List of overrated bands

1 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOyw6Q8qWpM

2 The Smiths have a handful of tracks that I like (Cemetery Gates, There Is A Light, and a few others), but I find it so difficult to get over my hatred of Morrissey that I can't bring myself to get into them.

3 Metallica - I'm sorry but they have just plain sucked since 1990, and even their first 4 albums had nothing on bands like Dark Angel and Slayer.

4 Queen are one of the most overrated bands in modern history if you ask me. Ever listened to their "Best Of"? There are the usual suspects, plus 80% pure fillers.

5 Nirvana - Wow... basic chord changes and suicidal lyrics, how profound.

6 outkast - but only cuz idlewild broke my heart

7 Mars Volta - Dull, overwrought, pretentious crap. An incredibly overrated "prog" band, its just noise that useless teenages praise as experimental genius.

8 Billy Joel - Piano Man and Scenes From an Italian Restaurant are good songs, but that's about it. Piano rock was never cool in my book.

9 Merzbow - I don't like this guy's music. There is a total lack of quality control, and I don't want to spent countless hours of my life trying to get the industrial/noise gems. But, after watching the Beyond Ultra Violence documentary, although I think that this guy is more pretentious than Emerson, Lake and Palmer together, I really respect the guy.

10 Pearl Jam - First of all, the band's name is a blatant rip-off of the arcade game "NBA Jam." Second, the initials of the band's name is PJ. Mess up there guys? Third, it doesn't help a band when their fans cannot understand one word in their songs. And fourth, this band cannot be very good if I do not know one of their songs. And that is saying something, because Pearl Jam is the most overplayed, overloved, and overrated band in the history of music.

haw

11 Tool. You know I dissed 50cent on here and nobody cared. I could make threads about Zeppelin or Sabbath or the Beatles or the Red Hot ****ty ****ers or the Cure or Henry Rollins or the Manic Sheep Treaters with no responses. If you made a thread about the Smiths calling them a bunch of bequiffed pretentious gays I may not even respond. The venom with which some people have leaped to the defense of this band only serves to support my charge that they are a band for pretentious people, by pretentious people.

12 Aphex Twin - My thoughts on techno music like Aphex Twin is that it's music for people on drugs. But all those pops, whirrs, and clicks that sound so awesome and explode in your head when you're buzzed on good weed sound really repetitive to me when I'm sober. It's usually just four measures of one repetitive techno line followed by four measures of the same line with another sound effect added in, followed by four measures of the previous line with yet another sound effect layered on - this is what it sounds like to me. I can't see any appeal to it at all beyond listening to it when you're high.

13 Goatwhore - I just don't like Goatwhore sorry guys!

14 Massive Attack - Take Horace Andy/Shara Nelson/Liz Cocteau out and I barely like any of their stuff and the last couple of albums were wretched. Tricky is a totally useless knobhead as well.

15 Radiohead - Never really got what the fuss was about. When I asked someone to compare them to another band, they said "Muse". So, I think I'll stick with Muse.

16 Christgau represents the worst of rock and pop criticism. He displays blatant biases and provides no objective supporting criteria to back up his insults. He hates metal, progressive rock, bluegrass...etc and expects that his word be treated as musical law. He's a rude, insulting, pretentious rock critic elitist who thinks he's god's gift to rock music and cultural criticism. The man knows nothing of music and has no place writing about it. He is merely a failed fiction writer with a small vocabulary and large ego to boot. This man is truly the definition of failure

17 Mozart - He doesn't even make my top-ten. Beethoven, Bach, Berlioz, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Stravinsky, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin were all better composers. Being a "child prodigy" does not necessitate lifetime greatness and that was certainly true in Mozart's case. Was he "good"? Of course. But was he deserving to be mentioned in the same breath as Beethoven or Bach? Not a chance in hell.

The verdict is in: Mozart was overrated.

Red Hot ****ty ****ers

???

Red Hot Charity Fundraisers

why is there two same threads?

note to self:
Nilmar is not pretentious and is better than Bob'gau

Prince - there, i said it.

so who is going to drop the mbv bomb ...

18 Portishead - In 1994 Portishead emerged from Bristol's thriving trip-hop scene with a haunting and atmospheric debut album entitled 'Dummy'. At the time I thought the album was incredible - with Beth Gibbon's 'witchy woo' vocals and the spooky sci-fi samples. However, some 11 years later, 'Dummy' sounds dated and stale. The sign of a truly great album is surely one that sounds as good today as it did when it was first released.

19 Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On: Like listening to a drunken party through a sack full of mud. If this is political funk, I ain't votin' for it!

