The Most Overrated Band Ever Thread

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Anyone said The Ramones, yet?
  • Two Birds
    Two Birds Posts: 256
    Coldplay and Oasis
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    Too many shows but never enough!
    These guys are the fruit of the earth...
  • Left Porch
    Left Porch Posts: 846
    Sting

    I loved everything Nirvana put out in the short period of time they were around so I would have a hard time calling them overrated, but I guess I see the point.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Anyone said The Ramones, yet?
    I'll vote that.


    Shite band. Truly. One good song, repeated ad nauseam. That's fine, a bunch of bands do it. They just normally get slated for it. The Ramones become legends. It amuses me that most of my favourite bands claim to owe a tremendous debt to a band that they surpassed in quality and relevance before they ever left the rehearsal room.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    gabers wrote:
    Most overrated? So many to choose from so many genres. It's an almost impossible question. I'll just throw out Journey. I really can't stand them.
    Who the hell rates Journey highly?


    Harmless pop music. Never heard them being praised in any serious way.
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  • Soupy
    Soupy Posts: 171
    Micheal Jackson.
    I challenge anyone to listen to 'Off the Wall', 'Thriller' & 'Bad' and enjoy them, with there horrible plastic 80's sounds and Jackson voice completely devoid of emotion or passion, punctuated with his annoying as hell whiny grunts and ow's! The fact that these 3 albums went on to sell bucket loads (infact I believe 'Thriller' is still the biggest seeling album ever) is just plain wrong.

    Runner Up : Pink Floyd. They had moments of brilliance for sure but taken into context against their entire body of work most of it is crap.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Soupy wrote:
    Micheal Jackson.
    I challenge anyone to listen to 'Off the Wall', 'Thriller' & 'Bad' and enjoy them, with there horrible plastic 80's sounds and Jackson voice completely devoid of emotion or passion, punctuated with his annoying as hell whiny grunts and ow's! The fact that these 3 albums went on to sell bucket loads (infact I believe 'Thriller' is still the biggest seeling album ever) is just plain wrong.
    Makes no sense. You truly think no one enjoys those albums? Even though Thriller is the biggest seller ever? "I challenge any one to listen and enjoy them"? Bizarre...

    Whether he deserves it or not, plenty of people love Michael Jackson's music
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  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    The most overrated:

    Macca
    Beatles
    U2
    Led Zeppelin
    Bruce Springsteen
    Janet Jackson
    Pink Floyd
    Grateful Dead
    Phish


    We should all praise the only true greats:
    The Rolling Stones
    Pearl Jam
    Keith Richards and the Xpensive Winos
    Buddy Guy
    Muddy Waters
    The Who (see: Keith Moon Era)
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    I also forgot the following overrated bands:

    Sting
    The Police
    Bon Jovi
    David Hassellhoff (see: Germany)
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Dave Mathews.

    I just don't get it.

    At all.
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • ramblinpony
    ramblinpony Posts: 115
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I'll vote that.


    Shite band. Truly. One good song, repeated ad nauseam. That's fine, a bunch of bands do it. They just normally get slated for it. The Ramones become legends. It amuses me that most of my favourite bands claim to owe a tremendous debt to a band that they surpassed in quality and relevance before they ever left the rehearsal room.

    The Ramones are considered legends because they are one of the few punk bands who actually got the entire attitude of punk right. Punk was about saying fuck you to everything. The Ramones were pure energy on stage and went from one song right into the other. They even acknowledged they couldn't really play instruments and most of their songs were the same three chords. Punk was an attitude, and you can think the Ramones for the first 45 minutes of a Pearl Jam show being a giant ball of rock energy that explodes in your face. :)
  • clark_kent
    clark_kent Posts: 166
    ramblinpony wrote:
    The Ramones are considered legends because they are one of the few punk bands who actually got the entire attitude of punk right. Punk was about saying fuck you to everything. The Ramones were pure energy on stage and went from one song right into the other. They even acknowledged they couldn't really play instruments and most of their songs were the same three chords. Punk was an attitude, and you can think the Ramones for the first 45 minutes of a Pearl Jam show being a giant ball of rock energy that explodes in your face. :)

    i should add that punk music as a whole is overrated.

    and that last comment is a joke. rock had plenty of energy in its shows before a bunch of hacks started making lame music and selling it as some sort of image.
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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    fanch75 wrote:
    Dave Mathews.

    I just don't get it.

    At all.
    I don't get Dave Matthews Band either...although I think it's almost become cliche to not like them....
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    markymark550 wrote:
    I don't get Dave Matthews Band either...although I think it's almost become cliche to not like them....

    He still packs them in though, doesn't he?
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    ramblinpony wrote:
    The Ramones are considered legends because they are one of the few punk bands who actually got the entire attitude of punk right. Punk was about saying fuck you to everything. The Ramones were pure energy on stage and went from one song right into the other. They even acknowledged they couldn't really play instruments and most of their songs were the same three chords. Punk was an attitude, and you can think the Ramones for the first 45 minutes of a Pearl Jam show being a giant ball of rock energy that explodes in your face. :)
    There are plenty of punk bands who got the "attitude" right and also wrote fucking amazing songs.

    Husker Du were the Ramones with good songs.

    Minor Threat were the most "punk" band ever and every song they ever recorded was incredible.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    fanch75 wrote:
    He still packs them in though, doesn't he?
    yeah, but anymore it seems that his audience is the stereotypical DMB fan and the non-DMB fans really don't like their music.....it's like there's not much middle ground with them
  • tonadax
    tonadax Posts: 594
    Blur it's the most obvious choice.
    Rolling Stones
    Sonic youth
    Kiss
  • pearljim
    pearljim Posts: 1,312
    vedderoffdead wrote:
    The Beatles...hands down.

    I'm beyond tired of people acting like they pretty much invented the electric guitar, the microphone, every guitar chord, the snare drum, the hi-hat, etc...there were plenty of people playing 'rock & roll' before they came along. They were a 'pop' band. I'd rather listen to 2 cats fight in an alley

    Thank you! I thought I was the only person in the world that felt this way.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,206
    vedderoffdead wrote:
    The Beatles invented nothing. They stood on the shoulders of giants and got most of the credit.
    whoooooooooooooooooosh

    what was that?

    the sound of your credibility going out the window

    To say that two of the greatest songwriters invented nothing is simply naive.

    They may be overhyped over publicized over commercialized over dramatizied etc... but there is a lot of substance to their achievements.
  • vedderoffdead
    vedderoffdead Posts: 688
    pearljim wrote:
    Thank you! I thought I was the only person in the world that felt this way.
    It's funny how everyone just ASSUMES that EVERYONE likes the Beatles. I was in a bar last night with my girl and a couple of friends, and the original version of "I've got a feeling" came on the jukebox(which just plain stinks), and I went into a rant about how much they blow, and almost every single person in the bar agreed with me! I'm talking about 25 people or so, ranging from 21 up into their 60's and 70's, and it's not like I even knew these people. Complete strangers. It was fucking hysterical...:)

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