Most over rated ever?

Chris: I think the point was to make a point without really making a point, and I must admit there wasn't much point in this...

What's more shocking than the absence of any of these but Jarre from my collection [on LP, btw] is that, to the best of my knowledge, I have never heard:

Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Strokes
The Verve
Keith Jarrett
Jan Garberek
Pat Matheney
Stereophonics
Harry Conick Jnr
Anything to do with P.Diddy

The names Keith Jarrett, Jan Garberek and
Pat Matheney are very well known to me but their music is not. I've almost certainly heard some of the others without knowing who they were.

Of the remainder, the only ones with much chance of getting into my collection are:

REM
Ry Cooder
Seal
The Beach Boys
Modern R&B - there must be some I like

Shocking, eh?

JD

You SHOULD get known at least Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny before you disqualify them. Otherwise you'll rather disqualify yourself.
Both are masters on their instruments IMO!

Christian

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Originally posted by rch:
Hey Alex,
Why didn't you simply confess the music YOU like is operetta & ballet?
Cheers
Christian

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I knew I'd forget to put some things on
BTW I could write a list 5 times as long of people that are either highly regarded and deserving or underrated.

Of course all this is IMHO. Even people looking over my shoulder at work were wincing at some of the entries (there's a big Chilli Peppers following here!)

Christian: You SHOULD get known at least Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny before you disqualify them. Otherwise you'll rather disqualify yourself.

So, essentially, you are saying that if I listen to KJ and PM but fail to disqualify them then I'll disqualify myself?

JD

Anyway: I SHOULD presume that my English is much poorer than yours...

Christian: I was simply pointing out in what was intended to be an amusing way that you appeared to have misread my post [since your English seems excellent] by assuming that I had disqualified KJ and PM. Perhaps something idiomatic was lost somewhere, and the post I replied to was intended to be amusing?

Anyway, I'm sorry if you were offended - it's just that I would have been offended had I not thought that you had misread my post, since it did not occur to me that it might have been intended to be amusing.

JD

Jeremy,

I'm fine, thank you!

Christian

Dave Matthews

Ron The Mon,
Needle-Freak

Fred writ: "The supreme irony being that anyone really good in the local folk club acknowledges Seeger's greatness."

Actually a bigger irony in the context is that 'Little boxes on the hillside' exactly describes the over-developed town of Swindon in which both Mick and I are doomed (for the moment) to live.

I always (and I was a huge Beatles/Beach Boys/Stones fan in the mid-60s) thought Pete Seeger's songs were rather good, nicely subtle and deliberately designed to irritate precisely the people they were designed to irritate - if you see what I mean.

The only problem was that so many of them were filtered through Peter, Paul and Mary - now they really were a bit feeble.

Alex Simon - that's my record collection you've got there!

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Originally posted by Chris Metcalfe:
The only problem was that so many of them were filtered through Peter, Paul and Mary - now they really were a bit feeble.

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Steady now. I really fancied Mary Travers - before I saw Jane Fonda in Barbarella...