Artists you thought would be forgotten soon but made their way to the top?

I must admit - there's only one who comes to my mind immediately: MADONNA!

Arne

 

Brittney Spears
The Jackson Five
The Partridge Family
Tiny Tim
Kenny G

Disco

 

No Thanks!

All,

Just about any of the present teen artists or artists marketed to pre-teens. Mostly clever audio production, marketing and fluff with not much real talent or substance.
Just homogenized, sound-alike, digitally manipulated, highly dubbed, compressed noise to my ears!

Bob

 

Three jump to mind almost immediately.
Kenny G
Michael Bolton
Celine Dion

 

You know, I wonder if early on anybody thought this way about that "teenybopper group" The Beatles?

Juan

 

Back in the late seventies, I was a salesman for a textbook publisher. I had travelled to Knoxville, TN to meet with a prospective author for a freshman biology text. My appointment was for 8:00 AM, but having driven all night from the D.C. area, there was no time to check into a motel since I arrived in the city about 5:00 AM. So I sought out a place to eat breakfast before I headed for the UT campus. When I entered a little restaurant, I was the only customer in the place, but while I was looking over the menu two co-eds from the university entered and strolled over to the juke box.

They stood there for a few minutes looking over the selections and talking to each other, then promptly inserted several coins into the machine, clicked a few buttons and selected a place to sit down just as the opening seconds of Disco Duck started playing. When it ended, the juke box paused a few seconds, did its whrily thing and Disco Duck started playing again, then again for a third time. When the music stopped playing, one of the two ladies got up from their table, inserted more coins into the juke box, and we heard Disco Duck three more times. It was disgusting. They should'a arrested Rick Dees for recording that.

I guess I'm just as guilty, though. In 1956 I entered Bob's Drive-In, inserted a dime into his juke box (plays were 5 cents each or three for a dime) and played Gene Vincent's Be-Bop-A-Lula three times while I waited for my chocolate milk shake.

 

Had a place like that when I was in junior high. They had Jimi doing All Along the Watchtower b/w Burning of the Midnight Lamp, I'll bet those people were sick of Midnight Lamp when I left, the place only had like 3 tables.

 

I remember the jukebox in our High School cafeteria playing Alice Cooper's "Elected" B/W "Billion Dollar Babies."

Over...and over...again.

It was great!

Artists who should have been installed as Jack-in-the Box employees but somehow made it:

Madonna (the longest-running joke in the music industry)
J-LO (god, she sucks!)
Nelly (joke)
Jay-Zee and the rest of the "featured" morons et al (suck, suck, suck)
Britney Spears (nice body - she does suck, though, at least she's fun to look at)
All the Boy Bands (they all suck - big time)



Just a small sample....



Oh yes - P-Diddy....he really sucks himself and he also produces albums for other way-sucky "artists"....why can't he pull a Tom Hanks, go down on a plane - survive - and then disappear on an island for, oh say, about 40 years should do it...

 

Ben,

"All boy bands suck". Pehaps you should be a little more specific as the lastime I checked both The Beatles and The Beach Boys were all boys bands.

 

How about a positive spin on the same topic?

The J. Geils Band first 3 lp's were great - but it seemed they were destined to die when - their 4th lp gave them a hit single "Give it to Me". They managed to fade in and out of obscurity for the rest of their careers, and arguably finally disbanded at the height of their popularity. Almost as many lives as Aerosmith, who (like 'em or not) are the comeback kids.....

 

Those Swedish Gods of cheesy pop....ABBA (love em to bits really...Dancing Queen rocks!)

 

Beck. Man, did I have a change of heart on that guy.

 

Not sure if this counts as the top, but I never in my life expected to see T Bone Burnett on stage with a Best Album Grammy in his hand.

Very nice...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

 

Point taken, buddy....

How are things in that beautiful city by the sea?

 

Famous Last Words Department: When asked to comment on the Elvis Presley phenomenon in 1956, Jackie Gleason reportedly said, "He can't last. I tell you flatly, he can't last."

 

Really good it's sunny and our hockey team is kickin' butt.

 

I love to see Red Wing fans squirm...just makes you feel so gooooood inside....


2-0 headed home...gotta feel good.

 

Ahhh, yes, but with one important exception...

The Beatles and the Beach Boys wrote most of their tunes, and actually played their own instruments (What a concept!). This is a far cry from BSB, NSYNC, etc., who if they "assist" in writing even a single song, or actually God forbid, "play" an instrument, everyone gets very excited! I often point this out to my daughter (12 years old), who actually agrees that it is pretty cool to write your own stuff and play instruments...

 

To be perfecly honest...

Mozart.

 

Originally posted by Ben

Yup sure does. This is our year ya know.