Overated acts

[CK]

If Sia is among the future of Australian music, heaven help us. Sounds like a bad Lady Gaga impersonator.

But fear not Angus and Julia Stone are the future of Australian music (according to the ARIAS) ...kill me now.

Frightening in some ways, isn't it? Everything I've heard of theirs has been as bland as white bread with a piece of cheese.

Wedgie, sorry, but if Neil Diamond was playing across the street, I'd tell to put his crunchy granola somewhere quieter too. Thank heavens MMM don't play him

Add Bryan Adams to this list too, and throw in Status Quo along the way. Another band where the ability to memorise three chords has led to a lifetime of adulation.

[Wedgie]

lol@ pub rock
That's overrating them.
Try contemporary rock (and that's pushing it).

[Booney]

lol@ pub rock
That's overrating them.
Try contemporary rock (and that's pushing it).

Oh, they must have started out playing in "contemporary hotels" in Brisbane then.

[Leaping Lindner]

Add me to the Powderfinger and Coldplay list.

Off topic but I thought of you on the way home yesterday Leaping Lindner as the radio was on Triple M and they played Wild Child and then said "and that was one hit wonder Iggy Pop"!

Yeah whatever happened to that guy? I remember he recorded a couple of albums with the Stooges in the late 60's, but what's he done since then????

[Wedgie]

lol@ pub rock
That's overrating them.
Try contemporary rock (and that's pushing it).

Oh, they must have started out playing in "contemporary hotels" in Brisbane then.

'Pub Rock' has traditionally been attributed to a style of music not where it's played.
I've seen one man eukalaly show in a pub and I once drunkenly sang an ABBA song karaoke style in a pub, it doesn't mean it was pub rock.

[JK]

Mariah Carey should end this thread, which is lucky else I would have had to mention The Little River Band

[Wedgie]

Add me to the Powderfinger and Coldplay list.

Off topic but I thought of you on the way home yesterday Leaping Lindner as the radio was on Triple M and they played Wild Child and then said "and that was one hit wonder Iggy Pop"!

Yeah whatever happened to that guy? I remember he recorded a couple of albums with the Stooges in the late 60's, but what's he done since then????

I knew you'd love that!

[Gingernuts]

Everything I've heard of theirs has been as bland as white bread with a piece of cheese.

But you know what? Sometimes you just feel like some white bread and a piece of cheese, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Personally I think 'overrated' only really applies too:

- Mass produced american hip hop
- Acts that are clearly manufactured to swindle teenage girls out of their pocket money (ie - Bieber, Short Stack, etc).
- Acts that are clearly manufactured / resurrected to swindle ageing baby boomers out of their nest eggs (ie - Andre Rieu, old foggies like Neil Diamond & John Farnham).

Anything else is more about personal taste than being overated IMO.

[CK]

Mariah Carey should end this thread, which is lucky else I would have had to mention The Little River Band

Them's fightin' words, CP. See you out the back with a copy of "After Hours", a pair of flares and an impressive beard

[JK]

Mariah Carey should end this thread, which is lucky else I would have had to mention The Little River Band

Them's fightin' words, CP. See you out the back with a copy of "After Hours", a pair of flares and an impressive beard

We'll call it even for the disdain you expressed toward Bryan Adams and Neil Diamond

[TEX07]

If Sia is among the future of Australian music, heaven help us. Sounds like a bad Lady Gaga impersonator.

But fear not Angus and Julia Stone are the future of Australian music (according to the ARIAS) ...kill me now.

I get uncomfortable even looking at these two, they are way too close for a brother and sister IMO!

[Swamp Donkey]

Ben Harper at the last Pearl Jam concert where he was supporting. He was ordinary, just mono-tone. The duet with Eddie Vedder was unreal though, as was the PJ show as per usual!!!!

[CK]

I'll probably get hammered from pillar to post for this one, but the longer time goes and the less kind time is to his music - Bob Dylan.

