Lou Reed....

...is overrated. Fact.

Walk On The Wild Side is his only 'well known' song. We've grown up with it and it has a groovy little shuffle and everything - but when you actually listen to it, it's rubbish. It really is. But Lou Reed isn't the only one.

Bob Dylan has had numerous songs covered by other artists, which sound great, but when you hear him perfom personally it's painful. He's like an old drunk at Christmas trying to remember a Pogues song. Oh, there's another one - Shane MacGowan. Totally incomprehensible, and surely not the 'talent' we are made out to believe.

Lenny Kravitz:

"I wish that I could fly,
Into the sky,
So very high,
Just like a dragonfly"

What?! I wrote that when I was 5 years old for God's sake. And this guy is a superstar?

I'm not saying there's a plethora of talent around these days, but I don't think we should worship artists from 'the good old days' just because it makes us 'cool'. It's like people who wear Che Guevara t-shirts - they generally know nothing about the man, but his image sets them apart into a certain 'tribe'. Tribe of twats.