The Most Over-Rated Band

[Wade-DeadPool]

Black Eyed Peas.. Make's me want to vomit blood everytime i hear that thing they call "music"

 

[BioHazardMan]

ACDC. The Beatles are NOT over rated.

 

[Nadlice]

I'm struggling to understand how people say Nirvana with such frequency. They brought grunge into the mainstream, which has had a great effect on rock and punk in the mainstream since. Nevermind went 10 times platinum (10 million copies shipped). Grohl is now fronting an incredibly successful band.

Nirvana is more then Kurt or Kurt's suicide. Though they are overrated, that doesn't make them shite. Almost all music is overrated to some degree.

OT: Your standard list. Including Beatles, Radiohead, ACDC, more bands that have been repeated ad nausum

Keep in mind that I include Radiohead and the Beatles because their respective fans think far too highly of them for me to NOT include them.

Dream Theater is overrated like hell. Amazing musicians, but there are better prog metal bands out there, and Liquid Tension Experiment is much more interesting then most of their other work.

I find most post rock be dull and repetitive. GY:BE and Explosions in the Sky are enjoyable, and I do listen to them, but they are not visionaries.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

The Beatles. /thread

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!

 

[Zipa]

Metallica.

I never understood why so many people love them.

Their early releases is thrash metal with soul to it and well written music.

Although they are overrated, i love them.

Their best thrash song was a cover , stone cold crazy was originally by Queen.

How?

Because they wrote it first?

So how does that make it Metallica's best song?

It doesn't, its my opinion that it is, feel free to disagree.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I never really cared for Nirvana; and I was in Jr. High at the time when they were big and had to hide it.

I agree. In fact, when they got huge after Kurt Cobain's death, I despised them. I used to like them somewhat until all those newly acquired fans who sprung up due to his suicide, decided to shove all this love for the band down everyones throat and proclaim them to be the best band, the most influential band, blah blah blah. Nope people, you're wrong. They were slightly less then okay and had very limited musical talent. Cobain knew three chords and their drummer had more talent in his big toe than the rest of the band combined which I guess would just be the yet mentioned shitty bassist Chris Novoselic and the super emo lead singer.

Everything in this post is truth. Nirvana are SUPREMELY over-rated. Otherwise, Guns and Roses. Guns and Roses Guns and Roses Guns and Roses. they aren't just no good. they are irritating. Axl Rose is as bad as trying to wedge a pineapple as far as I can into my ear-drum. In fact, I would rather shove a porcupine in my ear. Slash is alright. But Axl Rose makes me so angry I can't even think of something he makes me want to do because of how angry he makes me.

 

[RanD00M]

Sigur Rós. Not that great. I can honestly say that there are many better Icelandic bands when it come it to lyrics, music and just pure enjoyment.

Pendulum. They're okay, not the second coming of christ like I have seen some people describe them as. They have some songs that I like, but when it comes to grimey-electronica I'll take The Prodigy over them any day.

 

[Nimcha]

led zeppelin. they have some really good songs like "the ocean" and "no quarter" but greatest band of all time? whatever man.

Ouch.

Besides me I've never seen anyone proclaim them to be the best band ever though. Even though they totally are.

 

[Tdc2182]

I never really cared for Nirvana; and I was in Jr. High at the time when they were big and had to hide it.

I agree. In fact, when they got huge after Kurt Cobain's death, I despised them. I used to like them somewhat until all those newly acquired fans who sprung up due to his suicide, decided to shove all this love for the band down everyones throat and proclaim them to be the best band, the most influential band, blah blah blah. Nope people, you're wrong. They were slightly less then okay and had very limited musical talent. Cobain knew three chords and their drummer had more talent in his big toe than the rest of the band combined which I guess would just be the yet mentioned shitty bassist Chris Novoselic and the super emo lead singer.

.... Except for the fact they basically spawned a new musical generation for the late 80s early 90s. They brought grunge to the forefront. If it wasn't for them, the music we would be seeing nowadays.

Sure, maybe they weren't the best band in the world (coming from someone who never really cared for them either), but usually the first of the kind isn't going to be absolutely perfect.

Not to mention Dave Grohl branched off and had an insane amount of very good songs these past few years. But now we are getting into opinion territory, so I am gonna move it on to...

Edit: Completely missed the part where you said Dave was talented. Must've bounced right off.

OT: Metallica.

I just... don't see what they have brought to the table, and I don't see any hidden potential in there songs.
Whenever I hear something they sing, I immediately think they are making fun of themselves. I will go as far to say a terrible band.

