Zomp said:
I can help some, lamabe.
Liverpool is captained by the most overrated Englishman since Holly Johnson. Their supporters are known for two things, stealing hubcaps off of vehicles in their neighborhoods and being delusional about their squad. For the past few years, their star player was a known racist who bit people when he got upset. He's gone now though so its okay.
I've read some of the repostes to Zomp's unwittingly tawdry post. If Zomp had said, the most overrated Englishman since William Blake, the post would have some weight. Now i know and you know Zomp has no idea who William Blake is, that's fine, but William Blake is one of England's greatest men...(he was a painter and engraver)...but he's not everyone's cup of tea, he was part mystic, part modernist, he split the audience, he's loved, revered and also hated...in short he can be truly overrated.
More recently one might choose George Michael (Zomp has always reminded me of Andrew Ridgley, i can't be the only one) but that's a much better comp. He was first perceived as a participator in a boy band pop duo, then we realised he wrote his own tunes, then he went solo, then he went overboard in his experiments with facial hair, then he boffed a guy in a toilet and slipped up whilst in a car smoking the weeds, then he got all serious, then we found out he was depressed, then he recorded music with orchestras and so on and so forth...over this reputation and estimations of his artistic stature has swelled far beyond his 'Young guns having some fun' period.
Holly Johnson is in fact underrated. His collaboration (and it was a collaboration) with Trevor Horn is narey a footnote in the history of post war popular music. Even though lyrically and vocally his work on WTTPD is sublime and shows to this day a mastery of 'the attack of pop' and so on and so forth...no need to go on. WTTPD is never mentioned in the lists of great debut LP's; great double LP's or great British LPs which it undoubtably is. If one does not believe take a listen...the record still holds up incredibly well. FGTH were never given credit for having any creative input into their music, this was a mistake and untrue.
Anyway, point is. Zomp didn't take long enough to think about finding a suitable comparison to serve his point, which is valid and he's entitled to make, and so, sadly, his post falls flat as even an entry level troll post. Sorry to bring music into the thread but...one must start the argument where it starts. Mick Hucknall would have been much better comp as well.
