba_Steve · Post by **Scuba_Steve** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:51 am

why the hell is kid rock famous? he mixes the two worst genre's southern rock and hip hop...eww..

and hes a greasy looking doche bag as well.

Creed blows too..

swede · Post by **swede** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:36 am

Special K wrote:Here's a few IMHO.

Paul Mccartney after the Beatles.
Peter Gabriel
Peter Frampton
The Rolling Stones should have retired 20 years ago.
Oasis
Jennifer Lopez(is she a musician?)
Bryan Adams
Rush(maybe they should have retired the same year as the Stones)

Can you think of any others?
K

Yeah, the Beatles before Paul McCartney. If I hear one more track off of Abbey Road it will be one too many. They sure played a major part getting the haluconogenic era of the 60's rollin with their white album, etc. It seems to me that their sole purpose was getting MJ and every other hallucinogen know to man popularized, for what ever reason..

North Shore · Post by **North Shore** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:56 am

Birddog:

Anyone.....ANYONE & EVERYONE in country music.

When I hear country...I wanna chew my ears off if I could.

Oh and Celine Dion!

Agreed on Celine, but you're writing off a fine artist in Johnny Cash with that blanket statement. I always liked "The Gambler", by kenny Rogers, too..

Although I have responded to this, it really seems like a pointless thread - music is totally subjective, and so very rarely will we come to a consensus as to what is good or bad.

sakism · Post by **sakism** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:05 pm

Oasis
Black Crows
Steely Dan - how the hell did they ever sell a single record?

Magnanimous · Post by **Magnanimous** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:15 pm

Nirvana - To quote a musician "Kurt Cobain realized he was a loser and stuck a shotgun in his mouth"
Coldplay - The best thing Gwenyth "Skeletor" Paltrow has ever done is (rumoured to be) breaking up this band that was famous before they ever performed for anyone (I don't know about elsewhere, but here, they seemed to be annointed, kinda the same way Colin Farrel was annointed to being a top actor)
The Doors - Sure, Morrison was a poet, but he was also a drunk... that being said, the actual band was one of the best improvisational bands ever. They had no idea when Jim might just pass out and leave them in need of a fifteen minute organ/piano/bass solo.
Mariah Carey - Giving this woman's dog whistle voice any credit for music just seems wrong. I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone let her ressurect her career after Glitter, she was down, and we should have left her there.
That is all,
back to class I go

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