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obediah · 07-31-2003, 11:45 PM

to answer the question in the more traditional way.

I agree strongly that the White Stripes, like all first wave (within the current wave) of garage bands are. They're kind of a boring amalgamation of what's come before, but they're better enough than boy bands, bad girl singers, "I'm a freak! Seriously, look at how freaky I am" poser-goth, and that horrid pierced/tattooed bang the drums and spins the beats heavy metal-rap-rock crap, that I and everyone else with any musical taste is excited to see them back.

Nirvana had the same thing going for them. And with Kurt winning the publicity stunt of the century award, they catapulted way into the overrated stratosphere. I remember about 3 months before Kurts stunt, MTV did a "Best Alternative Videos fo All Time", on which SLTS hit #9 or so. 3 months after the stunt they did "Best Videos of All Time" and SLTS was #1. huh? If I hadn't been poor, I would have broken my TV and then used the pieces to kill everyone at MTV.

I'm not a big fan of U2 or The Beatles, but would consider U2 much more overrated, even though the Beatles are rated much higher.

I don't see how Jimi Hendrix could be considered over-rated.

I also don't see how Tom Waits could be over-rated. Actually I do see it, if you sat around listening to some lame ass friends go on and on about him forever, and have seen every artist ever interviewed name his as one of their biggest points of inspiration, and then pick up a CD. You're going to go huh? this is good, but not that good. But then as you work your way through 30 years of excellent and varied releases, (oh say the 80's when all the other big 70's musicians were turning out electro-crap or just rotting in coke), and Tom was learning to use his tortured voice as just another instrument, you realize that Tom Waits is beyond trends, styles, motifs or other constraints. When you work through the varied tragic, dark, odd, weird, oddly-weird, yet all excellent lyrics you can understand why he's influenced so many people.

07-31-2003, 11:45 PM	#90 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	to answer the question in the more traditional way. I agree strongly that the White Stripes, like all first wave (within the current wave) of garage bands are. They're kind of a boring amalgamation of what's come before, but they're better enough than boy bands, bad girl singers, "I'm a freak! Seriously, look at how freaky I am" poser-goth, and that horrid pierced/tattooed bang the drums and spins the beats heavy metal-rap-rock crap, that I and everyone else with any musical taste is excited to see them back. Nirvana had the same thing going for them. And with Kurt winning the publicity stunt of the century award, they catapulted way into the overrated stratosphere. I remember about 3 months before Kurts stunt, MTV did a "Best Alternative Videos fo All Time", on which SLTS hit #9 or so. 3 months after the stunt they did "Best Videos of All Time" and SLTS was #1. huh? If I hadn't been poor, I would have broken my TV and then used the pieces to kill everyone at MTV. I'm not a big fan of U2 or The Beatles, but would consider U2 much more overrated, even though the Beatles are rated much higher. I don't see how Jimi Hendrix could be considered over-rated. I also don't see how Tom Waits could be over-rated. Actually I do see it, if you sat around listening to some lame ass friends go on and on about him forever, and have seen every artist ever interviewed name his as one of their biggest points of inspiration, and then pick up a CD. You're going to go huh? this is good, but not that good. But then as you work your way through 30 years of excellent and varied releases, (oh say the 80's when all the other big 70's musicians were turning out electro-crap or just rotting in coke), and Tom was learning to use his tortured voice as just another instrument, you realize that Tom Waits is beyond trends, styles, motifs or other constraints. When you work through the varied tragic, dark, odd, weird, oddly-weird, yet all excellent lyrics you can understand why he's influenced so many people.