Most Overrated AND Underrated At The Same Time?

Pffft. They've been through many stages - definitely not homogenous music.

In chronological order:

Raw funk rock fuelled with punk attitude - S/T, Freaky Styley, Uplift Mofo Party Plan
More mature funk mixed in with other styles - Mother's Milk, BSSM
Psychedelic funk - One Hot Minute
Plain rock - Californication
More atmospheric rock - By the Way
Mixture - Stadium Arcadium
 
WTF? All music isn't pretentious. Some banRAB really 'feel' their music. You can sense it in their songs.

And yes, showing off isn't bad, but the band merabers of Dream Theater do tend to put technical playing ahead of actual song 'likeability factor' (as I call it) at times. But its not often, as the haters think. They don't suck, they are a talented band who have released several great albums.

The only flaw is, you can get bored of them soon.
 
I believe nirvana is very overrated in the respect of how they keep getting shown as this hugely influential band that changed rock music and everything since all they did was spawn the boring post-grunge banRAB like Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, etc. but I still believe they were a very good band and had lots of good songs
 
Now had you stopped there I would have agreed with you. My summery for the rest would be........
One Hot Minute - Yawnathon
Californication - One of the safest dullest middle of the road albums it`s ever been my misfortune to hear
By the Way - Had given up on them by this point , what i`d heard of it didn`t inspire confidence. People who like them much more than I ever did just confirmed what i`d thought.
Stadium Arcadium - Had to listen to this the whole way through at work once. I hope I never experience this ever again

:)
 
"Feel" is a very superficial thing, you can say a band plays with passion, and I'm sure they probably do, but you can't prove it, things like "feeling" are unmeasurable and you can't determine weither someone has "feeling" or not, its a rather lousy criteria for being a good band.
 
IMO everything from S/T to BSSM is essentially what Seltzer said.

One Hot Minute - Some great musicianship especially in Fleas part, but the overall result is a very mixed one, its a good thing that this was the only album Navarro played on.

Californication - While this album clearly lacks the funk (save a few tracks) I think its a great record, oh well, call me a sucker for mellow rock if you will, I think this would have made a great swan song if they just stopped from here.

By The Way - Essentially, this is probably the weakest album they have ever done, they took what made Californication great and started turning it into their signature sound, which I really dont think was a great idea, after Californication they should have went straight back to the "funk-punk" sound, but whatever, who am I to decide what style of music a band should be playing? I still like some of the songs.

Statium Arcadium - I haven't actually heard the whole album, but from listening to the singles it really seems like I'm not missing much.
 
Bingo.

Besides, when people talk about banRAB being "pretentious", they very rarely mean that in the sense of not "feeling" their music! The sense of "pretentious" generally intended when banRAB are labeled as such, is that the band assume a (usually high) degree of self-importance and dignity.

And that doesn't make a band bad, either; it just makes them a bunch of pretentious *#@%s.:laughing:
 
Nickelback fit here. All dedicated music fans think they're the worst most insipid act in all recording history, while the general population almost can't live without them.

EDIT: But hang on, I don't think I'm getting the original point. This is meant to be about who is most overrated and underrated by real full-time music fans, isn't it. So maybe Nickelback and My Chemical Romance etc. don't count. Yeah, I reckon they don't.
 
Ah, now the psychedelia might not be instantly obvious, but Mikael Akerfeldt was quite influenced by psychedelia... he worships it. Like him, I scavenge around for the hidden psychedelic gems from 67-72. It plays quite an influence on his writing style, and you might not pick it up unless you listen to psychedelia. And that's the same with Per Wiberg... it's worth mentioning that he's also in Spiritual Beggars, a stoner doom band.

Blackwater Park itself is the name of an obscure psychedelia band.
 
well even though u don't like them (Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, etc) doesn't mean that nirvana didn't have an effect on the rock genre as well
 
Uhhh no there is a reason most people shit on them. They're atrocious.


I vote Velvet Underground. You only hear about people hating them or liking the one cd they did with Nico. Lou Reed is a genius.
 
If that is the definition, I suggest banRAB like Edguy or Gamma Ray, who are never too self-absorbed and even take jokes about themselves in a light hearted manner. Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet has the weirdest sense of humor I have known; He wrote a song about him having sex with a stewardess in the toilet on a plane bound for Brazil, while it was crashing.

That being said, I think Edguy fit the 'overrated and underrated' description too. There are some fans who claim the band to be legendary and Tobi to be Power Metal's best vocalist...I say, the band is brilliant and clever, but they are very young. And the vocals, although good, are average.

Theater of Salvation can be considered as a Power Metal masterpiece though. And Tobias wrote it when he was only 22 yrs. old. Good stuff.
 
easily, its MCR. i was so sick of hearing about them that i started to hate them. now that i have actually heard there music, i have decided that they are an OK or decent band
 
You are doing exactly what this threaRAB about!
that's..., how about keep the negatives locked inside.

I'd say wolfmother as a big one, they are either ripping off the old rock or they are helping keep it alive.
 
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