From National Lampoon magazine:
Q: When did Paul McCartney write Silly Love Songs?
A: 1963 to present.
Most Overrated Bands/Musicians
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Q: When did Paul McCartney write Silly Love Songs?
A: 1963 to present.
Agreed!!
The Grateful Dead: This band, from its get-go, has been so unimaginably dull and banal. They have always sounded like a third-rate pub band doing blues covers. No originality, no identifiable sound, and absolutely zero stage presence. Why they are considered by many to be the royal family of the 1960s global counterculture is completely lost on me.
Eric Clapton: Great with Cream and the Yardbirds, but definitely overrated as a guitarist and solo artist, and a bit of a dick as a person
Leonard Cohen: Probably the best on this list, but definitely overrated.
Frank Zappa: Frank's music is almost impossible to listen to. Never sounded like he was taking music seriously (oh, but that's the point! scream the Zappa fans) -- at least his early stuff. You can only go so far with "experimental" music.
Doobie Brothers with any line up.
They had real catchy openings to a bunch of their songs, but after that , each song got very repetitive.
True, a lot of women don't like Rush.
Kiss were more of a novelty.
Cake were really good in concert.
Green Day don't do it for me.
Saw Lenny Kravitz in Toronto when Green Day were sick and had to cancel. Seriously great live performance.
I've heard it said that most people's favourite music is what they were listening to between the ages of 15 and 28, the memory years...
Eg. where you were, and who you were with, when they played a particular song, during a break-up, a make-up, or some other "salad days" memorable event.
Some truth to that. But there's lots of music that I like from artists who became popular long after I was 28. I'm open to the new stuff... Drake and The Weeknd don't do it for me. For the most part, I prefer bands that play musical instruments if that makes any sense.
Me too. I loved the music from my "salad days", which were from 1960 through 1974 or so, but I also loved early and Chicago blues, early rap, Disco(sorry), Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The National, etc. and also music from before I even knew it existed, such as Swing and "jump blues" from the 40's and 50's, once I was exposed to it and able to get hold of CD re-issues and compilations of those genres.
But what I listen to most on my iPod in my car is 60's through early 70's soul, funk, Phil Spector & neo-Phil Spector productions, and 60's girl groups in general...
Leonard Cohen wrote a few great songs but he was a poet not a singer. I still think the cover of his song Hallelujah done by KD Lang at the BC Olympics was fantastic.
My niece who is a lot younger than me described the music of her generation as just noise.
All it is is beats and somebody talking. No musicality. No melody. No singing.
Alex, Geddy, and Neil were top level musicians… among the very best in world at their instruments. That’s not just opinion…
How you can say they are over rated when they have influenced so many other great artists is a little mind boggling.
Alex and Neil are absolutely incredible. Everything about their abilities is almost unnatural.
Geddy ruined them and made the band unlistenable.
