5 Most Overrated Bands of All Time

bigmig19 wrote:

Beatles can be awesome but overrated at the same time. They were great pop song writers, possibly the greatest, but we act like they are musical virtuosos. How were the Beatles much different than say the Beach Boys? Churning out one catchy ditty at a time.

as for this, come on man. The Beach Boys had two sounds their whole career. Surf music and Good Vibrations/Pet Sounds weirdness. They are truly great and probably the greatest American band (them or CCR) but they had around a quarter of the Beatles' creativity.

The Beatles reinvented themselves almost every album, coming up with new sounds each time. The same band, in around 5 years, went from I Want to Hold Your Hand rock and roll to Norwegian Wood sophisticated pop to Revolution hard rock to Let it Be early arena rock. And I'm leaving out the Indian songs, the childrens' music, the funny songs, the experimental stuff, the hard rockers and other genres they conquered. No other band comes close to their wide ranging music. Saying they wrote 'one catchy dittty at a time' is seriously wrongheaded and shows you either don't know or don't care much about pop music.

America's fury wrote:

How are any of these bands overrated if everyone hates them? 😂😂😂

this gets to the question.

I mean KISS sold 75 million albums.

Aerosmith 150 million.

But many people think they absolutely stink. I mean Radiohead sold 12 million and I've never met anyone who bought one. They are considered gods of songwriting but I can't even hum a single one of their songs.

It's tricky.

Precious Roy wrote:some of the whitest music ever

Here we go, another lib thinking it's perfectly fine to put down whiteness, but would lose their excrement if... Well, you know.

Hi there wrote:

1. Billy Joel! (Writes songs that sound like nursery rhymes for adults in Long Island)

2. Beatles (good but overrated)

3. The Who

4. AC/DC

5. Aerosmith

6. Foo Fighters

7. Queen

Say what? The Who is, if anything, slightly underrated.

Lot of people here don't know good music when they hear it. Guess it's an individual choice. How the heck can you not like bands like The Stones or CCR. That's just good music

the real me wrote:

Hi there wrote:

1. Billy Joel! (Writes songs that sound like nursery rhymes for adults in Long Island)

2. Beatles (good but overrated)

3. The Who

4. AC/DC

5. Aerosmith

6. Foo Fighters

7. Queen

Say what? The Who is, if anything, slightly underrated.

Absolutely,

I hear a lot of criticism of the Who, that their music is so simplistic, kind of vacuous.

Fair comment, but I think it misses the larger contribution of the worth.

The Who set the stage for what was to follow perhaps more so than any band of their time. And what they did was take simple, catchy, run of the mill songs and rough them up to the point that the song became just a vehicle for the bad boys to rock out massively.

In their music is an undercurrent of rockers on the verge of being out of control. Keith Moon was the spirit and driving force and his flourishes almost overpower the songs, coupled perfectly with the bass player, Entwistle's, perfect subversive accompaniment. And so often Townsend on lead guitar would just throw in power chords to anchor and accent the onslaught.

I'm here to tell you, the Who were influential in ways few groups of that era were, and laid the groundwork for hard rock and it's offshoots. They were the embodiment of aggressive, irreverent, loud rock and roll. It didn't matter what song they took on, they worked it hard, as if they were almost at odds with their songs, and could only fully express themselves in their more bombastic live performances.

- Phish

- The Smiths

- Cream

- Little Richard

- The Everly Brothers

Underrated;

- Steely Dan

- Joni Mitchell

- Yardbirds

- Huey Lewis and The News

- Depeche Mode

Totally overrated wrote:

- Phish

- The Smiths

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Two outstanding contributions to the list.

The Smiths, I don't get. I'm even of the generation that loved the band.

I'd add an underrated from the era: Duran Duran.

They aren't thought of much right now, but they had some of the best and most sophisticated pop out there for a half-decade. Listen the bass line in Rio or the swing in Girls on Film or Planet Earth. Truly great stuff that will be listened to forever.

Hi there wrote:

1. Billy Joel! (Writes songs that sound like nursery rhymes for adults in Long Island)

2. Beatles (good but overrated)

3. The Who

4. AC/DC

5. Aerosmith

6. Foo Fighters

7. Queen

If they are overrated, then ago do you think is good?

agip wrote:

I'll go with

KISS - what? 2 good songs? Tons of fashion and fireworks, no taste.

Radiohead - 1 good song and hours of endless boredom

Metallica - tons of attitude and fashion sense, ounces of songwriting.

Big Star. Please. They never got famous because they stunk.

Jimi Hendrix. Not a songwriter. A guitarist.

Pink Floyd. Not rock and roll so maybe shouldn't be here.

Steely Dan - ditto as for Pink Floyd

Pearl Jam. Not a bad band but overrated.

Foo Fighters - they seem to be considered the greatest non-metal rock and roll band still writing songs but come on they are terrible songwriters

And let me just say that anyone who says something like the Beatles are overrated...you need to sit down and have a rethink of your life. Was Leonardo overrated? Bernini? Michelangelo? When you are the absolute best ever at something you cannot be overrated.

True on the Beatles.

But on Radiohead - what do you say was their one good song? You mean Creep? Or Street Spirit? Or Paranoid Android? Or Exit Music?

Or is Karma Police?

Creep, yes. And of course The Pretenders have a much better version than Radiohead's own, which shows how overrated that band is.

agip wrote:

Karma Police wrote:

True on the Beatles.

But on Radiohead - what do you say was their one good song? You mean Creep? Or Street Spirit? Or Paranoid Android? Or Exit Music?

Or is Karma Police?

Creep, yes. And of course The Pretenders have a much better version than Radiohead's own, which shows how overrated that band is.

Creep is their only good song?

Or the only one you know?

In fact it’s far from their best - and they know it - and they didn’t even play it live for a while.

Karma Police wrote:

agip wrote:

Creep, yes. And of course The Pretenders have a much better version than Radiohead's own, which shows how overrated that band is.

Creep is their only good song?

Or the only one you know?

In fact it’s far from their best - and they know it - and they didn’t even play it live for a while.

someone want to give this a shot?

Listen to Street Spirit and tell me why it has any value to them. What it makes them feel. Why think it is a legit great song that should be celebrated.

I just hear a repeated simple, bloodless riff, some delicate finger picking behind it, a predictable mournful synth track, and a bored drone vocal.

Is this really considered as good as it gets for Radiohead? This sold 12 million records? 35 million views on youtube for this? I have listened to it twice and can't even remember, 1 minute later, the melody.

I suspect the appeal is to terminably depressed people who live indoors and never dare a deed. Some kind of mood poem that appeals to the bored. Not a rock and roll bone in your bodies, Radiohead dudes.