What bands do YOU think are overrated? (Don't flame, just state your awnser and move along)

[Berethond]

Led Zeppelin

Done.

I was going to say this, but the way Led Zeppelin's music was written was almost in the style of orchestral pieces. It was less of a band and more like a chamber group with rock instruments, if you take my meaning.

LOL. Actually, you've got the wrong band. That quote is taken almost word for word from an article about Boston. There was nothing like a chamber group about Led Zeppelin, in fact, their music was never very tight at all.

Here's my list:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Cake
A Perfect Circle
Metallica
AC/DC
Coldplay
U2
Nickelback
Seether
Crutch
Third Eye Blind
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective
Nirvana
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

I think that about covers it for now. I'm sure there a bunch I forgot.

 

[Sacman]

System Of a Down and U2 I don't hate them they just aren't the second coming of jesus like people say...

People consider System of a Down to be that good?

I mean, I can understand it with U2, they're good in their earlier days and they're very political, people like that kinda stuff. And I know SOAD is political as well but I just found them annoying.

OT....really any mainstream music is awful or at the very least overrated.

oh man you should hear my friends just go on and on about how totally awesome SOAD is and how they're the greatest band evar...

 

[nightowl195]

ACDC is overrated. I hate how they play this and hair metal bands on classic rock radio alongside bands that were actually influential in rock music.

But even the great and influential ones are somewhat overrated: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Pink Floyd etc...

To say that nothing else can approach what they did I think is arrogant because it assumes that the pinacle of rock music was reached in the 60's and 70's and that there can't be any more innovation in music after that point.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

AC/DC
yea
uh guys this is an overrated band thread not genre
[edit] the ultimate answer to flaming

ironic

 

[Julianking93]

System Of a Down and U2 I don't hate them they just aren't the second coming of jesus like people say...

People consider System of a Down to be that good?

I mean, I can understand it with U2, they're good in their earlier days and they're very political, people like that kinda stuff. And I know SOAD is political as well but I just found them annoying.

OT....really any mainstream music is awful or at the very least overrated.

oh man you should hear my friends just go on and on about how totally awesome SOAD is and how they're the greatest band evar...

Really? What do they say about them? All I ever hear is that "I'm a fan of them and I like their music"

Nothing much more than that.

 

[Wait...What]

Really? Everyone i know hails the Smiths as gods

 

[Guy32]

With the possible exception of Green Day stuff, there hasn't been a good song put out since 1999.

Unless you've literally heard every song put out since 1999, it's not fair at all for you to say that.

And no, this isn't flaming, this is simply stating obvious fact.

If you hadn't said this I would've.

AC/DC comes to mind, but I try to avoid the word over-rated. I think it comes off as sort of whiny.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

Muse, just not into the style.

Kings of Leon, hate the lead singer's voice with a burning passion that would make the fires of hell look like an ice ring.

flame flame flame

 

[Bruin]

Led Zeppelin

Done.

I was going to say this, but the way Led Zeppelin's music was written was almost in the style of orchestral pieces. It was less of a band and more like a chamber group with rock instruments, if you take my meaning.

LOL. Actually, you've got the wrong band. That quote is taken almost word for word from an article about Boston. There was nothing like a chamber group about Led Zeppelin, in fact, their music was never very tight at all.

Here's my list:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Cake
A Perfect Circle
Metallica
AC/DC
Coldplay
U2
Nickelback
Seether
Crutch
Third Eye Blind
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective
Nirvana
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

I think that about covers it for now. I'm sure there a bunch I forgot.

I didn't quote anybody.

I've listened to Led Zeppelin for years--I know classical music and I play it often. Zeppelin took the organization and concepts of classical music playing and put it into effect with rock. And it worked beautifully.

Or at least that's what I believe. When I listen to music, I listen to the individual instruments. I listen to the coordination of it all, how well it's put together, how well it sounds together. I play in chamber groups--what's sad is the majority of them can't match the way Zeppelin plays together. On top of that, the music isn't written in the style of modern rock music. It's much more complex. It's more diverse, it's more complicated. It's the reason why I get bored of rock music easily when playing it. It's too damn easy in most cases, or if not that, it's overly repetitive. Music like Zeppelin's is, I think, one of the few groups to nail down a perfect marriage between rock's mass appeal and free spiritedness and conventional music's organization and complexity.

