10 Most Overated Rock bands / Performers

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    searchlightsoul wrote:
    This is my take on Pearl Jam

    im 100% with you, at least insofar as the people around here. i dont think pearl jam is quite the critic's darling radiohead is though.
  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz Posts: 1,617
    soulsinging wrote:
    i can name a half dozen bands whose b-sides collections rival their studio albums. radiohead's on amnesiac are nothing more than a curiosity. and here you prove my point... it is essentially a b-sides album but they released it and touted it as the new radiohead album. they didnt consider it a b-sides album, they felt it was a proper album (becos thom's ego knows no bounds). it was radiohead's fans who took to framing it as a b-sides album to justify the fact that it wasn't exactly a compelling listen. it was clearly a weak link in the chain so they tried to jutify it by saing "it's only a b-sides album" when it was never really intended as such. it was the follow up to kid a. the fact that most of the songs came from the same sessions means nothing. nobody says 'let it be' is the b-sides album from the 'abbey road' sessions.


    What do you mean they touted it as a new album? It wasn't promoted or toured for. There wasn't a big deal made about it at all. And it was better than 99% of music out at the time. Where are you getting your info?
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    I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
  • sebaarg88
    sebaarg88 Posts: 1,277
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    I gotta agree.. I think the Foo are way better than Nirvana (and I really like Nirvana..). Their last record is hit or miss, but the self titled and TCATS were better than anything Nirvana did. I don't think Kurt could write a song as good as "Everlong".

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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    soulsinging wrote:
    im not. i like them. im just looking to point out that they are not infallible and that people kiss their ass even when they release mediocre albums.

    i also edited that post to explain some of my issues with the whole kid a/amnesiac releases.

    And people dont do this with Pearl Jam???....of course we overrate the bands that mean the most to us, that's because we love them...
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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Is this the thread whrere I have permission to dump on THE BEATLES, as being the most over-rated, trite, pointless, boring, hyped up, sappy, crappy rubbish ever foisted on a gullible buying public ??
    Let me tell you what I really think !!
    Just cos thry wus popular menas nothing, so was the tulip futures boom, and look how much substance that had in the long run.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • lars
    lars Posts: 524
    I only agree with red hot chilli peppers being overrated, even though BSSM and Californication are good cds. Beatles overrated??? Poor kid
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  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    lucylespian wrote:
    Is this the thread whrere I have permission to dump on THE BEATLES, as being the most over-rated, trite, pointless, boring, hyped up, sappy, crappy rubbish ever foisted on a gullible buying public ??
    Let me tell you what I really think !!
    Just cos thry wus popular menas nothing, so was the tulip futures boom, and look how much substance that had in the long run.


    I agree with some of that. The reasons I think the beatles are the most overrated band is simple. Just because they were the first to do a lot of things, does NOT!! let me stress that again DOES NOT mean they are the best.

    To me that seems to be a big argument when people discus why they are so good and worthy of the hype.

    Ok end rant....you can all go back to fighting over RadioHead, I'll just go off and listen to some ColdPlay and My Chemical Romance(yes it was mentioned at least once in this thread)
  • Hippyvik
    Hippyvik Posts: 281
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    I gotta agree.. I think the Foo are way better than Nirvana (and I really like Nirvana..). Their last record is hit or miss, but the self titled and TCATS were better than anything Nirvana did. I don't think Kurt could write a song as good as "Everlong".

    FOO FIGHTERS, the single most boring band I have ever had the misfortune of seeing live, imo!
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    lucylespian wrote:
    Is this the thread whrere I have permission to dump on THE BEATLES, as being the most over-rated, trite, pointless, boring, hyped up, sappy, crappy rubbish ever foisted on a gullible buying public ??
    Let me tell you what I really think !!
    Just cos thry wus popular menas nothing, so was the tulip futures boom, and look how much substance that had in the long run.
    You obviously never listened to The White Album or Sgt Peppers.
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  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    Hippyvik wrote:
    FOO FIGHTERS, the single most boring band I have ever had the misfortune of seeing live, imo!

    Seen them live twice and they were two of the best gigs id ever been to.
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  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    As far as overrated goes...

    death cab for cutie
    sleater kinney
    virtually any indie band
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  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    Radiohead blows. Somewhere someone decided their music was "genius", and everyone followed. I don't get it. I've given them a fair chance but the only conclusion I came up with was it was nothing more than some whiny Brit bullshit.
    Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    culot4 wrote:
    Radiohead blows my mind.

    Me too.
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  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    whatever dude. i'm a musician, and there lies my allegiance with radiohead. they consistently blow my mind. but thom is pretty whiny, i'll give you that.

    You're a musician, so what? I guess your ears are more trained to understand the brilliance of that ghoul rock.
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  • No Fear Of Falling
    No Fear Of Falling Posts: 419
    lucylespian wrote:
    Is this the thread whrere I have permission to dump on THE BEATLES, as being the most over-rated, trite, pointless, boring, hyped up, sappy, crappy rubbish ever foisted on a gullible buying public ??
    Let me tell you what I really think !!
    Just cos thry wus popular menas nothing, so was the tulip futures boom, and look how much substance that had in the long run.


    Listen to ANY Beatles recording that was after John took his first hit of acid and Paul smoked his first joint.
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    culot4 wrote:
    You're a musician, so what? I guess your ears are more trained to understand the brilliance of that ghoul rock.
    Exactly. Musicians can appreciate brilliant musicianship more than the average joe.

    Just like a chef knows what it takes to make good food more than a guy who's cooking experience extends to microwaving soup.
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  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    Exactly. Musicians can appreciate brilliant musicianship more than the average joe.

    Just like a chef knows what it takes to make good food more than a guy who's cooking experience extends to microwaving soup.

    I like to blow into empty beer bottles and use them as a wind instrument. I guess that makes me a musician too.
    Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    culot4 wrote:
    I like to blow into empty beer bottles and use them as a wind instrument. I guess that makes me a musician too.
    If you're in tune. ;)
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • tonadax
    tonadax Posts: 594
    rolling stones

    pink floyd

    pearljam ´´no code and riot act albums´´

    radiohead

    ben harper
  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    Tool. Yuck.
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