Top 5 most unoriginal bands you've ever heard

tonadax

For me, in no particular order

1. Coldplay
2. bush
3. Nickelback
4. papa roach
5. the bravery

intodeep

Godsmack
Creed
nickleback
buckcherry
hinder

otis mcfluster

Just 5?...

Nickleback
Alice In Chains
Velvet Revolver
Creed
Stone Temple Pilots
Silverchair
Candlebox
Bush
3 Doors Down
Puddle Of Mudd
Stained
Korn
Chris Cornell
Sevendust
Godsmack
Switchfoot
Daughtry
Audioslave
Slipknot

oppie1

otis mcfluster wrote:

Just 5?...

Nickleback
Alice In Chains
Velvet Revolver
Creed
Stone Temple Pilots
Silverchair
Candlebox
Bush
3 Doors Down
Puddle Of Mudd
Stained
Korn
Chris Cornell
Sevendust
Godsmack
Switchfoot
Daughtry
Audioslave
Slipknot

how can you say slipknot were unoriginal? name me one band that sounds like them.. they're one hell of an awesome band, and even better live

my list is

Oasis
Radiohead
Coldplay
White Stripes
Chris Cornell

Mike_Muse_Rage

In no order:

The Answer
Open Air Stereo
Sum 41
Muse
Wolfmother

thecrackedjack

If people are going to put STP up there than:

Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Temple of the Dog
Etc,

all should go up there as well.

Gary Carter

how the fuck is korn unorignal


green day
blink-182
new found glory
creed
nickleback

otis mcfluster

How are we forgetting the granddaddy of them all...Limp Bizcit

JaneNY

otis mcfluster wrote:

How are we forgetting the granddaddy of them all...Limp Bizcit

Oh they're original all right, in their level of suckage over almost every other band.

oppie1

otis mcfluster wrote:

How are we forgetting the granddaddy of them all...Limp Bizcit

actually.. when they first came out.. they were a decent band.. 3 Dolla Bill Y'all was a great album

Counterfeit, Stuck, Pollution.. all great songs

bryn_cmbs

1. Creed
2. Nickleback
3. Limp Bizkit
4. Fall Out Boy
5. My Chemicle Romance

Raybees

Jet

oppie1

Raybees wrote:

Jet

yeah.. good call.. that Are You Gonna Be My Girl song was alot better when Iggy Pop did it and called Lust for Life... its the same fucking music

Pearl Jam and toast

October22 wrote:

no way man.

alice in chains were not unoriginal at all. i don't know how old you are but at that time nobody sounded like layne and the music was very fresh. you can hear such a transition from facelift to dirt which is what became a very standard sound for the 90's but they were part of the crowd who invented that sound. just because the became generic doesn't make the originators unoriginal.

i agree with everything else, although i could argue korn and slipknot as well, but i don't care enough about them to get into it.

yeah really. Alice in Chains? What the hell...

Pearl Jam and toast

oppie1 wrote:

how can you say slipknot were unoriginal? name me one band that sounds like them.. they're one hell of an awesome band, and even better live

my list is

Oasis
Radiohead
Coldplay
White Stripes
Chris Cornell

Radiohead and the White Stripes are two of the most unique bands out there. NOBODY sounds remotely like them (though Radiohead have been ripped off a lot since the 90s).

this isn't a thread about what bands you hate, it's about originality.

oppie1

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Radiohead and the White Stripes are two of the most unique bands out there. NOBODY sounds remotely like them (though Radiohead have been ripped off a lot since the 90s).

this isn't a thread about what bands you hate, it's about originality.

radiohead sounds like every other whiny english band..

and the white stripes sound like junior high talent show bands.. so.. thats why they're unoriginal

Pearl Jam and toast

oppie1 wrote:

radiohead sounds like every other whiny english band..

You realize that Radiohead have been around since the late 80s right? and that they stopped ripping off REM in the mid 90s? They've been ripped off by just about every english band under the sun since, but cmon dude, don't be so ignorant about this. They were absolutely standing alone with their sound in 1997 and they continue to change and evolve. There's not a single band that sounds like them.

and the white stripes sound like junior high talent show bands.. so.. thats why they're unoriginal

Again, it's not about what bands you hate, it's about originality. And what the hell are you talking about? Maybe their first album and even that's a stretch..

Fucking god you're close minded.

DaytimeDilemma

Led Zeppelin.

intheflesh

Radiohead
Alice in Chains
White Stripes

belong nowhere near an "unoriginal band" list.

anyone who thinks they do are simply wrong.

