sleeping in a jar wrote:
For my entry to this thread I'm going with The Boss, and the notion that one can like someone's music and still think they're overrated.
I own 7 Springsteen albums and they're all good for an occasional spin. I like Born To Run a lot.
But the reverence from the legions of adoring fans? I don't get it.
This post sums up U2 in a similar way for me. I know you know the bulk of what I'm going to post, but I'll post it for the sake of the thread.
I own their entire catalogue from the beginning up until the late '90s, the decade where I think U2 were at their creative peak. But after the lacklustre sales of the 1997-1998 PopMart tour, from 2000 until present, they have been desperately submitting to the pressures of trying to enhance their popularity by making albums that are incredibly generic & pedestrian in sound & image (even their album covers since then look similar). And for the most part, they've succeeded. Essentially, U2 have done a total 180, in terms of attitude, style & musical integrity. In fact, the only innovative thing I can think of that they've been able to pull off since the late '90s, has almost nothing to do with their music, and that is their stage set designs...
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