5 Most Overrated Bands of All Time

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1. The Beatles - see

https://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history and understand which artists accomplished which musical feat, and which simply exploited it commercially.

2. Queen - good musicians but they end up sounding like a glorified comedy band. Maybe I just don't 'get it'

3. Ween - an actual overglorified parody band

4. The foo (poo) fighters - literal buttrock

5. The red hot chili peppers (poopers) - dooba scooba wopa papa do now you po pow so go now... I just wrote one of their songs.

+ Scorpions and Nirvana

[quote]Bra-ket wrote:

1. The Beatles -

2. Queen - good musicians but they end up sounding like a glorified comedy band. Maybe I just don't 'get it'

Beatles

Where do I start? Yesterday, Something, Let it Be, Michelle, the Long and Winding Road, and other gentler ballads.

Started incorporating orchestras into their music.

Among the best harmonies ever.

Invented psychadelic music.

Abbey Road - Come Together, Something, Oh Darling, You never give me your money, Golden Slumbers

Influenced almost everyone to follow.

The White Album - While my guitar gently weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird

Revolver - Eleanor Rigby, I'm only Sleeping, Yellow Submarine,

Queen - how many anthems?

Bohemian Rhapsody

We are the Champions

We will Rock You

Another One Bites the Dust

Killer Queesn

Bicycle Race

Fat Bottomed Girls

Crazy Little Thing called Love

Somebody to Love

and my personal favourite, don't stop me now

Between John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Freddie Mercury, you've picked 3 of the best pop songwriters of all time. Well done.

Uk is ok wrote:

Any Band that manages to fill stadiums in America still despite always being average...

Aerosmith

Grateful Dead

Metallica

Eagles

Kiss

Best 5

Beatles

REM

Radiohead

Queen

Rolling Stones

Getting a lot better. REM Automatic for the People and Radiohead OK Computer, two of the best albums ever. Kid A and In Rainbows are also incredible, and The Bends led up to OK Computer with Street Spirit, arguably their best song of the lot, and and Fake Plastic Trees, Black Star etc. Those including Radiohead in this list are annoyed that others rave about them but they don't get them.

Honorable mention as best 5 include Crowded House (ok maybe you need to be from NZ/Aust), Led Zep, The Who...

I do like some of the Eagles stuff though.

Why people list bands like Scorpions makes no sense. That's an example of basically a one hit wonder or in their case three hits I guess. don't belong alongside Pink Floyd or any of the groups showing up on most of the lists no matter the criteria

Oasis was decent live--just one of those bands that is/was

Linkin Park is poser made for posers

Nirvana

Foo Fighters

Nirvana

Nirvana

Foo Fighters

Radiohead

Pink Floyd

REM

Get that shite out of here, the Eagles are an amazing band that have released amazing music.

Many of you are missing the meaning of overrated. I doubt anybody ever rated Oasis highly in the first place, therefore than cannot be overrated.

My personal top 5 (some of these bands have songs I kind of like)

1. The Eagles. Very average band that is ascribed legendary status

2. Led Zepplin. See above, although slightly less average than the Eagles.

3. Nirvana. Super influential at the time but pretty crap musicians. I really liked them BITD, though.

4. Beatles. Revolutionary at the time (see Nirvana), but only because the music that came before was canned crap (kind of the state of rock when Nirvana came along.

5. Coldplay/Radiohead. Both cited as being hugely influential, cutting edge type of music makers. I'll give them credit for developing their own sound though.

Jewels Holland wrote:

Drive By Trucker with or without Jason Isbell

WRONG.

DBT are Underrated. Most of America has never heard of them, busy listening to the newest dreck by Drake or the Chain Smokers. You may not like them, but that is a different story. IMO, Dirty South is one of the best albums of the last 30 years.

Joe Piscopo at his short lived comedy / Sprinsteen , show off my hgh biceps -imitatation show .

William Shatner albums .

Adam Sandler acoustic tunes .

Bill Clinton on sax not sex .

Jerry Lewis drunk and singing to the disabled at his telethons .

Springsteen too . Sorry I miscounted but my vitriol is real

If the definition of overrated means critically acclaimed by the music press, I nominate:

Arcade Fire.

Having said this, I did like a single of the latest album, but the body of work is rather bland.

Bjork. She started out in band, and there was one song I quite enjoyed, but the rest is so immensely boring .

Honorable mention to Wilco

Not reading through all of this or putting out more than 1 choice. When I saw this title I only thought of 1 band instantly.

Pearl Jam

Picked one from each time period and across major music types to be fair.

1. KISS

2. Grateful Dead

3. Madonna

4. Beyonce

5. Drake

Dishonorable Mention:

U2

Pearl Jam

Jay Z

Dave Matthews Band

Coldplay- they are terrible but not really on the same level as these others alltime

a pain in the weltschmerz wrote:

The Originals

The New Originals

The Thamesmen

The Lovely Lads

Spinal Tap

Hahahaha. Missed this one the first time through. I heard they had a hard time keeping drummers.

Green Day

Billy Joel

Journey

Elton John

Coldplay