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  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Marriane I mean
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Big_Bad_World said:

    A cross-city gift from me to you. A list of truly awful bands. Whether they were/are actually rated at all is another matter but, seeing as this thread veered away from overrated bands some time ago, I thought I'd give you these pearlers........

    Pretty Ricky
    Wings
    Fleet Foxes
    Rush
    Pearl Jam
    Animal Collective
    LCD Soundsystem
    Dave Matthews Band

    Miraculously, I agree with you on all the ones I've heard (which is all of these except Pretty Ricky)

    LCD Soundsystem truly are one of the most overrated bands within indie circles IMO
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Kiss .. (my ass mfelicker)
    Aerosmith
  • Redvalleyeast
    Redvalleyeast Posts: 4,689
    Dire Straits
    Phil Collins/Genesis
    Cliff Richard
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,740
    Redvalleyeast said:

    Dire Straits
    Phil Collins/Genesis
    Cliff Richard

    I listen to Dire Straits and Bread on the train nearly every morning. it's the only music i can sleep to. 100% true
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Redvalleyeast said:

    Dire Straits

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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,155
    brogib said:

    Ian Dury and the Blockheads

    Weller is a legend to me

    Really - well there's a surprise... :smiley:

    I can pick a Weller fan out of a crowd of 300, in the dark, while drunk.

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,155
    JaShea99 said:

    stonewallpenalty said:

    So after 5 pages pretty much every solo artist/ band is over-rated.

    Which is why threads like this are so pointless. They start off ok then people just get silly, start naming whole genres and confuse 'overrated' with 'I don't like'. Then before you know it every artist you can think of has been named.
    I think any "band" where no one plays an instrument and TV karaoke winners is totally justified as an entire genre that is poo, JS...

    :smile:

  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    Algarveaddick said:

    JaShea99 said:

    stonewallpenalty said:

    So after 5 pages pretty much every solo artist/ band is over-rated.

    Which is why threads like this are so pointless. They start off ok then people just get silly, start naming whole genres and confuse 'overrated' with 'I don't like'. Then before you know it every artist you can think of has been named.
    I think any "band" where no one plays an instrument and TV karaoke winners is totally justified as an entire genre that is poo, JS...

    :smile:

    Yes, absolutely.
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Algarveaddick said:

    brogib said:

    Ian Dury and the Blockheads

    Weller is a legend to me

    Really - well there's a surprise... :smiley:

    I can pick a Weller fan out of a crowd of 300, in the dark, while drunk.

    Gotta be honest, the likes of Bradley Wiggins and blokes that ain't in the business, do look like plonkers with them hair cuts
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,155
    brogib said:

    Algarveaddick said:

    brogib said:

    Ian Dury and the Blockheads

    Weller is a legend to me

    Really - well there's a surprise... :smiley:

    I can pick a Weller fan out of a crowd of 300, in the dark, while drunk.

    Gotta be honest, the likes of Bradley Wiggins and blokes that ain't in the business, do look like plonkers with them hair cuts
    In fairness so do I with mine... :smiley:
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Wild beasts. Shit.
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    There are a lot but here are mine

    U2 just ordinary
    The Smiths like Johnny Marr but the music is dross
    Depeche Mode dirge, dirge and more dirge
    Kanye West what is that tosser on about?
    Robbie Williams EVERYTHING about him irritates me
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    The Barbican have just sent me an email offering to sell me tickets to a July gig when Badly Drawn Boy will be performing the whole of The Hour of Bewilderbeast. Describing it as the album which defined a career of indie pop storytelling....yeah, right.

    I suppose as I had BDB in the Worst Record You Ever Bought thread, he needs to be included here as well.
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    Pink Floyd. Music made by Public School Wankers for Public School Wankers .Same is true of Coldplay ,Genesis and Mumford and Sons. Whereas Bros - just wankers .
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    edited April 2015
    I was only Grammar School but like them all except Genesis & Bros.

    I also liked the music my brothers who went to Crown Woods and sisters who went to Eltham Hill enjoyed such as Motown and a lot of other stuff (reggae and ska included) - and Pink Floyd!

    Bowie was one of the first to unify people who had previously stuck with specific genres - in my generation, anyway.


  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    Adele.
  • OsamaBenHamer
    OsamaBenHamer Posts: 647
    ashley said:

    Pink Floyd. Music made by Public School Wankers for Public School Wankers .Same is true of Coldplay ,Genesis and Mumford and Sons. Whereas Bros - just wankers .

    Good point well argued
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    edited April 2015
    ashley said:

    Pink Floyd. Music made by Public School Wankers for Public School Wankers .Same is true of Coldplay ,Genesis and Mumford and Sons. Whereas Bros - just wankers .

    Yeah , all those public school boys buying multiple copies of Dark Side of the Moon, probably the only reason it appears in the UK top ten selling albums of all time. Same thing in The States, those toffee nosed bastards buying up all the stock keeping it in the Billboard Charts for 741 weeks.

  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,489
    Foals
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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    I think the general rule of this thread is "the music I like is the best. the music other people like is just shite'.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Billy Bragg. Awful person, awful music.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,155
    Fiiish said:

    Billy Bragg. Awful person, awful music.

    Awful person? Do tell...
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,155
    ashley said:

    Pink Floyd. Music made by Public School Wankers for Public School Wankers .Same is true of Coldplay ,Genesis and Mumford and Sons. Whereas Bros - just wankers .

    I'm a comp wanker, and I love 'em ( I was introduced to them by a public school wanker though...).
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,132
    From the past: Queen

    From the present: just about everything I hear... shallow, unoriginal, soulless fodder without instruments. The only decent melodies are those nicked from the past.
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Algarveaddick said:

    Fiiish said:

    Billy Bragg. Awful person, awful music.

    Awful person? Do tell...
    In that same way that Janet Street-Porter is
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    Boom said:

    brogib said:

    The Beatles

    This!


    Given that they are largely considered the greatest band ever it is not surprising that some people consider them overated. If you are rated no.1 it is after all impossible to be underated.

    For me The Rolling Stones are the most overated band ever on the basis that people somehow consider there to be any real competition.

    What astounds me about The Beatles is that I can listen to an album and still be surprised at how good some of the 'weaker' songs are.
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    The Beatles were/are shit Jimmy mate
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    mid_life_crisis said:

    The_President said:

    REM

    Sacrilege.

    Bloody underated. How can they be overated when no-one ever mentions them?
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    brogib said:

    The Beatles were/are shit Jimmy mate

    Find a Beatles album. Listen to it. Look at the year it was recorded. Come back to me with anything else made at that time that is better than it in originality.

    This is the reason they were, and still are, so popular.

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