Most Overrated Bands

I always thought The Moody Blues sucked horse balls.

CREED - I am tired of this group.

A Taste of Honey (Boogie Oogie Oogie): In 1978, they beat out Elvis Costello for Best New Artist. I would rate Costello as a better artist, IMHO.

I think astorian said it best, and said it early. Isn’t “overrated” another way of saying “Other people like this but I don’t”? Colour me unsurprised that different people like different music.

Rush
Creed
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Except Simple Man)
Sum 41
Blink 182
Led Zeppelin
System of a Down
The Ramones
U2

The instant you defend a band by referring to the lyrics, you’ve lost the war. The quality of music lies in the SONG and its performance - the lyrics are a miniscule part of it. Britney Spears songs wouldn’t become better songs if you replaced the words with passages from Dylan Thomas.

My picks:

**1. Rush **
Rush isn’t one of the 10 best acts to come out of Canada. But at least they have a known product. Her is every Rush song ever written:

  1. Radiohead

The emperor’s got no clothes on, folks.
3. Nirvana

I’m sick of hearing what geniuses they are. I will grant they were the first big grunge band. And Tom Green was the first actor to wear a dead deer on his head. Tom Green still isn’t Tom Hanks, and Nirvana still is not Fleetwood Mac. Kurt’s dead, deal with it.
4. Lou Reed

God, I couldn’t agree more.
5. The Eagles

Narrowly beats out Genesis in the “midly lame but horrendously overplayed band” category. It isn’t just “Hotel California,” it’s everything they ever did. Actually, they weren’t BAD. But they’re terribly overrated.

  1. Lynryd Skynard

Oooh, they’re from the South, look, they did “Freebird.” Oh, screw me sideways. “Sweet Home Alabama” is a stupid song most loved by people with more broken washing machines in their front yards than teeth in their heads. These guys sucked ass. And Neil Young was right, by the way.

  1. Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan winning the Oscar for that meandering, tuneless “Things Have Changed” song is proof that God should flood the earth again. Dylan can’t sing and his songwriting is this shits, but he continues to be loved by old coots who can’t accept that it’s 2003 now and their childhood ended 35 years ago. Since Dylan fans are getting to the age now where the hearing starts to go, I’ll yell this:

HEY, GRANDPA! YES, YOU, IN THE BUICK CENTURY! YOU’RE 56 YEARS OLD NOW. YOU DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT MUSIC ANYMORE. STOP PRETENDING YOU’RE NOT JUST AN OLD FART AND ACCEPT IT. “LAURYN HILL” IS NOT A HILL NEAR BERKELEY YOU WENT TO TO GET STONED. PLAY YOUR DYLAN RECORDS AT HOME. DO NOT FOIST IT ON THE REST OF US. HE SUCKS! I’M SORRY IT’S NOT 1968 ANYMORE, BUT SUCK IT UP!

  1. Sarah McLachlan

My Christ, what a talentless hack. She had all her songs written for her up to “Fumbling towards Ecstasy” and since then she’s been doing the same song over and over again. Do you remember when Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. because he claimed “Ghostbusters” was a ripoff of “I Want A New Drug?” Well, Sarah McLachlan should sue herself, because “Building A Mystery” is just “Possession” chord for chord. She even stole an album cover from Neil Young. The funny voice was cute in 1991.

But somehow she has become the central figure of this “singer/songwriter” thing. Every woman with a guitar now styles herself as a “singer/songwriter.” Not singers. Not musicians. “Singer/songwriters.” Well, Sarah McLachlan never wrote her own songs and has written total crap since she started trying, and her singing is a one-trick-pony freakshow.

  1. Metallica

Is there a more contempible name in the history of music? “Metallica”? The first time I heard that name I thought it was a joke band, like Spinal Tap. Naming your heavy metal band “Metallica” is akin to naming your pop band “Poppita” or your James Taylor cover band “Lamecrappitta.” Maybe you could name your country and western band “The Cowshit Music Orchestra.” Anyone who was surprised Metallica led the charge agains the fans in the Napster fight should remember that this is a band that STARTED OFF with a name designed to sell records and make money, and nothing else.

Did Metallica ever do a pre-1997 song that did not contain that heavy metal stutter-guitar thing - you know, the thing Beavis and Butthead used to do? “Dadadadada DA! Dadadadada DA!” I guess it’s cool if you’re 13 years old.

