First of all, Lionel Ritchie is GREAT!!!!! AND SO is U2!!!!!
Bjork is a Genius!!!

I wanna start a list of Most Underrated Musicians:

Lou Gramm. One of the best Rock vocalists ever. Top Ten at least

Bjork. Weird. Genius.

Jonny Lang.

Living Colour. Yes, they are still around.

Prince. Obviously. Then again he did win two Grammys this past year and I still have the 2004 HOF Induction on Tape.

Lenny Kravitz. His last album was so-so.

Most overrated :

Bjork
Rush
Radiohead
Leonard Cohen
Neil Young (even though I love a lot of his stuff ....)

And ...
almost all Rap/Hip-Hop music. When you read "Vibe" or the "Village Voice", they write about a lot of these performers as if they were real artists who were creating something interesting . If you are talking about the more creative end of the field (Outkast, The roots, early PE) then I can agree. But to take Fitty or the Game seriously, as you would take Bob Dylan or Bob marley or Marvin Gaye, is just a joke

abierman said:

I also thought Björk looked uncharacteristically hot in this pic. Go figure.

I am going to Lenny Kravitz (If he doesn't cancel on me again!) April 21 in New York City! He may be Overrated, but he has flashes of brilliance! I know he is dirivative, but no one else is sounding like Mayfield, The Better qualities of Zeppelin, Beatles, Funk, Black Rock..... So I dig him.
Thoughts? Comments?

All you Bjork haters suck.

missfee said:

I think it's because these are all just considered a "given".

all artists are overrated by their fan bases....

ZeroZero said:

Lenny Kravitz is one of those singers who have no style at all.
They r copycats.LN is just imitating others(sometimes quite well i must admit)
Yet he remains a follower by doing what has been done 30 years ago
If u like he is the Usher of Rock.

Whitney Houston
Celine Dione
Michael Bolton

vainandy said:

"Watered-down, non-funky, midtempo shit."

Cloudbuster said:

! agree 100%. I really can't understand what all the fuss is about over this woman!

Erikah Badu...her wanna be African goddess gimick, and her pot-head spirituality

Beyoncé...Nothing bad to say here. Just too much exposure for not really doing anything.

Mary J. Blige...talking in 3rd person queen! some good songs but nothing we really haven't heard before. Just because you wail and sweat on a stage doesn't mean you are actually "sangin'" Self proclaimed 'queen of hip hop soul'?? Ok let's just make up titles.."I'm king of backwoods funky pop-rockin' soul blues!"

Elvis...I like. But he was just at the right place at the right time. Sorry folks..he was basically a "dance" act himself!

Eminem... Pure unfiltered shit!

Kid Rock... I guess there's a market for everybody.

Justin Timberlake...See Eminem. "Hey ma! Look at me..I'm down! gun fire.."Mommy!!!!"

White Stripes...3 words, WHAT THE FUCK!?!

Usher... See his brother Justin above. Another nasty piece of shit!

50 Cent...Yep..his name just about sums it up.




That was fun! Thanks kanamit


forgot an "R" EDIT.
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Madonna, and we know why....

Over rated? OK I'll leave out the Brits and Jessicas...as there is no point.

A small List....

50 Cent

Green Day

Alannis

Daft Punk

Usher

Norah Jones

Kruder and Dorfmeister

New Rod Stewart and Phil Collins

John Mayer

Moby

Evanescence

Tosca

Whitney Houston

Celine Dione

Kid Rock

Eve

Agularia

Lincoln Park

Limp Biscuit

Korn

Kid Rock's on almost everyones list.

Chico319 said:

Oh....oh...oh. I can tell you WTF. Guy & Girl. Drums and Guitar. Making music that is super fresh and original and has good energy. Highly talented They are not really my cup o tea...but I can certainly see and hear talent oozing out of them. Did you see last years Grammies? I had no clue at all about them...was my first time seeing and hearing them. Incredible.

superspaceboy said:

Yeah I saw a lot of drum banging and Jack White trying to sing but not a lot of talent on display. They try to ape the mod bands from the late 60's, but they don't have the talent.

superspaceboy said:

I agree with all of them, but I would leave out Kruder & Dorfmeister. They are not performing artists, but DJ's/remixers.....and actually they are quite good at it.

I wouldn't consider Bjork or Tori over-rated because they are basically cult figures.

CynicKill said:

With Top 20 albums (Top 2 in Tori's case).

I was racking my brain for a list but yeah it's pretty obvious after reading some of the other posts, ELVIS!!!!! ELVIS was the most overrated artist ever IMO.

Dr. Dre-Not a particularly great rapper and his seminal album is nothing but one big parliament bite.

The Velvet Underground-their music is shit and their lyrics are pretentious

Usher-oh we all know why, but I just REALLY REALLY REALLY hate him on top of all the other reasons

Every rapper who's appeared on MTV in the last ten years

Bob Dylan-Great, super important, but still overrated, his music just isn't anywhere near as good as his lyrics and even those aren't quite as great as everybody holds them to be

Prince-In the eyes of the public, highly underrated, in the eyes of a lot of his fans, highly overrated

Linkin Park-God rock n roll sucks these days, it's all rock and no roll.

Dave Matthews band-The grateful dead of our generation

The Grateful Dead-The Band that made it big by playing to audiences that didn't care they sounded like crap.

Alicia Keys
Ursha
Asucky
Jill Scott
Anthony Hamilton
50 Cent
The Game
Eminmen

VoicesCarry said:

It's amazing what a cult can do when they work together. That's why Tori's albums drop so fast on the charts after the first sales week. Her entire fan base buys her records as soon as they are released.

abierman said:

K&D do do their own music...mostly collaborations. They are 1/2 of Tosca too. I dj chill music and Both are overrated IMO

sextonseven said:

Her highest-selling album has sold 2.9 million copies. Are we still talking cult here?

sextonseven said:

I think it's pretty cool in that they chart without airplay or hit singles. They have successful tours and even though they'll never sell out a twenty thousand seat arena you can bet that every seat at their shows is occupied by a rabid fan.

I agree with a lot of your entries but i need to comment on one that keeps popping up thats pissing me off.

There is no way Elvis is overrated.

I am not a big fan of Elvis, and yes, he didn't invent rock n roll...however he made it accessable to the masses. He's the one that clicked with so many ears that he made some of them pick up a guitar and want do what he was doing. Yeah, he didn't write his own music, and he was popular for his looks and dance moves as much as his music at the time. But his influence is monumental within the history of rock. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles...John Lennon said many times Elvis is the reason he picked up a guitar. There are many other artists from that era (including Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson, Keith Richards/Mick Jaggar, and Pete Townsend to name a few) who say Elvis was a big reason they got into rock n roll in the 1st place. I think Elvis is an easy target for these kinds of questions but you need to look at other things beyond whether he wrote his own music to write him off so easliy.