Most Overrated Bands/Musicians
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Tom Waits
Louis Armstrong
Billie Holliday
I find their voices are more of a novelty.
Boys to Men.
No doubt they are talented, but they overdo every note. Relax guys just let your talent flow.
Placido Domingo
Jose Carreras
Screaming in Italian is not necessarily singing.
Louis Armstrong
Billie Holliday
I find their voices are more of a novelty.
Boys to Men.
No doubt they are talented, but they overdo every note. Relax guys just let your talent flow.
Placido Domingo
Jose Carreras
Screaming in Italian is not necessarily singing.
Most bands that put out good songs in the 1970s put out crappy songs in the 1980s.
LOL, I was talking to a buddy on the phone not 30 minutes ago, and we were saying the exact same thing! Hilarious!
Except we included bands that were also good in the '60s. The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Neil Young. Some actually revived themselves in the '90s with some good stuff, but in the 1980s they were crap.
Born to Run wasn't a massive hit when it was released. It's six times Platinum in sales NOW, but it was no more than a Gold record in 1975. On the supporting tour, he didn't play any venues with more than 2,000 seats.
Bruce was involved in a lawsuit with his former manager Mike Appel following BTR, and was not allowed to record any new music while the matter was still in court. His major source of income in 1976 and early 1977 was from live gigs, and without a new record to promote, he was still playing in theaters, rather than arenas.
His acoustic album Nebraska was released more than seven years after Born to Run, with the single disk Darkness on the Edge of Town and the double album The River in between. The Darkness tour was the first time Bruce and The E Street Band played in sports arenas, but only in the some of the larger cities on the tour. Opening night of the Darkness tour was at Shea's in Buffalo, capacity 3,000. Prove it All Night was the highlight of the Darkness Tour:
In Montreal, he played at The Forum in November, 1978, but in the 'concert bowl' configuration, where the stage is at about center ice for hockey, instead of at the north end of the rink, and seating behind the stage wasn't sold. Capacity for that show was probably about 8,000, and about 75% of the seats were sold. Many consider the Darkness tour to have been his peak artistically as a live performer. I agree with that opinion, having seen that November, 1978 show as well as The River and Born in the USA tours.
I don't listen to any of his studio albums after Nebraska, and the last album of his that I bought was Born in the USA, on cassette tape. I still do enjoy listening to recordings of his live performances from 1974-78. Bruce hadn't declined as a performer on The River tour, it was more a case that his better live songs had been on the previous two albums, and he couldn't play all of his best while necessarily including much of The River in his set, even in a three hour show. He also played very little guitar on stage on the The River and Born in the USA tours. He had played most of the lead parts and solos on previous tours.
"People say we have ten albums that sound exactly the same. That isn't true. We have eleven albums that sound exactly the same" - Angus Young of AC/DC.
It did launch his career, though. His first two albums did poorly and Born was pretty much his last chance as far as his label was concerned and Bruce new it. He slaved over it and drove the band crazy doing take after take after take. I'm not sure, but that may have been when he got the nickname, "The Boss".
I saw him on the Born to Run tour and, as you say about small venues, he played the Seneca Field House on Finch and it was basically a gymnasium with no seats.
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Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Bruce Springsteen
David Grohl
Paul McCartey
Eddie Vedder
and anyone else who leaves Spotify
Joni Mitchell
Bruce Springsteen
David Grohl
Paul McCartey
Eddie Vedder
and anyone else who leaves Spotify
Many, many bands go soft and commercial later on, and it sucks.
Led Zeppelin is a case in point.
All of My Love is so bad, it is painful.
Phil Collins, Heart, Aerosmith (don't want to miss a thing (except this song!))
I respect the ones like Peter Gabriel that stay musical.
But NOONE can compare with The Tragically Hip for being so bad on so many fronts:
voice, music, quality of musicianship, meaningless lyrics - while pathetically trying to sound meaningful.
voice, music, quality of musicianship, meaningless lyrics - while pathetically trying to sound meaningful.
I had this co worker in the 90's who was a Hip fanatic but I just couldn't get what all the fuss was about. To me they sounded quite mediocre.
He kept saying that they "kick ass" but I just couldn't hear it. Van Halen kicked ass....The Hip sounded sluggish to me.
He was a Grunge kid so maybe it was a generational thing.
