Good call. In b4 people who can't separate great talent from public psychological breakdown.

Janis Joplin had more talent in her pinky finger than Winohouse has in that high hair-do.

skammie:Janis Joplin had more talent in her pinky finger than Winohouse has in that high hair-do.

Janis is overrated. She was very talented, but she is also overrated. And that dude who's married to Amy Winehouse will one day soon be the Courtney Love of our generation.

Couldn't Janis Joplin at least sing?

submitter:Jack White calls Amy Winehouse "the Janis Joplin of our generation

Janis checked out at age 27. Amy is 24.

/three more years to go
//not sure she's gonna make it

What makes this comparison valid? The only talent Winehouse has is the ability to go weeks without a shower!

submitter:Jack White calls Amy Winehouse "the Janis Joplin of our generation." Well... yeah, that works, actually

Fark that stupid crackhead Winehouse. What a joke to compare that pipehead to Joplin.

Jack White, you are a really stupid asshole.

I wonder whose vomit Amy will drown on?

27 is the magic number. Joplin, Hendrix, Cobain, Morrison...it's going to be a photo-finish for Amy. You can do it honey, just three more years.

I like one of Amy's songs, but the talent competition isn't even close.

Waitaminute: R. Crumb did Amy Winehouse's album art?

For those of you trying to understand this in comedian terms:

THIS:



is being equated with THIS:

Here are the big differences:

1) Janis Joplin wasn't a waifish skank.
2) Janis Joplin sang with 100,000% more passion than Winehouse ever did.

Other than that, yeah... totally similar.

Jack, you're the man, but watch her in Festival Express, and then we'll talk.

don't you try to put us down

Jack, perhaps they were booing the fact that she was giving a 'tribute' to that scumbag husband of hers. He deserves booing and plenty of it.

Both of them are much more talented than I am so I won't compare.

DarthBrooks:Waitaminute: R. Crumb did Amy Winehouse's album art?

For those of you trying to understand this in comedian terms:

THIS:

Carlin pic.

is being equated with THIS:

Menstealia Pic


Good god how i hate that pathetic mexican wannabe.

CheddarPants:Janis is overrated. She was very not talented, but she is also overrated.

FTFY

Well, I guess he's right. Both are known for their insatiable drug habits. Oh wait...don't they both sing, or something?

/Jack White may be the least talented "guitarist" with a recording contract.

For those balking at the comparison in terms of talent, just think about the current generation. When aiming for a Joplin, Winehouse is just the best we can do.

/Hates my g-g-g-generation....

Martstar:When aiming for a Joplin, Winehouse is just the best we can do.

I blame youth soccer league banquets.



Hooray for EVERYONE for EVERYTHING!!!

And Jack White is proof that 'his generation' blows musical chunks.

/imitation is flattery
//not excellence

z_gringo:Couldn't Janis Joplin at least sing?

No, what she did was more akin to gargling gravel.

eqtworld:The difference being I can name at least 3 Janis Joplin songs

Are any of them Big Brother and The Holding Company songs?

Mugato:27 is the magic number. Joplin, Hendrix, Cobain, Morrison...it's going to be a photo-finish for Amy. You can do it honey, just three more years.

I don't think she can... emphysema by age 23? She gives "circling the drain" new meaning.

Rickenbacker:Well, I guess he's right. Both are known for their insatiable drug habits. Oh wait...don't they both sing, or something?

/Jack White may be the least talented "guitarist" with a recording contract.

Winehouse and Joplin both cover similar musical ground, though Joplin tended more towards blues with rock twists (as was the fashion of the day) while Winehouse is a blues singer with a motown twist. Both immersed themselves in the forlorn lonliness of the art form and picked up outrageous substance abuse problems to go with them. If Janis was alive now, everyone would be calling her a shrill, cackling cow.

It is difficult to look past the over-exposed, abject disaster that is Amy Winehouse's personal life. I really like her music, however, and a great number of professional musicians do as well. Not just the industry sharks, but actual musicians think that she's the sh*t. Personally, I'd never want to book anything that involved her having to show up in one piece, but again that doesn't have much to do with her voice.

I also disagree with your evaluation of Jack White, but hey that's like, your opinion, man.

Rickenbacker:Jack White may be the least talented "guitarist" with a recording contract.

Based on your handle, I'm going to say that you know that is not true. You may not like him, and I'm not going to dispute your view of his level of talent, but you know there are thousands of contracts out there with less talent behind the paper.

But hey, it's Fark.com, let's all talk out of our asses.

factoryconnection:I don't think she can... emphysema by age 23? She gives "circling the drain" new meaning.

Well 24 but quibbling is silly. She is definitely dying a slower death than the others (especially Cobain).

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a super crack pipe
My friends, all smoke hash pipes, I must make amends
Smoked hard all my lifetime
No help from my friends
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a super crack pipe

That's the dumbest damn thing I have ever heard.

busy chillin':
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a super crack pipe

What is a super crack pipe?

Brown Sauce

It's a really good crack pipe. It's so good, it's super.

