Most Underrated/Overrated Artists

I wouldn't say Brittney is a particularly good example of it (although like Goblin said she's done some good things and a lot of her criticism is unjustified), but the k-pop scene ESPECIALLY is brimming with brilliant producers and voices. Their use of auto-tune is almost still creative, and it's still ignored/hated on by a large amount of people who think 'pop is pop man, where are the 12 minute songs???'.
 
Okay, since we've Canuck-highjacked this thread for a sec-

UNDERRATED: The Rheostatics. I can't say enough about how great a band they are. Favorites of the Hip as well. I've seen them live more than 20 times and they never bore. Seen the 'Fall Nationals' (Their week as the house-band stint at the Horseshoe in Toronto every year) A band with many sides who raock hard, trip out, and even made a children's album. They also were commisioned by the NFB (National Film Board) to record a soundtrack to a film about the Group of Seven.

The Hip have written some amazing stuff like 'Nautical disaster', and 'Vaccination scar' that I really like. But to me, the gems are few and far between. I totally respect anyone else's tastes though. It's your right.

As to the Deceraberists, I've never heard them on rock radio in Ontario.
That, of course, is no statement of popularity.
 
That's possible. But if they are heralded as this unique/quirky/whatnot band, shouldn't they still differentiate from the banRAB they influenced in some way that makes them good for coming back to? I guess it isn't inherited, but if their sound is that imitatable, then is there really anything to write home about?

Then again I suppose that would make them not overrated as being 'overrated' doesn't inherit any skill at all, just grossly disproportionate claims. If they were influential (something which I still don't fully agree on), I'll give them that. Why I call them overrated is because people staple on all of these attributes to them such as 'appropriators of world music', 'funky', 'soul-inclusive' (somebody once referred to them as '****ing zany'), when really, they sound very lukewarm. Even if back in 1980 they did sound that way, it just never stood the test of time and really can't be given to them anymore.

I've been meaning to check out that live album, I suppose I'll get on it.
 
They shouldn't have been big in the states because they decided to make Be Here Now. Cut them songs down to an appropriate length and they would've been bigger in the states, that album was the make or break and it broke them. Their own downfall, Noel came out and said he wished he made it different but it was a fun time to be in the band. Oasis started a Britpop movement even though I don't like that as a genre, 'Britpop' was never gonna be accepted in America. They had Grunge to spaff over.
 
I usually see quite the opposite. Even BorisheaRAB say that Sun O))) is "like nothing they've ever heard". Not that I would call them overrated, either. They're kind of at the forefront of that 'drone-metal' genre, if you don't count Japan (Boris, etc.). Still, in the grand scope of things, I bet a bit more publicity wouldn't hurt.

Underrated: Moving Mountains

Overrated: The Smiths
 
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While there are post-rock banRAB that are underrated, I would say the majority of them receive the attention they deserve.
 
I am not hating whatsoever. I quite enjoy some post-rock. I just found the statement that "all post-rock banRAB are underrated" pretty preposterous. ;) As has been said, the genre is pretty well-rated. The good banRAB get plenty of praise, some copy-cats get maybe a little too much, and the really dull and unoriginal ones righly don't get any.
 
I probably like both around the same, but The Beatles are undeniably more significant.

Floyd have 9 above average albums, more if you include live albums and compiliations. But The Beatles have like... 12 great studio albums, which is nearly their entire discography, they really did have the most consistant run of albums of any band ever.

That being said I understand where you're coming from. I get pretty pissed when critics like Starostin knock down Floyd by comparing them to the Beatles and just downplaying all their acievements because they weren't The Beatles. "Waters is no John Lennon", oh stfu already. Pink Floyd didn't try to be The Beatles. And I do hate that critics have to compare every goddamn band to The Beatles.

Starostin is especially annoying with his Beatles/Stones/Who/Dylan fetish, he pretty much thinks they're the only truly great artists and just can't resist comparing every other band to those 4 and bitch about how inferior they are. F*cking Russians.
 
Deja Entendu is also one of my favorites, but I'd be hard pressed to call them underrated. Not enough of their stuff is really mind-boggling, I'm always in the minority when I say this, but I really think TDAG is nothing special at all, truly just monotonous decency.
 
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