the most overated acts

I think its very useful rotf.....i remember some nice chap sending me some lovelly vinyl just because he didnt like dire straits and i did !
best regards, scotty

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra - don't understand the appeal of any of them

I guess it is a bit negative to list people whose music doesn't appeal to me, is it useful for anybody to know about music I've heard and just disliked or thought of as elevator music?

Superstition or Living For The City "elevator music"? Whaaaaaaaaat? Stevie Wonder needs to be assessed outside the context of UK radio play. Have a listen to "Original Musiquarium" and try again...

Pete.

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Originally posted by 555:

I've nothing against the Beatles, but if there was ever an example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts they are it (except J.L.)!

No, Lennon's solo output is pretty patchy too, certainly nothing much up to what he was doing in the Fab Four. There are some good bits, but you can say the same of Macca (I'd much rather listen to Live and Let Die than Imagine...)

Other "sum of parts" examples springing to mind are Pink Floyd and The Police.

Pete.

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Other "sum of parts" examples springing to mind are Pink Floyd and The Police.

Hi Pete

This is where we are all just saying what we like and what we don't - I cant justify my views on objective grounds - I do know the two Stevie Wonder you mention and they are simply not the kind of music I enjoy - I accept I may be odd, (but sure ain't weird - sorry a little bit of the good Captain coming in there).

However, I can't stand the Police or Sting, but Andy Summers was in a superb group called Dantalion's Chariot who released one of the great singles Madman Running Through the Fields in 1967.

Of course I'm not going to agree about Pink Floyd, because Madcap Laughs and Barrett are two of my most prized records. Syd was a flawed genius. Subsequent Floyd output was very good even if it could never match the heights of Roger Keith Barrett.

Yes it's all opinion - I'm going to stop commenting further about what I don't like as I'm sure I'll hit on somebody's favourite band and then I'll have to explain again why I'd sooner listen to Chas n Dave than Coldplay ....

ATB Rotf

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Originally posted by ROTF:

However, I can't stand the Police or Sting, but Andy Summers was in a superb group called Dantalion's Chariot who released one of the great singles Madman Running Through the Fields in 1967.

But again that's in collaboration with others, where he shines, rather than alone, where IMHO he doesn't.

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Of course I'm not going to agree about Pink Floyd, because Madcap Laughs and Barrett are two of my most prized records. Syd was a flawed genius. Subsequent Floyd output was very good even if it could never match the heights of Roger Keith Barrett.

Wasn't thinking about Syd, TBH. Ummagumma's "experimental solo" disc is a pretty good illustration of the direction I was thinking. Stuff from Gilmour's last solo that I heard seemed rather dull and Waters' stuff I've heard suggested needing someone else to tell him when to stop.

Back to Stevie, do you really not even like Fingertips? Perhaps you have no soul when it comes to Soul...

Pete.

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PRINCE

AKA The Purple Pain

and the biggest of them all....THE BEATLES.

how long did it take to write songs like.....
"she luvs you - yeah yeah yeah" - crap.

Another vote for Elvis....Costello. At least his out put after the first few albums. And Andrew Bloody Lloyd Webber. The world's ugliest man wins an award for taking the tiniest talent the furthest. Bah humbug.

A lot of this is highly contextual. In 1963 the Beatles singing she loves you was amazing. Obviously within 4 years or so we had Piper at the Gates of Dawn and psychedelia and the genie was out of the bottle for good. So it may seem "crap" now (though not to me) but at the time it was enough to make me turn up the transistor radio under the bedclothes! (I was going to write tranny but the implications dawned on me before I hit "post"!)

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Originally posted by scottyhammer:
and the biggest of them all....THE BEATLES.

how long did it take to write songs like.....
"she luvs you - yeah yeah yeah" - crap.

You cannot be serious - please please me and listen to this outstanding version of that great song - clicken here danke shun

ATB Rotf

rotf,
funnily enough i prefer the german version!

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Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
... to make me turn up the transistor radio under the bedclothes! (I was going to write tranny but the implications dawned on me before I hit "post"!)

I know what you mean Chris.

My 1930s radio broke down recently.

I couldn't find a local repair service, so I Googled old tranny repair.

There are some very weird things on the WWW ...

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Originally posted by 555:

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Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
... to make me turn up the transistor radio under the bedclothes! (I was going to write tranny but the implications dawned on me before I hit "post"!)

I know what you mean Chris.

My 1930s radio broke down recently.

I couldn't find a local repair service, so I Googled old tranny repair.

There are some very weird things on the WWW ...

Yes and this is one of them................

"I visited my storage a few days ago to get some info off of my muncie tranny and discovered that one of the "ears" where it bolts up to the bellhousing has"

The mind boggles

Gearbox?

what a load of bol---ks thread.

talking of b*****ks - i never got the pistols !

The most overrated act ever has to be 'The Shadows' (throw in Cliff Richard if you like). Daft moves and a wrist slashing drum solo.

Go'on then if you must!


Its gotta Disco beat man



Dean...

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Originally posted by scottyhammer:
and the biggest of them all....THE BEATLES.

how long did it take to write songs like.....
"she luvs you - yeah yeah yeah" - crap.

Probably not as long as it took to write "A Day in the Life", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Etc. Etc.

As Rotf says, you cannot be serious. :-)

Four people that changed the world of popular music in a thread like this? Let's get a grip.

Steve

beatles,stones,floyd,u2 ect,all crap,as i said earlier and i feel i have to say it again,what a load of bol---ks,the thread should be moved to Padded Cell,now i feel better.

I thought the thread as about who we believe to be overrated - not who we think are crap!!

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
I thought the thread as about who we believe to be overrated - not who we think are crap!!

whatever.

There's a movie of 151 crossing the road in front of scottyhammers' car here.