Overrated/overplayed/underrated artists

Kizzume

Overrated:

Greenday
Tool
Limp Bizkit
Justin Timberlake
Britney Spears
Marilyn Manson
Nickelback

Overplayed:

Boston
Led Zeppelin
Whitney Houston
Nirvana
Tool
Nickelbeck

Underrated:

King Crimson
Radiohead
Stereolab
Bjork

debateman · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 Location: New Mexico

Personally I would slide Greenday from Overrated to simply Overplayed. I think it's difficult to have been consistent as they have been without have a great deal of talent.

But let me add.

Overrated: Brittany Spears

Overplayed: Anything in the Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B/Pop/RockPop genres.

Underrated: Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, Macy Gray, to mention just a few.

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:14 am Post subject:

Ah yes, I'll have to add Fiona and Macy to the underrated artists---I need to check out Rufus some more--I just checked out a couple youtube videos--pretty good. Smile

debateman · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 Location: New Mexico

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

Now that I've been listening to him a bit more--I think you might have mentioned him in another thread in the past--or someone has. I'm glad he was brought to my attention again. Smile

debateman · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 Location: New Mexico

Well I'm sure I've brought him up. LOL I love his voice...

Dream: Rufus Wainwright singing only to me.

Reality: I'm playing my Rufus Wainwright CD's eating a pint of ice cream.

LOL

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:41 am Post subject:

What would you consider his best album or song?

debateman · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 Location: New Mexico

Well commercially speaking I would say Poses. It provides largest hits I would say. But as far as artistic quality? That's hard. It's pretty hard to top Poses, but the Want albums are fantastic. It's a transitional period filled with growth and reflection.

EDIT: Let me clarify something. I don't think that Poses did the best at the time, but I think had it been released today it would be more in line. My favorite song of his is likely "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk". But there are sooooo many good ones.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Overrated, Underplayed, and maybe the worst music I have ever heard!

Soulja Boy

debateman · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 Location: New Mexico

Kizzume · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject:

Hey JQ--did you ever see this (
It was a song of Aphex Twin that had a strange sounding section in it--and when you run the song through a certain type of waveform analyzer):

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Lol no I didn't. Scary! (That would freak me out if I saw that at like 2 o'clock in the morning!)

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I really tripped out when I first saw this. I think it's interesting that one can even do something like that. When you hear it, it just seems like digital noise mixed in with the music--it sounds like sound effects, but there it is--an image. There's some other artist who put pictures of their cats in a couple songs.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

So then are you an aphex twin fan too? I think a lot of it is great music!