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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:30 PM
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Poll question: Most Pretentious/Phoniest Musical Act
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 03:50 PM by UdoKier
Most Pretentious/Phoniest Musical Act

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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:31 PM
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1. U2
:P
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:38 PM
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9. INFIDEL!
:grr: :nuke:
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 04:16 PM
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25. No, they're the most overhyped band in the world
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Ann Arbor Dem Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 04:23 PM
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26. I'm with you.
And Sting (post Police) is tied with them.

:puke:
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:32 PM
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2. Doesn't Millie Vanilli get the honors here?
:shrug:
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:35 PM
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4. They were actors portraying a musical act.
The musicians who made the records were not pretentious, just invisible.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:34 PM
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3. Celine Dion
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Allenberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:41 PM
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12. Oh no you didn't
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 03:42 PM by Allenberg
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Lauri16 Donating Member (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:35 PM
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5. Milli Vanilli
Vanilla Ice, and any Boy Band.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:36 PM
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6. Up With People
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pnb Donating Member (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:36 PM
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7. 99.9% of pop music today
Of course, I may just be getting old.
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Lauri16 Donating Member (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:39 PM
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11. I'll go along with that
but then I think i'm getting old, too.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:38 PM
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8. I think any dissolved band that makes a comeback for cash.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:39 PM
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10. ashely simpson?
nt
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:42 PM
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13. Brittany Spears
gag
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:43 PM
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14. Does she pretend to be anything but a vacuous pop tart?
not very good, true, but not really phony or pretentious, IMO.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:58 PM
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22. She pretends to be a musician
cant sing AT ALL
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KinkyDem Donating Member (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:44 PM
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15. Cyprus HIll
Argh! Fuckers.

Worste. Show. Ever.

Bunch of fake as posers.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:44 PM
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16. U2, hands down.
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The Great Escape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:45 PM
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17. It Has To Be a Country Western Act....
everything about modern country/western is phony and pretentious. Montgomery Gentry is a perfect example. What a couple of posers.
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Allenberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:47 PM
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18. Kind of like
Toby "Whooboy I'm Making Millions Off of 3,000 Tragic Deaths" Keith?
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:53 PM
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19. based on the definition of "pretentious"
I wouldn't vote for any of them.

But FANS of Creed and U2 and other bands like that. THEY'RE pretentious!

pre·ten·tious ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-tnshs)
adj.
Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified.
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chickenscratching Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:53 PM
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20. David Cassidy
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 03:54 PM
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21. Steely Dan
2 idiots does not equal a band, and their music is among the most boring pathetic bullshit ever recorded.

Oasis is a close second.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 04:02 PM
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23. Disagree: Steely Dan is wonderful, together or apart
In addition to the usual stuff (My Old School, Kid Charlemagne) I love Fagin's solo stuff (The Goodbye Look, New Frontier)

And how many musicians that you loved 20 years ago don't sound dated when you listen later? Still great stuff.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 04:13 PM
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24. bob dylan-post 70s
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 04:14 PM by Adenoid_Hynkel
a total sell-out who plays corporate merger parties and now tries to act like politics were never a part of his music-and he hasn't made a remotely interesting cd in even longer

yet people still blindly worship his phony ass

funny how i remeber song like 'masters of war" and "the time are a changin" a bit differently
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