Most Pretentious Musician?

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#1 Boogie_J
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this is a spinoff of my other thread about film

now who are some of the most pretentious musicians?

for me it's garth brooks...i hate him.

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#2 pridetwo
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yngwie malmsteen bar none. he's a pretentious **** who thinks he's the best guitarist to ever live. then again, he is the best guitarist to ever live, so i guess it's okay. but he does have a massive attitude.
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Axl Rose?
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#5 niptuckSean
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#6 Napster06
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Pretentious?
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#7 jonnymcl2k
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lars ulrich/anyone out of metallica.
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#8 blooddemon666
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#9 Jaks_Secret
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Trent Reznorblooddemon666

Seconded.

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#10 marcus4hire
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#11 ithilgore2006
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Yngie Malstreen, Axel Rose, Dave Mustaine, the majority of pop singers, Madonna etc...
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#12 ALTER_duo
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#14 hagadorn
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Axl Rose?kruesader

haha oral sex, but seriously the word pretentious is over used.

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#15 Erasorn
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yngwie malmsteen bar none. he's a pretentious **** who thinks he's the best guitarist to ever live. then again, he is the best guitarist to ever live, so i guess it's okay. but he does have a massive attitude.pridetwo
Best guitarist? He sucks. :?
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[QUOTE="pridetwo"]yngwie malmsteen bar none. he's a pretentious **** who thinks he's the best guitarist to ever live. then again, he is the best guitarist to ever live, so i guess it's okay. but he does have a massive attitude.Erasorn
Best guitarist? He sucks. :?

He may not be the best, but saying he sucks is just silly.

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#17 megagene
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#18 Erasorn
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[QUOTE="Erasorn"][QUOTE="pridetwo"]yngwie malmsteen bar none. he's a pretentious **** who thinks he's the best guitarist to ever live. then again, he is the best guitarist to ever live, so i guess it's okay. but he does have a massive attitude.niptuckSean

Best guitarist? He sucks. :?

He may not be the best, but saying he sucks is just silly.

He's never made a song that appealed to me so in that regard, he sucks. He did, however, make a awesome music video with flames,wizard and dragons but I can't even remember the song. :P

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#19 InsomniacZombie
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Bono, duh. yeah yeah yeah yeah

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#20 niptuckSean
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[QUOTE="niptuckSean"]

[QUOTE="Erasorn"][QUOTE="pridetwo"]yngwie malmsteen bar none. he's a pretentious **** who thinks he's the best guitarist to ever live. then again, he is the best guitarist to ever live, so i guess it's okay. but he does have a massive attitude.Erasorn

Best guitarist? I don't like him :?

He may not be the best, but saying he sucks is just silly.

He's never made a song that appealed to me so in that regard, I don't like him. He did, however, make a awesome music video with flames,wizard and dragons but I can't even remember the song. :P

In that regard...

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#21 marcus4hire
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Bono, duh. yeah yeah yeah yeah

InsomniacZombie

Yes. This one. After thinking about it I logged back in just to add his name.

He tries soooo hard NOT to be pretentious but in the end it only makes him look silly and more pretentious.

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#22 Erasorn
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[QUOTE="Erasorn"][QUOTE="niptuckSean"]

[QUOTE="Erasorn"][QUOTE="pridetwo"]yngwie malmsteen bar none. he's a pretentious **** who thinks he's the best guitarist to ever live. then again, he is the best guitarist to ever live, so i guess it's okay. but he does have a massive attitude.niptuckSean

Best guitarist? I don't like him :?

He may not be the best, but saying he sucks is just silly.

He's never made a song that appealed to me so in that regard, I don't like him. He did, however, make a awesome music video with flames,wizard and dragons but I can't even remember the song. :P

In that regard...

Why do you even have to change that? If I say someone sucks, it's clearly IMO that they do. Not that I'm stating some scientific fact.
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#23 niptuckSean
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Why do you even have to change that? If I say someone sucks, it's clearly IMO that they do. Not that I'm stating some scientific fact.Erasorn

There is a difference between stating someone or something sucks and stating you don't like it, whether you acknowledge the difference or not. Language interpretation is there for a reason.

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#24 Samwel_X
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Bonomegagene

Correct.

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#25 crucifine
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That dude from The Mars Volta. Heck, all of them.
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#26 Jaks_Secret
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That dude from The Mars Volta. Heck, all of them.crucifine

Except for John Frusciante. John Frusciante is amazing.

