The Definitve List: Most Overrated Bands\Artists ever

I think this conversation has lost all meaning or appreciable value. Jay, would you mind putting the next artist up so we don't have to endure this kid's nonsensical rarablings for the next year?
 
Garth Brooks' #1 crime against music (and humanity in general): Make You Feel My Love. He took an ironic song and sang it without any feeling.
 
dude first of all i havent agreed with anything youve posted yet....but this ones the worst. im only ****in' 13 and i can hold my own against all these guys without "insuting myself"


and thats just about message boarRAB some of the things you've said about music are so obliviusly wrong that i cant believe someone actually has that opinion!
 
15. The Eagles

Most Overrated Album: Desperado
Most Overrated song: Witchy Woman\Take it Easy

There is nothing blatantly bad or objectionable about the Eagles. They don't suck totally, they are not pompous or arrogant, they even have a few real good albums, however they have a way of annoying people (especially me) that is matched or exceeded only by their fans. A lot of Eagles fans feel like the Eagles were the Beatles of the 70's and while shockingly, record sales are comparable, in terms of influence, impact and creativity it's like arguing that a lemon is sweeter then an apple.

The Eagles have a nice safe mellow sort of groove to their music it's not country, it's not blues, it's not rock and roll, it's what guys my age (apx 50) who were cargo shorts, open toed sandals and Sunglasses at night listen to. When's the last time you seen some kid rush into a record store and buy a crisp new copy of "Hotel California" or "The Long Ru"n. It's mostly because the Eagles are lame, but even if they wanted to hear the Eagles all you need to is turn on Classic Rock radio and wait until Stairway to Heaven finishes and surely an Eagles tune will pop up.

a brief personal note...

My son had a private bar tending Business in college and worked a party at a clients home who had a juke box installed in his basement\bar it had nine Eagles albums in it out of 25 total. My son, who was a pretty well known musician in the area gets pulled aside by this guy after the party and sat down and made to listen to the entire brand new "Long Road out of Eden" album. He came home and took a rape shower. That guy usually wears Cargo shorts and sandals.

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Most egregious of all is what they did after they initial break-up in 1980. Amongst the crimes against music they commited:

Don Henley: Leather and Lace, Dirty Laundry and All she wants to do is Dance.

Glenn Frye: Party Town, Sexy Girl and The Heat is On.

and don't get started on hell freezes over.

Without Joe Walsh I'd have put a hit out on this group by now. And that if nothing else makes the the 15th most overrated band\artist of all-time.
 
Do you like anything by Coldplay? I thought their new album was pretty awesome. Probably their best stuff yet.




Thanks, I'll be sure to check some of these guys out. Isn't Public Enemy the group with Flavor Flav in it?
 
Why are Coldplay over rated? I think they're over rated because they just don't take enough risks. I don't know if they're trying to be this great melodic band or if they're trying to do stadium filling anthems. There's nothing to say that they can't do both but they just seem to sit on the fence between both too much.
They're rockier stuff lacks balls and just has no edge to it at all. While they're slower stuff(apart from the Scientist which I love) puts Chris Martins voice to the front and ruins any chance of the songs being half decent. (see Fix You).

They're elevator music at best for me. They're harmless. If they came on the radio I wouldn't necessarily turn them off, but when they're being celebrated as one of the best banRAB in the world then I take offense to it. lol Then there's the Chris Martin factor. I'm sure he's a nice guy and I've nothing against him personally. It's just his live performance. Seeing him jump up and down at the piano and do the same stage act(hoping across the stage like a kangaroo) tires really quickly. (see bo selecta skit on his dance moves.
YouTube - Bo Selecta - Good Fun With Chris Martin)
The fact he seems to be doing his best to copy Bono in every way annoys me too.

Most Over-rated album - X and Y (Every magazine seemed to give the album 5 out of 5 when it came out. A lot of them have changed their minRAB when talking about it in relation to their new album now though.)

Most Over-rated song - Clocks. I really don't get why this song is liked so much. Let alone why it was a single.
 
Here's a funny story:

Just prior to The Grateful Dead taking stage at WooRABtock, an announcement was made about a certain type of acid that was being distributed. Apparently a contaminant introduced into the LSD had caused some illness. The announcement pleaded people who took the blue acid to go to the medical tent.

AfterwarRAB, The Grateful Dead took the stage and attempted to dissuade people from leaving. "We took the blue acid and we think it's groovy." What followed was perhaps the worst concert the Dead have ever played. It sounded, according to a friend, as if they were trying to play five different songs at the same time.
 
Thanks, Lucifer Sam. I'll be sure to do that. Oh, I see what you're saying on the whole FOB & Creed bit. Very good point. I'm assuming most professional music critics aren't fond of them? =D And I take no offense at all. Hell, music is one of the most subjective things in the universe. And I wasn't saying that they weren't talented musicians, I just grow tired of their style rather quickly. I can see where you're coming from when you say that Van Halen didn't have much going for them with songwriting, but I believe Aerosmith were quite talented songwriters.
 
Don't judge them too harshly by him. Before Flavor Flav became the world's biggest prat he actually made some very decent music. Anything before 1995 is classic. Fear of a Black Planet, He Got Game, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, they're all great.

Make sure to check out The Beastie Boys too. They're often disregarded as hip-hop artists because they were musicians (good ones, too), but they were among the biggest pioneers.
 
I am not accusing them of being personally or lyrically pseudo intellectual, I am claiming that those that tend to make them popular tend to use pseudo intellectual logic to justify there perceived greatness. Same with radiohead.

That band (2 brothers?) is about as ridiculous as ridiculous can be. Holy bedroom DIY nonsense. There is just no intelligent justification for that kind of bull**** becoming popular yet people constantly claim they are the greatest. What do these types of musical appreciators do, get high for a living? You would HAVE to be stoned to appreciate that ****. It's a lame comedy of errors.

Radiohead on the other hand, and I will be doing my best this evening to convince myself differently, just strikes me as boring and limp.
 
i just have to point out how funny the white stripes arguments are where no one seems to be noticing the unbelievable adulation being poured onto jack white like he's the reincarnation of all the dead delta blues guitarists from the first half of the 20th century.

i suppose it's because SO many people and media outlets elevate meg white's playing...

keep the list rolling JJJ i'm totally digging it hehe
 
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