Posted March 15, 200619 yr Through the years there must have been loads of singers/bands who were hyped up by the media, some as the next big thing, only to dissappear after one single or one album. Some lasted a year or two. What artists would you put into this category. I can think of a few: Frankie goes to hollywood Sigue Sigue sputnick :rofl:
March 15, 200619 yr Terence Trent D'Arby, Neneh Cherry, Ms Dynamite, :rofl: :drink: Curiosity Killed The Cat, Tracy Chapman. I should add that I like 4 of these acts.
March 15, 200619 yr The Darkness! I always despised this band, and it looks like their days are well and truly numbered now. :D
March 16, 200619 yr The Darkness! I always despised this band, and it looks like their days are well and truly numbered now. :D Absolutely, in total an utter agreement with you... I've long despised this pathetic excuse for a rock band and their ludicrous, shrieking poltroon of a 'lead singer' Justin Hawkins, surely a contender for the Most Punchable Man in Pop....... :lol: :lol:
March 16, 200619 yr Gaaawwwwddd, so many examples I could give it's unreal..... Seal is one of the most obvious - No less than THREE Brit Awards in the early 90s, everyone totally raving about him, then......wot? One Batman soundtrack and he fizzled into nowt..... Elastica - A band I utterly detested, their success owed about ten times more to the lead singer's relationship with Damon Albarn than the actual music itself - which was below par Blondie/Stranglers rip-offs. The actual interest in Elastica ended pretty much when Justine and Damon's relationship did.... Elastica were The Arctic Monkeys of their day, an absolute stunning amount of press Hype, over a million sales in their debut album, were trumpeted as "the next big thing" - were they fukk..... Menswear - Another bunch of chancers who hung around Camden in flash suits, trying to make out that they were 'cool'. They weren't - their music sucked dog-eggs and apart from a few hundred die-hard fanatics in NW1 and the NME/Melody Maker cognoscenti they meant fukk all to anyone.... The Libertines - Unfortunately gave the world the degenerate re**** that is Pete Doherty.... Fukkin lousy, over-rated music as well.... Roni Size - After getting that Mercury Music Prize for and critical acclaim for an admittedly pretty damn good album, he then proceeded to do precisely fukk all of any interest.....
March 16, 200619 yr To me overated is an act which gets hyped up, but doesnt actually have the commercial success to back it up. Otherwise its just another way of listing acts you dont personally like. eg. I dont like Westlife, but they certainly arent overrated as their continued commercial success shows. Id agree that 'menswear' were overated, critically accliamed. but had relativly little commercial success. If you dont use commercial success as a yardstick, then isnt it just a simple list of acts people dont like?.
March 16, 200619 yr .... just a reminder... this is a RETRO forum, the question was asked which RETRO acts were over hyped.. chico, pestlife etc are not retro :)
March 16, 200619 yr Roni Size - After getting that Mercury Music Prize for and critical acclaim for an admittedly pretty damn good album, he then proceeded to do precisely fukk all of any interest..... ouch - Ronnie size is safe, and some people prefer to stay underground, it ent all about being the commercial king you know
March 16, 200619 yr To me overated is an act which gets hyped up, but doesnt actually have the commercial success to back it up. Otherwise its just another way of listing acts you dont personally like. eg. I dont like Westlife, but they certainly arent overrated as their continued commercial success shows. Id agree that 'menswear' were overated, critically accliamed. but had relativly little commercial success. If you dont use commercial success as a yardstick, then isnt it just a simple list of acts people dont like?. Sorry, but commercial success is meaningless when gauging the actual quality of a band's music and the lasting impression that they leave long after their departure - Joy Division and Velvet Underground hardly sold millions and millions of records at the times when they were actually around, but left behind a huge musical legacy which inspires bands to this day - THAT is how you measure a band's success, not unit shifting... Westlife are frankly irrelevant to me, they're all about the marketing and the image, the music isn't even a priority to the likes of Louis Walsh.. Elastica were totally, unjustifiably hyped, it was based on the image, it was based on the whole "Justine and Damon" bullsh!t; they sank without trace, and rightly so, because their musical canon was incredibly limited. Blur, by contrast, prevailed because they had the music to back it up.... Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Joy Division, The Smiths, Blondie, Pixies, Nirvana - people remember them for their music, what do people remember Elastica for...? Justine and Damon and the whole NME hype machine that gave them their undeserved success, people sure as hell dont remember the music; I couldn't even name more than one Elastica track....
March 16, 200619 yr ouch - Ronnie size is safe, and some people prefer to stay underground, it ent all about being the commercial king you know I heard some stuff post-"Reprazent" and was not overly impressed... I've no problem with artists staying underground, but to disappear of the radar completely.......
March 18, 200619 yr Absolutely, in total an utter agreement with you... I've long despised this pathetic excuse for a rock band and their ludicrous, shrieking poltroon of a 'lead singer' Justin Hawkins, surely a contender for the Most Punchable Man in Pop....... :lol: :lol: ill second that! think the man has overshawdowed the music and what a tit! it said in the paper he is 31 the otherday, which is odd as this is about the age of james blunt and i thought he looked about 17 years older than james blunt!
March 18, 200619 yr it said in the paper he is 31 the otherday, which is odd as this is about the age of james blunt and i thought he looked about 17 years older than james blunt! could be to do with the fact that he's a smoker :arrr: (no offence to smokers) or that he comes from Lowerstoft :arrr: or the fact that he could be a lying c**t! :)
March 19, 200619 yr Definitely Madonna. I don't wanna hear, I don't wanna know. Please dont show your fanny
March 19, 200619 yr Definitely Madonna. I don't wanna hear, I don't wanna know. Please dont show your fanny Sorry but :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
March 19, 200619 yr Billy Idol ( his solo career was a bit flash in the pan) Boston ( did they have any hits after More than a Feeling?) I think, from an Australian perspective, I've never really understood the american obsession with The Grateful Dead. Yet they are hyped as gods. I dont get it. Christopher Cross was another one that was hyped as being the next bid singer/songwriter but sank without a trace after wining a grammy.
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