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Today's Top Ten Artists Suffering The Lindsey Buckingham Paradox:
#10 Steve Perry (Journey)
Oh Sherry notwithstanding, just... what? Diva, untamed.
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Perennial douchebag who is content with the inexplicable renaissance of "Don't Stop Belevin'".
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#9 Glenn Frey (The Eagles)
Where, oh where, has our Desperado gone?
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Shhh, Little Man still hasn't realized "South of Sunset" was canceled 17 years ago.
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#7 Art Garfunkel (Simon & Garfunkel)
The haunting magic that Art brought to Paul Simon's artful mastery was like the unexplained awesometasticness that bursts out of, say, dipping french fries in chocolate milkshakes. There's no reason that these two things should be any good together, but they ARE. Unlike this example, however, both of those ingredients are better on their own. Not so with Mr. Garfunkel.
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Great voice, flakey doof. I do sincerely hope that his recent vocal ailment isn't career ending.
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#6 Peter Cetera (Chicago)
Sorry, Matt. I know you're going to drive to South Carolina expressly to poke me with a very sharp stick over this one, but, man. I know even you will agree with me when I say: If You Leave Me Now? The apex. There was nowhere Cetera could go but down, down, Karate Kid down.
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He had a solid, respectable solo career- never really claiming "serious" artistic relevance.
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#5 Dennis DeYoung (Styx)
Remember when Styx was groundbreaking? Then remember how Dennis DeYoung put on the +20 Perm of Suck and went all concept album on our collective asses? Yeah. Me too.
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This guy is one of the most unintentionally hilarious people I've ever met. So overdramatic and pretentious that, if he was a TV/movie character, he'd be deemed over-the-top and unbelievable. Once had to cover uproarious laughter with a coughing fit- and, I'm proud to say, I pulled it off!
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#4 Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
Say you want a revolution? Well, you know.
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All things considered, probably the biggest letdown (in terms of pedigree/degree of anticipation/ultimate result) of a solo career possible. Justin Timberlake is the Bizarro World Paul McCartney.
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#1 Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins)
"My band is a bunch of mean-spirited drug addicts! H8erade! Solo Career! Wait, oh noes, where'd my career GO? Come back! I'll stop being an insufferable diva with a superiority complex, oh my god, I swear, just take me baaaaaack (wah)".
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I would say this is a deserving #1, except I'm not sure he has the musical talent to live up to his massive diva ego. Sometime early '06- back when he regularly bought full page ads in the Chicago Tribune to tell his public how he was doing, what he had for breakfast, and the like- he once stopped by our office (he's friendly with my old company- I've been to a Cubs/Sox game with him and ran into him at corporate events numerous times). He plopped down in one of the big chairs in our lobby, and listened to his iPod.. saying "hi"/"bye" to everyone who came in/left. No one really knew what to do about it. He must have sat there for at least four hours, and probably only left because we were closing.