Most Underrated/Overrated Artists

If you're gonna try and sell something I put to bed I'm gonna need 2 must hear albums. Apart from every Blur and Oasis album since I've heard them many times. :laughing:

Don't really know where to start, I never thought I'd revisit Britpop again. :( old daemons being woke here.
 
I'm actually surprised at your opinion on this, considering you like Pinback so much. Not to say that they are all that similar, but to an extent they are and they are two of my favorites in the genre. Maybe it's that I got into The Shins so early on in their career that their sound was not bland at all at the time, and their influence on other indie banRAB has made that type of sound seem more normal/bland/common since then. I dunno. I'm just saying I like The Shins in pretty much the exact same way that I like Pinback.
 
Not just in terms of critical acclaim, but popularity too. Which band that you listen to is too good not to have a place in music history and who's place should they take.


Overrated: U2, Bruce Springsteen, Prince
Underrated: Elvis Costello, 311, Blues Traveler
 
I agree about Tool, but they sometimes scrape better redundancies together than others (ie. why Lateralus is their best while still having a stench of deja-vu).
 
I see your point, I was trying to show how his material in 2007 and to the present, are basically the same style of music Joe Walsh recorded as a solo artist since the early 70s., besides Rocky Mountain Way and a few other singles, I dont know much about the James Gang.
I remeraber some singles on James Gang's albums, it's just been a long time since I've heard any of it, I dont have it downloaded.
 
overrated: The Doors, Metallica, DJ Tiesto, Snoop Dog, Fat Boy Slim, Jack Johnson, Carl Cox, Kid Kudi, Slipknot, Coldplay, The White Stripes, and for ****'s sake Lil Wyane "greatest rapper alive shawwtayy"...

underrated: Jaytech, Field Music, Say Anything, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin, The Gaslight Anthem, The Living End, The Avalanches, A Wilhelm Scream, Can, Pretty Lights, The Wordburgular
 
Underrated by those of us here on the boarRAB, I'm assuming? Because elsewhere those pop stars are pretty huge...even if it is just for the controversy they might bring.

If that's the case, then I will give you Kate Bush and Madonna but definitely not Britney Spears.
 
Let me clarify, I don't think that grunge sounRAB like that sort of stuff, perhaps my description was a bit flippant... I just think at the base of it all of this sad/angry American music is coming from people who are rebelling against an invisible antagonist. I have really no problem with Grunge, the movement, the history, and the music (and I want to hear more), I'm more just comparing the upbeat melodic nature of 90's U.K. rock to 90's U.S. rock.

I really detest most punk and metal so comparatively grunge has some classic ****.
 
compared to other canadian acts of the day - no.

compared to the rest of the world Canadian music, until very recently, has always been criminally underrated. then again it comes from having a major national inferiority complex. the self depreciation is a vicious thing for our pop culture, and the legislation of culture through the CANCON laws also don't really serve any legitimate benefit to the development of our musical identity either.

there's a reason the vast majority of popular canadian music sounRAB either like they looked at last week's charts and said 'we can redo the top10 better no problem' or incredibly stagnant.
 
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