U2.

Although it may just not be my style of music.

Hypocrisy much?
You go on a spiel about how a band that you didn't care for much still brought a whole new musical influence to the table and then a few lines later you mention one of the big four in thrash metal and say that they brought nothing new to the table. Unspeakable.

Well with all these great thrash metal bands nowadays... /sarcasm

 

[Atmos Duality]

Every band that has ever been popular.
Music is about taste. You can copy-paste your favorite dissertation of subjective reasoning and insert it here.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

The Beatles. /thread

This.

Metallica*
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd

*http://www.cracked.com/article_18500_the-5-most-famous-musicians-who-are-thieving-bastards.html I recall them crying over Napster....

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

AC/DC by far. Then again, that kind of hard rock in general bores me.

I'll also throw my hat in for the Beatles. I like the Beatles, but I don't see how they're the best band ever.

U2's also up there as far as overrating goes. They have a lot of bravado and that's respectable, but they come off as pretentious douchebags who see themselves as the whiny voice of the downtrodden more often than not. Plus, Bono can't sing.

Van Halen and Bon Jovi are also up there. I don't like or hate them, but I don't think they deserve the accolades that they've received.

Most metalcore/deathcore outfits also count for me. I don't care what people say, Suicide Silence just really comes off as a group of teenagers trying to act 'hard' to upstage their more talented big brothers in the death metal scene.

For real metal, Manilla Road's the most overrated to me. I acknowledge that they can play, but it's just not any good to me.

 

[Bucht]

For real metal, Manilla Road's the most overrated to me. I acknowledge that they can play, but it's just not any good to me.

Crystal Logic is one of the best albums ever! But yes they have alot of boring stuff too, I still wouldn't call them overrated though.

To answer the OP's question: anything I don't like is overrated.

 

[Yopaz]

The Beatles. /thread

Uh...I have to go with this. I've listened to the Beatles and I don't get what's so great about them. Perhaps I'm a generation too late but...yeah they seem overrated. Probably doesn't help my girlfriend's dad is obsessed with them and think they are GOD.

Beatles is popular because they were the only ones you could listen to unless you wanted classic music.

So blues,folk,jazz and other rockbands disspeared during the time of the beatles?

>.> U sure?

Yeah, I am generalizing, but the point still stands. *There was a narrow market and The Beatles filled up a hole in it, perhaps a necessary hole, perhaps not. In any case they became big because they were out there early, and they may even have revolutionized music (finding out it was possible to move in music videos and while playing is one example). It's a band that has had popularity from the start to now. They still sell records because of their long time fame. Thinking sales they're the greatest band of all time, thinking music it's quite dated. There isn't anything with them that is unique anymore.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

I'm jumping on the bandwagon and saying the Beatles. Me and a friend constantly argue over this, with him believing that the Beatles defined music or something. Personally, I think that they were talented song writers, but terrible musicians. The kinks were much better.

they weren't good until 1968 with the exception of like 4 songs though

 

[Hotfoottfox]

Mostly any popular music. That's all basically crap... and early metallica (though I haven't listened to much earlier stuff), and Dragon Force.

Most under-rated: Newer Metallica (I never heard St. Anger, but I like Death Magnetic, and I especially like what they did with S&M (The big live show)), Demon Hunter (I only include that based on the lack of people even being aware of it... at least, that I know... though if I'm including bands like that: Stratovarius (Not the newest stuff, but before the self named album), Sonata Arctica (Almost all of their stuff)), and Dream Theater.

So many parenthesis...'s...

I agree with most of what you're saying... Except new and old Metallica. Unforgiven III and Cyanide were the only good songs on Death Magnetic.

 

[radiocrash]

Asking Alexandria. Famous for their hairstyles, not their music. Possibly the most generic and shitty hardcore band I've ever heard, yet 12 year old scene queens incessantly buy the garbage they have to offer.

 

[Kortney]

I think one of the funniest things you could see on the internet is watching people say The Beatles are over rated, then watching them praise the 50 bands they like - that wouldn't exist were it not for The Beatles. Hehe.

People, without The Beatles music wouldn't of evolved past Elvis Presley. I agree, there is plenty of better music out there than lots of The Beatles stuff, but The Beatles were so damn innovative. They pretty much invented the "norm" of most music today. They were amazing - whether or not you like their music.

Anyway, I don't think there is a such a thing as "over rated". Just because you don't like a band that a million people do doesn't make the band over rated. That's quite strange logic lots of us are using there.