5 Most Overrated Bands of All Time

Has the IT Band been mentioned. Very overrated as mine hurts all the time.

Yeah, DBTs are great.

In a similar vein, I'd put Wilco on my own personal list of most overrated bands. When I listen to Uncle Tupelo, it's so obvious that Jay Farrar is the superior singer and songwriter.

I love rubber bands though wrote:

Has the IT Band been mentioned. Very overrated as mine hurts all the time.

Nice one!!!!

hee hee wrote:

I love rubber bands though wrote:

Has the IT Band been mentioned. Very overrated as mine hurts all the time.

Nice one!!!!

They 've caused a lot of friction

Elvis Presley, i mean, obviously right

Dolly Parton

Foo Fighters

Radiohead

The Smiths

OVERRATED. I hate to put Dolly on that list, but all she did is sing a few songs, and as for Elvis - yeah, he was cool, but possibly the most over rated person of all time, except Mandela.

Dave Mathews

Gin Blossoms

Gilgamesh wrote:

No bands are overrated. Period.

There are bands I'm not found of: Rush, Journey, Boys II Men to name a few off the top of my head. If you love these band and rate them highly, then who am I to tell you otherwise.

I like Radiohead. I'm not going to listen to any yahoo on this site telling me I'm wrong, or that U2's Achtung Baby was not a great record.

I like or dislike a band for my own personal reason. They are neither right or wrong for anyone else, but they are most certainly right for me. No matter how wrong they are for you (and, not, this is not cultural relativism).

I would rate this one of the 5 top posts of the thread.

But seriously, couldn't agree more.

I would ask, overrated by who? I agree with you completely if you say overrated by the public.

But I could see it is quite conceivable to argue that a certain band or bands might be overrated by the critics and journalists. Meaning, the critic or critics got it wrong. But in terms of mass appeal, it is what it is, like or not.

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Elvis Presley, i mean, obviously right

Dolly Parton

Foo Fighters

Radiohead

The Smiths

OVERRATED. I hate to put Dolly on that list, but all she did is sing a few songs, and as for Elvis - yeah, he was cool, but possibly the most over rated person of all time, except Mandela.

Ignoring the fact that neither Elvis nor Dolly Parton were or are "bands", I will just say this:

1) Correct about Elvis.

2) INCORRECT! about Dolly Parton. She not only didn't just sing "a few songs", but she wrote a TON of hit songs for other artists. She is a giant in the music industry and deservedly so. The fact that her heart is bigger than any other part of her is just icing on the cake. She is deserving of admiration and respect more so than just about every famous person alive today.

In my opinion, the problem with any "which bands are overrated?" thread is that it's so easy to say all these famous bands are overrated, provided you don't have to say who was actually superior to them. So you get people who say, in effect, "well in the 60s and 70s, the way overrated bands were the Beatles, Stones, the Who, the Doors, Pink Floyd..." Basically, you're saying that the mainstream, Rolling Stone magazine-endorsed opinion of who were the greatest rock bands is completely wrong. But who's going to take their place? So like, if the Beatles were so terrible, who are all these bands that were actually way better than the Beatles?

I suggest that for each band you say is over-rated, you should be required to go out on a limb and name a somewhat comparable band that was better.

Overrated: The Eagles. Underrated: CCR

Overrated: Red Hot Chili Peppers. Underrated: Faith No More.

Overrated: Pearl Jam. Underrated: Dinosaur Jr.

Overrated: Metallica. Underrated: Meshuggah.

Overrated: Eric Clapton. Underrated: Jeff Beck.

Hold my Hot Pocket wrote:

...I suggest that for each band you say is over-rated, you should be required to go out on a limb and name a somewhat comparable band that was better....

Good idea, and my input to follow

Overated: Geroge Thorogood Underrated: Johnny Winter or J. GIles Band

Overated: Billy Joel Underrated: Joe Jackson or Boz Scaggs

Overated: Green Day Underrated: Afghan Whigs

Overated: Social Distortion Underrated: 'X' or Murder City Devils

Overated: Sex Pistols Underrated: NY Dolls or Iggy Pop and Stooges

Nirvana

Nirvana

Nirvana

Nirvana and…

Nirvana

Overrated: Elvis. Underrated: Jackie Wilson.

Overrated: Bob Dylan. Underrated: Smokey Robinson.

Queen

Beatles

Foreigner

Kiss

Patty smith

No particular order.

The Who

Dave Matthews

Jimmy Buffet

50 Cents

The Dead

Bon Jovi (In a landslide)

Captain Beefheart

Kiss

Velvet Underground

Alice Cooper

Bon Jovi had one decent 80's hair metal album (Slippery When Wet) and through some kind of marketing wizardry have been riding that wave for 40 years. Good for him, but totally overrated and does not belong in the RRHOF.

Captain Beefheart was a protege of Frank Zappa. Somehow became a "critical darling", but IMO made some of the worst sounds ever committed to vinyl. An abomination.

Kiss had a few decent rock songs and like Bon Jovi were genius at marketing, not so much at making music.

Velvet Underground, just never "got them" a lot of artists point to how influential they were but I just think they suck.

Alice Cooper had a few iconic songs but like Kiss they were known for their bloated, campy stage show which I always thought was idiotic. If you have good songs you don't need that crap.

Overrated is hard to say with Art. Easier with sports...emmit smith and jerry rice overrated for example.

For music, what about saying/asking which bands or person has highest/lowest Talent to Income ratio? Dont use all the horrible pop bands of today, we know todays music is horrible.

Very high- The Replacements off the top of my head

Lower- Kiss (talented for sure, but income is nuts)

About right- Rush Huge talent huge income.

1. Coldplay

2. Pearl Jam

3. Styx

4. U2

5. Foreigner

Honorable mentions: Velvet Underground, 10,000 Maniacs, Phish, NXS, Peter Gabriel