20 The Beatles - manufactired pap from 4 whining nasal scouse proicks none of whom would be fit to hold Ray Davies' plectrum.

16 Christgau represents the worst of rock and pop criticism. He displays blatant biases and provides no objective supporting criteria to back up his insults. He hates metal, progressive rock, bluegrass...etc and expects that his word be treated as musical law. He's a rude, insulting, pretentious rock critic elitist who thinks he's god's gift to rock music and cultural criticism. The man knows nothing of music and has no place writing about it. He is merely a failed fiction writer with a small vocabulary and large ego to boot. This man is truly the definition of failure

OTM.

21 Genesis - there's a theme developing here - 1970s prog rock should be a dark secret that's swept nder the carpet never, ever to see the light of day. If paedophiles were music they would be a Genesis cover version with a side order of Pink Floyd.

The worst is when he doesn't even spend his 10-word quota on a release and just uses his bomb/scissor icon. Yeah, that's really advanced music criticism, dude. Go fuck yourself.

22 little feat - people started listening to them before i did

23 My Bloody Valentine's 'Loveless'. Inexplicably feted as some sort of 20th century classic by just about everyone - awful, ear-numbingly tuneless dirges in my book.

24 Stereolab - Stereolab is french for "overrated."

25.The most over rated music artist of ALL TIME : Jimmy Buffet hands down, why do people keep giving this guy money to play the same stupid songs? He is way too rich and arrogant already.

26 Boards of Canada - Sure, they have some cool melodies, but there is no evolution in any of their tracks. It's the same loop all the way through. They surely know their way around a drum machine, as I find a lot of their beats funky. And the interludes...they don't add anything to the listening experience.

Just my .02

Dave Matthews Band: Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Overrated.

27 The Velvet Underground. The Who pretty much wrote the first power ballad with Behind Blue Eyes. And just because they didn't use "big" words or could articulate their musical goals like Cale or Lou Reed, doesn't make Moon, Daltrey, or Entwhstle any less instinctual of musical geniuses. Just less pretentious in my book. I don't see Townsend as any more pretentious than Lou Reed.

28 tortoise. mcentire is better in sea & cake

29 The Doors. With the exception of "LA Woman" and "The End" (and thats mainly cos Apocalypse Now used it to great effect), this band were boring session musician noodly bollocks with a fat drunk who spouted a bunch of gibberish that everyone mistook for profundity

30 Foo Fighters (I'm sorry but theres too many festival goers/Kerrang! readers that love this band soooo much that they say they're a religion or something.)

31 Radiohead. I'm sorry but I just don't see what the big deal is. Sure, they have a few songs that I do generally enjoy, but I just don't get them at all.

32 Michael Jackson? I'm sorry but he IS overrated to me....overhyped too.

And...I don't like the Red Hot Chili Peppers either (Flea as a name?? yeesh...)

33. Green Day

Before American Idiot, Green Day was an impressive young band, blending pure punk with delicious melodies, cranking out songs such as Brain Stew and Good Riddance. But after 2004, they ceased to be a band and became a franchise. It was no longer a musical entity as much as a stadium-selling appearance. Dozens of bands tried to follow their example and are partially responsible for the dearth in punk rock today.

34. Dave Brubeck: Just got this CD. It's supposed to be one of the most commercially successfully jazz CD ever. But I didn't hear a track that is instantly likeable, other than Take Five. So how can it be so commercially successful? As a matter of fact, it sounds more like an audiophile demo disc. What gives?

35 U2. THERE. I SAID IT. U2 is overrated. OH EM GEE! Blasphemy! And I’m not just saying it to cause a kerfuffle in hopes of increased readership. That’s just bonus

36 The Beatles are overrated. There I said it. someone had to. That's all I've been hearing on the news lately. 40th anniversary this and that. Who cares.

37 Pink Floyd - some legitimately great tunes, but Comfortable Numb sucks. There, I said it.

37 hipsters playing continuous sounds of farts while repeating the same line or profanities for the whole 3-4 minutes and call it the New Age of Music.

38. Pavement.Everywhere I look there are rave reviews for the band Pavement. All the critics seem to love them. Well, I actually listened to them for the first time yesterday and it was sad. The guy can't sing, he doesn't even try. They're instrumental is boring, depressing

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

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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

I find I mentally divide artists I dislike into two categories. Some, like REM, are just boring and a mystery in their popularity. But some, like Lady Gaga , make me actively angry, as though I'm witnessing someone scamming someone and getting away with it.

Kate Bush... just get on with it, then

not a band but.. Wes Anderson. Tell me an actual film, a real film, that he has made that is in fact great. See, you can't do it.

This fucking thread again

R.I.P. Sorry this is just how I feel