The Followup

Time for overrated musicians! Oh boy, I'm excited.

Travis Barker- I couldn't wait to get this one off my chest. He's overly flashy, attention-seeking, and incredibly annoying. How he manages to garner so very many votes for "Best Current Rock Drummer" over people like Pat Carney is beyond me. The man is also seriously addicted to crash cymbals. It's annoying. Play the drums themselves, please.
Neil Peart Rush- People like to talk about how Rush took the epic, long-lasting aesthetic of '70s hard and prog rock and added more technical skill and more abstract lyrics. First of all, I'm not sure that Rush is actually better at playing music than Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, Cream, or any of the other elite bands from that time. Secondly, while they did add "philosophical" (read, "weird") lyrics to that kind of music, they also subtracted what made that music so good in the first place: the blues, passion, and groove. Not to mention the fact that Geddy Lee's voice is irritating beyond belief.
Eric Clapton- Don't get me wrong, Clapton is a very good guitarist. But he does not deserve mention among the best ever. Hendrix, Page, Duane Allman, John Frusciante, J Mascis- all better than him. I feel like he gets something of a related-to-the-Beatles boost because of his friendship with George Harrison.
Jim Morrison- A good singer, but definitely a beneficiary of the dead=genius algorithm. He had a very interesting voice, almost big band-esque, but limited range and a frankly overrated set of lyrics.
Kurt Cobain- essentially the same as Morrison, although his problem was less "limited range" than "limited as a singer." He wrote better songs than Morrison did, to be honest, and also played guitar (though not that well), but he was not as good a singer. And he also benefited tremendously from Dave Grohl's drumming and Krist Novoselic's bass work, which is underrated.
Ozzy Osbourne- More significant for the fact that he launched heavy metal than for any other reason. Sabbath continued without him, and he was always dependent on great guitarists like Tony Iommi and Randy Rhoads (and in my opinion, the former far outshines the latter). That is not to say that he was a bad singer, just a one-trick pony. Take away his metal howls and he's got nothing. Of course, this is true of most metal vocalists, but almost none of them have the same notoriety as Osbourne.

Well, I'm sure I could come up with more, but I don't feel like it.