The Most Over-Rated Band

[Dimensional Vortex]

The Beatles. /thread

I knew someone was going to say The Beatles, I like them though.

OT: I guess AC/DC now before you flame me to death, they're a bad band, they are just overrated. What I dislike about them is that I have listened to several of their songs and the singer's voice sounds so peculiar. I wouldn't say it was bad, but I wouldn't say it was innovative either. To me I found the singer to scream a hell of a lot and to have a high kind of voice when he sang.

 

[PeePantz]

I never really cared for Nirvana; and I was in Jr. High at the time when they were big and had to hide it.

I agree. In fact, when they got huge after Kurt Cobain's death, I despised them. I used to like them somewhat until all those newly acquired fans who sprung up due to his suicide, decided to shove all this love for the band down everyones throat and proclaim them to be the best band, the most influential band, blah blah blah. Nope people, you're wrong. They were slightly less then okay and had very limited musical talent. Cobain knew three chords and their drummer had more talent in his big toe than the rest of the band combined which I guess would just be the yet mentioned shitty bassist Chris Novoselic and the super emo lead singer.

.... Except for the fact they basically spawned a new musical generation for the late 80s early 90s. They brought grunge to the forefront. If it wasn't for them, the music we would be seeing nowadays.

Sure, maybe they weren't the best band in the world (coming from someone who never really cared for them either), but usually the first of the kind isn't going to be absolutely perfect.

Not to mention Dave Grohl branched off and had an insane amount of very good songs these past few years. But now we are getting into opinion territory, so I am gonna move it on to...

Edit: Completely missed the part where you said Dave was talented. Must've bounced right off.

They helped bring grunge to a forefront but trust me, they weren't the most influential. I'd have to tip my hat to Pearl Jam. Hell, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, and the Meat Puppets blow Nirvana out of the water. If Eddie Vedder was the one to commit suicide instead, do you really think people would cite Nirvana as the most influential band of that time?

 

[e.wlmo4]

Paramore

The worst part is that a they are a bunch of jimmy eat world ripoffs but are treated as an edgy, alternative band by way too many people when they are the french vanilla to the vanilla that is pop music today.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

Blink-182.

It's annoying how popular they are. Plus the drummer is average and I want to rip the vocal chords out of the lead singer. Plus they just sing about poppy crap.

I Hate You. I could stand here all day and explain why blink-182 is the greatest band (IMO) of all time. but you have you're opinion and you are entitled to it like the rest of us...

anyway, I would have to say U2 because Bono is a douche.

Okay you are calling a Bono a douche? He may have an annoying face and personality but he does so much to help unfortunate people (at least that is what I have heard)

I personally have never heard a single U2 song, but what you say is completely irrelevant to why U2 is overrated. Because someone in the band is an alleged douche means that the entire band is overrated (Overrated: Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity) Maybe elaborate a little to why U2 is overrated, otherwise it seems like you don't understand what overrated means.

 

[M Rotter]

hahahaha i asked my friend and he responded "I would say good charlotte but they dont seem to be rated anymore" so good because i had completely forgotten about them.

i hate nickelback. LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH! ok EVERYTIME I DO MAKES ME LAUGH! neat

the beatles are awesome. so is queen.

 

[TailstheHedgehog]

Bieber.
Now a band but a lone artist... but when will the 15 minutes of fame end!?
If we're gonna get technical then I'd go for the Beatles, too.
I don't get it.

 

[Blood Countess]

I could name so so many but will just say Coldplay I think and maybe The Offspring

 

[SovietSecrets]

Nirvana. Every song they have is just crap.

 

[maugatar]

Lady Gaga
Cold Play
Muse
Anyone trying to be the next Coldplay or Muse.
Guns and Roses
Madonna
Michael Jackson.

 

[Sora-Livana]

The Beatles. /thread

Uh...I have to go with this. I've listened to the Beatles and I don't get what's so great about them. Perhaps I'm a generation too late but...yeah they seem overrated. Probably doesn't help my girlfriend's dad is obsessed with them and think they are GOD.

Same. I can't quite understand all the hype - they've never sounded all that amazing to me.

 

[coldshadow]

journey...I have heard all of there songs thanks to my friend, and I can't seem to figure out why people like them so much.


as for the Beatles, I feel they are overrated more by the fact that a large group of people who claim to be their biggest fans can't even name half of their songs.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

Beatles arent the only band to be the roots of the music of our generation, although they were important. Jazz,Blues and Psychedelic music was also influential. Beatles songs are not amazing, but influential.

can't argue with the first two, but you don't think the Beatles had a strong role in the last genre you mentioned? Rubber Soul is the main influence for the bands that started that genre imo

 

[ThirdEye95]

I'm really not liking the hate for Radiohead and The Beatles in this thread >.< have any of you actually listened to these bands properly? If you did, you might see the reason for their popularity. OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows, Abbey Road, The White Album, Let It Be, etc, all amazing albums.

As for my overrated bands, there are tons; Nickelback, Green Day, Blink 182, Coldplay, Muse, and most of all Michael Jackson. He isn't that great, and the sudden burst in popularity after his death really annoys me. Why didn't these people appreciate him when he was actually alive...

 

[Yopaz]

The Beatles. /thread

Uh...I have to go with this. I've listened to the Beatles and I don't get what's so great about them. Perhaps I'm a generation too late but...yeah they seem overrated. Probably doesn't help my girlfriend's dad is obsessed with them and think they are GOD.

Beatles is popular because they were the only ones you could listen to unless you wanted classic music. They're the greatest band because they've sold the most records, that is because there were no other records to spend money on (also no internet). It's like participating in a race in the Special Olympics. You might win, but you will still be declared the best runner despite having an advantage when you started.

Most over rated band must be [Insert any boyband here]

 

[Cobbs]

Metallica, Parkway Drive, Slipknot, Dethklok.
Metallica has a few songs that i like but i dont think they deserve the god like reverance they get. The same go's for Dethklok. Just because they star in Metalocalypse doesnt make all their music the bees knees goddammnit!!!

 

[smithy_2045]

The Beatles. /thread

How is that a /thread? You've just opened a can of worms that no force on this earth can close.

Personally I can't tell if you're trolling or genuinely don't understand how the Beatles' extended influence over the entire latter 20th century's music (and the fact that said influence is undeniable in any way) shields them from being 'over rated' simply because they did so much for music that anything good said about them is not a falsehood.

You don't like their music? Fine, but they can't be over rated because they still made siad music which then because so famous that music was changed forever. You don't have to like it but you have to acknowledge what they did.

A band being influential does not exclude them from being overrated, which the Beatles most certainly are as proved unintentionally in your post.

 

[lior13]

GUNS AND ROSES

 

[Dark2003]

U2, i don't see the good in them others do, and Guns and Roses, of all their so called hit songs I haven't come across one I liked,

Not knocking these groups at all, they just don't do it for me.

 

[SextusMaximus]

I love the Beatles - mostly because, aside from the children's songs I listened to - that was the music I was brought up with. Why are the Beatles so popular? Consistently good songs and the fact that - during their time - they were extremely influential on rock music and music as a whole.

OT: None, people have their own tastes in music; I don't really see an overrated band - because I can accept that people like different stuff than me.

 

[Vault101]

I'm just not into older music and people who claim everything from the 60-70's was the great music ever...please music is too subjective anyway