/did I miss something?

z_gringo:Couldn't Janis Joplin at least sing?

Like an angel. An angel who had been ingesting broken glass while smoking a pack of filterless cigarettes.

I don't mind Joplin, but I also think she was very overrated.

Winehouse should take heed ... you don't want to become Grace Slick. Dying young gives you automatic legacy status, no matter how phenomenally mediocre you were. See Jim Morrison & Janis Joplin. Do more drugs.

what is fark's obession with the downward spiral that is amy winehouse's life?

oh and amy winehouse's music is good

/jack white is better

A fat chick screaming doesn't equal talent, or emotion.
Winehouse > Joplin.

Rickenbacker:
/Jack White may be the least talented "guitarist" with a recording contract.

What!?? Its stupid hyperbole like this that makes me want to write a long rant, but I will try to keep it short. I mean really, of all the shiatty, shiatty, shiatTY bands out there with generic guitar riffs and little talent beyond power chords, you pick on Jack White? And talent on guitar isn't just being able to whip out gut-busting solos (which since you think Jack White can't play, you obviously haven't listened to more than 1 or 2 tracks, or heard him live), its also being able to write songs on the guitar. You can hate the guy, but really, if you think he's the least talented guitarist with a recording contract, you don't have ears, know what music is, and I am seriously doubting your ability to form rational thoughts.

"The crowd don't appreciated her."


I thinking drugs was involveded.

I've never seen anything like the winehouse coverage/commentary. Basically 100% of the people who say she sucks, etc, can't name another song of her's besides "rehab". These retards are the children of people who thought nirvana sucked because they hadn't heard anything but smells like teen spirit. Seriously, to those of us that have enjoyed Ms. Winehouse's albums over and over, the hate makes no sense. Yes she's a drug addict. So's half the planet.
/the same dickheads who think she sucks will come across "Me and Mr. Jones" or "love is a losing game" after she dies and become instant winehouse-apologists. Try this retards: what don't you like about her MUSIC? *crickets*

Amy Winehouse is talented. Listen to her sing and you can't deny that. She is also a drug addict.

Janis Joplin was talented. Listen to her sing and you can't deny that. She was also a drug addict.


The comparison is valid.

This just in... Amy Whinehouse is the Hottest thing since burnt toast.

Archie Godwin:Of course, because we all know Janis would never smoke crack or do anything like that.

To be fair, crack wasn't even invented back then, so no she wouldn't ;p

I think that if we had all the info-streaming power of the internet and the celebrity gossip market that exists today, we'd have much lower opinions of many "legends" of yesteryear.

InmanRoshi:Winehouse should take heed ... you don't want to become Grace Slick. Dying young gives you automatic legacy status, no matter how phenomenally mediocre you were. See Jim Morrison & Janis Joplin. Do more drugs.

What a cynical and altogether 100% accurate synopsis! I can see Sublime getting really played and boring if they had made any more albums past "Sublime." Instead, Brad Nowell is a legend and their music stands up nicely forever. Sad but true.

kanesays:Jack, perhaps they were booing the fact that she was giving a 'tribute' to that scumbag husband of hers.

C.M.Burns: Are you saying "Booo" or "Boo-urns"?
*gets trashed*
Hans Moleman: I was saying "Boo-urns"...

z_gringo:Couldn't Janis Joplin at least sing?

Not really

You mean, an incredibly overrated guitarist says that an incredibly overrated singer is comparable to a slightly less overrated singer?

Why does anyone care about this?

Well, aside from the fact that it's pure idiocy.

Janis is historically relevant. Winehouse won't be.
Sort of like the comparisons between Hendrix and Jack White, except Hendrix knew that rhythm and musical timing/ability are necessary to play a guitar at the top levels.

puffy999:
Sort of like the comparisons between Hendrix and Jack White, except Hendrix knew that rhythm and musical timing/ability are necessary to play a guitar at the top levels.

Who is comparing Hendrix and Jack White, other than some random morons on the internet? At least find someone who works in the music industry or has talent or something and show us the source, because I sure as hell couldn't find much of anyone comparing them in a simple search on Google.

puffy999:You mean, an incredibly overrated guitarist says that an incredibly overrated singer is comparable to a slightly less overrated singer?

Why does anyone care about this?

I think you've overrated the use of the word "overrate".

Yeah,t hat is true.


They're both overhyped hacks.

whydoIlovethevikings:I've never seen anything like the winehouse coverage/commentary. Basically 100% of the people who say she sucks, etc, can't name another song of her's besides "rehab". These retards are the children of people who thought nirvana sucked because they hadn't heard anything but smells like teen spirit. Seriously, to those of us that have enjoyed Ms. Winehouse's albums over and over, the hate makes no sense. Yes she's a drug addict. So's half the planet.
/the same dickheads who think she sucks will come across "Me and Mr. Jones" or "love is a losing game" after she dies and become instant winehouse-apologists. Try this retards: what don't you like about her MUSIC? *crickets*

Something along the lines of this