5 Most overrated bands right now

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  • For overrated, simply choose any British band currently selling their wares/ whoring their dubious talents/ peddling their style over content.

    I'm with Henry Rollins on this one:

    "The UK has a music scene; just no music"

    Wise words H.




    Notable exceptions include Radiohead, Oceansize and Muse.
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    For overrated, simply choose any British band currently selling their wares/ whoring their dubious talents/ peddling their style over content.
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  • Echoes wrote:
    David Gilmour

    My vitriol was aimed at the current crop of ne'er-do-wells and never-will-do's such as:

    Arctic Monkeys
    Bloc Party
    Futureheads

    NME darlings all...
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  • Dark GrinDark Grin Posts: 33
    No one that has seen Audioslave live would call them overrated.
  • Dark Grin wrote:
    No one that has seen Audioslave live would call them overrated.

    I concur.

    I guess some people just don't like them though...
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    i will say that bloc party is OVER rated but that doesnt mean they arent good! just too much media hype.

    white stripes rock..

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  • culot4culot4 Posts: 775
    The White Stripes listed twice? Do you just hate them because everyone else loves them? Fucking incredible songwriter. Deal with it.

    Agreed...There is nothing overated about White Stripes. All the hype is deserved because they are just fllat out incredible.
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  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    My Chemical Romance
    Panic At The Disco
    Green Day
    The White Stripes
    Silverstein

    The White Stripes are top notch rock and roll. Other than PJ, they are my favorite band. Start with their self-titled album then De Stijl and work your way up. Incomparable.
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  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    annoying voice, boring, grating guitar riffs, a paper thin sound with no depth... deal with it. just becos jack white is wierder than fuck all doesnt mean he's a genius songwriter.

    Check out their DVD Under Blackpool Lights to see if they still suck. His guitar playing is impeccable.
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  • prljam85prljam85 Posts: 227
    Sonic19 wrote:
    Fall Out Boy
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Death Cab For Cutie
    The Killers
    My Chemical Romance
    sounds about right.
  • Sonic19Sonic19 Posts: 159
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  • mrwalkerbmrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    my2hands wrote:
    Coldplay


    .............


    finally I was like "how did it take 19 posts before someone said this" and for teh record fall out boy is not overrated they are simply popular there is a difference
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  • InkdaubInkdaub Posts: 235
    I agree the White Stripes are not overrated and White is a great songwriter.

    I also agree that Audioslave is very overrated. It's embarassing they can be mentioned in the same sentence as Soundgarden. I hate Rage and Audioslave isn't even as good musically as they were. Audioslave is a waste of talent.

    The Shins, though they aren't getting raves much anymore, were always overrated. They had that great song from Garden State...and thats it. Pretty much every other Shins song is absolute trash.

    Death Cab could be good in that Modest Mouse sort of way but instead they are boring.

    Ryan Adams is overrated.

    The Beatles remain the most overrated band in the history of music.
  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    Inkdaub wrote:

    The Beatles remain the most overrated band in the history of music.

    Harsh statement but ultimately true. This will probably get flamed for heresy. I personally greatly prefer the Stones to the Beatles. They just weren't that great as musicians. Sure Paul and John wrote some great songs, but they definitely were lucky enough to bring a new sound to the U.S. End of story.
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  • fadafada Posts: 1,032
    Fall Out Boy
    Green Day
    My Chemical Romance
    The Killers
    Franz Ferdinand

    can i say The Arctic Monkeys as well? i love them but there not as good everyone makes out:)
    they are better.
  • SiDSiD Posts: 76
    pjfan020 wrote:
    Personally, I don't see the big fuss around The Mars Volta.