  1. The Doors

They made about 4-5 good songs, but frankly I can think of 250 other bands that would have done a better job recording those songs. The fact that Billy Idol’s “LA Woman” was better than Jim Morrison’s tells you everything you need to know. Denis Leary was bang on: “I’m drunk, I’m nobody, I’m drunk, I’m famous, I’m drunk, I’m fucking dead.” He was absolutely serious; that was “The Doors, The Movie” in its entirety.

that reminds me of something i heard somewhere.

“the eagles were one of the first bands to succesfully combine rock and country music, instantly killing them both.”

I think the classic one is The Lemonheads. You’d hear every critic in the early nineties talk about how great they are. And their name would come up as if we were expected to know who they were, yet no one owned their damn album.

They’re especially notable because their lead singer Evan Dando was a non-celebrity and he dated another non-celebrity Bijoux Philips. For a time neither of them had an actual identity. They could only be defined in terms of each other.

Who the hell is Evan Dando? Oh, he’s dating Bijoux Phillips.
So who the hell is Bijoux Phillips? Oh, she’s dating Evan Dando.

Creed (take your bow-legged, jutted-jawed, clench-fisted act and get the hell out of my face! And turn off that fan!)
R.E.M. (arrogant, overrated drivel-group. Pseudo-intellectuals on par with Diane Chambers.)
The Beatles (Let it be… please)

Whatever you think of Nirvana, at least you have to give them credit for putting the final nail in the coffin for the “hair band” era. That humanitarian achievement alone merits a Nobel Peace Prize.

This may very well be the funniest, and most very, very true post I have ever read.

Boston Pops
The Three Tenors
Handel and his stupid, banal Messiah
Vivaldi and his chain of hotel music
John Philip Sousa and his silly stripes

…okay, that’s not exactly a list of bands per se, but they do suck. Right? :wink:

Interesting.

I can envision the above posts written in the 1970s regarding Elvis Presley and Little Richard, etc.

I can also see the above posts written in the 1960s regarding Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, etc.

Don’t forget that in the 1940s Frank Sinatra occupied the same platform that rock stars of modern day occupy. Parents would forbid their daughters to go listen to Sinatra perform, they were convinced that he was singing “the devil’s music.”

Every time I feel like wailing about rap music or the latest heavy metal tripe to come out of the record industry, I stop and remember the above.

It never fails to remind me of one undisputable truth:

I’m growing old…damn!

The Eagles and Radiohead immediately come to mind.

I’m quite a knowledgeable fan of Dave Grohl - and he’s definitely a guy who seems to have his head screwed on right.

I love his quote regarding always being referred to as “the former drummer for Nirvana…” and it goes something thus…

“People always ask me how it feels to be referred to as the ‘former drummer for Nirvana’ and I like to look at it like the kid who got busted in high school for masturbating, you know? You can either let the embarassment of it all eat you up and do your head in, or you can look back on it with a smile and laugh about it and enjoy the notoriety. Me? I’m proud of it.”

Another great quote about Nirvana (and Dave Grohl) came from their touring guitarist, Pat Smear…

“One day we were sitting around backstage and Dave Grohl picked up Kurt’s guitar which was stringed left handed and started playing it, left handed. And he was playing it very well. But then, he picked up my guitar, which was stringed right handed, and started playing it right handed, and he played it AMAZINGLY well. I was laughing my head off. He was supposed to be the drummer, and he was a way better guitarist than either Kurt or myself. It was a joke.”

Dave Grohl has only kind things to say about Kurt Cobain - he’s a gentleman after all, but even Dave Grohl reckons all the Nirvana worshipping is a crock of shit. In his own words, “Kurt Cobain wasn’t some sort of God, he was just a man - nothing more. Just a man with lots of problems.”

Actually, it’s funny you mention Glenn Miller, because I would count his as one of the most overrated bands of all time; sort of the Spice Girls of the Big Band Era. Without fail, at every swing-band party, someone will request “In the Mood”, immediately followed by groans from the band (Oh God, not that one again). My Mom told me that my Dad used to complain about Glen Miller all the time - couldn’t stand him.:slight_smile:

I abhor Sum 41. That’s all I really have to say on that.

Foo Fighters
Smashing Pumpkins
Mark Anthony

RickJay - it was a joke

Thus the :wink:
:slight_smile:

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