"I still have no idea how a smelly mangy dirty sicko like Pete Doherty still gets:
a) media attention
b) girlfriends
c) off from jail. Repeatedly.
His music is rubbish, so what exactly IS his appeal? "
i have no idea how people who like music in any way can dislike dohertys music.fair enough he's a bit of a junkie twat but the libertines were brilliant and have influenced the music of the last few years in a big way.i mean the fact that he's a junkie twat doesn't make his music bad elton john was/is a junkie it doesn't stop me from liking tiny dancer/your song. same goes for the whole of guns n roses and pretty much every song they made (maybe not the spaghetti incident album though).pretty much all good musicians over the years have done drugs
up the bracket is probably the best debut album of the last 10 years.
as for over-rated i'm going to go with west-life ( i mean even as someone who doesn't really like boy bands, it's obvious they're not even a good one), maddonna, phil collins, kanye west (great producer,terrible rapper), the kooks/razorlight/most skinny jean wearing no mark indie bands.