Top 5 most unoriginal bands you've ever heard

Strangest Tribe

oppie1 wrote:

take one listen to BHC and you'll see they're one of the most original bands out there presently... way better then 99% of todays bands

no way

BHC is cool but not exactly original they have that Faith No More/Mr Bungle vibe all over. I like em, don't get me wrong, I can't call them original.

pjalive21

Chevelle sounds like Tool????????????????????????? what kind of comment is that????????????????????

Lifted

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

wow...great response. i mean you really explained very well what is so unoriginal about these bands. their music goes nowhere and it sounds like every other english band? good explanation. proves the point that you have no point....and if you do maybe you should elaborate cause i just see a bunch of words mashed together but you really aren't saying anything.

Lifted

oppie1 wrote:

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

wow. ignorance. that's the only word i can think of. you should just stop commenting on this thread. you just tried to pick apart 4 of the greatest rock bands of all time. how can you be such a big pearl jam fan and not at least appreciate all of these bands? where do you think pearl jam came from? you don't have to go buy all their albums but at least give them some credit.............oh and to say that every english band since tears for fears has tried to rip them off is another ridiculous statement. i must say that there aren't a whole lot of english bands since the 80's that i would consider myself a fan of. i love radiohead, and i like oasis, probably a few other, but who are all these bands you are saying rip off tears for fears?

SoonForgotten2

oppie1 wrote:

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

Perhaps, it's because you didn't turn your hearing aid on.

None of those 4 sound anything alike.

PearlJamaholic

ok here is my list

godsmack - first band i thought of, they would be a less obvious aic rip-off if they stayed a coverband

led zeppelin - ok this will draw fire but these guys did almost nothing but rip off blues songs, they could just played them better.

system of downs - almost every song ive heard he is trying to be jello. listen to dead kennedys drug me and one tool song then you have nearly all of soad catalog.

puddle of mudd - ok you are not kurt cobain, sorry.

nickelback -they might be more unoriginal then godsmack

Strangest Tribe

pjalive21 wrote:

Chevelle sounds like Tool????????????????????????? what kind of comment is that????????????????????

listed under influences

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hbfuxq9jld0e

alot of people think this ....not just me

South of Seattle

1. Godsmack - Let's name ourselves after a song from the band we want to sound like :rolleyes:

2. Pepper - Bradley Nowell is spinning in his grave right now.

3. Creed - No need to explain do I?

4. Wolfmother - Even though I like them

5. Jack Johnson - Another one that I like, but not very original.

Strangest Tribe

PearlJamaholic wrote:

led zeppelin - ok this will draw fire but these guys did almost nothing but rip off blues songs, they could just played them better.

/quote]

I believe ripping off the blues goes way back. Elvis

red mos

pretty much any emo band being played right now. the vocals are nothing but an obnoxious cry baby wine over this heavily distorted half punk/ half thrash metal sound. There are alot of bands that a plugging the airwaves with this over the last few years, and frankly it's obnoxious to me. I understand it's where all the $ is being made right now, but it all sounds the same. some of the bands I'm thinking could be local bands too though, but god it's hideous. To each his own though, but I can't listen to the radio anymore cause the new alternative rock stuff is bad! I switched to classic rock (they play the Grunge bands us Gen Xers grew up on too).

searchlightsoul

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

Whether or not you like Audioslave they sounded nothing like any other band, including their antecedents.

searchlightsoul

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.

C'mon man that new WS single sounds exactly like a zep song with shit drumming.

r2g2

Jet
Creed
Nickleback
Hinder
Puddle of Mudd
Staind

DiRtyFranK38

hey i know all you guys think godsmack are very unoriginal, and that is the case for many of their tunes, due to the heavy, heavy aic influence. HOWEVER, if you look deeper into their catologue, they have alot of pretty nifty stuff. seeing them live made me look into it more. a song like serenity may have heavy aic influence but i wouldn't say it's unoriginal. with its awesome tribal drumming and such. just trust me, lots of their stuff is unoriginal, but in the same token alot is just heavily influenced without taking away its originality. i'm not trying to change anyones minds, or prove a point, but i'm just trying to get those who think that to look further and re-think it, because that band has alot more talent than most people think. i mean sully sings, writes, plays guitar, and whips out the drums insanely alongside their real drummer at their show. i was shocked. but yea thats that. hope that has people re-thinking.


anyway

i have always hated nickleback for their terrible unoriginality.
creed as well.
chris daughtry had potential. he blew it by miles. now he is complete garbage. you know, any tv show audition thing i think turns out to always be shit, but with that said i saw him and thought, well he seems like a good guy who loves music and he could sing. but in the back of my mind i knew what would happen so i never watched again. and what happened? yep he turned to generic bullshit. dont you love americanshitassidol? it's good for other genres, but for rock, it is just pointless. kills the cause of the music.
lastly, i'd like to say bowling for soup, all american rejects, hinder, fall-out boy, hawthorne heights, taking back sunday and all those type of bands. why? because they all sound EXACTLY THE SAME and they all sound like WHINY SHITS.

keeponrockin

Speaking of Zeppelin, John Paul Jones is the most UNDERRATED person in that band by a mile.