 

[triggrhappy94]

The Beatles?! come on what they get is for the most part well deversed. For alot of bands you have to understand their context, like alot in a lot of early rock (older then 1969) there wasn't a real presedent.

Getting back on topic, I think any band that some way involves the devil or satanic whatever, like Iron Maiden, in their image is overrated. I'd illaburate, but I don't want to get suspended agian.

Pearl Jam.

Really? I know their new stuff is crap, but Oceans, Black, Jeremy, and Even Flow are pretty good

 

[Sacman]

System Of a Down and U2 I don't hate them they just aren't the second coming of jesus like people say...

People consider System of a Down to be that good?

I mean, I can understand it with U2, they're good in their earlier days and they're very political, people like that kinda stuff. And I know SOAD is political as well but I just found them annoying.

OT....really any mainstream music is awful or at the very least overrated.

oh man you should hear my friends just go on and on about how totally awesome SOAD is and how they're the greatest band evar...

Really? What do they say about them? All I ever hear is that "I'm a fan of them and I like their music"

Nothing much more than that.

they're always talking about how they're the most politically conscious and purest form of metal ever created and how every other band shrivels beneath their might like it's a cold day in the locker room... not in those exact words obviously but you get the point... the funny thing is that they used to say the same thing about Rage Against The Machine, but now all they say about them is how pretentious they were and how much they dislike Tom Morello... it's really quite perplexing...

 

[Berethond]

Led Zeppelin

Done.

I was going to say this, but the way Led Zeppelin's music was written was almost in the style of orchestral pieces. It was less of a band and more like a chamber group with rock instruments, if you take my meaning.

LOL. Actually, you've got the wrong band. That quote is taken almost word for word from an article about Boston. There was nothing like a chamber group about Led Zeppelin, in fact, their music was never very tight at all.

Here's my list:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Cake
A Perfect Circle
Metallica
AC/DC
Coldplay
U2
Nickelback
Seether
Crutch
Third Eye Blind
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective
Nirvana
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

I think that about covers it for now. I'm sure there a bunch I forgot.

I didn't quote anybody.

I've listened to Led Zeppelin for years--I know classical music and I play it often. Zeppelin took the organization and concepts of classical music playing and put it into effect with rock. And it worked beautifully.

Or at least that's what I believe. When I listen to music, I listen to the individual instruments. I listen to the coordination of it all, how well it's put together, how well it sounds together. I play in chamber groups--what's sad is the majority of them can't match the way Zeppelin plays together. On top of that, the music isn't written in the style of modern rock music. It's much more complex. It's more diverse, it's more complicated. It's the reason why I get bored of rock music easily when playing it. It's too damn easy in most cases, or if not that, it's overly repetitive. Music like Zeppelin's is, I think, one of the few groups to nail down a perfect marriage between rock's mass appeal and free spiritedness and conventional music's organization and complexity.

Really? That's weird, because that's almost an exact quote from an article I read about Boston.

I don't get much of a chance to play in chamber groups, because I play sax and piano. I've also never been interested enough in Zeppelin to listen to them closely, I'll admit

 

[crazy-j]

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
And before someone comes along and says I have a bias against old music, I love Hendrix and Thin Lizzy, I just find the bands I mentioned insanely overrated. I can appreciate their influence but I'd never want to listen to them. Well, some Beatles songs are okay I guess.

What don't you like about Iron Maiden? not mad, im just wondering.

 

[open trap]

The Beatles, Ozzy, Metallica (im a metallica fan but i still think they are over rated)

 

[dex-dex]

U2, Green day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, and System of a Down

Also Justin Bieber, but he's not really a band

he's just a little girl who dresses like a boy.

 

[Ironman126]

Godsmack. Way overrated! And Anberlin.

They aren't terrible. They just aren't the hot shit everyone thinks they are.

