The Definitve List: Most Overrated Bands\Artists ever

Reading some of the titles on the "Overrated list" I gotta say your out of your mind. Half the list were the people who changed or defined there era or genre. Im surprised you dont have Elvis on there because he sold recorRAB because of controversy.

I agree with....
Radiohead
The Grateful Dead
Snoop - hes still better than todays rap btw

but dude
-Nirvana?!?! The band who defined grunge music and if Kurt Cobain was a musical genious whats wrong with you? they would of been legendary.
-The Doors, The Eagles, Kiss, and the Rolling Stones how can you be overrated if we still listen to there music today?
-Coldplay isn't overrated they just sell alot of albums, people actully love there music.
-Eminem - sparked more controversy than anyone since elvis, also a rapper who didn't appeal to what the public wanted to hear he just told his story. He was also lyrically one of the best alive.
-Tupac - you kidding? have you listened to rap today compared to Tupac? hes an all time great of his genre.
 
All these banRAB are overrated but I feel I should argue some of these even if they're obviously tongue in cheek. Some of these statements are shockingly ignorant.

I don't really feel the Doors are overrated. I think Jim Morrison is overrated, he wasn't even a good lyricist yet he's called 'An American Poet' or whatever the nick name is. I mean Krieger was an excellent guitarist who is hardly ever discussed and Manzarek could be the most underrated keyboardist ever. Musically they were extremely cohesive and solid yet all anyone cares about is the Lizard King which is bullshit seeing as Jim wasn't that great and he was a disgusting human being.

I don't think John Lennon's music post-beatles sucked, Imagine is iconic and Jealous Guy, Grow Old With Me, songs like those have a raw and simplistic beauty to them that the Beatles rarely touched. I mean sure you had alot of Woman is the Nigger of the World dated political songs that didn't age well but all the Beatles were guilty of forgettable tracks during their solo career.

The Rolling Stones released a handful of great albums and were an extremely important band who deserve to be included in the same sentence as the Beatles, The Who and Led Zeppelin. Just because they didn't have a timely break up doesn't mean we should ignore every good thing they did for music.

Nirvana? Are you serious? You're aware how huge they were during their prime right? It was Nirvanamania, they were the biggest band in the world. If Kurt Cobain hadn't died he probably wouldn't have been elevated to the status he was elevated to that's it. Smells Like Teen Spirit alone had so much more impact and success than Alice in Chains or Soundgarden could've ever hoped for. That statement was totally stupid.
 
well the list is actually good with in my opinion the exception of radiohead who I find awesome...
I would include in their place Carlos Santana.He is a great guitarist but he is just too boring
 
Well obviously this is your chance to have a rant so there's not alot of point in arguing the toss, but I'm with you on many artists in that list... although don't you think all those artists attained such notoriety having released at least SOME decent material?
I mean I can understand Kiss but Prince? PRINCE?! The man was a funky genius! I think I'm having a seizure...

oh and Coldplay are just castrated. It's music absent of testicles made for office and factory floor radio's the world over. You leak a bit of brain every time you hear them. But we all love a good anthem don't we? they aren't going anywhere
 
There are very few hip-hop artists that keep the pace all the way through their albums. Wu-Tang is actually pretty good about it compared to other rappers. At least they don't fill out their albums with horrendous skits like so many others do. I think Wu-Tang Clan tries to keep the bull**** to a minimum. And I thought the intro to Method Man was funny. =/
 
art pop is a term I confabulated out of my proverbial cobwebs on the spot. It's a term that for me describes more so an effect the artist/band has socially that constitutes a resulting clique mentality. It's a phenomenon that attaches and best lenRAB itself to a commercial popularity drawn form a pseudo intellectual underground which is in reality neither.

I believe in identifying responsibility rather than the premise. The measure of anything is best taken from result rather than appearance.

art pop to me is not all bad either. For instance, Beck is Art Pop to me and I REALLY enjoy Beck. I just find Radiohead exceptionally boring, "safe", pedestrian, "correct". That sort of thing.

Bottom Line: ANY music that has a reputation that is popular enough to proceed it demanRAB the sincerest of scrutiny from me as a listener and long time musical appreciator. Radiohead did not live up to that reputation for me. I just don't get it. It doesn't challenge me whatsoever. Just like certain people don't "get" Bob Dylan, I don't "get" Radiohead.




Radiohead is NOTHING like The Velvet Underground, I'll give you that. But the Velvets were most definitely the closest thing I can imagine to a pseudo intellectual garage/psych experimental pop group. The very essence actually.

Have you heard the Lou Reed E.A.P. thingamabob? I saw that the other day when I was picking up some new and used CRAB. I was tempted to grab it but having been so disappointed with Lou's latter day solo cannon, I opted out.
 