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#27 haggard_korn
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any rapper is "pretentious", if pretentious means what I hink it means
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#28 shivaskunk9mm
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That eternal ***hat of a singer from Creed. I can't remember his name and i'm certainly not going waste time looking the man up. Whatever his name is he equalled the smugness of Bono himself in a tenth of the time in the spotlight.
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#29 Boogie_J
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any rapper is "pretentious", if pretentious means what I hink it meanshaggard_korn

how are most rappers pretetntious?

and i aghree with kanye and bono. good ones.

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#30 iwokojance
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the majority of pop singers...ithilgore2006
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#31 MoonSpoon
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Sufjan Stevens.

Plus, he sucks.

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#32 clock_of_omens
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Sufjan Stevens.

Plus, he sucks.

MoonSpoon

whaaaaa!!

i like him:P

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#33 fallconet
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this b4stard: Karlheinz Stockhausen and luigi nono by miles.wondering how u ppl mentioned bono and trent reznor instead of these two **********s
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#34 waltw_84
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bono, yngwie malmsteen, axl rose
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#35 DJ_Lae
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Thom Yorke.

Though I'm not sure if he thinks he's as great as his fans do - it's less masturbatory and more hand job-by. In which case I'd call Radiohead more pretentious than good ol' coked up Thom.

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#36 MedicMike66
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Thom Yorke.

Though I'm not sure if he thinks he's as great as his fans do - it's less masturbatory and more hand job-by. In which case I'd call Radiohead more pretentious than good ol' coked up Thom.

DJ_Lae

Maybe Thom, but Greenwood has always been the driving force behind Radiohead, and it's evident on Yorke's solo album.

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#37 darkmoney52
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Maybe I just haven't heard enough about a lot of these musicians, but I don't see how any of them could even compete with Kanye in pretensiousness. Who else said they should be in the Bible?
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#38 MedicMike66
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Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes
Barbra Streisand
Metallica
Sex Pistols
Bono...

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#39 soren008
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MorrisseyniptuckSean

stop breathing please ...

Morrissey is perhaps the most honest songwriter alive ..

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this b4stard: Karlheinz Stockhausen and luigi nono by miles.wondering how u ppl mentioned bono and trent reznor instead of these two **********sfallconet

An interview with Stockhausen.

Stockhausen about an Aphex Twin song: I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.

Aphex Twin's reaction:

Mental! I've heard that song before; I like it. I didn't agree with him. I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Didgeridoo", then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to. Do you reckon he can dance? You could dance to Song of the Youth, but it hasn't got a groove in it, there's no bassline. I know it was probably made in the 50s, but I've got plenty of wicked percussion records made in the 50s that are awesome to dance to. And they've got basslines. I could remix it: I don't know about making it better; I wouldn't want to make it into a dance version, but I could probably make it a bit more anally technical. But I'm sure he could these days, because tape is really slow. I used to do thingslike that with tape, but it does take forever, and I'd never do anything like that again with tape. Once you've got your computer sorted out, it pisses all over stuff like that, you can do stuff so fast. It has a different sound, but a bit more anal.

I haven't heard anything new by him; the last thing was a vocal record, Stimmung, and I didn't really like that. Would I take his comments to heart? The ideal thing would be to meet him in a room and have a wicked discussion. For all I know, he could be taking the piss. It's a bit hard to have a discussion with someone via other people.

I don't think I care about what he thinks. It is interesting, but it's disappointing, because you'd imagine he'd say that anyway. It wasn't anything surprising. I don't know anything about the guy, but I expected him to have that sort of attitude. Loops are good to dance to...

He should hang out with me and my mates: that would be a laugh. I'd be quite into having him around.

Also, for the people that call Tom Yorke pretentious, listen to some of the stuff made by Autechre, his favourite group.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=atjByPSKTRA

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Kanye West, oh great now he will probably make a video about this comment and throw a hissy fit
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Slash..I hate him with a vengeance..

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#44 HybridPhoenix
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Kanye West?marcus4hire

quote for truth!

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#45 LJS9502_basic
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[QUOTE="niptuckSean"]Morrisseysoren008

stop breathing please ...

Morrissey is perhaps the most honest songwriter alive ..

Opinion....and he is pretentious anyway.;)

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#46 soren008
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[QUOTE="soren008"]

[QUOTE="niptuckSean"]MorrisseyLJS9502_basic

stop breathing please ...

Morrissey is perhaps the most honest songwriter alive ..

Opinion....and he is pretentious anyway.;)

dismiss the unknown as pretentious ...

why is he prententious in your little eyes then?

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#47 spidermonkey11
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Pretty much everything has been posted already...Kanye West FTW though
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#48 II_Seraphim_II
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Kanye West?marcus4hire

seconded, thirded and fourthed!

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#49 Whight_Knight
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Back in the day , Dave Mustaine ... but he's brilliant , so he can pull it off ...
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