Most OVERRATED Music Legends

[barnbuddy]

Coming from a hardcore Beatle's fan, I am in absolute shock by how many people said they were overrated!? Difference of opinions i guess... just don't understand it, but oh well. Now, there is one more thing i have to say, THE BEATLE'S ROCK!!! haha, i'm done.

i'll second that

guys, what makes them THE BEATLES is that they went from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," with an amazing journey between.

the ultimate 60's boy band went beyond the simple chord formula, and produced provocative music and expanded it's artist domain.

think of it this way - you might not care for Picasso's works - thats fair.

But you can't deny he changed the concept of painting as art, of what art brought to the table in what we call civilization.

 

[HoodedRat]

think of it this way - you might not care for Picasso's works - thats fair.

But you can't deny he changed the concept of painting as art, of what art brought to the table in what we call civilization.

Yeah sure ... but then Picasso (along with his many contempories ... after all , no art exists in a vacuum) is partly responsible for creating the whole 'ugly-talentless-pretentious-shite = art' legacy from which we have yet to recover.

... as for The Beatles ... they wrote quite a few decent songs ... and more than their fair share of mediocore dross ... seriously, surely no one actually thinks that 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'When I'm Sixty-Four', 'Yellow Submarine', etc ... are anything other than throw-away novelty songs that no one would give a fuck about if they hadn't been cranked out by the Beatles ... do they?

 

[barnbuddy]

"seriously, surely no one actually thinks that 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'When I'm Sixty-Four', 'Yellow Submarine', etc ... are anything other than throw-away novelty songs that no one would give a fuck about if they hadn't been cranked out by the Beatles ... do they?"

well, they had to throw Ringo a bone, but they were filling 10 + track for their albums

which, by the way, they recrafted into the modern version. ya see, that's the point : They changed the landscape of modern music, transforming bubble gum into a cultural shift.

100 years after I'm dead, the Beatles will still be remembered and recognized as agents of cultural change. the stones the who and others will be the interesting sidebars to that period of musical "evolution."

i doubt Diana Ross will be recalled, except as the inspiration for a classic movie and musical revival, "Dreamgirls."

 

[landers]

Johnny Cash.

How dare you insult his immortalness

 

[Georgiadude]

thought of a couple more.

Frank Zappa and Iggy Pop.

omg. I can't believe anyone liked these guys. Obviously someone did but man. what a bunch of crap. I know this thread is about "legends" and these 2 may not exactly fit that title but they did/do have a following.

Steven.

 

[Beachguyj]

Metallica. Their music is awful and they are very over rated.

 

[QuinnRider]

Mariah Carey for sure. For about 6 years when she first started performing she had an amazing voice. Now, stretch that into 20 years, a boob job, 2 "mental breakdowns", the majority of her #1's she got when she was bedding the man in charge at sony, 4+ flop albums, and a huge flop movie, extremely small amount of concert tickets sold worldwide and smaller venues and that makes.. a legend? Since when?

U2. The Beatles. Aretha Franklin included. Aretha's rendition of I dreamed a dream was mentioned, WOW. That truly was AWFUL.

Gaga, Beyonce. Christina, Miley, are not Legends. To be a Legend you have to have a presence, a certain success, and definantly a longevity.

Underrated, I would say Celine. Alot of people are probably rolling their eyes, but if you watch shows like x factor, american idol, look in tabloids you don't see Celine plastered everywhere like Whitney, or Mariah. You don't see anything about how Celine has sold more concert tickets than anyone in the past 15 years or something like that, how she's sold more cd's and records than any other female artist in the soundscan era, never had a "flop" album, and after 30 years in the business still can travel the world and sell out 60,000 seats in Dublin, Ireland in 15 minutes. [I'm a Celine fan, if that wasn't obvious ]
Depeche Mode
Dolly Pardon

I think that Janis Joplin, and others like Patsy Cline and John Lennon are named legends because they died young and people really imortalize them for that tragedy.