Most OVERRATED Music Legends

[looseliam]

whoever said Celine Dion, must be deaf.

What?

 

[justaguy]

The beatles, the beatles, the beatles, the beatles, Oasis (beatles cover band, essentialy,) My Chemical Toilet, Pink Floyde, and the beatles. Just for emphasis.

<< throws a John McEnroe tantrum.
No ... no ... no ... you can't be serious .....

 

[justaguy]

but they are almost seen as gods...

Oh ... they are !!!

 

[1gayguy]

I'd have to go with U2. You can listen to their first recording and their last and not tell them apart

And add Bon Jovi into the mix too!

 

[justaguy]

I don't do the "overrated" thing. I simply don't "get" certain artists that other people do. If we're talking music fiends rather than just pop icons, my main one is Van Morrison. [/youtube]

I'm inclined to agree. One thing's for sure, I certainly don't get Astral Weeks.

 

[justaguy]

I'd have to go with U2. You can listen to their first recording and their last and not tell them apart

And add Bon Jovi into the mix too!

And a further addition , I think, Guns N Roses.

 

[justaguy]

Ok ... now .... this is where I confess that I'm not a very good gay. I havn't got a single album of any so-called Diva in my collection. I'm a rock with a pop bent guy. Beatles - The Cure - R.E.M. .... that's the stuff I play to get the blood flowing. I've even been known to be inspired by the odd Bee Gees tune.

Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, Dianna Ross ... don't appeal. I may very well be heading for ex-communication from the gay community, or at the very least a bloody good telling off.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I ignore people who call other people legends

The dictionary says a legend is something perceived by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.

In other words— they're fakes! they're self delusion!

 

[MyReply]

All music legends are overrated, IMO.

Before you can became a legend, you have to be iconic, before you become iconic, you have to have a significant degree of commercial popularity....and every popular act is overrated.

 

[pat grimshaw]

…Before you can became a legend, you have to be iconic…

I ignore them too.

People should use their ears and listen to the singer and not the advertisers and spin-merchants

 

[dingue]

-whitney houston ( how to make a 3 minute song into a 15 minute train-wreck)
-pink floyd ( maybe need to stop smoking weed if you dig it..)
-bob marley ( i'm just sick of it)
- the beatles (boy bands need to DIE not been taking serious after 25 years)

 

[dingue]

- coldplay (making the same album 6 times doesnt mean you are doing a good job)

 

[pat grimshaw]

The Beatles.

I agree that Paul was beautiful but schlocky and that John was a PeterSellers-style nutbag but George Martin's innovative backroom work helped them seem more way back in the 1960s.

 

[MJEH89]

I cannot figure how anyone can say (with a straight face) that the Beatles are/were overrated. The second side of "Abbey Road" alone is worth more than most rock/pop albums that were done during that time. And hell, listen to the Harrison song.. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".... George Harrison only had a songs that were published.. but that is one of the best songes ever recorded. "Nowhere Man"... sung by Lennon... it's got lyrics that are so very well written, like a poem written with great music besides. The list goes on and on man, but it's always good to read an opinion that differs from my own.

I guess it depends on when you grew up and what type of music you listened to when you were a teenager. Not that I've done any formal study, or written a thesis and/or dissertaion on the subject, but it seems to me that most music lovers prefer the music that was popular when they were between the ages of 10 and 18. Maybe it has something to do with these being formative years. The years of your life that you come to a self-realization of what you believe in and what you want to stand for.

 

[scrapple]

First, call her MISS Ross!

Secondly, Elvis and the Beatles changed music forever. Who else can you seriously say that about?

Third, making one -syllable words into five does not a singer make. (I'm talking to you, Mariah)

As far as over-rated, two names head my list. Aretha Franklin is the most over-rated performer ever. I remember her taking the beautiful "I Dreamed A Dream" at Clinton's inauguration and turning into one of her screeching abominations. In a different vein (but just as over-rated) is Bruce Springsteen. Yes , he is a dynamic live performer, but most of his songs sound like funeral dirges.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

hit da moon with pancake Honey! ifs nots

lot professions over da over rated ans da public world ova suck what not sucky whens bes sucky what sucky betta thens what sucky their brains out nose

so guess lot super cultures public like theirs a noseys suckysed

back ta da square wheel < it a got 4 sides

 

[pat grimshaw]

… music heard during our teen years excites certain neural pathways, and over a period of time these pathways become permanently ingrained in the brain…

I think I agree. Our sense of aesthetics are formed in our teenage years. I amused seeing how people dress and groom themselves and how some people can modify their taste over time and others can't. Some people are forced to modify because shops no longer stock clothes from other eras.

 

[bankside]

nirvana, smashing pumpkins & all that...

and i'd say céline dion is overrated, but there are a huge number of people who are willing to rate her correctly.

 

[walkingonsnow]

I don't think anyone considers Paula Abdul a music legend...lol

She's a dancing legend

 

[walkingonsnow]

Janet Jackson: following the comet's tail of a Real Legend,

Leave Janet alone bitch!!!!