Your Pick for Most Overrated Rock Singer of All Time

[Catsrock]

I like White Stripes and Jet. Back to the basics rock.

[surveyor]

White Stripes and Black Keys.

[George]

Good call on Weezer. LOVE those guys. This thread has been pulled in a lot of directions but that is what music does to people.

Any White Stripes Fans in here? Those two can tear it up. Good hard, soulful, bluesy rock. Jack's playing is unique but he is so talented. Caught a documentary with him, Edge, and Page called It Might Get Loud. Good stuff.

I hope this makes sense, but I like the idea of the White Stripes more than I like their actual music. Uncomplicated, dirty Blues Rock with a guitar wizard at the helm. Not a thing wrong with that. Still, even though I think they've got a few great songs, a lot of it winds up sounding redundant to me.

No denying that Jack White is an absolute force, though. I love him as an ambassador for good Rock music.

[George]

White Stripes and Black Keys.

I pretty much have the same opinion of The Black Keys as I do The White Stripes, only I like them even less than TWS. I tried for a while, but everything sounded repetitive, and the singer has a bad case of mush mouth.

I did like that album of Junior Kimbrough covers ("Chulahoma" I think it was), and I thought they sounded great once they finally got in a real studio with a real producer and put a full band together for "Attack and Release". That album has a cool story, too: a lot of the songs were originally written for a new Ike Turner album, with the Keys as his backing band and Danger Mouse as the producer. However, Ike passed sometime during all that, so the Keys and Danger Mouse finished it up as a Keys album. It's far and away the album of theirs that I enjoy the most. But then...

I saw them live, and they were HORRIBLE. Just sounded like a couple of dudes practicing. Sorta wrote them off after that, and from the few tracks I've heard since, I don't suspect that I'm missing much.

[Blue Heaven]

I used to be a HUGE Black Crowes fan. Caught a video on youtube where they toured with Page and played nothing but LZ songs. It was crazy good and I have to get that album.

[surveyor]

I pretty much have the same opinion of The Black Keys as I do The White Stripes, only I like them even less than TWS. I tried for a while, but everything sounded repetitive, and the singer has a bad case of mush mouth.

I did like that album of Junior Kimbrough covers ("Chulahoma" I think it was), and I thought they sounded great once they finally got in a real studio with a real producer and put a full band together for "Attack and Release". That album has a cool story, too: a lot of the songs were originally written for a new Ike Turner album, with the Keys as his backing band and Danger Mouse as the producer. However, Ike passed sometime during all that, so the Keys and Danger Mouse finished it up as a Keys album. It's far and away the album of theirs that I enjoy the most. But then...

I saw them live, and they were HORRIBLE. Just sounded like a couple of dudes practicing. Sorta wrote them off after that, and from the few tracks I've heard since, I don't suspect that I'm missing much.

I'll listen to some of White Stripes and Black Keys songs, but not an entire album. I haven't really listened to an entire album of anyone post 1999 or 2000. Too much garbage to wade through to get to the good cuts, so I'll just download what I want and piss on the rest. But there are some good cuts.
Same with Nine Inch Nails. There's a handful of cuts that are as good or better than anything I've ever heard, but there's so much others that are "meh" that I'll just select the ones I like.

[George]

Same with Nine Inch Nails. There's a handful of cuts that are as good or better than anything I've ever heard, but there's so much others that are "meh" that I'll just select the ones I like.

I'm a huge NIN fan, but yeah, Trent Reznor's catalog includes plenty of fillers. His stuff took a pretty substantial starting with "With Teeth" (although that album does include some good songs). Ever since, it's been like you said: find the tracks I like, skip the rest.

Have you ever watched the "And All That Could Have Been" DVD? It's one of the best recordings of a live show you'll ever see.

[George]

I used to be a HUGE Black Crowes fan. Caught a video on youtube where they toured with Page and played nothing but LZ songs. It was crazy good and I have to get that album.

I bet that was good. Let me know if you ever find that.

Ever heard of a band out of Knoxville called The Dirty Guvnahs? My friend's wife LOOOOOOVES them, but I tell her all the time that if I wanted to hear some Black Crowes, I'd listen to some Black Crowes. The Guvnahs are a carbon copy.

[Blue Heaven]

An awesome underrated 90's hard rock band is Helmet. Those guys rock. Listening to Unsung now and it made me post this. It was just the next song on the shuffle while I clean the house.

[George]

An awesome underrated 90's hard rock band is Helmet. Those guys rock. Listening to Unsung now and it made me post this. It was just the next song on the shuffle while I clean the house.

I dug Helmet for a little while. Weren't my favorite, but they had a few good tunes for the genre. That's when things veered toward Nu-Metal, though, and ish got bad in a hurry once that stuff started up. Won't say middle school me didn't like it at the time, but when I think about bands that I'd be embarrassed to claim today, a lot of them are Nu-Metal groups from my early teens.

[Blue Heaven]

Yeah it ended there. Korn, Limp Bizkit, godsmack, Drowning Pool. YUCK! Helmet was out long before those bands though. I believe they started in '91. That time and even now, I listen to everything. I had a ball freaking out my black friends in the 90's. We'd cruise around and listen to some rap for a while. Then I would throw in some Haggard and look at their face. Gold. I did turn a few of those guys on to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They dug 'em.

[George]

Yeah it ended there. Korn, Limp Bizkit, godsmack, Drowning Pool. YUCK! Helmet was out long before those bands though. I believe they started in '91. That time and even now, I listen to everything. I had a ball freaking out my black friends in the 90's. We'd cruise around and listen to some rap for a while. Then I would throw in some Haggard and look at their face. Gold. I did turn a few of those guys on to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They dug 'em.

I give Deftones a pass (though nothing after their self-titled album). They were always a bit different, a bit more interesting. Especially "White Pony". I still listen to that record to this day.

[George]

Anyone here a fan of The Mars Volta?

[surveyor]

Have you ever watched the "And All That Could Have Been" DVD? It's one of the best recordings of a live show you'll ever see.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll track it down.

[George]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll track it down.

It's incredible.