Overrated...

[bloodsimple]

What do you consider to be overrated?

A few suggestions -

David Bowie - sorry, but a couple of licks stolen from Iggy Pop, a few novelty records (including a duet with Bing Crosby, for crying out loud), and a last hit 20 years ago doesn't make a pop icon. And he sold his back catalogue to a bank.

The Queen Mother - she was a very rich old lady who didn't work for the majority of her life. No reason to have waited twelve hours in the rain to "wish her a happy birthday, ma'am" is it?

Lennon & McCartney - a handful of great songs, a few reasonable ones, but once they split, some of the worst songs ever made (Imagine, The Frog Song, etc).

Christmas - nope, if you don't see your relatives for 11.5 months of the year, there's a reason. At best, it has three months of build up and it's over in a few hours. Not a good ratio.

Quentin Tarantino - a couple of mildly diverting films, but basically the man's a talentless idiot.

Friends - it's just not fucking funny. Ever.

Over to you....

 

[Belegon]

What do you consider to be overrated?

A few suggestions -

David Bowie - sorry, but a couple of licks stolen from Iggy Pop, a few novelty records (including a duet with Bing Crosby, for crying out loud), and a last hit 20 years ago doesn't make a pop icon. And he sold his back catalogue to a bank.

The Queen Mother - she was a very rich old lady who didn't work for the majority of her life. No reason to have waited twelve hours in the rain to "wish her a happy birthday, ma'am" is it?

Lennon & McCartney - a handful of great songs, a few reasonable ones, but once they split, some of the worst songs ever made (Imagine, The Frog Song, etc).

Christmas - nope, if you don't see your relatives for 11.5 months of the year, there's a reason. At best, it has three months of build up and it's over in a few hours. Not a good ratio.

Quentin Tarantino - a couple of mildly diverting films, but basically the man's a talentless idiot.

Friends - it's just not fucking funny. Ever.

Over to you....

Are we talking "overrated" or "I don't like these fucking things at all!", because the commentary sounded like the latter...I agree that some of these are overrated, but I wouldn't classify any of them as useless...well, I'm stateside, so I'll abstain on Queenie...

and I think you are way off base on Lennon & McCartney. Innovation counts for something. The same could apply to Bowie, who is much more innovative than Iggy, by the way, and helped create the atmosphere which fostered that New York scene in the '70s. But I agree that Bowie is sometimes overrated.

 

[Guest]

But the Queen Mother is dead. Do you still wait to wish her Happy Birthday? That must be interesting. (Edited cos I'm a dozey bint and I just re-read your post. You were talking in the past tense weren't you? Yeah, I'll go smack myself up now. )

Ok, something that is overrated...

Um...

Um...

Nope, can't think of anything.

Oh, hold on...

What about: Fishing! Cold, wet, boring, and that's just the company.

Lou

 

[neonlyte]

Tippex - it just leaves a mess on the screen.

 

[Guest]

Tippex - it just leaves a mess on the screen.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Belegon]

Oh, hold on...

What about: Fishing! Cold, wet, boring, and that's just the company.

Lou

many of my friends have tried to get me into this, but I have always held that I have plenty of excuses to drink beer at home...

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Sex in an airplane lavatory, unless one or preferably both of you are contortionists.

-Colly

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

What do you consider to be overrated?....

Doing the dishes before going to bed.



In spite of all my mother's efforts to make me see the light.

 

[fogbank]

I don't know, I've gone off the idea of ranking things as being overrated. I mean, it just seems with the current hype engine that the entertainment industry and the media in general has, everything, regardless of merit, gets overrated.

I was having this discussion a while ago in regards to the Beatles. They were extremely talented songwriters, decent musicians, and they were absolutely brilliant at managing their image. And yet, the amount of hype they still have surrounding them today is just ridiculous. Overrated? Absolutely. Doesn't mean that several of their songs are among my all-time favorites.

Maybe David Bowie is overrated. Doesn't change the fact that he's a fantastic live performer, and his last few albums--although lacking megahits--have been musically very solid and enjoyable. I mean, have you heard 'Days'? Freaking brilliant little song. Not to get into an argument about him with you. Matter of opinion, of course.

I like The Simpsons. They're overrated. I like Martha Stewart. Definitely overrated. I like Owen Wilson films. Again, overrated. Doesn't mean these things don't have merit, and that I'm not justified in enjoying them.

I guess what I'm saying here is like what you like, and hate what you hate, but don't worry about whatever is currently being hyped and whether the hype matches the reality, because that's an inevitability of our world.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I believe nothing that I see on the radio and only what I can smell with my own ears from the TV.

 

[Alex De Kok]

I believe nothing that I see on the radio and only what I can smell with my own ears from the TV.

Hey! I'm with the guy who said he preferred radio to TV, 'because the pictures were better'!

Alex

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Reality TV- Far too much hype to learn the same cynical "man will do anything for publicity" bullshit you can learn by looking at the real world.

American Television- Sorry guys, except for a few notable exceptions, usually ones cancelled by FOX before they finish a season, it's briefly overhyped and low on quality. Give me the imported anime over that insipid garbage any day.

Pop Music in general- Overhyping is the point and most of the bands ride that rather than making songs of any quality or innovation.

Existence- Cause I needed to sneak a nihilist jab at y'all for shits and giggles.

 

[Belegon]

Reality TV- Far too much hype to learn the same cynical "man will do anything for publicity" bullshit you can learn by looking at the real world.

