Overrated Music Icons

Fripp is no god... but he's very good nonetheless... If that's the case many many great great great musicians should be here because they're considered "Gods".... I think Fripp could be at the same level as Howe in electric guitar technique, or even superior (that's a dangerous statement, so don't take it as if I'm underrating Howe in any way)... then again he's no John McLaughing or even John Petrucci

Edited by Chus - November 21 2006 at 22:04

Bob Dylan is perhaps a bit overrated... good but overrated..

Cobain was suck a hack. Only in the realm of MTV music could mumbling over a power chord and then committing suicide cement your reputation as a musical god.

Edited by stonebeard - November 27 2006 at 17:08

yesfan88 wrote: I think from the list it is a tie between Cobain and Elvis. I can't stand any of Elvis' music, so I voted for him. Also, the Rolling Stones are ridiculously overrated.

    

Without Elvis, rock and roll would have never caught on. He was the guy that could sing like a black man but he was white (sad, I know, but this was the only way to tap into the huge, relatively wealthy white market). Elvis was not the first rock star, nor the most talented, but he is also, tied with Chuck Berry, the most important man in early rock and roll.

I don't care for his music, but he is certainly not overrated. His value for rock is very underappreciated, actually. He's just know as "Elvis, superstar," and not "Elvis, important rock icon."

Visitor13 wrote: They're all human, so I guess they're all overrated.