The Five Most Overrated Artists of All Time!
by Anonymous
Note: This is an editorial and thus expresses the writer's personal opinions. If you disagree, why not write your own editorial?
There are some bands whose reputations vastly exceed their talent. The following five are the most glaring examples I have found to date.
5. Rage Against The Machine
Here was a band with excellent musicianship and hearts firmly in the right place. Having said that, the raps on the albums following their self titled debut were homogeneous, tiresome and forced. Rage have been called the very best rap/metal band. If this is true (and it probably is)then I am very sad for the rest of the genre's practitioners. I look forward to the day when the Rage band works with a worthy lead singer, one Chris Cornell.
4. Kid Rock
Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" album is widely considered the best hard rock album of the late nineties. No question, it's a somewhat consistent, somewhat clever album made with a great deal of savvy. It's also the most cartoonish, sexist, racist and hopelessly white trash piece of masturbatory scatology ever to come out of Detroit. In other words, it's bad music done by somebody with a good deal of talent. If you're short on guilty pleasures, go ahead and by it. The rest of us will be listening to AC/DC really loud, and making eyes at your girlfriend. Above average? Probably. The best hard rock album of the nineties? Not a chance in hell.
3. Metallica
In heavy metal, Metallica is regarded with the kind of reverence that blues buffs have for BB King. This is somewhat justified. After all, Metallica were more ambitious in their heyday, wrote stronger albums and better compositions than their peers. They also had strong musicianship, and their mid eighties output has stood the test of time well. The simple fact remains, however, that they owe almost all of their ideas to Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. What's more, the band attempted a disgusting 90's sellout. Not enough for ya? Fine. Van Halen was more influential, Megadeath wrote better lyrics, the production qualities on their first albums were abysmal and their recent output has sucked enormously. Sorry, but it had to be said. Not to put too fine a point on it, there simply isn't as much to celebrate here as many fans and critics seem to think.
2. Nirvana
Since Kirk cobain's death, he has been treated with the reverence normally reserved for our greatest lyrical visionaries. "Nevermind" is considered a classic. Now, I hate to speak ill of the dead and all that, but here's the dilio: a lyrical visionary he ain't. In fact, his songs are really not that distinguished or interesting. I don't deny that Cobain was a charismatic, elusive antihero to many but the bottom line is that he was a egotistical punk with angst and a drug problem, not much else. (I mean "punk" in the nicest way possible). He had a good band, too, but that alone really doesn't qualify him for the kind of John Lennonesque reverence he gets today.
1. Radiohead
I don't know where to begin. Over the course of the years since the release of "The Bends" and especially "OK Computer", Radiohead's abilities have been drawn so out of proportion and they have been made so fashionable that what little appreciation I once had for them is gone. So let's clear this up right now; Radiohead is NOT the best band of it's generation. Radiohead is NOT significant or innovative. Radiohead IS as pretentious as they come. Yes, they are also terribly ambitious and progressive but this doesn't mean anything when your reach exceeds your grasp so much.
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by Anonymous
Note: This is an editorial and thus expresses the writer's personal opinions. If you disagree, why not write your own editorial?
There are some bands whose reputations vastly exceed their talent. The following five are the most glaring examples I have found to date.
5. Rage Against The Machine
Here was a band with excellent musicianship and hearts firmly in the right place. Having said that, the raps on the albums following their self titled debut were homogeneous, tiresome and forced. Rage have been called the very best rap/metal band. If this is true (and it probably is)then I am very sad for the rest of the genre's practitioners. I look forward to the day when the Rage band works with a worthy lead singer, one Chris Cornell.
4. Kid Rock
Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" album is widely considered the best hard rock album of the late nineties. No question, it's a somewhat consistent, somewhat clever album made with a great deal of savvy. It's also the most cartoonish, sexist, racist and hopelessly white trash piece of masturbatory scatology ever to come out of Detroit. In other words, it's bad music done by somebody with a good deal of talent. If you're short on guilty pleasures, go ahead and by it. The rest of us will be listening to AC/DC really loud, and making eyes at your girlfriend. Above average? Probably. The best hard rock album of the nineties? Not a chance in hell.
3. Metallica
In heavy metal, Metallica is regarded with the kind of reverence that blues buffs have for BB King. This is somewhat justified. After all, Metallica were more ambitious in their heyday, wrote stronger albums and better compositions than their peers. They also had strong musicianship, and their mid eighties output has stood the test of time well. The simple fact remains, however, that they owe almost all of their ideas to Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. What's more, the band attempted a disgusting 90's sellout. Not enough for ya? Fine. Van Halen was more influential, Megadeath wrote better lyrics, the production qualities on their first albums were abysmal and their recent output has sucked enormously. Sorry, but it had to be said. Not to put too fine a point on it, there simply isn't as much to celebrate here as many fans and critics seem to think.
2. Nirvana
Since Kirk cobain's death, he has been treated with the reverence normally reserved for our greatest lyrical visionaries. "Nevermind" is considered a classic. Now, I hate to speak ill of the dead and all that, but here's the dilio: a lyrical visionary he ain't. In fact, his songs are really not that distinguished or interesting. I don't deny that Cobain was a charismatic, elusive antihero to many but the bottom line is that he was a egotistical punk with angst and a drug problem, not much else. (I mean "punk" in the nicest way possible). He had a good band, too, but that alone really doesn't qualify him for the kind of John Lennonesque reverence he gets today.
1. Radiohead
I don't know where to begin. Over the course of the years since the release of "The Bends" and especially "OK Computer", Radiohead's abilities have been drawn so out of proportion and they have been made so fashionable that what little appreciation I once had for them is gone. So let's clear this up right now; Radiohead is NOT the best band of it's generation. Radiohead is NOT significant or innovative. Radiohead IS as pretentious as they come. Yes, they are also terribly ambitious and progressive but this doesn't mean anything when your reach exceeds your grasp so much.
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--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--] Nirvana... I like Nevermind which IS a classic (as is Pearl Jam's TEN) but If Cobain hadn't killed himself... I bet nobody would even care about them just like they have forgotten Pearl Jam.