American Television- Sorry guys, except for a few notable exceptions, usually ones cancelled by FOX before they finish a season, it's briefly overhyped and low on quality. Give me the imported anime over that insipid garbage any day.

Pop Music in general- Overhyping is the point and most of the bands ride that rather than making songs of any quality or innovation.

Existence- Cause I needed to sneak a nihilist jab at y'all for shits and giggles.

I agree with all except your last...even on a day when I am feeling a little down, I still love life. Even when I hate it. Which is about how much sense I am making to myself today anyway...

 

[Edward Teach]

Big tits.

edited to add plus you can't tell when there fake anymore

The Ass Man Commeth

 

[Guest]

Big tits.

The Ass Man Commeth

I'm gonna give you a BIG for that.

Lou

 

[Edward Teach]

I'm gonna give you a BIG for that.

Lou

Big kisses are definately NOT overrated!!

especially kisses from a hot twat

Not many things are better than long kisses so soft and hot that you feel like you are floating away and hope they never end.


Day Dreaming Eddie

 

[Belegon]

"...and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

 

[lilith1979]

Big tits.
edited to add plus you can't tell when there fake anymore

*sniff* that means my tits are overrated. They're all natural too. That's it..when the little one is weaned, I'm getting a reduction!

 

[lilith1979]

new cars, why pay the extra $$ for something that is going to drop thousands of dollars in value the instant you drive it off the dealership lot. Buy used, it's already gone down in price!

 

[gauchecritic]

Things that are over-rated

The new power supply in my now defunt PC.

Gauche

 

[dr_mabeuse]

You might not care for the Beatles, but you can make a very good argument that no one in the history of music has had such an impact and influence on their art as they did, and I mean nobody. Not Beethoven, not Bach, not Elvis.

Maybe you had to be around to hear what pop music was like before the Beatles came on the scene to really appreciate what they did, but their influence has been tremendous, and so all-pervasive that we don't even notice it today.

---dr.M.

 

[Belegon]

You might not care for the Beatles, but you can make a very good argument that no one in the history of music has had such an impact and influence on their art as they did, and I mean nobody. Not Beethoven, not Bach, not Elvis.

Maybe you had to be around to hear what pop music was like before the Beatles came on the scene to really appreciate what they did, but their influence has been tremendous, and so all-pervasive that we don't even notice it today.

---dr.M.

Shakespeare on english theatre may be as much of an influence...other than that, I have a hard time thinking of anyone else in any art form

 

[Boxlicker101]

You might not care for the Beatles, but you can make a very good argument that no one in the history of music has had such an impact and influence on their art as they did, and I mean nobody. Not Beethoven, not Bach, not Elvis.

Maybe you had to be around to hear what pop music was like before the Beatles came on the scene to really appreciate what they did, but their influence has been tremendous, and so all-pervasive that we don't even notice it today.

---dr.M.

I would have to take exception to that, Doc and, yes, I was around at the time. Nothing against the Beatles but I believe that either Bill Haley or Elvis was more influential. Bill Haley and his Comets took rock music from something called "Race Music" and brought it into the mainstream. Elvis, with a little help from some others, brought rock music into dominance on the pop scene. The Beatles certainly made a major contribution but they were just one group of many. They were the most prominent but it it hadn't been them, it would have been the Stones or The Animals of The Monkees or The Platters Danny and the Juniors or the Beach Boys or somebody else.

Without putting anybody down, it it hadn't been for Bill Haley and, later, Elvis, anybody looking at your post would wonder why you had misspelled that word meaning a kind of insect.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I would have to take exception to that, Doc and, yes, I was around at the time. Nothing against the Beatles but I believe that either Bill Haley or Elvis was more influential. Bill Haley and his Comets took rock music from something called "Race Music" and brought it into the mainstream. Elvis, with a little help from some others, brought rock music into dominance on the pop scene. The Beatles certainly made a major contribution but they were just one group of many. They were the most prominent but it it hadn't been them, it would have been the Stones or The Animals of The Monkees or The Platters Danny and the Juniors or the Beach Boys or somebody else.

Without putting anybody down, it it hadn't been for Bill Haley and, later, Elvis, anybody looking at your post would wonder why you had misspelled that word meaning a kind of insect.

Elvis was a performer, not a composer. And if you can name one Bill Hailey record besides "Rock around the Clock" and "See Ya Later Alligator", both of which were swiped from Little Richard and Etta James respectively, then you're better than me. Bill Hailey's claim to fame was his cconsiderable self-promotion skill and his spit curl

Danny and the Juniors and the Platters all had their chance and had gone as far as they were going to go. It's kind of silly to think of Plattermania sweeping the world like Beatlemania. The Monkees were blatant and outright ripoffs of the Beatles, down to Davy Jones' British accent. They were entertainers too and never wrote a thing. Didn't even play their own instruments most of the time.

The hottest things in American Pop when the Beatles burst onto the scene were the Beachboys, the 4 Seasons, and Jan and Dean; not exactly what I think of as timeless music. The Beatles single-handedly made pop music into a cultural force and opened the way for all these other bands: The Who, the Kinks, Stones, Animals, Moody Blues, etc.

---dr.M.

 

[Edward Teach]

*sniff* that means my tits are overrated. They're all natural too. That's it..when the little one is weaned, I'm getting a reduction!

Now I didn't mean that they are bad, er I mean they are baaddd just not as baaddd as some people think, er I mean, if they are real then they could be, uh, er, are baadd. Oh, hell yes I like tits.


Eddie The Flipper