PearlJamaholic

Strangest Tribe wrote:

PearlJamaholic wrote:

led zeppelin - ok this will draw fire but these guys did almost nothing but rip off blues songs, they could just played them better.

/quote]

I believe ripping off the blues goes way back. Elvis

its not that. its that they tried to pass alot of it off as their own. elvis never said he wrote those songs. they are still credited to the actually writer.

harmless_little_f***

Nickelback
Creed
Lifehouse
The Calling
Oasis

And one for luck:

Razorlight

Roeghmann

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 white stripes unoriginal ????? I don´t get it

analogueaddict72

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

Oasis, Coldplay etc, you get no complaint from me there but you clearly haven't got a clue with Radiohead.

Sound like every other whiny english band, for fuck sake's Radiohead head and shoulders over all English bands and most of US ones as well. If only a handful of bands were as brave and evolving as Radiohead we'd have a more healthy UK music scene instead of the copy cats we have at the moment.

Just you don't like it doesn't make it unoriginal, think about the question and try come up with an intelligent answer.

The Strokes: ripping off the Ramones & Velvet Underground does not make a unique original sound

Razorlight: what a fuckin joke, we get it you've heard Marquee Moon and some early U2 get something original material Borrell you ugly egostical wanker.

Arctic Monkeys: while agree that the singer has a poetic talent for lyrics this is nothing new, Difford & Tilbrook were doing the same thing in the squeeze over 20 years ago and Jarvis Cocker in the 90's with Pulp, The music is also nothing fresh yes a talented band but ceratinly anywhere Radioheads level.

Too much fuss is made of bands in the UK, I think music journalist have given up on requiring originality to make a band any good and rehashing the past with out putting something of yourself into is quite ok and shouldbe critically acclaimed.

You might think Radiohead have gone off the map, personally I don't but I'd rather have a collection of music which has some diversity as opposed to carbon copies with no desire to give us anything fresh.

While we're at it Muse, they like Queen and Radiohead and a big epic sound, does that really justify the next second comming tag they've received of late.

PJ, AIC both have taken influence from other areas but they inject their own personality into their music and give it the unmistakable stamp of individuality.

AIC sound to me more original than Nirvana, lets face it it their a great more amped version of the Pixies.

analogueaddict72

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

Oasis, Coldplay etc, you get no complaint from me there but you clearly haven't got a clue with Radiohead.

Sound like every other whiny english band, for fuck sake's Radiohead head and shoulders over all English bands and most of US ones as well. If only a handful of bands were as brave and evolving as Radiohead we'd have a more healthy UK music scene instead of the copy cats we have at the moment.

Just you don't like it doesn't make it unoriginal, think about the question and try come up with an intelligent answer.

The Strokes: ripping off the Ramones & Velvet Underground does not make a unique original sound

Razorlight: what a fuckin joke, we get it you've heard Marquee Moon and some early U2 get something original material Borrell you ugly egostical wanker.

Arctic Monkeys: while agree that the singer has a poetic talent for lyrics this is nothing new, Difford & Tilbrook were doing the same thing in the squeeze over 20 years ago and Jarvis Cocker in the 90's with Pulp, The music is also nothing fresh yes a talented band but certainly anywhere near Radiohead's level.

Too much fuss is made of bands in the UK, I think music journalist have given up on requiring originality to make a band any good and rehashing the past with out putting something of yourself into is quite ok and should be critically acclaimed.

You might think Radiohead have gone off the map, personally I don't but I'd rather have a collection of music which has some diversity as opposed to carbon copies with no desire to give us anything fresh.

While we're at it Muse, they like Queen and Radiohead and a big epic sound, does that really justify the next second coming tag they've received of late.

PJ, AIC both have taken influence from other areas but they inject their own personality into their music and give it the unmistakable stamp of individuality.

AIC sound to me more original than Nirvana, lets face it it their a great more amped version of the Pixies.