David Lee Roth is quite frankly the worst lead singer of a major rock band ever. The only other lead worse that I can think of is Anthony Kiedis or whatever from RHCP but I do not consider them as a major band. The Sammy Hagar VH was a lot better lyrically and vocally.

Underrated bands: Pavement, The Who, Gravity Kills and Vance Kelley and the Backstreet Blues Band

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Sammy Hagar blows and David Lee Roth is rock n roll.

Hagar was the better singer, but Roth was a way better front man

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Pavement is real good. My all time underrated band is FREE. All Right Now is not even that great a song but gets all the airplay. Listen to their albums or get Best Of Free and you will agree. Paul Rodgers at 18 and Paul Kossoff were the shit.

Yes. He sucks too.

I agree but no contest as far as singing goes. Roth is bad.

This is hilarious.

PLenty of bands that I love are, in my opinion, overrated.
Overrated in the sense that the media actually "rates" the bands.
Do I love Crooked Rain, or Soft bulletin? yeah, I do, do I think they are 5 star albums?, no I don't.

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Sammy Hagar blows and David Lee Roth sucks.

Fixed.

What do you consider a five star album?

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Achtung Baby and Loveless would be the 2 that come to mind first.

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I'm thinking of keeping a witten journal of my experience of the Ninety Day Tesla Pentathhalon Or What Have You.

Dear Diary,

It is only day two of our journey, and already it is as though a thousand portly ballerinas have trodden about my temples. At this clip, I am certain I will exhaust my store of pejoratives by Mid-September, and it is my lamentable assessment that Joe Orr Road Rod will not survive this trek, to say nothing of poor shirtless driver...

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DLR sucks as a lead singer. Good showman . Bad ass? No . From what I have read in accounts of his life also a grade A prick.

No kidding. I actually listened to several of his songs and they were all shitty.

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I could agree with Achtung Baby (and The Joshua Tree). I know My Bloody Valentine are considered "groundbreaking" by a lot of people. I don't really see them that way. But I guess I can see Loveless being considered an important record within the particular genre.

Would you consider Slanted and Enchanted a five star record? I might suggest it's more important as the blueprint for what Pavement was doing but the Crooked Rain album is a more fully realized vision. I view the relationship between those two records the same as I see the one between All The Young Dudes and Mott.

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I just listened to a couple myself. He is not good. At all.

It's 70s glam rock that owes a lot to T. Rex. At least it's interesting which is more than I can say for schlock like Tesla.

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I love both versions of VH (I don't acknowledge the 3rd singer era).
DLR because he was a cartoon.
Sammy's pipes.
Guess it's just the time I grew up in.

Alex Van Halen was a huge influence on me learning to play drums, and Eddie might be a dick, but he's still one of the best ever.

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JORR now you are talking. Marc Bolan was the real deal. At least way ahead of his time. I now see the connection to Werner a little bit. I will listen again and to a little more of it a little closer. I fucking hated T.Rex the first time I listened to them too.

I used to buy records based on Spin, RS, CMJ reviews.
I bought a lot of records based on reviews, and I had no idea why they were such highly rated and I hated them at first.
Loveless and Green Mind are the 2 most hilarious examples of this. 2 of my all time favorites now.
I know in the past I kinda accused you of googling everything, so I hope you believe me when I say that
Perfume-V is the greatest pavement song of all time. perfection. I've seen pavement a couple times, I still have my army green shirt from
the crooked rain tour I saw at metro. I LOVE Pavement, but to answer you, no I don;t think S/E is a 5 star record. Can't really talk about Mott. I know all the young dues, but not much else.

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I definitely consider Green Mind a five star record. It's J. Mascis' crowning achievement. I liked Dinosaur Jr. from the first time I heard them, but there was always what I'd call a lot of filler on the records. "Freak Scene" is an unquestionably great song, but there was a lot of stuff on that one (Bug?) that I would fast forward through. Green Mind was strong from beginning to end and I would call "The Wagon" the quintessential Dinosaur song.

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THUMB

My love for Dinosaur jr knows no limits at this stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTBIAyDk_ZE

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But he's not interesting at all and that is a fact. David Werner is very drab and pedestrian.

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That's a great song too.

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I think some of the Dinosaur jr records had a lot of similar sounding songs right next to each other, not much variety.
J's solos make up for that. My ears are still ringing from Dino shows.

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C'mon Keeping Score. I've been waiting all day for my next Tesla song.

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Starlings of the slipstream is my second favorite pavement song. actulaly probably better than perfume v

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It is not a fact. The real fact is that David Werner, a poor man's T. Rex, is far superior to a poor man's Skid Row, which is what Tesla is.

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I agree. I once read a review where the writer said J. Mascis was incapable of a boring solo. I thought that hit the nail on the head. And this came at a time when, for the most part, I considered guitar solos a self-indulgent anachronism.

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Absolutely not. Tesla's artistic and stylistic contributions continue to this day. They created a legacy which keeps growing and growing.

And to besmudge the great name of Skid Row? How dare you!!!

You better watch it- I might have to go get my music snobs to come here and verbally thrash you!

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