10 Most Overated Rock bands / Performers

nickelback ... i don't know anyone how will admit to liking them but they still seem to dominate the airwaves

pjoasisrule wrote:

Tool
Radiohead
The Rolling Stones
Rush
Dave Matthews Band
The Smiths
The Stone Roses
Creed
Santana
Linkin Park
The Strokes
Every single emo band that is popular and getting good reviews
Staind
Janis Joplin
Almost all women singers (women suck at rock music for the most part)
The Clash
Talking Heads
REM
Beck
The Arcade Fire
The Flaming Lips
Cake

I don't think any of these bands are overrated.. most have them have kinda flown under the radar, with the excpetion of a few at the top of the list, and the rest are just the junk of the day...and THE CLASH fucking rock..

Every Beatles album IS great, because they started with a solid rocknroll foundation, and every single release expanded upon the one that came before, to the point where Abbey Road is so goddamn amazing that calling it any less than one of the greatest recordings of all time is just ridiculous. Putting them on a list like this is laughable and absurd.

eclectic wrote:

Fair enough , but I would have to say that your favourite band(and I also like quite a few OASIS songs) get far more credit than they deserve for sure,and I am a Man City fan!

not here in America

eclectic wrote:

I am a Man City fan!

Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man United
As the reds go....

Finish it off man city fan...

Tom K wrote:

Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man United
As the reds go....

Finish it off man city fan...

I'd rather be a psycho than a red!Its boring winning every week , cos it makes it so much sweeter when we turn you over ,which has happened twice in the last three at home(4-1 and 3-1 I think).You will probably never know how good that actually feels.I take great solace from that even though I have to endure such copious amounts of pain between times.

Sorry but I really don't like The Beatles...:eek:

comfortably numb wrote:

the beach boys and REM are both amazing

you people are crazy

but tons of people would think im crazy for saying that LED ZEPPELIN is completely overrated. and of course so are the easy targets like AC/DC, Metallica... etc.

I'm still really confused about this. If Led Zeppelin and Metallica are over-rated, then how good do you have to be before you are not ??
If you mean they are not cutting edge modern and "new-smelling cool", that is different, but how does, genre-defining domination and widely acknowledged chops equate with over-rated.
Again who is better ??

i think we're talking about opinions here. just harmless opinions. and if they're genre dominating/cutting edge/whatever then good for them

specifically, im thinking about the sound per se, and not what they influenced and who else likes them.

personally, and a lot of people (though still probably the minority) tend to agree, i think that robert plant has one of the most annoying voices of all time. no matter how "powerful" or no matter what its range is. it just grates my cheese, you know? maybe we that dont like his voice have some sort of evil anti-robert plant gene in us. and as for the songs themselves... well... i just dont like them to be honest.

a lot of people talk like the first few metallica albums are the best and their newer stuff is bad. well, i'd take the newer stuff anyday, with the exception of a couple of annoying ones like "fuel". and i havent heard their newest.
it's almost as if if someone wanted to make a parody of metallica's music, the parody would almost be indistinguishable from the real stuff you know? it just sounds so corny to me. dont get me started on the lyrics. obviously just not my type of music, then.

so, overrated. but just my little opinion. im not some kind of music critic

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comfortably numb wrote:

i think we're talking about opinions here. just harmless opinions. and if they're genre dominating/cutting edge/whatever then good for them

specifically, im thinking about the sound per se, and not what they influenced and who else likes them.

personally, and a lot of people (though still probably the minority) tend to agree, i think that robert plant has one of the most annoying voices of all time. no matter how "powerful" or no matter what its range is. it just grates my cheese, you know? maybe we that dont like his voice have some sort of evil anti-robert plant gene in us. and as for the songs themselves... well... i just dont like them to be honest.

a lot of people talk like the first few metallica albums are the best and their newer stuff is bad. well, i'd take the newer stuff anyday, with the exception of a couple of annoying ones like "fuel". and i havent heard their newest.
it's almost as if if someone wanted to make a parody of metallica's music, the parody would almost be indistinguishable from the real stuff you know? it just sounds so corny to me. dont get me started on the lyrics. obviously just not my type of music, then.

so, overrated. but just my little opinion. im not some kind of music critic

I guess to me "over-rated" means, not really living up to the hype, or not what they are cracked up to be, rather than "don't like". That "Metallica have done nothing good since teh 80's" sage opinion offered up is just so old and unoriginal. I really prefer their newer stuff for complexity and musical style, I do listen to teh older stuff, but find KEA songs very basic. They were written by green teenagers and it shows. RTL has some more sophisticated efforts, Justice... is nearly indigestible but One is a stand-out that anybody would be proud to have on their CV. I guess that is where I am coming from.
No-one has yet offered up a more qualified band than Zep or Metallica, based on any criteria you could mention. I could suggest a few that have done well based on musicianship, longevity, number of major highlights, live reputation, depth as shown through surviving changes and losses, number of great songs. PJ obviously qualifies, so do the Stones, Fleetwood Mac, U2, Eagles and a few others.
Plant's voice is one thing, the overall Zeppelin package and what it did for rock is another altogether. The opening track to teh first album"Good Times, Bad Times" could be released today and sound as fresh as it did then.
So again, I'm keen to hear about teh bands that make these guys look ordinary.............?? Anyone ...............?????