The most overrated band and/or singer

[GrogNerd]

I <3 Dave Grohl..

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awesome, Dave

and even if you don't become a rockstar, just jamming with your buddies in your garage is a blast.

if you can string 40 or so cover songs together, get the intros and outros pretty tight, then become a bar band & you can make a couple bucks off having a blast

 

[SwivelHips]

Rush. That's right, I said it.

Them's fightin' words here in Canadia...

My vote goes to Bon Jovi. Horrible, horrible songwriting. Two things made them famous: Jon's looks and Richie's hooks. That is all.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I'll keep this simple and sweeping.

Overrated:
The entire Southern Rock genre
The entire Country genre (obviously)
Everything from Australia
Grunge? I don't see the difference between that and general rock. How is it even a genre?
80's Heavy Metal. Metal was great in the 70's before it committed suicide.
Katie Perry's ****s.
Rap (obviously)

Underrated:
Jazz/rock fusion
70's British progressive. (It's what I grew up on, so I can't help that one)
George Thorogood
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Lou Reed (RIP)
Katie Perry's ****s

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Now, I should like Rush, but I just can't get past the annoying vocals. Ever since I heard them say that early Genesis were an influence of theirs, that is all I hear on their music.....a more guitar based version of Genesis. It is unfair of me, I know. They are talented and original, I just have too many issues with them that get in the way of the music for me.

 

[MaxStout]

I'll keep this simple and sweeping.

Underrated:
Jazz/rock fusion
70's British progressive. (It's what I grew up on, so I can't help that one)
George Thorogood
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Lou Reed (RIP)
Katie Perry's ****s

This. Especially love European prog, as I grew up on it too. Floyd, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, EL&P, Yes, Peter Gabriel era Genesis, Focus, Tull. Lately have been listening to a lot of Canterbury scene--Caravan, Soft Machine, Gong, Hatfield And The North--all bands I had never heard of back in the early '70s, but have discovered in recent years. Good stuff.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Gong

I love Gong, (see my vague user name reference) but I don't talk about them much as nobody knows who they are.

 

[MaxStout]

I love Gong, (see my vague user name reference) but I don't talk about them much as nobody knows who they are.

And you need a flow chart to keep up with them.

I have a few of their early albums--notably the Radio Gnome trilogy, and Camembert Electrique. Awesome psychedelia/jazz-rock fusion.

 

[TxBrew]

I'll keep this simple and sweeping.

Overrated:
Grunge? I don't see the difference between that and general rock. How is it even a genre?

Listen to it. It's grungier.

Underrated:
King Crimson

Agreed. I Talk to the Wind changed my life.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Agreed. I Talk to the Wind changed my life.

I liked Epitaph so much that I painted it!

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

I liked Epitaph so much that I painted it!

That's awesome

 

[angrysparrow]

This thread is funny when it's serious. There's probably not any band or singer that once well-known and popular can't be called over-rated. Particularly true when enough time has passed that the band's relevance has diminished.

For my own contribution to this thread, I'll name The Ramones.

I like The Ramones, but that's because I like most punk. But I also think they get an insurmountable amount of recognition and credit, even though they weren't the first (or best) punk band of that era.

JMO

 

[podz]

One Direction

 

[GrogNerd]

One Direction

I call them "One Dimension"

and when anyone tries to correct me, I tell them, "no, I'm pretty sure they're One Dimension"

 

[brewmcq]

I call them "One Dimension"

and when anyone tries to correct me, I tell them, "no, I'm pretty sure they're One Dimension"

 

[Dr. Francois]

The Eagles

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

The Eagles

Wow really?

 

[GrogNerd]

The Eagles

Wow really?

I know! just because I really can't stand to listen to them anymore doesn't mean they're overrated

just because Henley, Frey and Feldner are all bu**-reaming a-holes, doesn't mean they aren't talented

but Joe Walsh could play an out-of-tune guitar and fart into a mic and I would still applaud like a madman. I just can't seem to bring myself to dislike the guy

 

[CGVT]

http://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc

 

[GrogNerd]

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from the comments. i almost choked on my coffee


I agree, but would have to say "F**k Hotel California, SIDE 1"

Side 2 isn't played on the radio at all, so I can still listen to and enjoy it.

 

[Dr. Francois]

Wow really?

http://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc

It was this scene in this movie that made me believe it was okay to dislike the band. Before that, I thought something was wrong with me.

 

[schmidtosu]

There is some really decent stuff that has come out in the last 10-12 years if you have a strange eclectic taste in music...The Decemberists early stuff, frightened rabbit, some of Bright eyes early stuff (love fevers and mirrors, but it may be more tied to my mindset when I first heard the album)

but Green Day and U2 are my overrated artists

also heard that Kurt Cobain was working with Michael Stipe before he passed, I think those results would have really shown what he could have become away from Nirvana...sadly we will never know...

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Tiny Tim had no talent at all. Why can people never see that? (Add appropriate emoticon here)

 

[DromJohn]

Eagles.

But I do have three times as many James Gang albums than Eagles albums because the Eagles album came into the house with SWMBO.

I also saw Eagles open for Yes.

 

[KayaBrew]

This would be easier if the thread were titled "Name every band that ever was".

 

[Bulls Beers]

This would be easier if the thread were titled "Name every band that ever was".

Nobody mentioned Tom Petty, which I don't think is overrated BTW.

 

[GrogNerd]

Nobody mentioned Tom Petty, which I don't think is overrated BTW.

well, actually...

except for "Runnin' Down a Dream" I would say the 2 TP albums produced by Jeff Lynne were both highly overrated

can't stand the way he does backing vocal tracks. ruined Roy Orbison's "You Got It"

 

[BertusBrew]

Pearl Jam
The Eagles
AC/DC

 

[Eugenio]

Pearl Jam
The Eagles
AC/DC

To each his own...but god it pains me to see Pearl Jam in there!

 

[CGVT]

It pains me to see Pearl Jam. Period

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

It pains me to see Pearl Jam. Period

I feel like a comment like this (aka a play on words) almost always reads like Groucho Marx is saying it.