How has no one mentioned Bruce Springsteen yet?
How has no one mentioned Bruce Springsteen yet?
Lots of good answers on here (some really bad ones as well). I'm going to try to make a diverse "overrated list" instead of just 5 sh!tty classic rock bands. Note that I took the liberty of being able to include solo "artists".
Bon Iver
50 Cent
ACDC
Grateful Dead
Jimmy Buffett
GrandKlegal wrote:
Met a colored guy at a Buffett concert, asked are you a fan? Hell no, security! All you drunk baby boomers are s pain the ass for this shit.
Also, absolutely most overrated is springsteen .but you got see him live they say .hell no.hate his fans too.
Saw Buffett in concert (Mother-In-Law always wanted to go). Concert was "bleh". I figured out that it's all about the tailgating for the mid 30s to 60 year old white people. Get a baby-sitter for a few hours, get drunk and forget about how the kids ruined their lives.
Springsteen in concert was pretty damn good. Not the biggest fan of his music, but he knows how to put on a show. High energy, good interaction with the crowd, plays the music people want him to play (not the new crap).
Saw Dave Matthews Band once during the height of their success. Was totally unimpressed and felt as if I wasted my money. Everyone ranted and raved about them in concert and maybe I caught them on an off-day but no desire to ever see them again. Of course, they had just released a new album (don't know which one it was) and played a lot of songs from that, but see above with Springsteen. I want to hear the older stuff, the hits.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
Also, how is KISS overrated? No one has ever claimed that their music is great. They would probably say the same thing. They are in the money-making business, and they are very successful at that.
KISS just may be the most appropriately-rated band in musical history: Satisfactory in its ability to get the members laid.
Agreed. Perfectly said too.
1) U2
2) Pink Floyd
3) Radiohead
4) Loverboy
5) Maroon 5
Ackley wrote:
How has no one mentioned Bruce Springsteen yet?
I agree. Highly overrated.
CSN are indeed overrated. They've been putting out bad music for much longer than they did anything good. They only have a handful of really good songs.
The one guy who claimed The Band is/are overrated is nuts.
* a list of popular bands.
mellon wrote:
Ackley wrote:How has no one mentioned Bruce Springsteen yet?
I agree. Highly overrated.
Went deaf at a Pat Methany concert. That should count for something.
Saw Kenny Rogers Anne Murray duo concert. Thank Gawd I am deaf.
We're two pages into this thread & there's been 7 mentions of the Grateful Dead. That's disappointing. They should absolutely dominate everyone's list of most overrated.
To be "overrated" they need to be critically acclaimed. Here's a representative list to choose "overrated" artists from:
http://www.listology.com/blindsider/list/rolling-stone-100-greatest-artists-all-time-immortals
From this list, I'll just go with "bands", and I'll skip 50's-60's bands since I don't enjoy that era's music at all so it's not fair. I suggest, in this order:
1. Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. The Eagles
3. Guns n Roses
4. Run-DMC
5. Cream
Hmmm..... wrote:
I've seen the Beatles on the list multiple times. Can someone explain their logic on it?
The Beatles are a very special case. They were able to achieve music that was, simultaneously, both trivial and pretentious.
RWNJs don't know Econ. wrote:
An Econ Major wrote:1) Guns and Roses
2) AC/DC
3) Journey
4) The Styx
5) Bon Jovi
There's probably more Corporate-rock garbage that I can't think of right now.
^this is the best list in this thread. I might disagree with the order but can't dispute the bands on the list. Well done.
+1
Best list, but I'd move styx and journey into a tie at #1.
I would like to insert another vote for U2 to be highly emphasized on this list.
It would help if, alongside their lists of overrated bands, everyone listed their five favorite bands. Everyone just seems to be listing bands they don't like.
I think Radiohead takes the cake for most overrated band currently playing. The critics absolutely love everything they put out, and their fans would gladly buy a steaming turd if it had some weird synth, orchestrations and Yorke wailing about the agony and ecstasy of being Thom Yorke.
Don't get me wrong, I do like some of their work, but Yorke and Co. seem to be elevated to the level of untouchable musical gods. If you truly like their music great; I just don't like being told I MUST appreciate them because they're an amazing one-in-a-lifetime act, when, frankly, the music just seems pretentious and doesn't speak to me at all.
(And for the record, I'm into Phish, so I know pretention when I hear it!)
well..... wrote:
To be "overrated" they need to be critically acclaimed. Here's a representative list to choose "overrated" artists from:
http://www.listology.com/blindsider/list/rolling-stone-100-greatest-artists-all-time-immortalsFrom this list, I'll just go with "bands", and I'll skip 50's-60's bands since I don't enjoy that era's music at all so it's not fair. I suggest, in this order:
1. Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. The Eagles
3. Guns n Roses
4. Run-DMC
5. Cream
Cream?! GTFO
I think including solo artists is against the rules, but if you're going down that road please add Adelle, Pink, Beyoncé, Sam Smith, Jay-Z, Kanye, - hell, there are too many to count.
george oscar bluth wrote:
Lots of good answers on here (some really bad ones as well). I'm going to try to make a diverse "overrated list" instead of just 5 sh!tty classic rock bands. Note that I took the liberty of being able to include solo "artists".
Bon Iver
50 Cent
ACDC
Grateful Dead
Jimmy Buffett
Why is Ozzy not on this list? He is the absolute worst.
1. Ozzy - terrible
2. Kiss - terrible
3. Adele - if a man sang her songs, he'd have a restraining order written against him
Apulia Station wrote:
Some more:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sublime
Jane's Addiction
Dirty Projectors
Death Cab for Cutie
Grizzly Bear
most contemporary post-rock and nu-gaze
I'm surprised Sublime has been mentioned twice. I'm a big fan of theirs, and don't think they're very highly rated.
old guy 70 wrote:
Crosby, Stills and Nash (left Young off intentionally)
I'd argue Crosby, Stills, and Nash is extremely underrated. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is a work of art and one of the greatest "long songs" of all time, yet many people have never heard of it. Probably explains why it only ranks #426 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of all time.