Most Overrated Band of All Time?

The Sex Pistols

U2. Bleh. Give a decent band a pretentious lead singer, and I guess the possibilities are endless.

The Rolling Stones.

The Sex Pistols Too. I don't like their music and for all the people that say that they were amazing. Well they were formed for commercial reasons.

A guy working at a vintage clothing shop saw these guys and liked their style of clothing and asked them to start a band. The kids said the didn't play any music. The manager said it didn't matter. They named themselves the sex pistols.

The Sex Pistiols Suck.

Radiohead is good.
Pink Floyd is good.

Anything else played on the radio today sucks.

the eagles or led zep

Presumptuous horseshit. Hate 'em all you want. I like them,and I'm far from a 'music snob.'

yeah, i can see how some people might be vehemently opposed.. but i think her true fans are willing to sift through the fluke (read: sub par) albums to gt to the gems. i think she's swell, but that's just me.

Good call Dopp... have you seen Bad News Tour? (80's glam-metal satire) .. theres a scene where 'Vim' the singer/guitarist is talking about how when Jimmy Page wrote Stairway to Heaven he was 21, and Vim learned to play it when he was 18, so he's technically better than Page... anyway its hilarious stuff...

im with you Debread, i cant believe SY have been mentioned anywhere near this thread. They are one of the most original and challenging bands of the last 20 years, mostly built through word of mouth, touring and great reviews from respected critics. When I think over-rated i think more along the lines of bands that are over-hyped or over-advertised and shoved down your throat. The fact that SY are a band loved by 'music snobs', ie: the kind of people to which music is probably the most important thing in their lives, only proves how important they are.

U2 is without a doubt the most overrated band of all time. making this even worse is their fuckwad pretentiousness.

I never could appreciate why everyone was so enamored with Can.

The Misfits....is anybody actually paying attention to what they are listening to when it comes to them? I'm still sticking to my theory that 99% of the people you see with a Misfits sticker or shirt like the skull image thing and what they look like a hell of a lot more than the music and probably don't even listen to the music that much. If not then I'll have to believe that there are millions of tone deaf people out there...well actually I do believe this already.

The Beatles & Led Zeppelin both leave me limp!

~DeadBeat~

I'd be very interested as why you think the Doors are overrated. Their music, a radically different combination of Blues and Rock, was phenomonal. Jim Morrison was an amazing poet first and foremost, and a captivating lead singer as well. I don't really buy the whole young and good looking thing, 'cause if you ever seen Mr. Morrison at the end of his life, he had long hair and rats-nest of a beard. Not exactly Backstreet boys material.

Though I do agree with Denis Leary that movie was way too long.

Uh, dude, that's exactly why they are so good. Everybody and their grandmother's sung a song about girls and love. Some of it has been really good and affecting, some of it not so much.

But the politics and such that RATM sung about did affect certain people, myself for one. They're one of the bands that really put me one path towards wanting to more stuff about the world I live in.

If you think they are over-rated, that's fine, but to say they're over rated because they sang songs of a political nature just doesn't hold much water.

I have never seen what all the fuss was about when it comes to the Beatles...

led zepplin, they fucking suck balls, and yet somehow people like them, and have the fucking nerve to say they're tallented. talent means you can create a listenable song, not move your hand quickly on a fret-board, any good typist can do that

are you fucking nuts, the misfits (samhain and danzig too) are one of the greatest bands out there. very basic rock and roll tunes, with the best singer of our time. who but glenn danzig could sing about killing babies and raping your mother and actually make it sound cool. incidently, though, you are probably right to say people like them because of their symbol, after all, it's a pretty good symbol.

[Edited on Jan 18, 2004 by stenchblossom]

I'm not one to think that only good musicians can make good music but they are just plain pathetic. The Misfits make the Ramones and the Sex Pistols look like virtuosos.

Just a correction that you are so wrong. It would be the "new" Misfits that are beyond overrated; all respect to Jerry but the Misfits are nothing without Danzig, who lyrics and voice are proven to drop more bitches panties than a GYN.

i'm not so much opposed to her and her music as much as i am her phenomonal fan base... the thing that really confuses me is her fans are composed of so many people who wouldn't normally listen to the type of music she even plays... although i can see from your tastes in your profile(yes i looked in your profile and im stalking you, boo!) that its understandable in your situation... however i dont understand fans of industrial and even death metal that list their music favorites and then standing out is... tori amos! i know it sounds like im being close-minded, but i really don't think i am... cuz the thing that irks me is i think theres alot of other talented musicians like her that can play good music of that type too, but they dont relate to those fans at all... i don't get why shes the only piano playing songstress thats popular among youths in such a way... the responses that i get are usually that "her lyrics are dark" but i still don't see it reason enough for her to be this popular in a "goth/metal/punk/some other stupid label" audience... i'm not a fan but i probably wouldn't mind her so much if everybody i knew didn't listen to her... so if anyone feels the need to get defensive towards me, consider that i'm probably not referring to you in the first place

[Edited on Jan 19, 2004 by necrocide1039]

the eagles and dave matthews band, i could go the rest of my life without hearing either band again and i'd be a happy happy man

Most over-rated band is definetly The Strokes. Those prep-school boys need a good ass-whuppin'. I guess their snot-nosed indifference is what everyone likes about them. They're cute, but I prefer a band that breaks a sweat on stage.

The Beatles, by far.

You would have thunk that God created them on the 7th day from all the hype.

I don't think RATM are over-rated because of their politics, they're over-rated because there's nothing beyond the politics. The Clash and R.E.M are great bands, but there's far more to both of them than just political hectoring and a one-note sound. RATM just get kind of boring after 2-3 songs becuse there are no dynamics, no ups and downs, just political rap-rant, chorus, political-rap rant, chorus, noisy guitar solo, political rap rant.

oh honey, most of us women are like that too...and yeah, we're overrated too.

love the nose picking picture too.