List of overrated bands

don't these big name indie bands make any drummer-fuck-you money?

There's only so much a drummer can do with such beige material, though. But yeah, never got into Spoon. They're basically Toad the Wet Sprocket, but with a faint whif of pseudo-hipster pseudo-indie pseudo-cred.

The Rolling Stones. To me they are no more than just overrated jerks who write melodically dead emotionally dry music. The most overrated band I know of, actually. The Rolling Stones receive way too much praise and credit for everything from influence to the quality of their hooks. I'd give them a one at best. That said, there are a bunch of Stones songs that I do like (even a couple that I love) and I can easily say Beggar's Banquet is a really good album, but for the most part they really leave me cold. Sorry, this is just how I feel.

― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and hire a drummer!

also: neko case, new pornographers, destroyer, etc. the banality of evil...

agreed

Sorry, this is just how I feel.

Are Built to Spill like that too? I always assumed they were and never really gave them much chance. If you told me otherwise I would trust you.

They're basically Toad the Wet Sprocket, but with a faint whif of pseudo-hipster pseudo-indie pseudo-cred.

truth bomb

better looking though, I thought was the point

also: neko case, new pornographers, destroyer, etc. the banality of evil...

― scott seward, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh, I'd defend Neko; at least she sings like she cares about singing.

sometimes i can't keep straight in my head built to spill from guided by voices

to be fair, most american indie rock is a tale told by an idiot. signifying nothing.

yeah me too sort of, except I know that Guided By Voices is the one with the huge catalog and the seemingly much more devoted and cult-like fanbase.

I think I still prefer that late 90s/early 00s death rattle of rock and roll chapter in indie rock to the more recent twangly-sweet Bon Ivery fireflies-in-mason-jars stuff though.

which band is obsessed with the beatles, BtS or GbV?

yea i agree with that, bon iver fleet foxes softie garbage is not for me, even if some of it is admirable

IDK, I'm guessing GbV? I'm listening to Built to Spill right now fwiw, sounds a little like a shittier version of older Modest Mouse

i don't know if admirable is the right word, more like harmless

GbV is obsessed with the Who. I don't hear it myself, but I haven't heard much GbV.

So rhythmically pat and predictable though (BTS), MM was way more exciting.

gbv had some half-decent tunes. i still think a decent hard rock band could do an album of the best gbv songs, record them well, and maybe...nah, they wouldn't make any money. never mind.

I don't believe I've knowingly heard a Spoon song before clicking one of those vids Scott posted.

I saw James on CBS' Saturday morning Sessions segment and thought wow, there's a band that sold a ton of records over quite a few years, became inactive, reunited, and all the while I never heard a single song. I don't know how highly they're rated, but I didn't rate them at all.

i DO still think that willie nelson should do an album of grateful dead covers. would be the biggest album he ever had. get the t bone burnett treatment. guest vocalists. would be HUGE. it's really the only million dollar idea i have...

just as long as they don't involve any members of the dead...

James is an exceptionally boring band, but I don't remember ever knowing anyone who loved them.

Turned off BtS after a couple songs and put on Lonesome Crowded West -- this record still kicks.

built to spill are a snooze. i don't know if they are overrated though. don't think anyone really listens to them except for their fading graying original audience. like silkworm fans only sleepier. if that's possible.

indie rockers the proverbial fish in barrel though. they can be fun to pick on but ultimately kinda pointless. like life. and indie rock.

stop messing up the thread

nick cave owns this thread.

the fall owns this thread

Sorry, that is just how I feel.

Nick Cave can do one

I agree he is completely terrible, although I like the majority of his albums and also he is my beloved uncle

In a parallel universe, the beatles put out a series of brilliant but almost completely neglected albums that only cultists own and love with a religious fervour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A

http://charlesbarabe.bandcamp.com/album/insultes-hommage-john-cage

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/Screenshot%202014-12-14%2017.52.17.png

Boards of Canda. To my mind they are the dictionay defenition of pretencious . Overated , formulaic, singalong lager fueled wedding music for the musically challenged

haha

do you think pankaj mishra and his friends like kant, arendt and roth would see sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?

typically practised its mostly a sort of pass/ag censure or a feelgood gesture of commonality, at its highest aspiration it can even approach the phatic, a reassuring block of text that doesn't need to be read but purportedly affirms the link poster's own views, which a priori are the same as every other right-thinking link poster's views

― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:53 (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imagery?

― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:57 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obscure words awkwardly conjoined

― Aimless, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:07 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilx posts with striking horseshit

― marcos, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:10 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

tbf there really is no imagery there

there very seldom is in my posts, clover is seemingly just using that thread for uncontextualized c&ps of posts written at any sort of level likely to confound landfill rubes, which is admirable in its way

how hard do you have to squint to read other people's posts from that high horse of yours

Balancement 25 days ago

If the excerpt is any indication, then Finnissy did indeed defecate on stage. I'm sorry, life is simply too short for this kind of clattering nonsense. Five-and-a-half hours? As the old sayings go, the Emperor has no clothes, and if Finnissy should ever run across something resembling a melody, or development of same, he ought to write it down.

Nevermind was the third most acclaimed album of all time, is what I've just learned

and you wonder why I mistrust critics to the point of antipathy

The Avalanches. They are just OK to me, most of their somehow legendary album sounds muddy and unfocused. They do have a few decent tracks admittedly.

Unlike Spiritualized. I tried several times to see what the fuss is about, they have never once given the slightest indication of being more than hugely dreary and derivative.

DaveKerfuffle 5d ago

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Sad news indeed, and RiP
However: Twin Peaks. A whole generation of Hipsters were conceived to the soundtrack of this gratingly pretentious and over-rated babble-fest. Think on, people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(band)

The band's influences on the album include garage rock acts such as Jay Reatard, Ty Segall and The Strokes,[5] and rock artists such as the Beatles, The Stooges, and the Rolling Stones.[6]

Animal Collective is horrific
Tame Impala
Bon Iver

I've been aware of Fantano as a name that crops up every so often in places on the internet where music discussion is taking place, but I've never once understood why people consider his opinions worth paying attention to. I've never once found myself interested in what Fantano thinks about... well, anything. I did watch a couple of his reviews a couple of years ago and I didn't find what he had to say particularly enlightening or engaging. Just as well, since apparently according to this thread he's a bit of a douche.

i don't get all the hate