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re: Most overrated and underrated musicians

Posted on 2/25/16 at 2:03 pm to
Posted by CocoLoco
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Posted on 2/25/16 at 2:03 pm to
I can think of plenty of bands/artists today that I prefer over KISS
Posted by JamesGoblin
Harare
Member since Feb 2016
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Posted on 2/25/16 at 5:35 pm to
Overrated - well, mainstream and TV is full of them. Hard to pick just one or just ten.

Most underrated - Tom Waits, Queen, Enio Morricone are the ones you know, the ones you don't (and I do) - say, bunch of Russian and Serbian bands / composers from 20th century.
Posted by randybobandy
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Member since Mar 2015
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Posted on 2/26/16 at 8:35 am to
Underrated

Eddie Van Halen- Totally changed guitar playing- not just the tapping crap, but playing heavy music that swings. VH 1 changed the game for every band in 1978.

Overrated

U2- boring songs that never did anything for me

Springsteen- yelling poppy songs from a guy that should be changing my transmission fluid.

Grateful Dead- no songs, just endless bits of half finished ideas that go on way too long.

Roger Waters- Most of his solo albums sound like Tom Petty on a handful of downers. The rest of Floyd made him a great songwriter because of their performance/contributions to his mediocre songs.

Kirk Hammet- crank on the wah and blaze away in E minor... once again
Posted by Rickety Cricket
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Member since Aug 2007
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Posted on 2/26/16 at 8:48 am to
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Grateful Dead- no songs, just endless bits of half finished ideas that go on way too long.

Know how I know you've never listened to the Grateful Dead?
Posted by randybobandy
NOLA
Member since Mar 2015
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Posted on 2/26/16 at 8:51 am to
because half finished was being overly generous?
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27020 posts
Posted on 2/26/16 at 8:58 am to
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Knopfler, Lindsey Buckingham,


All finger picking.... Mother fu#(ers!!!

Dylan and Springsteen are rated where they need to be IMO. If for nothing else than songwriting. I just found out the other day that Dylan wrote the damned Hope Floats song that Garth Brooks did. That is a damned iconic pop culture song written a full 30 years after the wrote Watchtower, Rolling Stone etc.

Yeah, both their voices suck, but they can write.
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