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So who do you think are the most overrated musicians?

I watched a doc about bob Dylan last night.

I fucking hate Bob Dylan. :)

So for starters...

Bob Dylan
Freddie Mercury
David Bowie......

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I definately agree on the Bob Dylan thing. I'll never understand his appeal.

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After watching that documentary it seems at least 25% of the audience turn up to rip into him. LOL

"Bob , get off , you can't fucking sing to save your life!"

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*gasp* But David Bowie is so pretty!!! :fanning:

For overrated musicians do I even have to mention Britany Spears or is it just assumed?

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alot of recent crap... nickleback, good charlotte, hanson brothers?

But you're so negative, its not good for you....


Ill semi-hijack this thread and list my UNDERrated musicians:

Drummer from Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlain... learned his craft from Jazz drummers, but than decided it would be fun to bang harder...

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oh shit sorry ... you said musicians erm ... lol

Any gobshite that appeared on pop idol or eurovision
Mick Jagger / Stones
Ozzy Ozbourne
Meatloaf
Madonna
David Bowie
Iggy Pop
Whitney Houston
P.Diddly or whatever it is now
Celine Dion

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Hahaha..

Ironically my parents absolutely love his music and have seen him in concert several times.

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Bob Dylan is a great songwriter, but I'm not a fan of his singing

I'm not much into James Taylor (sory, TE ;))

I also think Wayne Newton is grossly overrated...to a point of sucking so bad he defines suck in a whole new way...there is this Vegas cliche of having to see Wayne Newton when you hit Vegas, but there are so many more staples that are better (and cheaper) to see...

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Oasis!

Nothing but a couple of wankers :double-fi

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I couldn't agree more

some say "the second coming of the Beatles", I say "the second coming of a dump I took last week"

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:okthumb:

Plus they're ignorant gits as well.

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Forgive them, Father, they know not what they say ...

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yup, but they are still one of the bands I'd most like to be involved in a bar fight with....

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Phil Collins would make my list.

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I could never get sick of hitting Liam... hmm... and his brother would be a pleasure to smack as well. ;)

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ahahahahahahaha , dude thats it own thread...

along with "Which actor would you"

LOL

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Eric Clapton.. That's one man who should have stayed on drugs..

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Really? I like Phil and think he's extremely talented...he writes his own songs, sings them, plays piano, drums, sax, trumpet and whatever other instrument he can get his hands on.....truly talented...

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Clapton OVER-rated?

Hardly.

His skill with the guitar is irrefutable. Maybe his singing is over-rated, I'll give you that.... but he deserves every acclaim he's ever gotten for his playing.

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Another fine example of why "obscenity" will never be defined.

Art is so subjective. For every artist someone hates, there are other people who thing he/she/them are fantastic.

Personally, I've never liked Bob Dylan much, so I avoided the stress and never bought his albums.

Love his kid, though, whose name unfortunately escapes me at the moment. Lead with the Wallflowers.

Sykkboy and I have had some wonderful conversations about the Georgia Satellites and my favorite "Battleship Chains." I imagine we'd get either a "who?" or "you're kidding?" from a lot of people, though. :)

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Georgia Satellites are a criminally underrated band for sure....

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For the record......

bob Dylan is most noted for his sing writing, not his singing, not his instrument playing (although he does a fairly good job on the geetar)

Since, back in the day, everyone had to have a dylan song to do and some of them have been covered by multitudes of artists, I would put him on the list of one of the most prolific and sought after song writers, which does not necessarilly make him a great musician.

Edited in: http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/ba...=1&range=0,100 lists over 12,000 covers of Dylan tunes and they are not complete........

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Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, it makes my head hurt just trying to make a list.

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Phil Collins is a very talented man, and I like some of this material. However, for a while in the late 80s (+/-) you would have thought he was all there was to music. I remember getting into the car and finding five friggin' radio stations playing something by him.

He's good - but he ain't that good. :)

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Didn´t they just dance/mime (not even their own voices)? :scratchin I remember something about "the real Milli Vanilli" realeasing a second album after the 2 front guys had been busted :yowsa:

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You're dead right. :okthumb:

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One of them topped himself I think...

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I've never heard it phrased that way, but...yes.

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topped = offed?

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Correct ..

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Personally can't stand Tom Petty

Bob Dylan wrote some very cool lyrics.

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Celine Dion
Whitney Houston - I swear she screaches, she doesn't sing
Kenny Logins
Peter Frampton

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Elton John, he's another that needs a bloody good slap!

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Mariah Carey

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I totally agree. :okthumb:

She's got good boobage and that's it.

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i'd have to say any fucking canadian band. The music here is so shit.

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I completely disagree...we have some HOT Canadian bands out there right now...Just did a quick search....

Nickelback
Our Lady Peace
Bare Naked Ladies
Sarah McLachlan
Crash Test Dummies
Tragically Hip
Finger Eleven
Nelly Furtado
I Mother Earth
Chantal Kreviazuk
Avril Lavigne
Amanda Marshall
Simple Plan
Sum 41

A more 'rock classic' list:
Alannah Myles
Lee Aaron
Jane Arden
Tom Cochrane
Joni Mitchell
Kim Mitchell
Rush
Trooper
David Wilcox
Neil Young

Given, no one's gonna like ALL of them...but, certainly, there are a few on the list who are worthy of mention. :)

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Do we really have to admit to that though? http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Seriously though, some good names on that list!!

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Not exactly "great" though are they?

The best of them would be described as "Alright"

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You're not looking correctly.


What do you like? Ill name you a few canadian bands in the same genre

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Inuit music, drum dancing, and throat singing ;-)))

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I thought I was into intuit music once, but I was mistaken.

It turned out it was all just Aleutian. :unsure:

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Ok. I dont have time to look now, Im clubbing baby seals...

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LOL

Ok , smartass , tell us about those Danish super musicians then :)

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I would rather not.... Denmark´s biggest exporting hit to this date is "Barbie Girl" by Aqua :lol:

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It's a classic... :rolleyes:

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:bustingup

Full marks! :rokk:

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Musical taste is subjective....I would say that at least 5 of those I mentioned are 'great'....many 'alright'.

Personally, I'm loving the new Nickelback right now...(and I'm guessing you're not because you're an old fart.) :rolleyes:


the hip is classic stuff and anyone would be hard pressed to say that Sarah McLachlan isn't talented. :p

The point of the list was to show that the music here isn't "so shit"...it's not just all Anne Murray and Celine Dion. ;)

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I play an Anne Murray Christmas album every year despite repeated familial requests to stop. It's my damned album and I'll play it if I want to, I say often!

My youngest always watched the Candian version of MTV (it may not have been called that, I don't remember what she called it) because she said not only were the veejays (if that term is still used) funnier and better, the music played was fantastic. I recognized a lot of names on your list because I've bought them from "dear Santa" lists. :) She preferred Canadian television in general. I'd wander in, watch some teenagers dealing with life and mutter "damn, that was good," and she'd mutter back "of course it is, it's Canadian."

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Nickelback are very good, their style of music isn't one that I'm usually drawn to but I do like them.

I'm a die hard 1980's aceeed house man that likes techno, so a new addition to my tastes is rare. :)