Strangest Tribe

intheflesh? wrote:

Radiohead
Alice in Chains
White Stripes

belong nowhere near an "unoriginal band" list.

anyone who thinks they do are simply wrong.

can I get an AMEN brotha!!!

besides what's already been mentioned here's a few more and who they are ripping off (see buddy I understand your thread and perhaps we should qualify our responses with whom we believe these bands are ripping off)

Blink 182 (ripped off the entire SoCal punk scene of the 80's namely the Descendents)
Sum 41- see above
Shinedown-ripping off Soundgarden and Chris Cornell
Chevelle- ripping off Tool
Puddle of Mud- Nirvana
Muse - ripping off Radiohead
Interpol & Arcade Fire (I like these guys though) - Ripping off Echo and the Bunnymen
BRMC (I like) - rip off Jesus and Mary Chain

Here's my short list of THE most original bands of the last 30 years
Led Zep
Ramones
REM
White Stripes
Bauhaus
The Clash
Devo
The Decendents
Pixies
Radiohead
The Replacements
Sonic Youth
Rites of Spring- original EMO
The Specials
Uncle Tupelo
TV on the Radio

prytocorduroy

Godsmack
Godsmack
Godsmack
Godsmack
Godsmack

You'veGotRedOnYou

Whoever said Alice in Chains is unoriginal needs to be put down Old Yeller style. That had to be a joke. Anyways, who cares if one band sounds like another. Tons of rock and roll songs have the same vibes to them. It's fucking part of music. This thread sucks.

shell bell

Nickleback
Creed
Hinder
Audioslave
Oasis

Lifted

oppie1 wrote:

my list is

Oasis
Radiohead
Coldplay
White Stripes
Chris Cornell

yeah those are some really unoriginal bands. especially radiohead....give me a fucking break. are those really in your opinion the most unoriginal bands you could think of, or do you just not like those bands and you feel the need to trash them on a thread somehow some way. either way you lost all credibility by making such a ridiculous statement.

anyway how about these.....
creed
nickleback
3 doors down
puddle of mudd
just about every emo band out there with the exception of maybe a few which i don't care for anyway......furthermore i must say that most bands that are out right now, like them or not aren't very original. not saying all bands cause there are some great orginal bands out there.

oppie1

Tiki Barber wrote:

yeah those are some really unoriginal bands. especially radiohead....give me a fucking break. are those really in your opinion the most unoriginal bands you could think of, or do you just not like those bands and you feel the need to trash them on a thread somehow some way. either way you lost all credibility by making such a ridiculous statement.

anyway how about these.....
creed
nickleback
3 doors down
puddle of mudd
just about every emo band out there with the exception of maybe a few which i don't care for anyway......furthermore i must say that most bands that are out right now, like them or not aren't very original. not saying all bands cause there are some great orginal bands out there.

its a pure coincidence that those bands i dont like, and are, in fact, very unoriginal...

Pearl Jam and toast

oppie1 wrote:

its a pure coincidence that those bands i dont like, and are, in fact, very unoriginal...

Okay. Tell us why. And shit like bands coming five to ten years after radiohead are the reason they're unoriginal doesn't fly.

oppie1

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Okay. Tell us why. And shit like bands coming five to ten years after radiohead are the reason they're unoriginal doesn't fly.

lets see.. their music goes nowhere..it sounds like every other english band.. the only decent band to ever come out of england is tears for fears. every other band after them has in one way or another tried to copy off TfF

every other band sounds exactly like the other bands.. it all mashes together..

Radio head
coldplay
oasis
david gray.. its hard to tell the difference

Schoki

Nickelback
Creed
Oasis
Papa Roach
Bush

FreshTendrils

oppie1 wrote:

lets see.. their music goes nowhere..it sounds like every other english band.. the only decent band to ever come out of england is tears for fears. every other band after them has in one way or another tried to copy off TfF

every other band sounds exactly like the other bands.. it all mashes together..

Radio head
coldplay
oasis
david gray.. its hard to tell the difference

1) The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Who all say hello.
2) Who the hell is David Gray?
3) I'm not a big fan of Coldplay and I haven't listened to many Oasis songs but I don't see how anybody could confuse a Radiohead song with Oasis and vice versa.

oppie1

FreshTendrils wrote:

1) The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Who all say hello.
2) Who the hell is David Gray?
3) I'm not a big fan of Coldplay and I haven't listened to many Oasis songs but I don't see how anybody could confuse a Radiohead song with Oasis and vice versa.

beatles were overrated.. i never liked them
rolling stones have always been garbage.. can't stand them.. there is not 1 RS song i can honestly say i enjoy..
Zeppelin were good for their time.. but i never liked them
The Who - am i required to like them because they're friends w/ Ed? the who covers PJ does (baba, love reign, and everything else) all sound better then the originals

FreshTendrils

oppie1 wrote:

beatles were overrated.. i never liked them
rolling stones have always been garbage.. can't stand them
Zeppelin were good for their time.. but i never liked them
The Who - am i required to like them because they're friends w/ Ed? the who covers PJ does (baba, love reign, and everything else) all sound better then the originals

Yet, saying TFF is better than any of them is a big, big stretch.