In your opinion, what are some of the most overrated bands?

[Teppler]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gonna drop the atomic troof bomb.

The Beatles.

They really were the first incarnation of a dopey boy band. They certainly were talented and a "good" band, but they were still incrdibly overrated.

You mean you aren’t kissing the ground they walk on like everyone else? I agree, cringe.

[aaezil]

Steely Dan is the most overrated band god they suck

[Wonkie]

Tool(or anything with the maynerd)

[Delacroix]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tool(or anything with the maynerd)

Agreed, even though this may piss many people off. Don't get me wrong, I like Tool, I like A Perfect Circle (a bit more than Tool in some ways), yet people lose their shit over Maynard. Recently they played at a local festival/concert that featured a lot of bands. They debuted some new songs and there's videos of it uploaded to Youtube. The comments section is nothing but "how dare you people crowd surf to Tool!" or "how dare you people disrespect Maynard and pull out your phones to record this!"

It's music dude. It doesn't hold that much value. Quit acting like Maynard has to be worshiped anytime he graces someone with his presence. It's like everyone should avert their eyes the second he enters the room. Besides, if those people didn't whip out their phones, you wouldn't have a video to comment on right now.

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your entire post makes me want to hunt you down and rip your arms off. STP, Bush, Soundgarden, and Metallica were/are literally some of my favorite bands growing up in the 90's.

The thing about music is it is important to put in context of when it was released. A band like the Beatles may seem like they are mediocre by today's standards. However at the time there was just nothing like them and they inspired a revolution of the music industry. The bands you listed above all became famous in the early 90s... listen to 80s hair bands and then listen to any of the above and you will see that they were very much the first generation of "modern music" or whatever you want to call it. The grunge era changed things in much the same way the Beatles changed rock n roll in the 60s. An entirely different sound was born that simply didn't exist before hand.

But to the Q:

George Straight is the most overrated artist in the history of music.

I live in Texas also...

Meh. I like 90's music a lot, including Grunge, those bands (sans Metallica) just do not do it for me. Nirvana was good. I like Alice in Chains (a bit more hard rock if you ask me, but definitely some Grunge sound). But I think with STP, Bush, and Soundgarden, it's the vocals I don't like. Weiland isn't that great. Cornell, even though his voice is unique and I won't say he's a bad vocalist, it just doesn't really fluff my Garfield, if you know what I mean. In fact the only two songs I kind of like with Cornell being the vocalist is probably Audioslave's "Like a Stone" and Soundgarden's "Burden in My Hand".

I think I like Grunge for the same reasons I like punk rock. Many of the songs sound like degenerate music and the lead singers usually sound so whacked on heroin that they haven't been able to shit in weeks. Cornell has too good of a voice to have that sound.

[DinoTriz2]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tool(or anything with the maynerd)

^ that's bait

[Mead]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tool(or anything with the maynerd)

gottem

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by DinoTriz2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^ that's bait

[JurisDictum]

Pretty much all of modern pop music. The fact that an asshole like Drake has a private jet proves something is very wrong with the market. Rihanna and Gaga are ok but probably overrated.

Madonna is overrated. Not because she is crap, its because she is simply passably good by modern standards yet held up as some kind of genius in pop music.

Bush is not overrated, because he gets a lot of hate and is not universally liked. It's like Nickleback, you can't call him overrated when he gets booed off stage periodically, even if he isn't that good.

I personally hate Arena rock, and consider the entire genre a blight on Rock, and is probably overrated because of how many people seem to throw some ACDC or Kiss songs into an otherwise good rock radio station or establishment.

Metallica's later stuff kind of sucks, their best stuff was Ride the Lightning. Some like the "kill them all" era too, IDK its ok IMO. Not sure if they are overrated because the opinion I just gave is incredibly common.

[Delacroix]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty much all of modern pop music. The fact that an asshole like Drake has a private jet proves something is very wrong with the market. Rihanna and Gaga are ok but probably overrated.

Madonna is overrated. Not because she is crap, its because she is simply passably good by modern standards yet held up as some kind of genius in pop music.

Bush is not overrated, because he gets a lot of hate and is not universally liked. It's like Nickleback, you can't call him overrated when he gets booed off stage periodically, even if he isn't that good.

I personally hate Arena rock, and consider the entire genre a blight on Rock, and is probably overrated because of how many people seem to throw some ACDC or Kiss songs into an otherwise good rock radio station or establishment.

Metallica's later stuff kind of sucks, their best stuff was Ride the Lightning. Some like the "kill them all" era too, IDK its ok IMO. Not sure if they are overrated because the opinion I just gave is incredibly common.

Everyone knows St. Anger was the best Metallica album.

[DinoTriz2]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty much all of modern pop music. The fact that an asshole like Drake has a private jet proves something is very wrong with the market.

Pop music is marketed towards 15 year old girls.

You don't strike me as a teenage girl.

Which is probably why you don't like it.

Wonkie probably likes pop music because he is in fact, a 15 year old girl.