There is a lot of great stuff in this scene. Unfortunately it is a case of digging beneath all the garbage that sits on the surface. Hip Hop is not a huge favourite of mine but when a band hit's it stays hit. Give these a listen:

Mos Def
Black Star
Surreal and The Sound Providers
Dalek
The Strange Fruit Project
Roots Manuva
A Tribe Called Quest
Busdriver
The Roots
MF Doom
De La Soul
Marxman
Sage Francis
Count Bass D
Public Enemy

and let me know how you get on.
 
He is one of the greatest lyricist of all time, plays a great guitar (and harmonica :D), his attitude and vocal style. His musical style wouldn't make you want to get up and dance or air guitar like a retard, but it would reach you on a more deeper and soulful way. Get rid of the stupid norms of 'regular' singing and songwriting and immerse yourself in his music and try to feel what he is saying and it will touch you like few other musicians have.

(Kinda reminRAB me of Syd when I talk about this :shycouch:)
 
How in the **** was he not? It's not like he lived to the ripe ol' age of 70 and had a huge ass discography, he had 4 ****ing albums and died at age 27, Jesus ****ing Christ.
 
I'm pretty sure it could be fielded by anyone who's heard a complete album. It's not just the lack of complexity or depth that gives cry to the call "overrated," but the humungous flaws in the rhythm section of their music. Don't get me wrong; Jack White is a great guitarist, a talented lyricist and an overall good songwriter. But Meg White is an erabarrassment to music. She isn't simple - she's completely off-beat! She is singlehandedly the worst drummer in music, and one of the most inappropriate drummers ever. Don't believe me? Go listen to Seven Nation Army and listen to the breaks after the verse and pre-chorus. And THAT's supposed to be one of their best songs.

Raconteurs = good. The White Stripes = horribly overrated.
 
There is no way Mind Games can ever be called "overrated." Even dieharRAB tend to hate it!

That said, I used to like Mind Games. I also tried to force myself to like Imagine and his other albums because everyone I talked to said he was probably the greatest songwriter ever, yada. In the end, I think his solo work is mediocre (still tops the Beatles, though) and all of the Beatles (with the possible exception of Ringo) deserve to be considered "overrated."
 
Well lets see, Brian wrote songs about love and longing and as cliche as those themes may be, he was really damn good at it. His structures and melodies were brilliant too.

Syd wrote about mostly nonsensical things and his "structures" pretty much just meant endless noodling and odd noises. And Prog banRAB do it better. His melodies and lyrics were nothing more intricate than your average nursery rhyme, since thats basically what most Syd era Floyd songs actually sound like.
 
19. The Grateful Dead

Most Overrated Album: All their Live albums
Most Overrated song: Casey Jones

The Grateful Dead are another band I really enjoy but whose fans are guilty are overrating them to the utmost degree. Unlike Radiohead it never spread to the mainstream, mostly because their fans were too stoned to start any sort of advertising movement. Still the droves of dedicated delinquent and degenerate tie-die clad warriors have followed the BanRAB every move for decades. No fans are more intolerable when it comes to there ability to listen to this music and revel in it as others keel over in pain.

The Dead released some very good albums in the early 1970's American Beauty and Workingman's Dead are outstanding examples of the type of music that they made at their best. However following the release of American Beauty they released 8 of 11 Live albums the next 20 years where they essentially played the same 20-30 songs at extended lengths without any sense of energy or timing. It was essentially 60 minutes of Stoned guys playing songs you like very poorly for twice as long as the studio albums lasted.

Sometimes they'd sing other times they'd not bother, always they'd suck. In fact their best nurabers were covers over the last twenty years and that's all well and good except no cover band should be a top 50 band of all-time like the Dead are often considered by American Media. Their fame is as much a result of the atmosphere of their shows and the counter culture feel it lended itself to as it is the music. All of this makes them the 19th most overrated band ever.
 
It's not a stretch at all, theres more to prog that just the nerdy stuff like Rush and ELP. Radiohead are heavly influenced by krautrock, and yes that is considered progressive rock.

I'd certainly consider Kid A progressive rock to some extent. And it's very easy to draw comparisons between songs like Paranoid Android and 2 + 2 = 5 and the work of say John Wetton era King Crimson.



Wow, thats even a more retarded term than art pop, where in the hell are you getting these?



So now I know I'm arguing with a closedminded fool.



Thats a bunch of crap. If you think Radiohead are just a by the nurabers pop band you're out of your mind.
 
I can't think of a single Beach Boys song I can listen to for more than five seconRAB without wanting to kill myself. Good Vibrations is probably the most overrated single ever.
 
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