 

[Julianking93]

System Of a Down and U2 I don't hate them they just aren't the second coming of jesus like people say...

People consider System of a Down to be that good?

I mean, I can understand it with U2, they're good in their earlier days and they're very political, people like that kinda stuff. And I know SOAD is political as well but I just found them annoying.

OT....really any mainstream music is awful or at the very least overrated.

oh man you should hear my friends just go on and on about how totally awesome SOAD is and how they're the greatest band evar...

Really? What do they say about them? All I ever hear is that "I'm a fan of them and I like their music"

Nothing much more than that.

they're always talking about how they're the most politically conscious and purest form of metal ever created and how every other band shrivels beneath their might like it's a cold day in the locker room... not in those exact words obviously but you get the point... the funny thing is that they used to say the same thing about Rage Against The Machine, but now all they say about them is how pretentious they were and how much they dislike Tom Morello... it's really quite perplexing...

Purest form of metal my ass!! Just a bunch of annoying guitar solos and high pitched ridiculous screaming.

Politically conscious maybe but not the most. Yeah, the reference the government a few times in their singles but that doesn't make them political geniuses.

And I like Rage Against the Machine, damn it!!! They've got the most balls of any band I've ever seen. Watching them take an American flag on stage, turn it upside down and spray paint "666" on it in front of the National Guard was one of the funniest things I've ever seen!

 

[Outright Villainy]

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
And before someone comes along and says I have a bias against old music, I love Hendrix and Thin Lizzy, I just find the bands I mentioned insanely overrated. I can appreciate their influence but I'd never want to listen to them. Well, some Beatles songs are okay I guess.

What don't you like about Iron Maiden? not mad, im just wondering.

I can't really enjoy them outside of a cheesy way. I think some of their songs are kind of catchy, but I just think they're pretty silly overall. I mean I like silly and all, but not when it's unintentional. I know I'm in a minority with that opinion though.

 

[Bruin]

Led Zeppelin

Done.

I was going to say this, but the way Led Zeppelin's music was written was almost in the style of orchestral pieces. It was less of a band and more like a chamber group with rock instruments, if you take my meaning.

LOL. Actually, you've got the wrong band. That quote is taken almost word for word from an article about Boston. There was nothing like a chamber group about Led Zeppelin, in fact, their music was never very tight at all.

Here's my list:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Cake
A Perfect Circle
Metallica
AC/DC
Coldplay
U2
Nickelback
Seether
Crutch
Third Eye Blind
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective
Nirvana
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

I think that about covers it for now. I'm sure there a bunch I forgot.

I didn't quote anybody.

I've listened to Led Zeppelin for years--I know classical music and I play it often. Zeppelin took the organization and concepts of classical music playing and put it into effect with rock. And it worked beautifully.

Or at least that's what I believe. When I listen to music, I listen to the individual instruments. I listen to the coordination of it all, how well it's put together, how well it sounds together. I play in chamber groups--what's sad is the majority of them can't match the way Zeppelin plays together. On top of that, the music isn't written in the style of modern rock music. It's much more complex. It's more diverse, it's more complicated. It's the reason why I get bored of rock music easily when playing it. It's too damn easy in most cases, or if not that, it's overly repetitive. Music like Zeppelin's is, I think, one of the few groups to nail down a perfect marriage between rock's mass appeal and free spiritedness and conventional music's organization and complexity.

Really? That's weird, because that's almost an exact quote from an article I read about Boston.

I don't get much of a chance to play in chamber groups, because I play sax and piano. I've also never been interested enough in Zeppelin to listen to them closely, I'll admit

I formulate my own opinions, I don't steal others.

I'm trying to work a harpist into our group currently. Pain in the ass finding music for her, but it sounds lovely, and she's quite the looker amongst our pug-ugly bunch.

Anyway, if you're a fan of music that's multi-faceted and just all around complicated, Zeppelin tunes are some of the best.

Achilles Last Stand, The Battle of Evermore and No Quarter are a few good ones to get started on if you want to really get into them. The music is very emotional and very deep. It's great music to listen to when you want to think about something, as it almost forces you to think about the song's meaning and how it can relate to your own life.