Most overrated musician of all time?

The Eagles

Dude, I hate the f***ing Eagles.

Metric wrote:

The Eagles

Hell, yes. We need another Eagles thread, because they suck.

Jimmy Buffet

meatloaf-what a joke....The guys a pig!

LL Cool J

... or Diddy. Come to think of it, all rap sucks. How un-PC of me to say that. It's not music. You can't spell crap without rap. Eminem has to be somewhere near the top of the list too. He has no talent, just abrasive lyrics.

Eric Clapton. Somebody told him he could play blues and he believed it. Slowhand is right. He did write some decent songs but for him to be held up as one of history's great rock guitarists I just don't get. If he was black we would have never heard of him.

I think this is a difficult question because it's hard to factor in how much of an influence they had for future bands that didn't suck.

For instance, I would say that the Sex Pistols absolutely blow. However, any punk band worth their salt listened to the Sex Pistols, which is why they are rated at all.

That being said, I hate the f****** Eagles.

Bob Seger...corniest stupid lyrics...

This thread is fun and all, but of course the least successful artist mentioned could buy and sell everyone who ever posted on LetsRun.

That said, onward!

Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

I mean, wtf?

BB King

I could not disagree more with the choices some of you guys made. I'm not sure if Ringo was being facetious, but I think The Beatles are the greatest artists of the 20th century. I am not a huge Police fan... I hate Fleetwood Mac so obviously I think they are overrated. I'm don't dig reggae too much, so I think Marley gets too many props. I am a fan of Nirvana, I listen to them pretty regularly in fact, but I think they are a little overrated when you consider all of the other talent that was doing stuff just as good at the time (Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins). When it comes to worst ratio of talent to album sales, I would have to go with BILLY JOEL. That guy f***ing SUCKS and people love him. Billy Joel is crap.

I think Bruce Springsten is overrated. Now Peter Frampton, he rocks!

Theory: During the 60s, music press (Rolling Stone most prominently) and rock music stations became important purveyors of conventional wisdom when it came to rock and roll. In order to justify the importance placed on the music as benchmarks of counter culture (to our parents, they were just songs on the radio), rock DJs and journalists had to amplify both the skill and meaning of certain acts, songs, or musicians. So Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, etc became either "the voice of a generation" or "the most inovative (name your instrument) since (name your time)", or maybe the best ever.

That way, rock journalists, producers, and musicians could become demi-gods, because after all, they weren't just playing three chord songs or rehashing eight bar blues, they were "changing the world" or "challenging the man." Thus, by exalting these acts, everyone came out ahead, monetarily or psychically.

Milk's Gone Bad wrote:

I think Bruce Springsten is overrated. Now Peter Frampton, he rocks!

I was doing a movie and I had to smoke fake pot with a Peter Frampton, which is almost as cool as smoking real pot with a guy who looks like Peter Frampton.

I was tempted to say Nickelback, but the question was "most over-rated". Most of us know that Nickelback sucks. And I'm Canadian.

The Beatles will always be a target. It's so passe to praise them these days, isn it? NEWSFLASH: The Beatles Rule.

elvis