    WHAT?!?! The Volta dominate.
  • JSBEJSBE Posts: 1,078
    Inkdaub wrote:
    The Beatles remain the most overrated band in the history of music.

    for pure argument sake, i would like to know EXACTLY why you think the beatles are overrated. your argument cannot include "i don't like them" as one of your reasons.

    half the bands listed so far (if not more) i either don't like or have never heard a song by them, but i wouldn't go and say they are overrated.

    all overrated means to me is that someone (your friend, a person on a message board, a magazine, etc) LOVES them and then when you heard them you think they suck.

    i personally think overrated is a meaningless word.
  • mr carlomr carlo Posts: 3
    Artic Monkeys
    Franz Ferdinand
    Hard-Fi
    Maximo Park
    Kaiser Chiefs

    All british and all shite. Tragic
  • Audioslave
    Velvet Revolver
    Anything that has a guy crying on a low beat, then crying louder on a hard beat
    Nickelback
    Kanye West
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  • Audioslave
    Velvet Revolver
    Anything that has a guy crying on a low beat, then crying louder on a hard beat
    Nickelback
    Kanye West


    Kanye West? Are you nuts? You can put Kanye in company with the other greats,ex.

    beatles,
    hendrix,
    zepplin,
    kanye

    see how smoothly that fits.
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  • Kanye West? Are you nuts? You can put Kanye in company with the other greats,ex.

    beatles,
    hendrix,
    zepplin,
    kanye

    see how smoothly that fits.

    :)

    sorry, but no, i think this guy music is way overrated, he's done nothing different than any other rap/hip hop artist. Although i'm not a connaisseur of the genre, but he's getting way too much recognition for what he does.

    Kanye beside Hendrix, makes my head hurt :)
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  • oh and i agree with everyone who said Coldplay...
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  • Death Cab isn't overrated.
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  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    My first thought was Green Day. I agree with Coldplay and actually think they should be number 1.

    I don't know if Audioslave is overrated but Soundgarden and Rage are both far superior to Audioslave. There music sounds too manufactured to me and really lacks the energy of the previous bands'.
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  • angryyoungmanangryyoungman Posts: 1,028
    top 5 overrated:

    5. the killers
    4. mars volta
    3. white stripes
    2. dave matthews band
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    number one most overrated band. . .RADIOHEAD

    bring on the flames. . .
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  • Oh, JimmyOh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    adam42381 wrote:
    Harsh statement but ultimately true. This will probably get flamed for heresy. I personally greatly prefer the Stones to the Beatles. They just weren't that great as musicians. Sure Paul and John wrote some great songs, but they definitely were lucky enough to bring a new sound to the U.S. End of story.

    The stones werent that great of musicians. I think John and George could hang with Keef and any of his counterparts in the Stones. Plus, the Beatles wrote better songs.

    Both bands are overrated a bit, but when you virtually invent the modern blueprint for great bands, you deserve to be.
  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    top 5 overrated:

    5. the killers
    4. mars volta
    3. white stripes
    2. dave matthews band
    (drumroll). . . . . . . .
    number one most overrated band. . .RADIOHEAD

    bring on the flames. . .


    Mars volta, Radiohead? Did you listen to them first?

    AHHH one can't argu about taste, I know, but you should really reconsider.
    Go see them LIVE they kick ass.

    Both off them.
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  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    :)

    sorry, but no, i think this guy music is way overrated, he's done nothing different than any other rap/hip hop artist. Although i'm not a connaisseur of the genre, but he's getting way too much recognition for what he does.

    Kanye beside Hendrix, makes my head hurt :)


    I don't know Kanye but any Hipper de Hop flop next to Hendrix and The beatles would be an insult to anyone's inlelligence.

    Oh shit I keep forgettin' that I don't have the monopoly on good taste.

    Sorry, it's OK to like Kanye, go right ahead.
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    You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
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  • Hip Hop was good in the 80's and early 90's, now it's embarrassing shit.

    top 5:

    5. Green Day- Rock Opera? I like the message of the title song on AI, but if this is rocks best (even funnier, punk, I suppose if Blink 182 is punk, then GD is) let's all off ourselves
    4. Audioslave- OMG! Cornell's talent is completely wasted, he seems so Hollywood now. For years I had to hear how his "devil voice" was so much better than Ed's, but look who is still relevant now. Soundgarden's gone, Rage is gone, what's left is lukewarm piss that needs payola to get airplay.
    3. Good Charlotte- like Ed said, it's a like a popsicle shoved up someones ass, these MTV kiddies think this is punk too.
    2. Dave Matthews Band- ANNOYING!!! your not the Dead, or Phish, or anyone, your tone is painful, and every song is the same.
    1. Coldplay- horrible. THe funny part is, they could be good, if they weren't so whiny. Martin's voice has a chance, but too nasal, and way too SOFTROCKY.
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