[Dirko]

I'll probably get hammered from pillar to post for this one, but the longer time goes and the less kind time is to his music - Bob Dylan.

Agreed. What the **** is with the fascination some people have with him.

He's shit.

Add Elvis to the list too. He's just crap as well !

[Leaping Lindner]

I'll probably get hammered from pillar to post for this one, but the longer time goes and the less kind time is to his music - Bob Dylan.

Agreed. What the **** is with the fascination some people have with him.

He's ****.

Add Elvis to the list too. He's just crap as well !

Can't listen to either of them personally, but both played extremely important roles in rock music. Dylan basically invented the protest song and was the first of the great lyrcists.
Presley (pre Army) brought rock and roll (abeit a safe white bred version) to millions of teenagers something that wasn't happening with the black american artists who pioneered it.
As I said don't like either of them personally, but you can't deny their role in music.

To ad to my previous post some other overated acts (IMO) that people I know "rave" about would be The Doors (Morrison ....'nuff said), Foo Fighters (rock music by numbers...join this dot to this dot) and Pearl Jam (what are you? Emo? Grunge? Folk? Make up your ****ing mind).

[mick]

Queen.
I know people who talk about these guys like they single handedly revolutionised music but in reality their strike rate was quite poor.
I would also nominate Kiss, but Im not sure people "rate" them.

Queen - totally self indulgent theatrics

[southee]

Queen.
I know people who talk about these guys like they single handedly revolutionised music but in reality their strike rate was quite poor.
I would also nominate Kiss, but Im not sure people "rate" them.

Queen - totally self indulgent theatrics

Love Queen and KISS....if I pay money I want to see a show that is worth what you pay for...not watch some person sitting on stage "dronning" away in boredom.

The Cure was up there with that..... when I saw them a few years back.....I nearly feel asleep!!!

[Leaping Lindner]

Queen.
I know people who talk about these guys like they single handedly revolutionised music but in reality their strike rate was quite poor.
I would also nominate Kiss, but Im not sure people "rate" them.

Queen - totally self indulgent theatrics

Love Queen and KISS....if I pay money I want to see a show that is worth what you pay for...not watch some person sitting on stage "dronning" away in boredom.

The Cure was up there with that..... when I saw them a few years back.....I nearly feel asleep!!!

Fair enough. But when I pay to see a band I want to see musos. If I want to see clowns I'll go to the circus.
Anyhoo.....VIVA LA DIFFERENCE!

[Booney]

I'll probably get hammered from pillar to post for this one, but the longer time goes and the less kind time is to his music - Bob Dylan.

Agreed. What the **** is with the fascination some people have with him.

He's ****.

Add Elvis to the list too. He's just crap as well !

Can't listen to either of them personally, but both played extremely important roles in rock music. Dylan basically invented the protest song and was the first of the great lyrcists.
Presley (pre Army) brought rock and roll (abeit a safe white bred version) to millions of teenagers something that wasn't happening with the black american artists who pioneered it.
As I said don't like either of them personally, but you can't deny their role in music.

To ad to my previous post some other overated acts (IMO) that people I know "rave" about would be The Doors (Morrison ....'nuff said), Foo Fighters (rock music by numbers...join this dot to this dot) and Pearl Jam (what are you? Emo? Grunge? Folk? Make up your ****ing mind).

Protest songs are, no doubt, and important part of popular culture. However, being able to understand nd appreciate the lyrics are, IMO, vitally important.

Elvis, in modern music terms, was a front man for very basic music and lyrics but he truly pioneered the showman genre and paved the way for musicians to be more expressive and show their true style.

Pearl Jam? I thought you would appreciate a group who does not confine themselves to one genre and be pigeon holed as such.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Agree with Bob Dylan, Powderfinger and Kiss.

Would also add The Clash, The Ramones, The Beach Boys, U2 and Michael Jackson.