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Do you ever wonder?

Do you ever wonder why some artists (individuals or groups) attain success through critical acclaim and/or record (cd) sales?

Here is my list of those who have made it in the recording/entertainment industries and is completely puzzling to me.

Please list your own; it's irrelevant what you think of mine.

OK, here you go (in no particular order):

Sheryl Crow
Norah Jones
Michael Bolton
Celine Dion
Joe Cocker
Manhattan Transfer
Boston
Rickie Lee Jones
Pink
Phil Collins

That's enough to get started; show me what you got.
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loomisjohnson
1,961 posts
 
I'll go out on a limb and throw U2 on the skewer. I sorta liked their early, punky stuff (I still listen to Boy once in a while), but their mega-grandiose stadium anthem stuff (Joshua Tree et al) sounds kinda like Spinal Tap to me. They seem like nice, sincere guys and all, but I personally can't comprehend their Godlike popularity.
byegolly
140 posts
 
No U2 fan myself. Bono's down with the funky glasses and the single name thing that the celeb/stars gravitate towards - but that music, e-gad!

Left Rickie Lee Jones after Pop Pop.

Original Bay Area person who can't take the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane better but I could live without music of the Haight very well.

I don't understand people who don't like Sinatra, but that's my problem.

No accounting for tastes. Bye bye.
oilmanmojo
472 posts
 
culture club
Cher
helen reddy
village people
milli vanilli
phoebe snow

All of these had some commercial success that simply baffles me.
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jsd52756
448 posts
 
Dug this old thread up and cant resist again;
Tom Waits. Whoever gave him his first microphone oughta be examined. Does Waits gargle with glass shards..?
-John
markeetaux
135 posts
 
Thanks to all of you who mentioned U2. Somebody gave me the
U2:Go Home double disc CD for my birthday. It was awful.
My contribution would have to be Keiko Matsui.
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